Diana Gabaldon thinks fic is like a marijuana invasion

[lotesse]

Infinite lulz.

Comments

[highlyeccentric]

Lulz lulz lulz. I *get* it, I really do! I thought that way once! Then I learnt the error of my ways, and performed penance by writing PORN.

Also, crimes against the underscore, much? Does she not have a rich text editor on that site?

[lotesse]

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.

[elspethdixon]

*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?

[lotesse]

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!