dontfall

I’ve been around awhile. I find fanfiction to be incredibly important to me, but honestly, i’ve always been able to shrug off the idea that someone didn’t want me writing fic. I mentioned AR’s work in fic when I was young and had it pulled. Did it suck? Sure. But I also have a deep respect for copyright and people’s feelings. We allow fanfic authors to deny reposting, archiving, etc. We are fine with them saying, “please don’t write a sequel to this without my permission.” But when a real author says it, it’s a big fucking deal. Look, i think the C&Ds were overboard and scary; though, for the folks who received them when they were young, I imagine AR didn’t think young kids were reading her books.

Fanfiction is not the be all and end all. It isn’t “dark humor” to find delight in a person’s DEATH because you wanted to write fic and someone didn’t let you. It seems a bit more than that. if you want to take issue with someone’s religious beliefs and shit like that, ok, I can sort of get behind that because it has an effect in some larger way, but if your literal glee in the wake of someone’s death - not 24 hours after it is announced - is based on the fact that you had to secretly write fic... I’m sorry, that’s just not a good enough excuse to be a shitbag.