[ SECRET POST #4862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4862 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

some people do feel weird and invaded when that sort of thing happens.

I get what you're saying. I truly do. But the thing is, some writers of original, published content also feel weird and invaded when people write fanfic based on their work (just read some of the shit Diana Gabaldon has said about fanfic writers, if you haven't already). Just because they have feelings, doesn't give those feelings primacy.

If I have feelings about something, but my feelings - if catered to - infringe on other people's rights...then it's my feelings which are in the wrong. I have one WIP I'm working on right now, and posting fairly regularly, and as much as I'd find it annoying and insensitive if someone started writing their own version of where my story was going, and posting it at the same time as I'm posting my own updates, I wouldn't hassle them about it, because it's not my business how they apply their imagination to work I chose to publicly share.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I have read Gabaldon's diatribe, and a few others.

I mean, this discussion - whether fan creators should be treated the same or differently than canon creators - has been around for years. And OP, and everything in this thread, shows that there's still meat on that bone.

But right now the community norm for people who regularly do closely inspired work, like podfic or translation - or continuing an abandoned story - is to seek permission from the member of their community who created whatever work they're springing off.

So... I think the person who asked OP permission was acting with decorum and propriety. If OP doesn't want them to do that, they can just say No. That's what asking permission means.

It's OP's offense at even being asked that comes across as ridiculous and overdone to me.

[(Anonymous)]

SA Just reread the Secret and remembered OP was talking in hypotheticals.

I still think their offense at the notion is ridiculous and overdone.

[(Anonymous)]

If OP doesn't want them to do that, they can just say No. That's what asking permission means.

Exactly. That's why I said I wouldn't ask. Because I don't believe in OP's right to stop me. I would ask if the work was abandoned, because if it wasn't abandoned, then I would feel that the considerate thing to do would be to wait until it was either finished or abandoned to post my own continuation. But I wouldn't ask them if it was okay to post a continuation, because I don't think "No" is a valid answer.

[(Anonymous)]

This is an approach that will tend to make people angry with you.

Just, you know, passing on that warning.

[(Anonymous)]

Cool. I'm 100% fine with ignoring those people if they get their backs up. I already know the people whose opinions I care about in my fannish community are of the same mind on this. I'm not to concerned about anybody else.