Media references to fanfic, the week ending 1/14/17

[wneleh]

In Copyright in Klingon for The Washington Post, David Post wrote A significant copyright tussle over the appropriate scope of “fan films” - and, by extension, fan fiction and the whole genre of “fan-generated” works - has erupted in the Central District of California.

In 'Why I Will Miss Obama-as-Dad Most of All' for New Republic, Rumaan Alam

Comments

[marinw]

Truebama (Trudeau/Obama ) fanfic fic will now be supplanted by Pump (Putin/Trump) which will probably be of the S&M variety. Yuck.

[wneleh]

Putin/Trump.... It just writes itself... Has 'Pump' already been christened, because I can't even....

[marinw]

Not to my knowledge. The tag I keep seeing in "Trumputin". But "Pump" really expresses how gross this bromance or whatever this is. Your welcome.

ETA: Do protest signs count as slash fic? I was at a March yesterday (yes, we had a bunch in Canada) and there were a few Trumputin sign out there.

[klangley56]

Hello

[wneleh]

Your views and experiences match mine.

I've never gone to pro cons, but I've been going to fan-run cons of from 100 to 5,000 since ~1981, most recently last weekend. In general, the more hard-SF, the more male; and events/panels focused on fanfic are very female; but within these extremes there's always been a lot of mixing.

Even at fan-run Star Trek cons in the 1980s, the crowd in general didn't strike me as being majority male or female, but the sellers of zines were all women - in fact, that's my enduring memory from those cons, middle-aged women with paper books they'd made themselves that they were very selective about showing peppy-teen-me...