My God, it seems that the wank over Russett Dawn, the attempt to publish a Twilight fanfic for money, was even more epic than I thought it was. We're talking about MsScribe-level epic. One of my favorite quotes about the legality: "A vast Monty Python foot is poised to crash down ( Read more... )

First of all, Happy Birthday to brightdreamer and nurissa!

So it seems there's a Twilight fan who's decided to publish a sequel to Breaking Dawn. Without Stephanie Meyer's permission, of course, which makes it fanfic. But the author, who calls herself Lady Sybilla, who has a rather interesting interpretation of copyright law:

Copyright law will only protect the ( Read more... )

This is probably horrid of me, but I have been reading the meltdowns the fanatical "Claymates" have been having over Clay Aiken coming out and laughing my ass off over comments like this:

I will never be able to listen to him sing, "O Holy Night," knowing he desires unholy nights.

(Fandom Wank summarizes the whole thing here - the second link ( Read more... )

Link courtesy of nagaina_ryuuoh and Fandom Wank:

So here, we have a radical feminist fandom theorist who thinks that women are contributing to their own oppression by writing yaoi/slash, OMG!111!!

Here's some choice quotes:

Fanfic writers pride themselves on their respect for and fidelity to their original source material, and in their writing they rarely, if ( Read more... )

Orson Scott Card, whose book Ender's Game is extremely popular with the geek crowd and is about to be adapted by Marvel Comics, has come out with a violently antigay essay in which he basically says that gay relationships are unnatural:

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter ( Read more... )

Everyone, thank you for the support and hugs you sent me in my last post. It was just a matter of a lot of bad things coming together all at once and hitting me hard. I am feeling better now ( Read more... )

It seems that someone has finally threatened legal action against Journalfen, home of Fandom Wank. The would-be plaintiff is Chancery Stone, author of a massive self-published novel called DANNY, who used sockpuppets to spam legitimate literary communities promoting her book, and got kicked out of the small community for her book on LJ for being a ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or has Fandom Wank been very quiet and dull lately? Really, the only thing making a major splash has been the Harry Potter Lexicon case (and in days of old, they would have split that off into its own community, since it's monopolizing the main group). I don't know if this is a good sign that fandom is taking more responsibility for ( Read more... )

First, we had the guy who plagiarized a dead woman's fiction and journal. Now, we have a professionally published romance novelist who has allegedly plagiarized a 1930s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt's enough to make ripping off little-known fantasy novels and Buffy to create Draco-in-leather-pants epics look almost ( Read more... )

You're going to see this post on Fandom Wank, or at least Clairvoyantwank, within the next 24 hours. People are Not Happy this guy used fanficrants as a platform for a manifesto against the Organization for Transformative Works ( Read more... )