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You have the right to say no. If you don't want them to, definitely tell them no. Don't let a reluctant yes to something you didn't really want come back to irritate you later when they post a continuation you don't like or want to be associated with. Plenty of fanfic authors and fanartists take control of their work by asking people not to do this or that with their creations.

Man that is so hypocritical. Do these fanfic authors also get written permission from the original creators to write their fanfics?

You don't have to agree to let them put your name on it or tell people it's in any way associated with your fic, but it is basically the definition of hypocrisy to tell someone they "cannot" do it.

Personally Idgaf. I've had people use my meta/worldbuilding ideas in fic (that were very recognizably from the meta I wrote that got reblogged a bit in the small tumblr fandom) without any kind of credit and while it was kind of annoying seeing people praising the author for an idea that I came up, it's not like I could say anything because once you post fanon or meta, the ideas kind of belong to everyone.

But, I do see LOTS of people tell people that their fan ideas are their own and they don't want people touching them, so if OP wanted to do this it would not be out of the ordinary. I'm not saying it's not hypocritical, I'm just saying that plenty of people do it - enough that OP saying "I'd perfer you not contine my fic" would not be frowned upon.

Edited 2016-05-18 00:12 (UTC)

I don't think it's hypocritical unless she would ignore a plea from the author of the original thing she's making fanfic of to stop. She has the right to ask this person not to do this and that person has the right to either respect that or not.

I mean, you have the "right" to say whatever you want. But by the act of writing fanfiction, you already don't own anything and you are inherently taking a stand that using others sandboxes is permissible. How can you then go and pretend your own work is more sacred and untouchable than the original which you yourself are taking?

That's why I said that it's only hypocritical if she's treating her work differently than the work of the creator of what she's basing her fanfic on. Supposing that creator came to her and asked her to stop, if she respected that and stopped writing fanfic based on it then that seems perfectly consistent with asking someone else not to write something based on her work.

What makes it weird is that it's not actually finished? So it would be a continuation, and it would effectively be another story than the one I was writing? Like it would be different if they wrote a spinoff or sequel/prequel, which Id find less weird.

I'm one of the anons who think it would be hypocritical, or at the very least petty, of you to try to stop this other person. (Yes, there are more than one of us.)

But I will say this: what this other anon is doing strikes me as really poor etiquette. I can't imagine thinking to myself, "I'm going to jump in in the middle of this person writing their story, and finish it in my own way!" If this person weren't being rude, they would wait until you've finished posting your story before they started posting their own, alternate continuation.

I suppose you could try explaining to them in a PM that it will be hard for you to focus on your own version of the story if you're trying to write it at the same time as they're posting their version. But I still feel that they are perfectly within their rights to ignore you and do it anyway, no matter how rude that is.

Also, I'm curious whether you've been updating your story slowly and taking a long time to finish it? Because if so, this person might be attempting to passive aggressively punish you for it by hijacking your story. Which is super rude of them, I'm definitely not arguing that. But it's fanfic of your fanfic, so...them's the breaks, basically.

Though if you go several months between updates, then...yeah, sorry, but all bets are off. Several months between updates is pretty much as good as abandoned. In which case I completely understand why someone might want to jump in and invent their own closure.

I'm always slow to update, and this specific fic is on hold, so I do understand - but yeah.

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