[ SECRET POST #4862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4862 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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Personally, the thing that would piss me off would be the person posting their fic as a continuation of mine. It's not. That implies that they were authorized, that there's an actual throughline and that they've written the official ending to my story.

Write a fic using my ideas as a springboard, write your own spin on my ideas, write something picking up where I left off, that's all fine. Just call it a fic inspired by mine/an AU of mine, or leave me out entirely. Don't imply I handed you the reins, any more than you would imply your fic is a continuation of a canon.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't imply I handed you the reins, any more than you would imply your fic is a continuation of a canon.

Nobody in fandom is claiming their fic is an official continuation of canon. So this statement doesn't really make sense. Plenty of people in fandom are writing fics that are attempts to imagine what a continuation of canon might look like, or what they'd like it to look like. So again, your statement doesn't really make sense.

Bottom line, if it were me, I would make sure to include in the AN that my continuation was entirely of my own invention, and was not created by or endorsed by the author of the original fic. And I do think it's probably a good policy for everyone writing a continuation of an abandoned fic to do that. Unless the author has voluntarily given them permission to tout the continuation as the "official" continuation of the story - but I doubt there are many fic writers who would do that.

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody in fandom is claiming their fic is an official continuation of canon.

That is literally exactly my point. No one in fandom would claim their fic is an official continuation of canon. People do claim their fic is an official continuation of other people's fic, which is obnoxious in a way that just writing something that uses someone else's fic as a springboard isn't.

[(Anonymous)]

People do claim their fic is an official continuation of other people's fic

No, they don't. If they do, they should stop. But they literally don't. If they did, the author of the original fic could easily discredit them, and if it were on AO3 they could easily have AO3 force them to change the author's note where they claim their fic is official.

Simply writing a continuation of someone's fic is not claiming your continuation is official. I'm not sure how you could think it was.