hope: Art of a woman writing from tour poster (liberry)
puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote 2007-05-17 07:44 pm (UTC)

In this particular case (with JA at Asylum), I think the fact that Kim Manners discovered & shared slash with JA is testimony to the fact that they (production) explored our sandbox on their own. The question at Asylum was about 'fanfiction', not slash per se (Jensen brought up Wincest himself).

When it comes to the reason for wanting to know what production thinks of our sandbox... well, I know *I'm* fascinated and would love to know their opinions of it! if they have opinions already, that is. I'm not keen to bring it to their doorstep if they're not interested. But being non-confrontational with it does not equal hiding it or pretending it doesn't exist, in my opinion.

Also, I'd argue that the official vidding competition or the comics would clearly *not* be our sandbox now would it?

With that comment about the 'official' text expansion, I was trying to get more at what I perceive to be an imbalance of how this material created outside of the original boundaries of the text are perceived.

As in - *why* is the attitude around fanfiction, slash or no, one of shamefulness or worthlessness? is it because it doesn't make money? What are the moral/ethical reasons that make it okay to be embarassed about, or to scoff? Is it because other artists/authors are 'violating' the original text by borrowing parts and transforming or expanding on them? Because for me, that's exactly what the comics, the novel spin-offs and the vidding comp are doing. So those reasons don't fly with me.

I guess I feel like (after writing the above para) that there is, to a degree, a discrimination against fans where what they produce is considered worthless or shameful, when there's no real reason for that. I would like that to change, so that even the idea of bringing discussion of fan-produced material 'to the doorstep' of production folk is as acceptable as, say, dressing in costume at a convention or wearing a home-made fan teeshirt.

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