An interesting, if at times, misguided read

[momentarylapse8.livejournal.com]

A bit OT but I thought it was worth sharing - I hate all the negative press that 50 Shades has brought on fan-fiction and this piece doesn't really do much to address that. The reporter has clearly not spent much time in any one fandom and doesn't appear to have much of an interest in finding out more. That said I found the piece quite interesting so I thought I'd share it here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/13/fan-fiction-fifty-shades-grey

Comments

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I must share your opinions...this is a bit superficial. Constance Penley's work on fanfic is much more interesting, IMHO. What does the Wodehouse estate think of fanfic? Or are we not popular enough to much notice?

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

Martin Rowe (link (http://martin-rowe.com/about-martin-rowe/)) claims they shut down his novel Bertie Wooster and the Lizard King, but there is "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss" (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/474960.html) from the Black Dossier by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill and Wake Up Sir (http://books.google.com/books/about/Wake_Up_Sir.html?id=PXmYP_KiH8EC), a novel by Jonathan Ames that features a probably imaginary Jeeves (I have it somewhere, but I haven't read it yet), so I'm not sure they're too hard ass. It seems that most authors except Anne Rice and Ann McCaffrey don't object too strenuously to not-for-profit fanfic, since it really benefits them (i.e. by keeping the fans crazy and obsessed).

Now, if you will excuse me I have to go and write a sadomasochistic fantasy because I subconsciously resent the amount of control P.G. Wodehouse has over me... oh wait, no I don't.

[firtavain.livejournal.com]

Interesting to read how wrong someone's perception of fanfiction can be. Luckily a lot of writers oppose to his writing, explaining what fanfiction is truly about.

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

Wow, she sure gets a lot wrong about history. I'll try to go beyond that and read the rest of the article.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Really... she didn't even seem to bother with wikipedia (which is nicely referenced)

To wit: Penley, Constance, "Feminism, Psychoanalysis,and the Study of Popular Culture." In Grossberg, Lawrence, ed., Cultural Studies, Rutledge 1992, p. 479. A detailed examination of K/S in terms of (among many other things) feminism and feminist studies.

It was my first intro to "/" and is quite interesting (if old now)

[ellex42.livejournal.com]

Well, I just wasted about an hour on that. Pity that so many people who "investigate" fanfiction seem to have some kind of Freudian notion that it's all about sex.