.ficlet! & .link!

[aesc]

*rushes about madly*

dogeared has posted our comment!fic, all cleaned up and proper-looking, complete with leaf-raking and dirty John drinking milk straight from the carton. Go read it!

While you're at it, read siriaeve's absolutely beautiful Exposures, only not "read" so much as "picture," because that's what it is--a lovely series of still frames and moving images--island, beach, house, bedroom.

Also, Cory Doctorow writes one of the most coherent, unpatronizing fanfiction apologetics I've ever read. Play on, Mr. Doctorow. Excellent work.

In other news: We had a crazy storm last night, and I spent about two minutes out in it, running to my car from the library, then from my car to the front door. Lightning broke just over my head and I about had a heart attack. *shiver*

Comments

[velocitygrass.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link on fanfiction. Very interesting read.

Let's stop treating them like thieves and start treating them like honored guests at a table that we laid just for them.
Yes, just yes.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It was definitely refreshing to read this from someone professional who's willing to recognize that copyright and the idea of the "published author" are completely modern intrusions on social storytelling. Now if only everyone else would listen *sigh*

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

That column is amazing. *__*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great? All kind of happy-making.

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

The column is wonderful, and it's true, we human beings have been telling stories ever since Ak told Og how Ka killed a bison and Og told Ig that he killed a bison because he wanted Ig to tell Ak a story about him. . .

Or something like that.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I wonder why no one (at least that I've read) has made that argument before when talking about fanfic. It's always seemed to me that "creative control," in addition to being a comforting fiction for copyright lawyers, is antithetical to narrative.

And, at least for me, wondering what goes on between the lines/pages/before and after the cover, is kind of a natural thing to do.

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course! When I was little I wanted to know what happened to Mowgli after the Jungle Book or what happened to the one prince of the seven swans who didn't have a sleeve on the shirt of hawthorn petals his sister made and got stuck with a swan's wing.

Now, I want to know what happened after Sophie and Howl flew off into the sunset and whether Prince Turnip Head ever found a true love of his own.

(You know, I should look up that old legend of the seven swans again. . .)

[shadowhuntress.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Cory rocks like a rocking thing. He was on a sci-fi panel at our Festival of Books this year with John Scalzi, Harry Turtledove and Kage Baker, and they all had only good things to say about fanfiction (the audio's up on Cory's website). It was great to hear that published writers, and even one (Turtledove) who admitted to writing fanfic himself, see the value and fun that fanfiction can be and how it can make people more invested in the original piece and feel involved. And Cory has this sort of hot geek look going for him. That picture must have been taken ages ago because it does not do him justice. ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Awesome! That makes me all kinds of happy.