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Sadly, my productive work semester is leaving zero time for making fannish things, but I can at least share some love:
OTW comments on the legal framework for remix. If you don’t tear up at a couple of the personal fandom stories, you’re a stronger person than I am.
Also, it turns out that the rules for Amazon’s Kindle Worlds really are quite amusing: All of them ban “erotica” and “offensive content,” but Bloodshot and a couple of others (comics, I think) require characters to be “in-character,” and also ban “profane language,” graphic violence, “references to acquiring, using, or being under the influence of illegal drugs,” and “wanton disregard for scientific and historical accuracy.” So, good luck with that!
Foreign Policy asks: Why is the Chinese Internet obsessed with writing gay Sherlock Holmes fanfiction? I answer: because the Chinese are people? People who are sometimes willing to go to jail for loving slash. (Though one commenter insists that the arrest came from the fact that the targeted person ran a “porn” website for profit, and that ordinary slash writers are not at risk; the comment doesn’t make clear whether the claim is that it’s the profit or the “porn” that’s the problem under Chinese law, and also deploys “slash is women writing, not ‘gay’” in a way that seems a tad homophobic.)
OTW comments on the legal framework for remix. If you don’t tear up at a couple of the personal fandom stories, you’re a stronger person than I am.
Also, it turns out that the rules for Amazon’s Kindle Worlds really are quite amusing: All of them ban “erotica” and “offensive content,” but Bloodshot and a couple of others (comics, I think) require characters to be “in-character,” and also ban “profane language,” graphic violence, “references to acquiring, using, or being under the influence of illegal drugs,” and “wanton disregard for scientific and historical accuracy.” So, good luck with that!
Foreign Policy asks: Why is the Chinese Internet obsessed with writing gay Sherlock Holmes fanfiction? I answer: because the Chinese are people? People who are sometimes willing to go to jail for loving slash. (Though one commenter insists that the arrest came from the fact that the targeted person ran a “porn” website for profit, and that ordinary slash writers are not at risk; the comment doesn’t make clear whether the claim is that it’s the profit or the “porn” that’s the problem under Chinese law, and also deploys “slash is women writing, not ‘gay’” in a way that seems a tad homophobic.)
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