Buffistas

You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?

Cordelia ,'Chosen'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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§ ita § - Apr 17, 2011 4:27:25 pm PDT #14497 of 28293

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wonder if the people who object to fanfic object as much to fanart? I see a lot more money being exchanged for that, but as a recipient, you get a thing.

I'm stunned by some of the things I see people offering for sale on Deviant Art, though. Prints of themselves as demons? Crappy porny photomanips of actors and not characters? Seriously? There's an actual *market* for that? I do wonder if they sell.

Amy - Apr 17, 2011 4:31:16 pm PDT #14498 of 28293

Because books.

I'm not sure I'd really mind if someone made money off fanart of my characters. It's not something I could do anyway, so more power to them?

Copyright laws have pretty much taken care of using someone else's characters in a big traditional publishing way. It's just the idea that rankles, I guess.

Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 4:37:08 pm PDT #14499 of 28293

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm currently reading a mystery set in 1905 that has some scenes that feel an awful lot like Criminal Minds fic. Makes me wonder....

Amy - Apr 17, 2011 4:43:52 pm PDT #14500 of 28293

Because books.

What is it? I love historical mystery.

Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 4:48:34 pm PDT #14501 of 28293

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's called In the Shadow of Gotham. It's just OK -- most of the stuff bugging me is stuff like this profiling (really, 1905?) and people talking about why a woman would have trouble getting an academic job in math -- like that needs to be discussed in 1905??

Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2011 4:52:20 pm PDT #14502 of 28293

brillig

There's a published Original Series Star Trek novel that's fairly clearly set in the world of a 70s TV show called "Here Come The Brides." I remember reading it and thinking, "I know these people."

Consuela - Apr 17, 2011 4:56:24 pm PDT #14503 of 28293

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I remember reading it and thinking, "I know these people."

Yeah, that one's an open secret. If I recall the story correctly, Hambly sort of tried to get permission but there really wasn't anyone around who still held the rights to it, so she fudged it a bit and just went forward.

I doubt Paramount would approve it now: they've gotten a lot more gun-shy.

Also: it's also a crossover with half a dozen other properties, if you read it carefully. Doctor Who, at the very least, although I don't remember the rest. Dana probably knows.

Dana - Apr 17, 2011 4:59:07 pm PDT #14504 of 28293

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't know offhand other than Here Come the Brides. Great book, though. It's called "Ishmael."

Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2011 4:59:46 pm PDT #14505 of 28293

brillig

Hambly, that's right. I was trying to remember why I read it.

Anne W. - Apr 17, 2011 5:00:14 pm PDT #14506 of 28293

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Oh, I remember that one!

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