Ficcing and Hypocrisy

[angiepen]

owlmoose wrote a meta post talking about getting ideas from other people's fic. At one point she said:

So I don't see how anyone who writes fanfic can object when someone looks at a story she's written and says "I want to see more" or "I wonder if I could take it in this other direction?" Because that's what she did when she wrote her fic in the first

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[jenlynn820]

I have written FPS. Aragorn/Legolas and also more recently I wrote a story based on Elizabethtown with Drew Baylor and Viggo's character from A Walk on the Moon. And where I think anyone can write fanfics about those two characters if they'd like, I know it would bother me if someone just picked up where I left off even if I don't have the right to feel that way. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just saying that I can understand why people would get upset.

I think people that would get upset, even if it is hypocritical are just having a reaction that is personal because it is now happening to them and it isn't easy to seperate that from what might what a logical reaction would be.

As for "my characters" of course anyone can write fanfiction about Orlando, Viggo, Dom, etc. But yeah, what I meant was I would have a problem with someone deciding to take a specific character that is part of a specific world and continue on with the story. By my characters I meant the ones living in the particular fics, not Orlando Bloom as a fictional character in general.

[angiepen]

I think people that would get upset, even if it is hypocritical are just having a reaction that is personal because it is now happening to them and it isn't easy to seperate that from what might what a logical reaction would be.

I'm not really talking about how people would feel though. I absolutely understand feeling hurt or angry or whatever. I wasn't exagerating when I said I was furious at that girl twenty years ago -- my initial reaction was cussing and thoughts of violence. :P But there's a difference between how you feel inside and how you behave where it shows. And there's a difference between not liking something and expecting the rest of the world not to do it just because you don't like it.

I'm not faulting people for how they feel about something. Feelings are personal -- we can't help them nor should we have to try. But outward behavior is very much controllable.

Angie