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St. Ignatius of Antioch (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ignatius) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-06-18 03:07:00 |
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Oh Dear.
While this is an addition to the Lee Goldberg wank below, I hope you’ll forgive a new entry, as there have been some wanky new developments.
When last we heard from Lee Goldberg's blog, he and some of his very soulful and important author friends were wanking merrily away about the evils of fanfiction. One of the things that brought this on was Mr. Goldberg’s participation in a radio program that discussed the issue. He felt the program was unfair, especially when the host ended up coming out in favor of fanfiction.
One of the pro- fanfic people on the same radio program was soon-to-be published author Naomi Novik. Mr. Goldberg described her as a “dimwit” when he originally posted about the radio show.
Ms. Novik responded to Mr. Goldberg’s post, not linking to it, but giving her own opinions on fanfiction and other issues.
Someone linked to this post in Mr. Goldberg’s comment section, and shortly he put another post up, linking to and quoting her response. Of course, as always, he is unfailingly polite: “Her arrogance and stupidity is mind-boggling. Between her, and the guy who made the "We more emotionally attached" comment, I think you get a pretty accurate picture of the fanfic community and how they think. Scary, isn't it?”
Meanwhile, the anti-kiddie porn wank continues in Jocelyn’s blog, as a commenter tries their hand at psychoanalysis: “It's interesting to us that of all the thought-provoking and edgy writing CS Lewis did for adults, the only stuff of his we can find fanfic about, and most of it pornographic is Narnia. That tells us something about the mentality of the people who write it.”
(If you’ll allow me to sidebar for a minute- It’s probably because that adult scifi/whatever stuff he wrote was generally boring as ASS; I didn’t even manage to get through any of it. I have, however, read The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity many times. Does she want me to go write smut about them? Because actually, I think I’m more than up for the task.)
As for the original post- well they’re still wanking away. But there is some good stuff in there- for instance, I like Rachel Caine’s comment so much that I think I’m going to have to go buy her Stargate novel now.
While this is an addition to the Lee Goldberg wank below, I hope you’ll forgive a new entry, as there have been some wanky new developments.
When last we heard from Lee Goldberg's blog, he and some of his very soulful and important author friends were wanking merrily away about the evils of fanfiction. One of the things that brought this on was Mr. Goldberg’s participation in a radio program that discussed the issue. He felt the program was unfair, especially when the host ended up coming out in favor of fanfiction.
One of the pro- fanfic people on the same radio program was soon-to-be published author Naomi Novik. Mr. Goldberg described her as a “dimwit” when he originally posted about the radio show.
Ms. Novik responded to Mr. Goldberg’s post, not linking to it, but giving her own opinions on fanfiction and other issues.
Someone linked to this post in Mr. Goldberg’s comment section, and shortly he put another post up, linking to and quoting her response. Of course, as always, he is unfailingly polite: “Her arrogance and stupidity is mind-boggling. Between her, and the guy who made the "We more emotionally attached" comment, I think you get a pretty accurate picture of the fanfic community and how they think. Scary, isn't it?”
Meanwhile, the anti-kiddie porn wank continues in Jocelyn’s blog, as a commenter tries their hand at psychoanalysis: “It's interesting to us that of all the thought-provoking and edgy writing CS Lewis did for adults, the only stuff of his we can find fanfic about, and most of it pornographic is Narnia. That tells us something about the mentality of the people who write it.”
(If you’ll allow me to sidebar for a minute- It’s probably because that adult scifi/whatever stuff he wrote was generally boring as ASS; I didn’t even manage to get through any of it. I have, however, read The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity many times. Does she want me to go write smut about them? Because actually, I think I’m more than up for the task.)
As for the original post- well they’re still wanking away. But there is some good stuff in there- for instance, I like Rachel Caine’s comment so much that I think I’m going to have to go buy her Stargate novel now.
