Lanasugarcat has deleted her art blog and is going to delete the lanasugarcat one too ( oh no what if she deletes her lanabghostdtmg blog too D8) please tell us what happen to feel like tumblr hates her so much? Lana doesn't complain about what's upsetting her as much as Mimi does so we need to know what we can do to stop her leaving
I... I honestly don't know? I've really been out of the loop about what's been going on fandom-wise recently, as I've been on a cross-country and only recently got home about a week and a half ago. From what I've seen recently in the tags, though, it sounds like Lanasugarcat posted some drawings about an AU idea that someone else felt was too similar to their AU and got all up-in-arms about it.
Which, frankly, is ridiculous. No one 'owns' any AU, as they don't own the characters the AU is using. Two AUs can start with a similar premise and then go in completely different directions. You don't know where someone is going with an idea, and becoming offended because, hey, there's a similarity to MY AU is absurd. It's stifling creativity for one thing, and in addition, unless you decide to make it your own story with your own characters built from the ground up, you don't even own the characters that you are using in the AU.
AUs are all about changing something from the original canon, no matter how big or small, and each one is unique despite similarities. Something can carry the same premise as another thing and go in a completely different direction. And becoming upset over someone having a similar idea for an AU as you, possibly even getting inspiration from yours, is really self-centered, because, need I remind folks, the AU itself is inspired by the canon.
Speaking as a veteran of a fandom overrun by AUs to the degree that the original canon was forgotten, I myself avoid them for the most part. But I don't think anyone should be ostracized for creativity. My favorite manga has nearly the exact same premise as Naruto; a young boy serves as the vessel for the ultimate power in the ninja world, and there's a group that desperately wants it from him. But it goes in a completely different direction, creating a story that I would never have expected had I simply heard the basic premise. If the author of this series had been forced to stop writing it based merely on this initial similarity, we would never have seen how it could have gone in a completely new direction.
I'm sorry this turned into such an essay on a specific subject, but again, I'm not fully aware of the circumstances, and this is all based on conjecture from the tags. Hopefully, though, this will help out. I'll be tagging her url so she can see this as well. No one should be chased off of any site.
