[ SECRET POST #4862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4862 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So you acknowledge that it's polite to ask, but you don't see how it can be considered rude when you don't?

If you know the work is abandoned, then I think it's completely fine and not at all rude if you don't ask the author's permission. If they might still be working on it, then I do think it's polite to ask, and that it's a bit insensitive to post your continuation if they're still actively posting their own.

But rude and verboten are not the same thing. Just because someone's behavior is a little rude, doesn't mean they should be forbidden from doing what they're doing.

Someone could swoop in tomorrow and start writing their own continuation of my WIP, and I'd have no right to stop them. I'd probably side-eye them a bit for stepping on my toes, but the bottom line is, they'd be completely within their rights, and I'd be a huge hypocrite if I tried to stop them, given that I'm here to write fanfic.

Walking all over a persons work for any reason is a shitty thing to do, and that's what you're doing when you ignore their request not to post it.

Asserting that you, as a creator, have control over what consumers of your work do, when you don't have control over what consumers of your work do, is shitty behavior, and that's what you're doing when you attempt to deny someone's right to write their own fanfic based on yours.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly! We're all playing in other people's sandboxes here. We don't get to claim that this patch of sand is exclusively ours.

[(Anonymous)]

Precisely! *fist-bumps you*