Sometime reasonable wins...

[maygra]

If you have not tripped over heatherly's essay elsewhere, I encourage you to read it.

You know, if that's the sort of thing you like to read.

I say this in full admission of fact that I disagree, or rather, approach differently a couple of points in the second half of her essay -- primarily from a ideological and practical POV as opposed to disagreeing with her en toto of a writer's responsibility. I'm pretty sure I'll have additional thoughts on that in a bit, if I can get my thoughts organized in such a way as to present them as less contention than perspective.

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

*butts in*


I'm currently reading the 2002 hugo winner for literature. While it's new (the book) comparative to fandom/fanfic, I'm not really sure that makes a difference.

I think one of the big things that seems to throw people is that fanfiction doesn't need someone to approve of it before it can get published. Doesn't need anyone to say "this is worth reading" whatever that means to that person and thus publishable and thus there's this weird "well no one is doing it for you, and thus you must do it for yourself" which totally misses the point of most of what publishers do.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

True, and as others have pointed out the flip side of the lack of a gatekeeper in fanfic is the lack of a warning structure on profic. :)

It makes me tired. Every time something brings an issue like this to the fore (or, in some fandoms, every time the seasons turn) someone brings up the same argument like it's Brand New, "See?? This is why you should change your ways." And in the end it's never new, there are people on one side asserting their expectations of behaviour of people on the other side.