Strike Another One Off The List

[blythechild]

I received a request today to allow Morally Indefensible to be translated into Chinese. I was flattered and agreed (there is very little that I could do to stop it if the translator were determined, and I appreciated the polite request). I'm not sure if there is a large Chinese CM audience out there but I suppose anything is possible

Comments

[draycevixen]

I know people who get very touchy about requests to translate their work -- how do I know they'll do a good job? -- but I just don't get it.

I'm always happy to say yes and just request that they include a link to my original story. If they post their translation to AO3 I always link to their translation as well.

I think China actually has a very big fan fiction loving population and they appear to have quite popular sites for it from what I've seen.

[blythechild]

Honestly, there would no way I could tell if the translator did a good or bad job. And also, because the story is already publicly posted, I couldn't stop the translator from downloading it and translating it without my permission anyway. I'd much rather have someone ask first even though it's just a pro forma effort.

MB pointed out that China has a lot of people (thanks, hon, I didn't know that...) and some of them had to be into fan fiction. I pointed out that China still censors their citizens' access to the web and that Western tv shows didn't seem like an obvious exception to that rule (let alone a story about two men having prison sex and overthrowing a corrupt warden). But, I'll take whatever readers I can get!

[blythechild]

Thanks for the heads up but since this journal is clearly collecting public entries with certain tags, there's no easy way to determine how many entries it may have posted in the past. The maintainer only appears to be removing individual entries that people complain about, and I'm not prepared to scroll through hundreds of entries to see what he/she/it has stolen. My public blog entries are fair game, I suppose - that's why I place most sensitive stuff in locked ones. Also, my stories are all publicly available on archive sites - a simple Google search would reveal them - so what people do with that is really out of my control. All entries that I saw on this site had a link back to the original poster's page, so I'm not sure that there is much that can be done to stop them. They have skirted the flimsy internet copyright protections pretty well.

Thanks for the notice though.