Help me out. I need some words here.
Hey, if it works, I can crank out a "Waah, I'm too poor to write for you people who don't contribute to my lifestyle" letter too.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2005 4:37:28 am PDT #789 of 10434
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Dana - Aug 10, 2005 4:44:58 am PDT #790 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So, has this hit fandom_wank yet?
Dunno. I picked it up from a few bemused posts on LJ.
Fay - Aug 10, 2005 4:49:15 am PDT #791 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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Wow. So much for fanfiction being 'not for profit', eh?
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 4:56:13 am PDT #792 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't know why I'm taken aback. It's not like I haven't seen this before. It's just...some people out there manage to struggle through just fine without blackmailing their readers, I guess. I know there are people out there who are incredible writers, and whose financial situations are less than optimal, and they do what they have to do without resorting to cheap tactics like this.
Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2005 4:59:29 am PDT #793 of 10434
brillig
I've been offered cookies, and occassionally receive nummy pictures. Obviously I have to rethink my bribe scale.
Consuela - Aug 10, 2005 5:04:59 am PDT #794 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Um, wow.
The mind boggles.
And frankly, hon, that's why they call it fan fiction. If you got paid for it, it would be called a tie-in.
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 5:11:17 am PDT #795 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It has hit fandom_wank, by the way. I'm sure we're all shocked.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2005 5:11:20 am PDT #796 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If people will pay her for it ... well, there's the impact on the fan fiction rep/community as a whole, but otherwise if her fanbase wants to pay her to take a year off, I'd be impressed.
Just like I have nothing against those chicks who set up websites asking for random money, except where it makes the less reasoning daub all women with the same opportunistic brush.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 10, 2005 5:48:39 am PDT #797 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't really object to it in theory, as it's just basically cutting out the publishing/printing middlemen. Wait a second, I work in publishing—OBJECTION!
But this strikes me as quite off-putting:
If you're not, that's understandable, and all I ask is that you never again ask me how my WIPs are coming.
Not a problem, hon.
Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2005 5:48:59 am PDT #798 of 10434
brillig
How does one get to fandom_wank? I plugged that in on LJ and got an "account suspended" message.