It's illegal! Show me the law saying "Thou shalt not imagine further adventures or differing adventures of thy favorite characters."
It's copyright infringement! It might be if there was any money involved. And that's a nice big 'might'.
You have to ask the writer for permission! Did Shakespeare ask Ovid for permission to transform Pyramus and Thisbe for Midsummer Night's Dream? Why should I have to ask anyone if I can maybe please do much the same thing?
You're insulting the writers whom you claim to love! I'm only insulting the writers who have so little imagination themselves that they can't envision anyone having a vision of their characters or their world that differs even slightly from what they put on the page.
Nobody can say anything about my characters but me, the original writer! "Sarah, there's this great story I just read, you have to read it, it's about a --- who's --- and a --- who's ---, and they --- and --- and ---!" Yeah, Sarah's really gonna want to read that story.
It's a waste of time; you should be learning how to become a Real Writer! (a) I am learning how to become a Real Writer. This is how. (b) Should I be learning how to become a Real Astronomer, too, because I like spending some of my spare time with an eye to a telescope admiring the Pleiades? Or a Real Baker, because I like to turn flour and sugar and eggs into tasty things? What's special about writing that anyone who likes to write should try to be a Real Writer, not settle for doing it in their spare time and when the mood strikes, like with any other hobby?
It's totally different if the author is dead! Only in that, if they should learn of my stories and if they should disapprove of them, they can't say so.
How would you feel if somebody wrote fanfic about YOUR story? Delighted.
It's like you came by my house and stole my car! Ooh, I have a car now? Is it a blue Mercury? I want a blue Mercury. Just on principle.
You have to THINK of the CHILDREN! I am thinking of the children. I'm thinking our responsibility for their impressionable little minds ends at ensuring anyone who reads our smut has to have said they're past the age at which one can legally consent to sex. Beyond that, any impression our smut makes on their minds is part their fault for lying about their age and part their parents' fault for not keeping an eye on their kids.
You're raping my characters! I can only see that applying in fics where rape is part of the plot, or part of the fanauthor's interpretation of a character's backstory.
Marion Zimmer Bradley! Whatshisface that sued her over his fanfic idea lost his title of 'fan' thereby. Fans are free to criticize the canon author, they're even allowed to criticize her harshly and to boycott those works of hers that they dislike and/or don't feel are up to the same quality as the rest of her works, but fans do not harm the canon author. I dunno what Whatshisface was writing, but it by definition was not fanfiction.
Slash is icky!! (a) Slash, like tea, isn't my cup of cocoa, but I have no right to say that means no one can possibly like it, let alone that it has no right to exist. (b) Ew, get the homophobe away from me.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro! Who? *Wikis* *gets nothing* *Googles* So her relevance in this discussion is that she said no fanfic? Fine, I won't write fanfic of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro stories. Won't read Chelsea Quinn Yarbro stories, either--vampires aren't my thing. That's the big reason I won't read her stories. Really.
It's immoral! My moral code only forbids the doing of things that harm oneself or others. How does writing my little stories harm you?
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It's illegal! Show me the law saying "Thou shalt not imagine further adventures or differing adventures of thy favorite characters."
It's copyright infringement! It might be if there was any money involved. And that's a nice big 'might'.
You have to ask the writer for permission! Did Shakespeare ask Ovid for permission to transform Pyramus and Thisbe for Midsummer Night's Dream? Why should I have to ask anyone if I can maybe please do much the same thing?
You're insulting the writers whom you claim to love! I'm only insulting the writers who have so little imagination themselves that they can't envision anyone having a vision of their characters or their world that differs even slightly from what they put on the page.
Nobody can say anything about my characters but me, the original writer! "Sarah, there's this great story I just read, you have to read it, it's about a --- who's --- and a --- who's ---, and they --- and --- and ---!" Yeah, Sarah's really gonna want to read that story.
It's a waste of time; you should be learning how to become a Real Writer! (a) I am learning how to become a Real Writer. This is how. (b) Should I be learning how to become a Real Astronomer, too, because I like spending some of my spare time with an eye to a telescope admiring the Pleiades? Or a Real Baker, because I like to turn flour and sugar and eggs into tasty things? What's special about writing that anyone who likes to write should try to be a Real Writer, not settle for doing it in their spare time and when the mood strikes, like with any other hobby?
It's totally different if the author is dead! Only in that, if they should learn of my stories and if they should disapprove of them, they can't say so.
How would you feel if somebody wrote fanfic about YOUR story? Delighted.
It's like you came by my house and stole my car! Ooh, I have a car now? Is it a blue Mercury? I want a blue Mercury. Just on principle.
You have to THINK of the CHILDREN! I am thinking of the children. I'm thinking our responsibility for their impressionable little minds ends at ensuring anyone who reads our smut has to have said they're past the age at which one can legally consent to sex. Beyond that, any impression our smut makes on their minds is part their fault for lying about their age and part their parents' fault for not keeping an eye on their kids.
You're raping my characters! I can only see that applying in fics where rape is part of the plot, or part of the fanauthor's interpretation of a character's backstory.
Marion Zimmer Bradley! Whatshisface that sued her over his fanfic idea lost his title of 'fan' thereby. Fans are free to criticize the canon author, they're even allowed to criticize her harshly and to boycott those works of hers that they dislike and/or don't feel are up to the same quality as the rest of her works, but fans do not harm the canon author. I dunno what Whatshisface was writing, but it by definition was not fanfiction.
Slash is icky!! (a) Slash, like tea, isn't my cup of cocoa, but I have no right to say that means no one can possibly like it, let alone that it has no right to exist. (b) Ew, get the homophobe away from me.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro! Who? *Wikis* *gets nothing* *Googles* So her relevance in this discussion is that she said no fanfic? Fine, I won't write fanfic of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro stories. Won't read Chelsea Quinn Yarbro stories, either--vampires aren't my thing.
That's the big reason I won't read her stories. Really.It's immoral! My moral code only forbids the doing of things that harm oneself or others. How does writing my little stories harm you?
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