There's a marvelous LJ post here about fanfiction and legality.
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Consuela - Nov 05, 2002 2:11:43 pm PST #736 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DavidS - Nov 05, 2002 2:13:01 pm PST #737 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, still quoting Textual Poachers and Enterprising Women? Someone so needs to write the definitive study of internet-based ficdom.
Looks pointedly at Consuela, Dana, Nutty and Shrift
I thought the article was fair and, being broad and general, got the gist of it. Any complaints of inaccuracy are the same you'd hear from any group being reported on from the outside. It's the difference between the way Riot Grrrl was reported on in the major media and the way the zines themselves discussed it. There will never be an article that gets it entirely right until an insider - again with the pointed looking - writes it.
Dana - Nov 05, 2002 2:47:42 pm PST #738 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Dude, I tried. At least, I tried Salon. Someone give me other suggestions of where to pitch it, and I will try again.
Nutty - Nov 05, 2002 2:50:10 pm PST #739 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah. Somebody pitch and write the contract and give me a deadline, I'll write the fricken thing. Not that, really, I feel the need to explain myself to others, but better I than some dope offa the street.
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2002 2:52:06 pm PST #740 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Someone give me other suggestions of where to pitch it, and I will try again.
Utne Reader? (Which is actually now just Utne, which I find disconcerting.) Might be a good market.
Nutty - Nov 05, 2002 2:53:22 pm PST #741 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
They had a fairly crappy article about it just last summer. Spring? Anyway, recently enough not to want to do it again, I think.
Dana - Nov 05, 2002 2:54:13 pm PST #742 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Looked at Utne. They tend to publish summaries of articles that have already appeared somewhere else. Or something like that.
P.M. Marc - Nov 05, 2002 4:37:52 pm PST #743 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
shrift - Nov 05, 2002 5:16:02 pm PST #744 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
did we ever find any Magneto/Wolverine?
If you're looking for movie Magneto/Wolverine, I couldna find squat. Comicverse Magneto/Wolverine is slightly more doable, only you have to, uh, be up on the whole Erik/Joseph/Magneto (NOT a threesome) whackjob thing with Rogue, and maybe even then only get it via an actual threesome of Joseph/Rogue/Logan.
Looks pointedly at Consuela, Dana, Nutty and Shrift.
Oh, bugger. Haven't I got enough to do? I'm trying to write a happy gay romance, here.
Although, I was seriously tempted to write an article theorizing about the existence of mpreg... but since they've done it on Enterprise, not so much.
Nah, I think I'll just finish reading The Female Eunuch and write my happy gay romance.
Consuela - Nov 05, 2002 5:22:48 pm PST #745 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You know that LJ link I posted a while up? It got picked up by metablog, and there's some fascinating discussion ongoing about fanfic, and fan vids, and legality, and legal threats, and fair use, and copyright stuff.
Really, Rivka rocks mightily.