I was mildly disturbed by the revelation that these books, which I'd only ever heard of as being porny romance fluff, contain a scene where the Evil Bisexual™ villain nails the hero's hands to a desk and rapes him, after which he has Magical Healing Sex™ with the heroine.
Because 1) that's a fanfic plot if I've ever heard one, and 2) if I never see another Evil Bisexual™ again, it'll be too soon.
This is the thing about growing up on mythology and Arthuriana - I don't remember ever not thinking that fic was a perfectly sensible thing to do! PORN. It's the great uniter.
*nods* I was a huge Matter of Britain fangirl at about ten/eleven, and the prerenially unfinished novel I started when I was thirteen had characters from Arthurian legend and A Midsummer Night's Dream in it -- the concept that characters belonged to the person who wrote them rather than to anyone who wanted them never occured to me. If King Arthur and Robin Hood belonged to everyone, which they clearly did or there couldn't have been a zillion books about them, then why shouldn't [insert name here] belong to everyone?
Exactly! And then you've got T.H. White who plops Robin Hood down in the middle of the Matter of Britain - singing a song from As You Like It, no less!
I'll admit that some of the points she makes are valid (ex. fan fiction technically is illegal), but she uses the worst validations and explanations for them! I enjoyed the first two or so books in the Outlander series but lost track of them after that. And I have to say, I love the comments over at wank. :)
Baby, no it isn't. Fanfic is in a technical grey area right now, because there simply isn't a legal precedent set. But copyright law is so new that it has to keep changing to accommodate new needs/viewpoints/wev - see the whole mess with Disney. Yeah, the corporation probably want it to be illegal, but that doesn't mean it is. Yet.
I am tempted to inform her that if it were not for her Outlander revealing to me at age eleven that homosexuality existed, I would not have gone on to write enough homoerotic fanfiction to exceed the length of War and Peace (though, granted, it almost certainly doesn't exceed the quality of War and Peace).
But I want to avoid looking at her rant so that I can pretend it doesn't exist, so that, even though I can no longer buy any of her writing from any source other than used book stores where the profit will never end up in her pockets, I can still read them. Outlander has a scene where the male lead has all the bones in one hand broken, then set without anesthetic. I don't think I could make myself give that degree of hardcore h/c up.
The hypocrisy kills me, though. She's buddies with Sarah Donetti, whose entire extended historical romance series is Last of the Mohicans fanfic starring Hawkeye/Leatherstocking's's kid and a Mary Sue. Like, blatantly, It doesn't even try to pretend it's anything else, and uses the original character names and everything.
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Date: 2010-05-04 05:46 am (UTC)Now she's comparing posting pornographic fanfiction to kidnapping her children for sex slavery. I just...wat.
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Date: 2010-05-05 09:59 pm (UTC)Because 1) that's a fanfic plot if I've ever heard one, and 2) if I never see another Evil Bisexual™ again, it'll be too soon.
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Date: 2010-05-04 10:48 am (UTC)Also, crimes against the underscore, much? Does she not have a rich text editor on that site?
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Date: 2010-05-04 12:49 pm (UTC)I'll admit that some of the points she makes are valid (ex. fan fiction technically is illegal), but she uses the worst validations and explanations for them! I enjoyed the first two or so books in the Outlander series but lost track of them after that. And I have to say, I love the comments over at wank. :)
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Date: 2010-05-04 02:50 pm (UTC)Srsly. Not illegal. Not by a long shot.
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Date: 2010-05-04 10:53 pm (UTC)But I want to avoid looking at her rant so that I can pretend it doesn't exist, so that, even though I can no longer buy any of her writing from any source other than used book stores where the profit will never end up in her pockets, I can still read them. Outlander has a scene where the male lead has all the bones in one hand broken, then set without anesthetic. I don't think I could make myself give that degree of hardcore h/c up.
The hypocrisy kills me, though. She's buddies with Sarah Donetti, whose entire extended historical romance series is Last of the Mohicans fanfic starring Hawkeye/Leatherstocking's's kid and a Mary Sue. Like, blatantly, It doesn't even try to pretend it's anything else, and uses the original character names and everything.