Mega Mega Mega Fanfic Poll!!!!

[teaberryblue]

I was having a discussion with sunnyrea about fanfic yesterday and I decided to make a poll about it!



[Poll #1784264]



Whew! Um. That thing. Cookies if you read it all?

Note: the last question is not to suggest that anyone should/should not feel a certain way, but is just to collect most of the major objections I have heard from people and see how many people actually feel that way!

Comments

[katieupsidedown.livejournal.com]

Totally separate comment necessary for the issue of creator approval/disapproval - I think views on that tend to depend on multiple factors such as

a) how you would feel yourself as a creator - if you had an original character you were attached to, would you be okay with other people using that character? If you're possessive of your own characters and work you're going to care more about what the creator says.

b) what kind of creators you had in your first fandoms. If you started in Harry Potter fandom, where JK says its cool and fanfic writers have gone on to be published novelists, I think you're more likely to NOT write fic in a fandom where the author disapproves of fic. My first non-anime fandom was Anne Rice, though. Anne Rice not only dislikes fandom, but is predictably a crazy bitch about it, which really annoyed me when I found out because the only reason I started reading her books was because I read some fic online that made me want to give it another chance after disliking Interview with the Vampire, so not only were the fic authors not profiting off the work, it had actually resulted in more profit for her because I went out and bought a bunch of books. Ever since then, I can't muster any give-a-shit about creator preferences.

[rowena742.livejournal.com]

I think you might be on to something with B. When I was filling out the survey, I was initially going to say that going against the creator's preferences made me uncomfortable. But then I thought of Orson Scott Card...and as much as I love Ender's Game, some of his later work and RL essays make me want to write fic of his stuff just so I can make everybody gay. And I hate it when people do that in other fandoms.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

What's funny is that in fandoms where the authors are like that, their attitudes have just turned me so off of them that I stopped reading their books, or participating in fandom at all. I'd much rather play with the work of people who want me to play.