Unpopular Fandom Opinions
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ella_bane)
Yup, unlike the fanfic heresy a while back, these are contentious (and not surprising, if you know me). But I still love you, all right! You don't have to agree, and are welcome to hit me with dead carps too!
1. It almost physically hurts me when fics are taken down just because the author falls out of love with them or decides to leave fandom.
2. I hate it when people try to tell others what they shouldn't write/draw because it's immoral/harmful/whatnot. But watching people self-censor their imagination is even more painful.
3. Compared to the utter wrongness of dragging RL – employers, lawyers, police, spouses – into fandom disputes, plagiarism is *nothing*. Because hell, it's supposed to be us against the mundanes – running to RL authorities is, well, treason to the Cause!
4. Once your work's out there, it's fair game for just about everything except posting under somebody else's name – especially for reccing, reviewing, downloading, sharing and writing spin-off fic for. Deal!
5. Ron haters make memsad [... except for Ron-haters with a pureblood pedigree, a riding crop and a nice line in acerbic banter]. (yeah, that's pretty much plagiarised from ella_bane, but she's dead right! And amended after intercession by fee_absinthe, who, as always, has the priorities right)
6. The 'say good things or say nothing' attitude to feedback that seems to dominate fandom annoys me to no end. But bitching about concrit makes me *really* mad.
7. 'Anymore' bugs me even more than 'cum'. Though not quite as much as 'orbs'.
8. LJ name changes... meh! Fandom name changes suck in general, unless it's for good RL reasons. It's hell on those of us with brains full of holes.
9. Taking your OTP(s) seriously is seriously silly.
10. As long as there's slash and gen, we could almost do without het, couldn't we? *ducks*
ETA: One of those is a joke - just in case it's not obvious.
ella_bane)Yup, unlike the fanfic heresy a while back, these are contentious (and not surprising, if you know me). But I still love you, all right! You don't have to agree, and are welcome to hit me with dead carps too!
1. It almost physically hurts me when fics are taken down just because the author falls out of love with them or decides to leave fandom.
2. I hate it when people try to tell others what they shouldn't write/draw because it's immoral/harmful/whatnot. But watching people self-censor their imagination is even more painful.
3. Compared to the utter wrongness of dragging RL – employers, lawyers, police, spouses – into fandom disputes, plagiarism is *nothing*. Because hell, it's supposed to be us against the mundanes – running to RL authorities is, well, treason to the Cause!
4. Once your work's out there, it's fair game for just about everything except posting under somebody else's name – especially for reccing, reviewing, downloading, sharing and writing spin-off fic for. Deal!
5. Ron haters make me
ella_bane, but she's dead right! And amended after intercession by fee_absinthe, who, as always, has the priorities right)6. The 'say good things or say nothing' attitude to feedback that seems to dominate fandom annoys me to no end. But bitching about concrit makes me *really* mad.
7. 'Anymore' bugs me even more than 'cum'. Though not quite as much as 'orbs'.
8. LJ name changes... meh! Fandom name changes suck in general, unless it's for good RL reasons. It's hell on those of us with brains full of holes.
9. Taking your OTP(s) seriously is seriously silly.
10. As long as there's slash and gen, we could almost do without het, couldn't we? *ducks*
ETA: One of those is a joke - just in case it's not obvious.
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Date: 2006-08-26 10:49 pm (UTC)2. I do not understand how anything fictional can be immoral or harmful at the source. I also think that if someone thinks something fictional is harmful/immoral, they should avoid that type of fiction. >_<
3. Dude, yes.
4. Pretty much. Though I'd say that if someone's writing spin-off fic, it's only fair to let the author know, since concepts/storylines are likely to be borrowed.
5. I like to pretend that nobody hates Ron. Some days, I am successful!
6. D'you think something can be done about it?
7. *confused* What's wrong with "anymore"? Just that it's US spelling?
8. Meh, I'm pretty indifferent to those. Their LJ, their money.
9. Haha, yes. Especially if your OTP is a slash pairing.
10. I don't read or write het, but it's no skin off my nose if other people do.
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Date: 2006-08-27 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 09:03 pm (UTC)That's why I very purposefully phrased it '*just* for leaving fandom/coming to dislike'. RL pressure is totally different. Although there's a pretty well-known German bestseller writer, Tanja Kinkel, whose Highlander fanfic is still out there (or was, two or three years ago after she'd published more than a few novels). I always admired that to no end.
4. Yup, letting know is nice (and an ego boost), but not required, imho.
5. ... and then I stumble over the next H/D fic where he can't deal and goes to defect to Voldemort :(. Well, I don't mind dark!Ron, but unmitigated!bastard!Ron is so bleh.
6. It can be ignored with a vengeance?
10. That was what the dead fish was provided for ;).