Anti-fanfic Bingo, redux

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

All right! Our first round of Anti-Fanfic Bingo went beautifully, and we have plans for your responses, but let's move on to the second row of the card:



How would you respond to these accusations? Just like last time, please tell ComRel!

Graphic by the wonderful Ciderpress.

Ithiliana's post that started it all is here.

-- femmequixotic, bethbethbeth, ciderpress, mirabile_dictu, shrift, svmadelyn
Community Relations Committee

Comments

[summertea.livejournal.com]

It's a waste of time; you should be learning how to be come a Real Writer!
All the people who write are "real writers". You don't have to be published or be a brilliant writer to be a "real writer". (What the hell is a Real Writer anyway?! EVERYONE'S A WRITER.)

It's totally different if the author is dead!
No.

How would you feel if somebody wrote fanfic about YOUR story?
The same way if someone drew fanart of my characters: Absolutely ecstatic. So happy I would be reduced to complete gibberish for a really really long time.

It's like you came by my house and stole my car!
I don't even know how to counter this one because it's just so wrong wrong wrong. Material property = Intellectual property -> does not compute.

You have to think of the children!
Sorry, guys. I started reading "adult" books when I was in middle school. I started reading fic at around the same time. I have friends who started writing fic at age 14. "The children" are perfectly happy with this fandom life, thank you.