EVERYONE must also realize that when they post something on the internet, it's going to get archived
I agree with this in principle, but I wonder how many people realize it in practice.
And yeah, I think it's pretty disingenuous for someone in a *fanfic* community to make an "I am the author and so whatever I say goes" pronouncement. We may not always like the results, but it's definitely a pot calling the kettle black situation.
So here is a question (straight out of Professor Krausz's Aesthetics class): can a work have a meaning the original creator didn't intend? You say that the fanfic of your story perverted its meaning. Would you say that the ficcer misunderstood your story or just that they found a meaning that you didn't originally put there (but that stands up to an analysis of the text)?
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I agree with this in principle, but I wonder how many people realize it in practice.
And yeah, I think it's pretty disingenuous for someone in a *fanfic* community to make an "I am the author and so whatever I say goes" pronouncement. We may not always like the results, but it's definitely a pot calling the kettle black situation.
So here is a question (straight out of Professor Krausz's Aesthetics class): can a work have a meaning the original creator didn't intend? You say that the fanfic of your story perverted its meaning. Would you say that the ficcer misunderstood your story or just that they found a meaning that you didn't originally put there (but that stands up to an analysis of the text)?