Seeking less lore-crushing.

[ooranak]

I received this little "gem" in my inbox yesterday on DeviantArt, and was sad to say I immediately recognized what it was. This guy's been running around all over the internet posting his self-insert fanfiction for some time now, and I figure, the way he goes on about it he wants this "work" to have exposure, so I'm sharing with you all.

Comments

[arachnogeek]

We're not publishing it, since that would require a ton of calls to Blizzard to confirm copyright and sales and such, but we're just gonna see if we can make a book form of it. If we can do that and it's really cheap, I'm gonna see if I can sell a few copies to my friends. The only thing they'll be paying for is the cost to make it.

I'm pretty sure if Blizz wanted to they could still get pissed over the sale of a book infringing on their rights, regardless of price. I could be wrong, though.

That aside, though... This looks like a fascinating demonstration of cranial-rectal insertion. Where's my popcorn...?

[ooranak]

Yeah as far as I could recall, doing that stuff is technically illegal, but most companies don't bother. Still. The amount of arrogance and pride going into this is pretty amusing.

If I bring butter and napkins, can I have some popcorn too?

[arachnogeek]

That and I realize he mentioned contacting Blizzard about copyright and sales, but neglected that the novels do, in fact, undergo quality control, too. I think they'd notice some of the stuff in there and go, "errrrno."

*shares popcorn*

[corpseknight]

"quality" "control"

*heaves The Shattering into the sun, cries into soup*

[deadborder]

OTOH, this is the same company that sued the operators of a private server for $88 million - and won.