cunttlefish:

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ok I’m genuinely not trying to stir up whatever residual bad feelings reside in the linked post. I am just still really proud of this essay and feel like it should be re-stated maybe?

I should probably not post it in the middle of the night in this case but anyway

(Source: offshore-humping)

This is directed mostly at Adam Rosner, and I’m not really afraid to mention that fact, but I think a lot of people might be interested in it so I’m not gonna send it to him but rather publish it.

Hi. I’m a writer. I’m not published but I have a lot of work up on the internet. Some of it’s even been read! 

I also don’t write or even really read fanfiction. Not because I don’t think it’s legitimate, not because I don’t think it can be good, not because I judge anyone or whatever. I just like writing and reading original fics more. 

However, like I said, I have absolutely zero problems with fanfics. And if I were the creator of a famous web series, I would be stoked as hell to know that people cared about it enough to write their own stories about my canon. I would be honored.

I’ve written before about how, when you make a work public, your control over that work ends. You control the copyright but that only extends so far. For most practical purposes, once you make something public, it’s not yours anymore.

Now, if it’s popular enough, it will get fanfic. Some of that fanfic will be amazing. It will be so good that you’ll be pissed you didn’t think of that stuff yourself. And some of it will be sort of ok, and some of it will be really terrible and people will have missed the point completely. This terrible fanfic will probably make you kind of sad, because it sucks to have your work misinterpreted. But there’s nothing you can do about it, and really as long as it’s not infringing on your copyright, nothing you SHOULD do about it.

So let’s say one of my slenderblogs became much more popular. Like Tribe Twelve, EMH, Marble Hornets level popular. It has a fandom. People write fics, people draw fan-art, and yes, people write slash. Let’s say my main character, who is based pretty strongly off myself, is paired against her canon orientation, in some explicit fics.

How does that possibly affect me?

It doesn’t affect the canon work. No one is confusing me with my character. No one is saying that I, the writer/creator, should have sex against my orientation. They are saying that in their fanfics, their expanded universe, which again does not affect my body of work in the slightest, they would like to see my main character Ali have sex with a girl.

I’m not going to dictate what other creators are ok with. I’m not going to say that everyone should feel the same way I do. But I am going to say that these people are your fans. They are the people who like your work well enough to create their own fictions based off it. They are probably the people who like your work more than anyone else. And it might not be such a great move to alienate them by telling them they’re creepy, gross, and fucked up.

And in this particular case: 

Mr. Rosner, I really honestly hope that the vibe I’m getting from you is just a result of poor phrasing. But all of your objections seem to be to slash fics about your character (who, let me stress, is not you) and the implications that some people might view that character as gay. The fact that you object to this, and yet you post Noah fan-art on your tumblr and seem to enjoy or at least laugh off most other fanfics/art…that strikes me as pretty homophobic. Please think more carefully about what you say when you’re talking about any kind of sexuality. 

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nepisthebestkitty:

rosalarian:

brofisting:

A seriously good smackdown, with sex-worker-positive twist? Aw dang, loving it!

I like this a lot! The author took the time to realize anger would feed into Duncan’s point, and instead wrote an impassioned piece for their side, rather than explicitly against Duncan (though there are definitely a few Duncan-specific parts). I think this makes the smackdown even sweeter.

“Porn stars and genre writers work fucking hard, and sometimes get screwed over.”

Yeah, definitely enjoyable~<3

I’m in love with the person who wrote this article

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fyeahwriterleopard:

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I’m sure any whump fans will get this.

omg I am so mean to Jeremy and to my novel MC Madoline….

I’ve decided to not do my novel again for NaNoWriMo. Here’s why: it’s got way too much stuff in it for a novel. I had originally envisioned it as a comic series, and plotted it like a comic series, and then I got tired of waiting for an artist so I just started writing a novel. Well…it doesn’t work as a novel. It’s still a bunch of comic books. So I’m going to be re-working it with that in mind, and still casting about for an artist in the mean time.

However I still really want to do NaNoWriMo. It was immensely rewarding last year, I made huge progress with writing in general and that novel in particular, and I want to get back together with all the people I met last year. 

So…what do I write? Do I try again with my idea about deformed children in a small town in southern Arizona, even though I don’t care about the characters yet? Do I attempt to tell the story of one of my many story-less characters? Or do I come up with something completely new?

~writing problems~

citationneeded:

Nowpunk

Nowpunk is a term invented by Bruce Sterling, which he applied to contemporary fiction set in the time period in which the fiction is being published, i.e. all contemporary fiction.

Link

 Um, everything I write is now classified as “Nowpunk” because that is so stupid and awesome.