Pinned ya again.

[usullusa]

• bookshop is tired of justifying fanfic and really, so am I.
  I've been having this discussion a lot lately. In the past few weeks I've often found myself having to defend my participation in fandom. Having people think that my interest is silly or lazy is really frustrating. Fanfic is not a less legitimate form of interacting with source material, and it's definitely not disgusting, immoral, or illegal.
  Once you've shared your creation with the world, it ceases being wholly yours. You do not have a monopoly on thinking about your creation. Other people can also think about it. I assume, in fact, that was your goal. But those other people might think about it differently than you might. And they might want to talk about it. And it might come out in the form of fanfiction. And honestly, I think it's pretty damn flattering that somebody might care enough about your material that they would take time and effort into writing about it. That is a kind of love and commitment that many can only dream of having from their fans.
  It is NOT out of laziness or lack of creativity or desire for attention. I am sure that for some people, those things are part of their motivation, but that is not the motivation behind fandom as a whole. Fandom is a conversation about material that people love so much that they want to keep participating in it even when the "canon" is over.
  Any by the way, if nobody ever riffed off anybody else, art would have stopped dead in its tracks millennia ago.
  
  
• I got my hands on a (beautiful) copy of The Man with the Knives, a new chap-book Ellen Kushner just put out that's a tie-in to her novel Swordspoint. I haven't read it yet, but I am so excited for it. I am waiting for the perfect moment to settle down with a cup of tea and something sweet to enjoy it. Certain stories just require a certain amount of ritual.
  
  
• On my last day of classes I lost my favorite pencil that has been my companion all year long. Weirdly symbolic.