You're right, you know. And I live in fear of someone finding one of my sporkings and being hurt by it. An author once did find a sporking of her fic that tea_fiend and I did, and she commented, and took it pretty well. She said she'd laughed while reading it, which is nice.
On the other hand one of our sporkings apparently got ranted about on ffr because we had no taste and the fic was actually awesome and we wouldn't know good writing if it fell on us out of the sky (this was the Remus Lupin/Severus Snape fic with the violent magical sex-change).
Admittedly I don't deal with Sues. Ever. I just avoid writing with OCs in it, and always have. I deal with slash, which is also what I write.
To be honest, I know that a lot of what I write would be considered 'crimes against canon' by some of our younger and rather scarily rabid members (we're getting a lot of people in from TVTropes now who think that ficcing itself is bad, which is worrying to me in the extreme), and I ... don't really care. 'Crimes against canon' to me, is the in-universe reason for PPCing. To me? It's fun. It's stupid. It's relaxing. It's practice writing.
And sometimes I feel like a hypocrite. And sometimes I don't. I never really know how I feel about it. It's just something I've done for a long time.
But you're right. We're stomping on someone's playground, and we're kinda revelling in it.
On the other hand though, we don't write these things for them to find. We write them for our own amusement. We're probably hurting these ficcers no more than ficcers themselves are hurting the original authors of a work simply by taking it in a direction they don't like.
I'm not really clued up enough to consider the morals of it, I suppose. But I can say I'm getting more and more scared by the attitudes of some of the newbies that are coming through. Who knows. Maybe one day I'll give it up.
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On the other hand one of our sporkings apparently got ranted about on ffr because we had no taste and the fic was actually awesome and we wouldn't know good writing if it fell on us out of the sky (this was the Remus Lupin/Severus Snape fic with the violent magical sex-change).
Admittedly I don't deal with Sues. Ever. I just avoid writing with OCs in it, and always have. I deal with slash, which is also what I write.
To be honest, I know that a lot of what I write would be considered 'crimes against canon' by some of our younger and rather scarily rabid members (we're getting a lot of people in from TVTropes now who think that ficcing itself is bad, which is worrying to me in the extreme), and I ... don't really care. 'Crimes against canon' to me, is the in-universe reason for PPCing. To me? It's fun. It's stupid. It's relaxing. It's practice writing.
And sometimes I feel like a hypocrite. And sometimes I don't. I never really know how I feel about it. It's just something I've done for a long time.
But you're right. We're stomping on someone's playground, and we're kinda revelling in it.
On the other hand though, we don't write these things for them to find. We write them for our own amusement. We're probably hurting these ficcers no more than ficcers themselves are hurting the original authors of a work simply by taking it in a direction they don't like.
I'm not really clued up enough to consider the morals of it, I suppose. But I can say I'm getting more and more scared by the attitudes of some of the newbies that are coming through. Who knows. Maybe one day I'll give it up.