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Posting a rant while violently angry never works out *sighs* I should have known better than to rant about how much I hate it when people erase their fics from the net for no reason (i.e. no C&D letter involved, not publishing it as a book, just yanking it apparently for the hell of it) and think it's rude to other fans and earns one a place in the Archivist Special Hell on fanficrants--the comments saying that I'm an arrogant bitch with an entitlement complex just keep on coming.
Fine then. I am at peace with my arrogance. I am likewise at peace my entitlement complex, since it's the same principle that makes me write and read and believe in the concept of fanfic and fandom in the first place (the idea that stories, once shared, are a part of a greater literary landscape that has some amount of communal ownership, rather than the personal property of the author).
Fine then. I am at peace with my arrogance. I am likewise at peace my entitlement complex, since it's the same principle that makes me write and read and believe in the concept of fanfic and fandom in the first place (the idea that stories, once shared, are a part of a greater literary landscape that has some amount of communal ownership, rather than the personal property of the author).
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Tape/writing/damage on books makes me weep, too, except in the cases where they bring knowledge of the history of the book.
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Luckily for the literary/publishing world at large, they can't do that (since they've signed an agreement with the publisher). I know there are some author who dearly wish they could erase every memory of their published work--the guy who wrote The Anarchist Cookbook, who made the mistake of giving control of the copyright to the publisher rather than keeping it for himself, is on record as saying he recants everything in the book and wishes that it would go out of print, but it's (literally, since he signed the copyright away) out of his hands now.
I've heard people claim that posting something publically on the web constitutes publication (usually in the context of "and that's why fanfic is technically illegal and Anne Rice can sue your ass, whereas she could do nothing but whine if you wrote it out longhand and showed your notebook to your neighbour"), which means that deleting it is kind of like pulling your book from print. Deleting it and erasing your digital footprints from every archive on the web is sort of the online equivalent of not only not renewing the printer's contract, but having the book removed from public library shelves as well. And if you say that you don't want people to keep copies of it saved to their harddrives (the extremist version of "my fic is dead to me, and I want it dead to the world"), it's like going into used bookstores and pulling copies off their shelves as well.
Some people seem to forget the rant part of that community.
At least no one's accused other posters on the thrad of being "OMG mean" yet. (I swear, somebody pops up on the community denouncing it for negativity at least once a month).
Also, icon cuteness ^_^.
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I think most people like my fics a lot more than I do, honestly, but I'm not about to take my ball and go home just because I don't think things are perfectly as I want them to be. If all artists destroyed their sketches or all poets burned their rough drafts, I think the world would be a poorer place. Much of my personal enjoyment of any art, be it a Brancusi sculpture, a Beddoes poem, a Vermeer portrait or a well-crafted fanfic, comes from the revelation of how it it emerged from thought to evolve into the finished product.
As for the 'I'm leaving this fandom!' drama, I say only that I'm not getting rid of my weaving supplies just because I'm now studying metalworking and I sort of pity someone who think change means destruction of the past.
Also, icon cuteness
This icon is ten pounds of cute in a two pound bag. Some days, it's even too cute. It is simultaneously cheering and a good indicator of my total geekiness. Your icon, now; if you drew that, I am deeply envious of your skills. The shading is just lovely.
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I'm really kind of saddened by how rude some of the people are being. Even on a rant community, one should be able to express an unpopular opinion without being jumped on, or called 'entitled.'
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and she's not experiencing delusions of authorial goddesshood at all. And it's Stephen Joyce's right to exercise complete control over the Joyce literary estate, and he's doing nothing improper or wrong.All opinions that have been expressed on the thread, and by the lights of those who while-heartedly believe the above, I am acting entitled.
I'm hoping the rude people are responding to ewhat they think was the confrontational tone of the original post (typed while I was doing the equivalent of throwing a temper-tantrum over the mass deletions from the Wayback machine), and wouldn't be that bitchy at someone who expressed their opinions in the proper diffident and self-effacing manner. I've gone back and toned down the post a bit (though not changed any of the opinions expressed therein).
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They never do. And when head-of-the-it's-my-fic-and-you've-no-right-to-read-it-if-I-change-my-mind-about-posting-it school brought up Anne Rice's right to request no fanfic and fans' responsibility to abide by that, I knew further argument was pointless. We clearly are on opposite sides of the artiste/storyteller divide.
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(still, watching her take the crazy train off the track is rather entertaining)
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