My Presents to Fandom
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tallihensiaWith the kerfuffle running around on OTW's announcement of the imminent move of the Smallville Slash Archives to the Archive of Our Own site (at the request of the SSA's archivists), I feel myself compelled to state for the record:
These stories (and art pieces) are my gift to fandom.
As I always have for my 20+ years in various and sundry fandoms, I make up plots and stories for my own personal amusement and enjoyment. I write them and share them for others. Specifically, for you. For those who enjoy them.
If it was all about me, I would have no need to post. There are, frankly, hundreds of stories I've never shared with anybody because I was never involved in the actual fandom groups so I didn't put in the extra effort to put them out there. These here now? I've chosen to share.
I certainly have no wish to see my stories plagiarized (been there, done that, don't care to repeat it one little bit -_-). I also don't want them to be altered without my permission, as that is a form of plagiarism. They should most certainly never ever be sold by anybody for profit! (I'm putting them out for free entertainment purposes - nobody else should make any money off them. Plus, it's a copyright issue with the original sources once money gets involved.) I also want credit for having written them in the first place. ^^
However, I, here and now, as I always have in the past as well, give my fans and anybody who likes my work, free and complete permission to consider these stories as my presents to you.
I will never take these gifts back. They are from me to you, and no matter what I might personally think of my craftsmanship in the future, I have already given the gift and it is yours now.
Feel free to download the stories to enjoy on your own, to keep on your computers, to share with friends. If you're still sharing them 10 or 20 or 30 years or long after I'm gone, I will be flattered and honored (and amazed).
I will endeavor to keep sharing more gifts as long as the muse and the time allow. Please, enjoy them, and feel free to consider them as craft items that I have made and given to you. They are now yours, and I promise that I will not ever try to take them back away from you (as long as you don't abuse them ;p).
Thank you for enjoying the gifts. :) It makes the giving so very worth it!
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Edit: other authors can think of their stories as they like. If they choose to consider them "on loan"... That's up to them. Don't, however, force your mores and assumptions upon the rest of us and presume to know how all of us feel. My philosophy has, and always will be, that my stories are a present to be freely shared (with credit).
These stories (and art pieces) are my gift to fandom.
As I always have for my 20+ years in various and sundry fandoms, I make up plots and stories for my own personal amusement and enjoyment. I write them and share them for others. Specifically, for you. For those who enjoy them.
If it was all about me, I would have no need to post. There are, frankly, hundreds of stories I've never shared with anybody because I was never involved in the actual fandom groups so I didn't put in the extra effort to put them out there. These here now? I've chosen to share.
I certainly have no wish to see my stories plagiarized (been there, done that, don't care to repeat it one little bit -_-). I also don't want them to be altered without my permission, as that is a form of plagiarism. They should most certainly never ever be sold by anybody for profit! (I'm putting them out for free entertainment purposes - nobody else should make any money off them. Plus, it's a copyright issue with the original sources once money gets involved.) I also want credit for having written them in the first place. ^^
However, I, here and now, as I always have in the past as well, give my fans and anybody who likes my work, free and complete permission to consider these stories as my presents to you.
I will never take these gifts back. They are from me to you, and no matter what I might personally think of my craftsmanship in the future, I have already given the gift and it is yours now.
Feel free to download the stories to enjoy on your own, to keep on your computers, to share with friends. If you're still sharing them 10 or 20 or 30 years or long after I'm gone, I will be flattered and honored (and amazed).
I will endeavor to keep sharing more gifts as long as the muse and the time allow. Please, enjoy them, and feel free to consider them as craft items that I have made and given to you. They are now yours, and I promise that I will not ever try to take them back away from you (as long as you don't abuse them ;p).
Thank you for enjoying the gifts. :) It makes the giving so very worth it!
_________
Edit: other authors can think of their stories as they like. If they choose to consider them "on loan"... That's up to them. Don't, however, force your mores and assumptions upon the rest of us and presume to know how all of us feel. My philosophy has, and always will be, that my stories are a present to be freely shared (with credit).
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:50 am (UTC)And I absolutely love the gifts you give us! I'm sure I'll be reading them for a long time to come.
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Date: 2012-03-02 05:29 pm (UTC)And I also have to thank you for this sentence: "They are from me to you, and no matter what I might personally think of my craftsmanship in the future, I have already given the gift and it is yours now."
I was having some issues thinking about some older work of mine, and whether I should reedit it or just leave it the way it was, and seeing that put into words so simply makes me realize I shouldn't worry about it. Those stories were posted over a decade ago, and they will stay the way they were written, because that's the state they were in when they were shared with others. (And, to be honest, they're not really that bad...) :D
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Date: 2012-03-06 02:44 am (UTC)Totally understand the impulse! It's natural, and that's why I put that sentence in for myself as well. I cringe at some of the earlier work, and I *hate* having my unfinished WIPs up... but I have been told by people that they would much rather have them up than not, and so I sigh and leave them up because that's how I posted them, that's how people enjoyed them then... and that's how people might still enjoy them today.
The impulse to keep fiddling and fixing and applying what we've learned to posted stuff is incredible. However, published authors don't have a chance to go back and fix their stuff, and honestly, the few times I've seen reprints from new publishers where the author has had the chance... I've almost always preferred the original. We're just online authors (I wouldn't ever want to be anything else, to be honest), but in some ways the principle is the same. They came out in one form, and they should stay in that form (unless it's really godawful bad and horrible ^^) (and typos can always be fixed!).