Hokay... I'll be a bit restrained on this, one, because I don't know you from Eve, and two, because I'm playing at P's house, and should be nice to the other guests.
But.
"Shakespeare" has been a long time dead. And, pace Stoppard, I'm not seeing a lot of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern slash. If you're talking about Will ripping off other writers ideas, rather than being ripped off, his dipping into Lambs histories is in a different class from him dipping into Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta".
Grabbing some else's fictional character is stealing, pure and simple. I have NO objection to someone writing a tale of gay underaged wizards at boarding school: calling them Harry and Hermione is theft. Pure and simple. Go and use your own imagination.
"Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk." - Henry Jenkins
That is such a wanky statement that I have problems knowing where to start - myth, by definition, is unattributable. Contemporary myth is a nonsense term - it makes no logical sense whatsoever. If it's contemporary, you can point to authors.
I'm not sure about the relationship between OTW and other commercial concerns - I do worry about "inferred obscenity". Gay porn, especially where it involves under-age sex, doesn't require a lot of inference. It's porn.
I don't mind women exploring their sexuality. Even when I don't get to watch. But if they choose to explore it through underage characters having sex, it's porn. If they explore it through tales of non-consensual sex, that's porn too.
Does that make them evil? Depends on your definition. Does that make them guilty of breaking laws? Depends on the laws. They're usually pretty well defined.
I don't have a problem with porn, even that not aimed at me, but I have a hell of a problem with anyone claiming that it's not porn because they write it, whether that person is gay, straight, male, female or transgendered.
And I'll see your Japanese gay porn stars and raise you a sexist, rapist racist...
no subject
But.
"Shakespeare" has been a long time dead. And, pace Stoppard, I'm not seeing a lot of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern slash. If you're talking about Will ripping off other writers ideas, rather than being ripped off, his dipping into Lambs histories is in a different class from him dipping into Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta".
Grabbing some else's fictional character is stealing, pure and simple. I have NO objection to someone writing a tale of gay underaged wizards at boarding school: calling them Harry and Hermione is theft. Pure and simple. Go and use your own imagination.
"Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk." - Henry Jenkins
That is such a wanky statement that I have problems knowing where to start - myth, by definition, is unattributable. Contemporary myth is a nonsense term - it makes no logical sense whatsoever. If it's contemporary, you can point to authors.
I'm not sure about the relationship between OTW and other commercial concerns - I do worry about "inferred obscenity". Gay porn, especially where it involves under-age sex, doesn't require a lot of inference. It's porn.
I don't mind women exploring their sexuality. Even when I don't get to watch. But if they choose to explore it through underage characters having sex, it's porn. If they explore it through tales of non-consensual sex, that's porn too.
Does that make them evil? Depends on your definition. Does that make them guilty of breaking laws? Depends on the laws. They're usually pretty well defined.
I don't have a problem with porn, even that not aimed at me, but I have a hell of a problem with anyone claiming that it's not porn because they write it, whether that person is gay, straight, male, female or transgendered.
And I'll see your Japanese gay porn stars and raise you a sexist, rapist racist...