So I’m browsing the Yuletide fandoms on my mobile phone, expecting it to be impossible but necessary since my broadband was down-and holy cow, that’s neat!  It collapses into nice little chunks. I now see it also does this on my regular Firefox, though I prefer it in single columns like on the phone. And there’s this “shuffle” button, hunh.

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When Air Force officers write fanfic.


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Literally unbelievable. I learned my lesson about sharing Onion stories without very clear labeling years ago, when I posted a link about a (fake) ridiculous trademark claim and some foreign students took it literally. And I don't blame them--this is America; who knows what weirdness the law is capable of?

The Iliad as fanfic. (I like that framing ( Read more... )

The AO3 announced April Showers, a challenge to archive your older fiction.  With the exception of my old Yuletide stories, everything I consider a story is up there already, but perhaps others can take advantage?  Then there's
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Naraht/Captain Jack Harkness.  Yes, really.


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I don't know who you are, thesmallmachine, but you wrote an amazing response to Laura Miller's article on the Russian LotR reworking.

Here's a big chunk:
It was also nice to hear Ms. Miller's acknowledgment that she isn't in the best position to judge what fanfic is and what it's worth. This doesn't change the derision of her tone -- particularly in ( Read more... )

This article about the English translation of a Russian fan novel written from the perspective of the bad guys in The Lord of the Rings got me to click over.  Laura Miller expresses some weird uncertainty over whether it's fan fiction even though it's noncommercial (the translation, that is) and pretty clearly transformative, I guess so that she ( Read more... )

(If you're reading on LJ: the Dreamwidth icon says "I am not your user-generated content.")

Introductory note: the person who prompted this story, Aaron Schwabach, is to the best of my knowledge a nice guy-not a Nice Guy, but a person who is proceeding in good faith and, as will become important below, gives prominent and substantial credit to his ( Read more... )