[ SECRET POST #2682 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2682 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Fic etiquette question

[crunchysunrises]

Honestly, I think it's in terrible taste, and wonder why you can't just write your own fic. Borrowing an idea/premise is one thing. No two people will write them the same way. Borrowing an entire work is something else entirely, especially if the fic writer turns up and cries havoc.

There's a reason they say to steal from your betters, not your peers.

Additionally, I'm not really convinced that you put much effort into finding this fic writer.

I saw that you say that she's deleted her website and her LJ hasn't been updated since 2011, but, honestly, that's not much effort. People switch content providers all the time, and she may have had a falling out with LJ that means no access to the account, either in terms of updating or deleting it. (Don't laugh! That happened to me!) Or maybe she got sick of LJ and left without closing shop. Try looking for her on other, more popular platforms before declaring open season on her work.

And seriously consider doing your own riff off of the fic elements that you liked, rather than annexing it to yourself. Some people won't mind. Others will cry plagiarism and get you tossed from wherever you're posting.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[(Anonymous)]

lol, it's pretty far-fetched to claim that writing a sequel to a work is "stealing" it.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[crunchysunrises]

Did I use the word "stealing"? I think not.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[(Anonymous)]

There's a reason they say to steal from your betters, not your peers.

Remember saying that?

Also, you used "annexing," which conveys much the same idea of taking possession.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[crunchysunrises]

Regarding stealing:

How to Write Forum --> http://fictionaut.com/forums/general/threads/219

Sharing a Fanfic Universe (Gargoyles website) --> http://www.gargoyles-fans.org/grimorum/chapter2.htm

Regarding annexation - the definition from Google:

1.) append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.

2.) add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation.

3.) take for oneself; appropriate.

4.) add or attach as a condition or consequence.


...the word "steal" doesn't really convey the full scope of the word. Nor does it do justice to the entirety of the concept.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[(Anonymous)]

This really looks like hairsplitting to me. "Steal" needn't "convey the full scope" of "annex" to convey a similar sense, especially in the context of a comment where you have essentially used "stealing" to describe what the OP proposes to do.

Also, if "never steal from your peers" is some sort of universal fandom law, why is it that when I google "fandom law never steal from your peers," the only actual source for the quote is the same one you linked?

Re: Fic etiquette question

[crunchysunrises]

Three points:

1.) "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." - Mark Twain

2.) While I'm not the keeper of your google-fu, I suspect we got different search results because we used different search terms.

3.) This might've been fun earlier in the evening, but it's not now. OP had a question, I weighed in, and now I'm done.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, I was wondering why your comment seemed to pertain more to the "I also have a fic etiquette question" comment, below. Let me guess, you posted that one yourself.

Re: Fic etiquette question

[crunchysunrises]

What one? Is there another? *goes to look*