HP fandom wank

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At first the full disclosure of the HP plaigarism wank was this kind of weird "Someone Else's Fandom" thing (like an SEP field, Douglas Adams tm), because although was into HP fandom for a while I had never read the fic trilogy in question nor interacted with any of the perps.

But new stuff has come out, and given that I actually really liked "A Surfeit Of Curses", now I'm feeling kind of dirty.


EDIT: My brain, it hath broke at last.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've gotten that weird request before-- permission to use a line from my fic. I said no because I do feel that protectiveness over my wording. Also, I was really wary of opening a can of worms.

I've done parody drabbles using dialogue from Buffy and rewriting of a popular poem, but both were very obvious parodies (the poem was "Casey at the Bat", for cripe's sake) and both were clearly cited.

This stuff is beyond the pale.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I've gotten that weird request before-- permission to use a line from my fic. I said no because I do feel that protectiveness over my wording. Also, I was really wary of opening a can of worms.

The difference between the line your person requested and mine was probably much more significant. A line that made a real statement or something. The one she requested was from my first X-Men movie fic, "I'm Not Like Everybody Else":

"We all have our parts to play," [John] replied. Once more, he turned and headed away from them. Soon, he vanished completely into the massive crowd.

Bobby rested his hands on Rogue's shoulders. "Well ... " he said after a minute then let out a long breath. "Guess we've really lost him."

Rogue shook her head then craned her neck to look up at him. "We never really had him, Bobby," she solemnly replied.

The underlined stuff being what she was inquiring about. Sure, the words made a statement in my own fic, but out of the context of the story .... ::shrug:: They're just words and I don't care if any uses a line like that. If it's something more powerful I managed to piece together, I might be inclined to say "no".

I had somebody want to set a story in the AU-Verse varyar and I created with our Buffy/Lord of the Rings books crossover stories. Basically use the canon we created to build on. That, though, he and I declined on, even if neither one of us have claim over BTVS or LOTR. We spent several weeks creating those circumstances and events for both sets of characters.