Thanks for the linky, bb - I read every comment with interest. This subject exhausts the hell out of me. How can what we do, done with such love, be wrong? If anything we're encouraging throwing more money at the object of our fandom. The fanfiction stokes my love, I spend more money. Is our activity going to impact the box office for the new Trek movie? Surely a little?
Idk - this is all done out of love, and how dare they fucking say it isn't art because we borrow their characters. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Visual artists borrow from each other all the time. It's just how it works.
What about bands who perform cover versions of songs?
also, I'm glad someone mentioned how rubbish Laurell K Hamilton's writing is - I'm amazed by just how bad it is; I'm currently reading her first book. blimey
I'm increasingly of the opinion that a not insignificant amount of prejudice due to fanfic is that it is an activity performed primarily by women. I actually suspect that the article author went out of their way to get anti-fanfic women for that very reason.
Somewhere I saw a list of published authors that are pro-fanfic. It was actually surprisingly long. I genuinely think that most fanfic resistance is because of what happened to Marion Zimmer Bradley--I really can't think of too much anti-fanfic stuff (aside from Rice) prior to her run-in with a fan, which was in 1992.
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Date: 2012-04-20 09:38 pm (UTC)Idk - this is all done out of love, and how dare they fucking say it isn't art because we borrow their characters. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Visual artists borrow from each other all the time. It's just how it works.
What about bands who perform cover versions of songs?
also, I'm glad someone mentioned how rubbish Laurell K Hamilton's writing is - I'm amazed by just how bad it is; I'm currently reading her first book. blimey
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Date: 2012-04-20 09:44 pm (UTC)I'm increasingly of the opinion that a not insignificant amount of prejudice due to fanfic is that it is an activity performed primarily by women. I actually suspect that the article author went out of their way to get anti-fanfic women for that very reason.
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