Fanfic authors are pulling their works and here's why

[afeelingunacted]

And it's live! For @WIRED, I wrote about the illegal fanbindings have led to some writers to delete their works recently-and how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave and the ever-broadening, increasingly contextless sphere of fic readers: https://t.co/qEFk1jspFo
- Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) February 28, 2024

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Comments

[benihime99]

But what does Anne Rice think of this?

[cuteej4]

[jaequeeragenda]

[squirrels_oh_no]

Speaking of Anne's, when i was doing play by post role-playing instead of fanfics as a tween/teen, Anne Bishop was the author who went after fanfic and the likes the most, hence why people were doing secret PbP rps of her Black Jewels trilogy. Don't ask why i know >.>

[cuteej4]

I had a few different readers ask for permission to print out my fics so they could bind them for themselves. At least they asked! It's a good thing I wrote for a niche fandom because I highly doubt I'd randomly find my fics on a bookshelf.

[belle_chouette]

and they say print media is dead

[kawaiiairbender]

This bummed me out seeing fics get pulled bc people are selling thier works :(

Anyway psa to myself and others dl your faves

[nutella_forever]

I ALWAYS download the fic I read as soon as they're finished, I've been burned too many times by website disappearing / authors deleting

[celja]

I downloaded a bunch last time Ao3 was down due to a hack or whatever it was.

[wintersfire]

Yep! Now I always download fics that I love and reread

[celja]

That sucks, why must people be assholes.