Thank you.  When I think of all the oxygen I wasted during law school in 2003-2007ish arguing o

Thank you.  When I think of all the oxygen I wasted during law school in 2003-2007ish arguing online with dipshits Real Authors (particularly one whose initials are LG) on and on and on and on about why fanfiction was not, in fact, a scourge upon the written languages of Earth, I want to slap my forehead.  Most of the writers who were involved in those debates were, to make it even more ironic, TIE-IN NOVEL WRITERS! You do know what that, don’t you, m’dear fandom young’uns?  You know, the published novels based on Star Trek, Star Wars, many television shows, nearly every action or sci-fi/fantasy movie, often based in the universe but telling a completely new story?  Sometimes a series of books?Yeah.  Tie-in novels are published fanfiction.  But it was “legitimate,” almost certainly not by coincidence that much of it, if not most of it, was written by men, at least in the 1990s and early 2000s when I bought those books, before I had regular Internet access.  And here some of those authors were as the Internet fandom world made fanfiction more accessible and more shareable, sneering at us, writing essay after essay about how we were thieves, monsters, losers living in basements, perverts, you name it, they said it.  I took intellectual property classes in law schools.  I “came out” as a fanfic writer to a couple of professors and classmates.  I learned one of my professors was also a fanfic writer.  I wrote papers about fanfiction and its relationship to copyright law.You could not convince The Real (male) Writers.  All the statutes and case decisions in the world could not persuade them that we, who wrote and shared stories based in the same universes they wrote and sold material, were not vile thieves.Am I condemning tie-in novel writers?  Of course not.  I grew up on tie-in novels.  I loved it.  I’ve had contact with many over the years since, and read even more remarks from them confirming many began as fanfiction writers (like me, not knowing it was called “fanfiction” until The Days of the Internets).  @seananmcguire is correct in her assessment that those who sneer at fanfiction and its writers are impacted assholes with legs.  Sad that some of them are themselves writers in precisely the same genres and even the same fandoms (methinks suffering from massive inferiority complexes). -- source link

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