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I'm done explaining why fanfic is okay.

May 03, 2010 20:57

Edit, October 2013: here's the rebloggable version of this post on Tumblr. You have open permission to link/cite/reblog this post. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this post and shared suggestions and corrections. Thank you all, and thanks everyone for reading! Edit, March 20, 2012: This post has been updated with new additions to the ( Read more... )

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Permalinking here! :) bookshop May 8 2010, 00:29:32 UTC

Okay, so this was my initial reply is in response to her Part II response:

Okay, well, firstly, thank you for a calm and polite response.

The thing is that fanfic is not something you--by which I mean the publishing industry as a collective--can or should stop. It literally exists by the millions, across the internet and in the notebooks of countless writers across the universe. Not only that, but it's been going on for centuries. I might as well link to my post again for anyone new to the discussion, because you can't understand fanfic without understanding the tradition that it is a part of.

You, (collectively) cannot systematically take down an embedded culture of borrowing/remixing/transforming/expanding on Story. Fan fiction has always existed. I remember reading interviews with Meg Cabot years ago where she talked about writing fanfic at home by herself as a teenager, before she knew the word for what she was doing. I've heard similar stories from dozens of authors. When I read my first Georgette Heyer novel ( ... )

Re: Permalinking here! :) ladynorbert May 12 2010, 21:43:14 UTC

She must have removed that third reply, because it's not there.

Edited to add: She took down the others too.

Re: Permalinking here! :) orbitaldiamonds July 30 2013, 07:32:00 UTC

I just spent the last hour trying to find good links to the JQ2000 series, a Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures fanfic 'verse written by Alexis Eritica starting in 1997 but I can't find them archived anywhere anymore (I didn't start saving the text of fics until I was in Star Trek Voyager fandom a few years later), but this, from the newest iteration of the JQML fic archive, shows the old JQML (Jonny Quest Mailing List, from Onelist [which I preferred] to eGroups to something to something to Yahoo Groups, and is now pretty much a ghost town), which includes the JQ2000 'verse (not that we used the term 'verse back then, :P great, now I feel old) as its own fic category. Because there were that many fics-of-fics.

(Also, and probably OT, but I'm very glad Debbie Kluge posted her "Jealousy" series at FF.net because the place where I originally read what was posted at the time got taken down because the archivist didn't have the money/time/or both to keep up the site ( ... )

bookshop July 30 2013, 12:27:29 UTC

Don't apologize! This was awesome. :D

RE: Permalinking here! :) lauand April 21 2016, 23:10:56 UTC

People always assume fanfic is free bc fic writers think they'll get in trouble by selling itI've always been an avid reader. Always. I haven't been such a passionate writer, some original fairy tales here and that, and the occasional fanfic when I really had to explain to myself what happened with that totally inconclusive ending some canon had. Those first pieces never saw the light ( ... )

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