I never know when to keep my mouth shut...

[elspethdixon]

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).

Comments

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

While some of us suffer from the misconception that all rational people will surely agree with us if only we explain ourselves correctly, and that disagreement obviously comes from us not using the right arguments--leading us to repeatedly state the same point/concept in slightly different words, hoping that, this time, the poor, deluded other poster will understand.

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.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

I'd far rather be on this side. I don't think I could live with myself if I was ever labeled an artiste. Luckily, I think writing things with exclamation points in the title may prevent that.