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12:56am: Pokéfic Wanklet
Over on Serebii, Jesse GS the II posts a "fic" in huge, unreadable blocks.

Mod Zephyr Flare tells her to read the rules.

Jesse complains that her other fic was in the same format and no one complained, so Zephyr tells her So because you were caught first that makes it all right does it?

I think not.

Jesse goes nuts, telling commenter Yami Ryu "How 'bout you get the hell off my back and stop telling me how to write?"

And it wouldn't be complete without this..."I am officially retiring from writing "Pokémon" fanfiction, effective immediately. I refuse to attempt to function in an environment that only cares about getting things right according to the higher-ups."

Then Zephyr replies again and locks it. Short, but an entertaining wank

10:27am: SGA Fandom on SGA Fanfic: It's *all* just theft anyway, right?
Over in SGA fandom, where the men are women and the women are... also women, there's trouble brewing in the paradise that is sga_flashfic, home of possibly even more crackfic than the rest of the fandom has. Speranza (cesperanza) has come up with a new idea for a challenge: Mission Reports! It's got three different possible options, and options A and B are about par for the course, but option C is a little different:

"take another author's story and write a report of type a or b for it."

But what makes it truly special is this:

"Now to clarify about option c)--if you choose to write a mission report of somebody else's story, we'll ask you to credit them, but we won't require you to ask their permission (though obviously, you're free to do so and it's always a good idea). HOWEVER, if you want to opt OUT of option c)--i.e. tell people that they can't write a mission report of your story or stories, even with credit--please leave a comment in this post ASAP."

For those of you lost, she's basically saying that anyone can write up a story based on and remixing another author's story without needing their permission, and if you don't want to have someone do that to your story, you need to speak up now or it's assumed you're down with it.

As you might imagine, this does not go over well.

At all.

Four comments down, things get jiggy, when kyrdwyn asks the fairly sensible question:

"Also, sorry, another thought I had - are you limiting the writers we can choose from to sga_flashfic members, or is anyone who has ever written SGA fic fair game? Because if they're not on the list, they won't know to opt out, and I know a lot of writers who might like to opt out for whatever reason."

And just about everyone shows up to take exception!

You've got hth (hth_the_first):

"Right, because God forbid we write stories that make use of ideas someone else came up with. I personally write to Martin Gero before each and every story I post on the internet to clear it with him; I keep his postcards in a little file folder in my fireproof safe so that I can pull them out and show them to anyone who asks."

Sarah T (harriet_spy):

"Especially if it's a Sheppard/Teyla spin! That's *extra* gross, you know! I feel violated just thinking about it."

Livia Penn (liviapenn) hastily defending Sarah T with links:

"Er, I assure you, she was definitely just being sarcastic."

An anonmouse replying to Sarah T:

"i hope someone remixes one of your fics so rodney kills teyla."

And that's just within the first real subthread.

In the other comments, people scold, and scold, and scold, and scold--there's even preschool teacher scolding--and grant very odd forms of permission. That little condition is apparently a bigger source of concern than you'd think, because it also shows up in rosewildeirish's post on the subject, if not the countless other posts about it. But not everyone disagrees--some people think they haven't gone far enough.

And the best thing is: this hasn't even been up a full twelve hours yet. Pass along a link to the unfolding drama and get a cookie!


ETA: And at just barely shy of the twelve hour mark, Speranza freezes the original post and puts up a new post revising the rules and proceedures for this challenge. However, it's worth noting that they "remain philosophically committed to the idea that people have the right to make art based on other art provided that due credit is given the original artist".

I'd offer to take bets on whether more wank is in the offing, but I don't believe anyone around here is that naive.


Links at this point provided by just about everybody. Thanks, y'all.

3:11pm: I love Lee Goldberg wank like I love taffy
What a treat, boys and girls. HP slash wank + Lee Goldberg = PROFITS. Taken from wank_report: thanks to the lovely mousie who pointed it out. Muchos cheese to you.

Ahem. So, anyway, Lee decides to address his favourite topic in the world: FAN FIC AUTHORS ARE NAUGHTY CHILDREN, AND THAT'S CONCENTRATED EVIL COMING OUT THE BACK OF THEM. All goes well until a very clever young fic writer decides to pop up to share his side of the story, quoting Wikipedia as an irrefutable source:

I write fanfiction and will always do so.
I think bryley's wright Fanfiction is writen by fans for fans. So if you don't like it stay away from our communites and off our sites.

Many complain about Fanfiction.nst Adult fanficton and say it noting rape fic's and stories on chan. Why are you even looking? I write slash and I state up front I do not own said book or movie. And make no money off them.

My writings are pure fantasy are for other fanfiction lovers not for people like you!Fandom is too large to be push back or held down!

Yeah, kiddo, you stick it to the man there. So there's speculation following this about his questionable writing skills and intelligence until young Kyle decides to return with a link to his own Snarry fic, because clearly he's either really fucking dumb or masochistic.

Frankly, I don't know which side to barrack for. Maybe the comet. I love comet.

10:41pm: I am sick and tired of all you bitches ruining my posts!
Over on ohnotheydidnt, xxrottedstarxx has had it up to here with all you dumb bitches.

Why? No one cares about Fefe Dobson! Or something!

Also features: return of the banned!, flames upon flames, memes, and some really bizarre hate graphics/screencaps in the original post... I wouldn't recommend clicking if you have dialup, or don't want to see Hitler or netspeak splashed on your screen.

Stealth! ETA: This bit of COMPLETE AND TOTAL INCOMPREHENSIBLE BATSHIT has been deleted. Lucky for you, zealot's got the caps.