Tbh this how fiction SHOULD be able to be handled, and is the core of why IP law is the devil.
This is my hill, but the modern form of storytelling belonging to the author is
Brand fucking new
Ass Fucking Backwards
The worst.
Corporate bullshit.
Oral tradition and storytelling tradition for all of human history has been derivative and spiraling. Nobody ever got fined for telling a variant on the Thesues myth. And the same thing holds today.
Cause some corporate suit fucks paid Lucas a bazillion dollars now the men with guns will stop you from playing pretend too good in THEIR way. This is THEIR PRETEND! WE OWN THESE THOUGHTS.
You'll never convince me that any of that makes sense.
Fuck two of my favorite pieces of writing are respectively Calvin and Hobbes fanfic and a Harry Potter one.
And Astartes is better than anything Amazon and Cavil will produce. And guess what? Suck it. He played pretend better than you did.
Not a big fanfiction fan but I'm with you and would go as far as saying "death of the author" is a good thing - just not as it's typically used, as a rationalization of leftist cultural subversion. It's not so much that there shouldn't be respect for the overall canon or integrity of a story, but that at the end of the day it's us fans who decide what to accept as canon.
If some weirdo writes a Kirk and Spock gay slash fanfic, most of us pay it no mind and it's forgotten. If someone produces a really good Star Trek spinoff series, we can accept that into the lore and include it in future stories. It shouldn't matter if Paramount suits approved the series or not. We decide.
Tbh this how fiction SHOULD be able to be handled, and is the core of why IP law is the devil.
This is my hill, but the modern form of storytelling belonging to the author is
Brand fucking new
Ass Fucking Backwards
The worst.
Corporate bullshit.
Oral tradition and storytelling tradition for all of human history has been derivative and spiraling. Nobody ever got fined for telling a variant on the Thesues myth. And the same thing holds today.
Cause some corporate suit fucks paid Lucas a bazillion dollars now the men with guns will stop you from playing pretend too good in THEIR way. This is THEIR PRETEND! WE OWN THESE THOUGHTS.
You'll never convince me that any of that makes sense.
Fuck two of my favorite pieces of writing are respectively Calvin and Hobbes fanfic and a Harry Potter one.
And Astartes is better than anything Amazon and Cavil will produce. And guess what? Suck it. He played pretend better than you did.
Not a big fanfiction fan but I'm with you and would go as far as saying "death of the author" is a good thing - just not as it's typically used, as a rationalization of leftist cultural subversion. It's not so much that there shouldn't be respect for the overall canon or integrity of a story, but that at the end of the day it's us fans who decide what to accept as canon.
If some weirdo writes a Kirk and Spock gay slash fanfic, most of us pay it no mind and it's forgotten. If someone produces a really good Star Trek spinoff series, we can accept that into the lore and include it in future stories. It shouldn't matter if Paramount suits approved the series or not. We decide.