![]() Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. ![]() Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories! I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out! I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers. Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.) ![]() Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)Īnd woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.īut Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.) I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.) The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.īack in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.Ĭause guess what? That shit used to happen. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own ” before their story.
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