drat, I'm too late
Oh, damn it, I had just finished writing a comment to aberwyn's post, and she deletes the damn thing, instead putting up this:
I think the goal of this small number of fanfic people is to drive me off LJ, ultimately. Their lack of ability to sustain an argument would prove my original point if I thought I everyone who writes fanfic is like them. As soon as someone resorts to an ad hominem attack, they are admitting that they have no real argument to give.
Translation: "I'm not talking to you anymore but YOU STILL SUCK AND I STILL WIN!"
And just because I liked my comment so much, I'm posting it here instead. Basically, I aimed for the tone of diplomats reaching for the little red button: "We are VERY SURPRISED that your country would choose to act like this; now sit still while we take aim."
My comment, written too late to be posted:
This post is baffling to me. Gabaldon I can get - she was incredibly rude, but she was reacting on an emotional level to something that affected her personally. I don't remotely understand your need to go out of your way to insult fans.
If you don't want fanfic written about your books, just say so. If you want to protect your colleagues who have unwillingly been faced with (a handful of) fanfic written about their works, say, "I think fans should respect authors' wishes concerning fanfic."
Instead you chose to insult all of fanfic, and the entire medium of television along with it. (That was how I was supposed to read that sentence, right? As television being an inherently inferior medium? If so, I'm sure Whedon, Moffat, & co will be crying all the way to the bank.)
And that strikes me as especially pointless since there pretty much isn't any Deverry fanfic out there. Meanwhile, there's a shitload of it for things like Harry Potter (permitted), Buffy (permitted), and Due South (permitted). Stuff that makes the fans happy, that the original creators don't mind, that doesn't affect you in any way whatsoever - and yet you feel an urgent need to point out that you assume the fans in question to lack taste or originality.
Why? What do you gain from that? The best I can figure is that it gives you some sort of sense of superiority. Which, let's just put things into perspective here: An internationally published author declares herself superior to... amateurs posting for fun on the internet. Wow. It's almost as classy as a member of the NBA standing on a street corner, shouting at the kids shooting hoops: "You all suck! You have no talent and you'll never go pro!"
Or, to put it another way, it's remarkably similar to this comic.
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/490929.html and has
comments there.
I think the goal of this small number of fanfic people is to drive me off LJ, ultimately. Their lack of ability to sustain an argument would prove my original point if I thought I everyone who writes fanfic is like them. As soon as someone resorts to an ad hominem attack, they are admitting that they have no real argument to give.
Translation: "I'm not talking to you anymore but YOU STILL SUCK AND I STILL WIN!"
And just because I liked my comment so much, I'm posting it here instead. Basically, I aimed for the tone of diplomats reaching for the little red button: "We are VERY SURPRISED that your country would choose to act like this; now sit still while we take aim."
My comment, written too late to be posted:
This post is baffling to me. Gabaldon I can get - she was incredibly rude, but she was reacting on an emotional level to something that affected her personally. I don't remotely understand your need to go out of your way to insult fans.
If you don't want fanfic written about your books, just say so. If you want to protect your colleagues who have unwillingly been faced with (a handful of) fanfic written about their works, say, "I think fans should respect authors' wishes concerning fanfic."
Instead you chose to insult all of fanfic, and the entire medium of television along with it. (That was how I was supposed to read that sentence, right? As television being an inherently inferior medium? If so, I'm sure Whedon, Moffat, & co will be crying all the way to the bank.)
And that strikes me as especially pointless since there pretty much isn't any Deverry fanfic out there. Meanwhile, there's a shitload of it for things like Harry Potter (permitted), Buffy (permitted), and Due South (permitted). Stuff that makes the fans happy, that the original creators don't mind, that doesn't affect you in any way whatsoever - and yet you feel an urgent need to point out that you assume the fans in question to lack taste or originality.
Why? What do you gain from that? The best I can figure is that it gives you some sort of sense of superiority. Which, let's just put things into perspective here: An internationally published author declares herself superior to... amateurs posting for fun on the internet. Wow. It's almost as classy as a member of the NBA standing on a street corner, shouting at the kids shooting hoops: "You all suck! You have no talent and you'll never go pro!"
Or, to put it another way, it's remarkably similar to this comic.
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/490929.html and has
comments there.