[Rant]: Professional Writers vs. The People Who Love Their Work, Round Umpty-Snout

[thefourthvine]

(I realize right now fandom is rightly and deeply upset about a whole other issue. I live in the past, okay? But I know for a fact that this particular one is comin' around again, so. Also, warning: possible triggers

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[hackthis]

Can you hear me applauding from my spaceship orbiting the earth where I grow my super plants?* I know it's kind of far of way, but, yeah, I am. LOUDLY. The plants like it when I'm noisy like this.

*You started it. I wasn't telling people where I lived, but you know, hey. I like you, it's all good.

[thefourthvine]

I KNEW IT. When will the superplant army invade? I welcome our leafy overlords, of course. (Which is not to imply that I don't also welcome the ferns.)

Thank you, Plantmistress! (Or do you prefer a different title?)

[sequinedfairy]

you are so amazing, seriously. thank you so much.

also, just to add on to it, because i have been needing to

dear writer who over-identifies with their characters: your characters are not real people. they are fictional, and they do not have feelings. they do not exist outside of your fictional universe. they cannot be hurt by fanfic, because they are not in this world. i understand being attached to and loving your characters! i have original characters i love with a crazy and intense passion! i understand that when you find porn about your characters (hint: don't read it. you can report it to publishers/whatever without reading it! it's possible! fics are generally labelled!), it feels icky and awful to you.

but please, please, please, do not compare it to someone receiving actual harm. because, hint, no one did. you might feel like you did (i have read things that scarred me, too. they're gross. i know how you feel), but you really, really have not. and your characters have definitely not been actually harmed, because, as stated

[jacquez]

Hey, do you remember that extremely whackadoodle thread about fanfic where someone purporting to be Bella from Twilight (having fallen through from another universe, apparently) was objecting to fanfic?

That was some quality good times.

(eta because I CANNOT SPELL)

[sequinedfairy]

...whaaaaat. that sounds like the EXACT kind of crazy that i need in my life now.

oh crazy trolls, never stop.

[jacquez]

AHHHH I did not bookmark it! It was made of high-octane crazy juice!

I think maybe seperis linked to it back when it happened, but it was a while ago now.

(eta: what is WITH my spelling?????)

[thefourthvine]

*beams* Thank you!

[kimboosan]

I like this. A lot.

Thank you! ♥

[thefourthvine]

I'm happy to hear that. Thanks back at you!

[seperis]

*very loud frantic applause*

Ouch. My hands hurt now.

Point four needs to be put up somewhere because yeah.

[thefourthvine]

Thank you! But, um, let me get you some ice for your hands.

I actually have a whole separate rant written about How Not to Alienate Your Readers on the internet. (Remember that one thing in, um, Slate, I think? About things a reader wanted an author to know? I read that and was like, YES YES YES, and then they were about plot and characterization and stuff. And what I really wanted was Things You Should Know About the Internet, from a reader to a writer. So I wrote it.)

[seperis]

So I wrote it

Did you post it somewhere? If it's here, don't bother link-hunting, I'll find. If not - please? I remember the things reader wanted to tell author one, I think it was in Salon, but Things You Should Know About The Internet sounds even better to me.

[lizey]

So I wrote it

Did you post it somewhere? If it's here, don't bother link-hunting, I'll find. If not - please? I remember the things reader wanted to tell author one, I think it was in Salon, but Things You Should Know About The Internet sounds even better to me.