I feel I've read better fanfic
I've read better BDSM fiction, but I've also read worse (Anne Rice, I am looking at you). And, TBH, the ones I particularly love are not because of how OMG Kinky they are; it's because they're geeky in a particularly word-nerdy way, big time (though there is some *seriously* hardcore kink in there, really). I'm not too fussed that it started life as fanfic, but the Twilight-y-ness of it is pretty fucking obvious.
I also know Mollena (many of my kinkster friends are good friends of hers)
I am seriously jealous. I really love reading her blog, because she's so honest about her shit.
And I was really confused as to why there was a hitherto unsuspected underlying raceplay theremin community.
I'm tempted to make that a new fetish on Fetlife.
From what I can see about 50 Shades Of Grey, what seems to be most irritating about it is that is that the fanfic got pulled off the web when it got published. But, no doubt, the publisher insisted. As they insist is wasn't fanfic with the serial numbers sexily filed off (of course, some stern but loving editing could make it even more different, but hey). I thought the Jezebel article (this) was more weird than the book seemed to be. It just seemed--well, I feel I've read better fanfic, and some of it was published, but self-published, and I feel bad for that author.
I read an article/essay recently on how this is actually a common thing in Twilight fandom: writers of popular stories frequently file off serial numbers and sell them to epresses/self publish them. This has caused a backlash of people saving and putting stories in a public DB. It's all very foreign to me, fannishly, but Twilight is one of the "feral" fandoms, where huge (up to 70%) numbers of people have it as their first fandom, with no real connection to fandom-as-an-entity.
Suela, was it you or Rivka who linked to that? Or the AO3 comm?
Did Cassandra Clare basically do the same thing? I mean write an au fic and then "file off the numbers" and publish it.
Is Cassandra Claire also the person who plagiarized a Draco/Harry fic from a BtVS fic, and other sources, or am I getting mixed up?
I'm pretty sure that's her, only she said she wasn't plagiarizing, I think she either claimed she forgot where she heard the quotes or it was a "game"
I just found someone's research paper on fan campaigns, heavily quoting Buffistas.org posts from Joss, Tim, Me, and misquoting Kristen as Kiba, over and over.
The student is now at Syracuse, writing a dissertation on Joss Whedon's fandoms.
The paper is from 2007, but I really can't stop this horrible itch I have to correct her citation.
Should I ignore it, or email her?
I think you should email her.
Link to it because we're very curious? And definitely email her--how freaking hard is it to properly identify a poster when you can copy and paste!!
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It looks like undergrad work. Boy, was I a BIG JERK. Well, I still am, little bit.
But there's a whole quote of me yelling at fans to not send apples to Fox so we won't "look like asswipes."
This is my contribution to academia, ladies and gents!
