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baleetion, fandom: buffy the vampire slayer, fanfic, illegality, stop giving strangers money you idiots

Can't we just buy you an IPod
Remember the good olde days when people on your friendslist just hinted around for you to buy them IPods and paid LJ time?? Well, I'm sorry, but that is so 2004 and we have inflation to contend with!

Now you can buy a fanfic writer a WHOLE YEAR OFF WORK so she can finish her WIPs for a show that's been off the air for a few years now. Someone should let Joss Whedon know, or at least contact the other writers who helped her write it in the first place. Will they all get a share of the profits?

Oh, and big surprise, no comments allowed on her post. Don't worry, cutie. If we can't flame you there, we'll flame you here.

UPDATED: A response from Cousin Jean aka OH, the unmitigated gall!

Updated again: The original post begging for cash has been deleted, so Yay for Fandom Peer Pressure! And a smart fandom_wanker preserved the post in a C&P so we can continue to mock! And if she's only taken it down in order to revise it and repost, I will of course link to any further stupidity that she cares to share with all of fandom.

Update No. 3: Second post has been edited. Here's the C&P of the original version.

Update No. 4: New Post: Goodbye, Cruel Internets!!

Update the 5th? The Fallout:

Elynross has a round-up of amusing links referring to the wank of the day. I'll direct you to her post instead of linking them myself since I'm lazy and I've been working hard all day to keep you updated (why aren't you bitches paying me???!)

Cesperanza has some commentary which might be wank-worthy itself just by virtue of being serious ;)

If you come across anything else interesting, let me know and I'll add it to the main post.

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wickeprincess3
2005-08-10 08:49 pm UTC (link)

the joy of tabbed browsing :D

This is either the smartest thing or the dumbest thing I've ever done. I guess time will tell.
A message from cousinjean:

I've gotten a lot of e-mails over the past year asking if and when I'm going to finish both Dancing Lessons and my sequel to The Butterfly Effect. Believe me when I say that nobody is more depressed about the unfinished state of my fan fiction than I am. But the cold, hard reality is that I have bills and student loans to pay, an actual paying writing career to try my damnedest to launch, and an eventual marriage to save and plan for. The simple fact is that there is no more room in my life for fan fiction. I've tried to make room. I have. But it's just not happening.

I realize that a lot of people will probably judge me pretty harshly for the following, but I'm just desperate enough not to care. I'm offering to sing for my supper, so to speak, and I don't see the shame in that. So here's my proposal: if every reader who has read and enjoyed my fan fiction over the years will donate the amount that they would expect to pay for a hardback novel (and I've written the equivalent of several novels in the course of my fanfic career), then I will be able to take a year off to write full time. This means that not only would I be able to finish the original novels that are languishing on my hard drive; I would also be able to finish my fan fiction.

Basically, what I'm asking for is monetary support from my reader base in helping me get my career as a professional storyteller off the ground. In return, if at least half of my goal is met, I promise to continue the work that has gained me a following in the first place. I'm asking you to buy me time to write.

If you're willing to do this, in addition to finished WIPs you will also have my eternal gratitude and a mention in the acknowledgements of my first published novel. If you're not, that's understandable, and all I ask is that you never again ask me how my WIPs are coming.

I'm setting a deadline of Halloween 2005 in order to reach my goal. If I do, then I'll give notice at my job and commence writing full time. If I don't, well, even if you can buy me a few months between jobs, that will be a huge help.

Click here if you wish to make a donation through Paypal; or contact me at jeanjeanie AT gmail.com in order to make other arrangements. You can check back here regularly to see the progress of this fundraising drive.

Thank you so much for your continued support. Even if all you can afford is the emotional kind.

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	(Anonymous) 2005-08-10 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Weird.. I had the browser window with her post still open and made a screenshot. Seems like she changed the text of her entry.. Look: http://xs41.xs.to/pics/05323/cousinjean-screenshot.jpg (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jrs1980 2005-08-11 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	Those are two separate posts. First the announcement with disabled comments (the one above) last night, and then your screengrab today. That entry is still there with the comments piling up, she just took out all the text. (Reply to this)(Parent)

smo
2005-08-11 12:03 am UTC (link)

You are love.

This means that not only would I be able to finish the original novels that are languishing on my hard drive; I would also be able to finish my fan fiction.

Here's a thought: why not just cut out the fanfic middleman and ask people to chip in for original work? Then she'd be on the right side of the law *and* be getting paid to Pursue Her Dreams.

Oh wait, that presupposes Earth logic. My bad.

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	iamtheenemy 2005-08-11 06:18 am UTC (link)
	I assume it's because no one gives a fuck about her original writing. If she asks for money for her job, it sounds like she's asking for pity. This way it's like, "I'm doing this for YOU." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-08-12 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	"And WHAT THANKS DO I GET?! sob" (Reply to this)(Parent)

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