An industry professional does a pretty good job of pointing out how the contract is exploitative. (link via several members of my F'list.)

Besides, one of the true things that makes Fanfic so vibrant is that writers can (and will) do anything.

If you want to play in the Kindle Worlds sandbox, you're going to have to color inside the lines.

This article makes reference to the fact that Matt Davis (who plays) Alaric on Vampire Diaries often writes fanfic about the show.

1) Okay, Matt's writing in character as Ernesto Riley, a guy who's a fan of the Vampire Diaries. (Ernesto Riley is a bit of performance art that routinely swings from the sublime to the ridiculous, 75% of the time, it ( Read more... )

The OTW newsfeed has a pretty interesting roundup of links about this book over here.

For those of you in my F'List who don't know, 50 Shades started life as a BDSM Edward/Bella Twilight fanfic, Master of the Universe. The author ended up "filing off the serial numbers", revised and expanded, and published ... gee, women like to read spicy (and ( Read more... )

There's a challenge being held whose name I'm blanking on, Racebending Remix Revenge (thanks Bossymarmalade!) wherein you're supposed to take white characters and reimagine what their lives would be like if they weren't white ( Read more... )

It's been linked at several blogs I read, but in case you haven't read it yet, there's this really awesome proposal for a What If Captain America were Gay issue.

We know this will never happen in canon.

And the consensus is that this will never happen even as a What If issue.

Why?

Once again, the answer is toothpaste(And once again, I say that ( Read more... )