I'm rather enjoying the back-and-forth with him; I rarely get the openings to explain Why Fanfic Is A Good Thing in neat, succinct posts.
I decided to take the tack "not all homages have a 1:1 comparative value," rather than "but parody is legal, and acknowledged as valid commentary on a piece... do you mean that mockery is an appropriate response, along with direct imitation, but other reactions are not?"
I didn't mind the "quilting bee" comparison--I've been to quilting bees. I have no problem comparing fanfic to "women's sewing circles." And anyone who's ever had to rely on those circles for their clothing and linens wouldn't mock them, nor disdain the art & creativity that come out of them.
He's also woefully uninformed about fanfic in general; he seems to think it's an internet-inspired thing, instead of a practice with several hundred years of history, which has only been problematic in the last 50 or so: when TV and telephones combined to give thousands of people quick communication about their favorite topics, and photocopiers gave them cheap ways to distribute their fanworks.
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I decided to take the tack "not all homages have a 1:1 comparative value," rather than "but parody is legal, and acknowledged as valid commentary on a piece... do you mean that mockery is an appropriate response, along with direct imitation, but other reactions are not?"
I didn't mind the "quilting bee" comparison--I've been to quilting bees. I have no problem comparing fanfic to "women's sewing circles." And anyone who's ever had to rely on those circles for their clothing and linens wouldn't mock them, nor disdain the art & creativity that come out of them.
He's also woefully uninformed about fanfic in general; he seems to think it's an internet-inspired thing, instead of a practice with several hundred years of history, which has only been problematic in the last 50 or so: when TV and telephones combined to give thousands of people quick communication about their favorite topics, and photocopiers gave them cheap ways to distribute their fanworks.