#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

"ikr" makes me think they dislike OP's request, not that they're dismissing cwm's right to not have her fic shared.

Personally I think no one has that right. If you put it out there, it's out. You don't have copyright over it.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

I don't disagree with you, I just thought it was silly to suggest that the amount of time since the request could make a difference. She meant it then and she probably still means it now. Whether or not she has a right to make that request in the first place is a different story.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they were suggesting that it makes a difference in terms of sharing it. They were saying people should be over cwm's fic by now.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen that sentiment before on meme and it's pretty ridiculous.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

You think it's ridiculous that people still pine for cwm or ridiculous that people think the pining should be over based on time.

Because I for one think the circumstances of what happened are tinting people's memory of how good a writer cwm actually was and also, it has been long enough that I'm sick of hearing about it.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I didn't care for cwm's fic (I don't think I ever managed to finish one of them), but some of my favorite rereads in old fandoms, ones I have saved to my kindle and treat like old friends, are fics that I would, if pressed, admit are not actually really very good. In fact some of them are really not good at all. Others are good in some ways but have so many goddamn issues I wouldn't be able to rec them without a whole shitton of caveats attached (I may or may not have both HP's The Sacrifices Arc and AtLA's Embers on there, which, woo boy).

It's like the fact that I still have a shelf full of old Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey books. Some of it's nostalgia, but a lot of it's just the fact that it's not always the stuff that's actually good that sticks in your head and you're still thinking about years later. In fact, frequently, it's mostly just the stuff that hit your id in just the right spot.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

na

Agreed, and with cwm specifically, it was that she could be relied upon to write long fic, write and publish frequently, write competent prose, and write fic that, while trope-y and predictable, tended to have a lot of different kinds of conflict and tension and just, notes that aren't often hit in S/G fic. Even if her fic wasn't good in some ways, I don't think fandom sheeple's collective memories have been fooled by time and circumstance into thinking it was something it's not. People who liked cwm know what they like, and it's easy to want it even more now that it's not there and no one has stepped into cwm's niche, and you might be reminded of that every time you refresh AO3 and there's nothing to read.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty much if the opinion that once you've posted something on the Internet you've lost control of how it is distributed.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

Legally, you do have copyright over it. Even if you publicly publish it by posting it on a website, you still retain copyright.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

... I mean, an author very much does have copyright over their fic, RPF more than others. It'd just be absolutely ridiculous to fight over distribution rights to it. I know no one cares about pirating, but that's still more or less what it is.

Re: cwm's fic

[(Anonymous)]

It's so funny that expressly going against an author's wishes and redistributing their work is the last holdout in fandom's "The internet is a dangerous place where you have no control over what happens and courtesy is a myth."