[ SECRET POST #3965 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3965 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's the story of that?

[(Anonymous)]

I totally get why authors might feel uncomfortable about fafic of their own creations and don't want people to show it to them, and why they want to avoid it for professional reasons, but I think any published author who

A) ever wrote fanfiction (even if it stayed hidden in a notebook and no one else ever got to see it),

B) ever read fanfiction deliberately or wanted to, or

C) very clearly cribbed some characters and ideas from other media in such a blatant way,

should really just shut the hell up about fanfiction. At some point, they clearly felt the same draw towards fanworks that everyone else feels, but they buried this under a drive to be published authors and a bunch of flailing about copyright. Now there's a disconnect between why most people write and consume fanworks and why some authors think people do it, and the authors are getting on a soapbox to lecture people while totally missing the point.

Gabaldon doesn't have to be *comfortable* with people writing Outlander fanfic just because she based a character on a Doctor Who companion, but it should make her able to understand why people care about someone else's characters.