In which she shows off some new icons

[zeborah]

I was googling a search string which shall remain nameless and came across a fanfic which ditto. Suffice to say that it was a pure Mary Sue: the character from the series meets a girl who is more awesome than he is at his signature awesomeness, and they fall in love, and all his friends love her, and she has a ton of other excellent virtues, skills, and quirkiness, and angst and hurt/comfort and plot ensues. As the story progresses we also meet her quirky family, but I was skimming a bit by this time. Mary Sues just aren't my thing but obviously lots of other people love them because it seemed like the author was getting bunches upon bunches of fanmail.

Anyway so I skipped ahead to an author's note where she wrote about discovering that someone had created facebook pages for her original characters, and about how hurt she felt that someone had stolen her characters what she'd put time and effort into and had created this transformative work based on them.

It all seems to have got sorted out with a startling lack of wangst, but I just. Oh sweetie. I have sympathy for feeling hurt: emotions are illogical, they just happen. And I even have sympathy for saying, "I know that this is really illogical but I still feel hurt." But to seem to have no awareness that it's illogical?

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Comments

[caper_est]

Puzzling. Conjecturing, on the data available... Perhaps she believes that the setting she's ficcing is essentially Corporate Product, whose authors are multiple and mutable and mercenary, and from the beginning have bought into a deal where they have little or no individual control over even the original. She, on the other hand, is a single identifiable person, writing for love and art. So she has grounds to feel hurt, and they don't?

My gut is more impressed by this argument than my head is, but I can quite easily imagine somebody buying the whole bundle.

[Points] Nice icons! [Frowns. Stops pointing. Wanders off looking perplexed.]

[zeborah]

It seems likely that this is the sort of thing she's thinking, though probably quite subconsciously. Certainly it makes emotional sense: TV is Business, and Business isn't People; Fandom is People, and People should be treated with Respect.

[julesjones]

I think Caper-est is on the mark -- but it doesn't stop me sniggering at the poor widdle fic writer.

[zeborah]

Oh yes. Still, she was quite polite about it so I'm sniggering in a friendly way. :-)

[caper_est]

Didn't stop me, either. It's funny to the point where I suspect that such spectacles are less easily avoided by logic - which, like love, is ever prone to find a way - than by a well-exercised sense of the ridiculous.