Tiptree thoughts

[astolat]

rivkat says pretty much what I have to say about the Tiptree-longlisted fanfic issue here, and jury member matt-ruff makes a great post about the various objections over hereI see no reason that fanfic based on sources still under copyright shouldn't be considered for awards that don't have a pro-publication requirement, and in particular for an award for "the

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[artaxastra]

I could and still might one day write the Napoleon/Alexander version; but I don't see why, as far as art goes, it would be more worthy of consideration because I used real dead people instead of fictional ones.

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I seem to have missed something very interesting here!

[reginagiraffe]

If I stripped that away to make it safe from copyright lawsuits, I'd lose a lot of what made it interesting in the first place.

FWIW, I had a minor epiphany yesterday when I realized you were the one that wrote that story because now I see a lot of hints of the same issues in your dragon books (which I have been enjoying immensely, btw). There's not mpreg or genderswapping in the strictest sense, but there is still the way the characters have to rethink gender issues.

[penknife]

I have no idea whether this particular story is any good; I haven't read it. I think, though, that it's going to be very hard for people outside of fandom to understand this kind of story and its context. Fanfiction is so dependent on the original for its meaning, to start with -- as you said, "World Turned Upside Down" would lose a lot if it weren't fanfic, and it would (I think) lose a lot if read by people who didn't know the characters and the original work. "The Wind Done Gone" makes little sense except as a response to "Gone With the Wind." I'm not sure everyone judging the story is going to be familiar enough with both fandoms to understand what fanfic about them is saying

[lobelia321]

Very interesting. Thanks for these thoughts. :-)

[kassrachel]

Me again. I just now read "World Turned Upside Down," and wanted to thank you for it. This has been a bitch of a week and I had no idea how much I needed to lose myself in something well-written and delicious.

I must confess I'm not terribly well-versed in the canon, aside from the basics that one knows via fannish osmosis, so I can't speak to the in-character-ness or the voices per se, but purely as a genderswap mpreg age-of-sail story it was delightful.