seperis | i also once read a lot of solitaire porn on a dare

Okay, granted, I have been conning and now am family vacationing in the Gulf region (where the water is very warm and the grass just too disturbingly green when one can see teh ocean like, fifty feet away), but...

Another Doomed Attempt to Monetize Fanfic aka Person Buys Pooh (yes, as in Winnie the), Twilight, and LOTR fanfiction archives and like, I feel someone, somewhere cut me out of the Fandom Psychic Network of Hysterical Laughter. Which hey, who did that again?

This is a very serious, totally serious issue, but I keep getting stuck at that particular combination of fandoms because you have to know he does not look upon this and see the hilarity, which is sad because look at that combination. I mean, I was trying to come up with a more unlikely set of fandoms to start Fandom Is My Profit Quest and I'm just failing utterly. I mean, Hetalia, Rainbow Brite, and Minesweeper have the right WTF but not the sheer, unearthly, almost surrealist beauty of sparkling vampires living next door to large-footed hobbits and staring in bewilderment at the rise of Mordor in the distance while Pooh wanders by looking for his honey (and possibly being eaten by vampires, which now is upsetting me; Tigger will fuck their shit up for even trying and I don't know about anyone else, but Piglet's sociopathy isn't what I'd call well-concealed).

I'm not comfortable that is actually a working plot, for the record.

It's kind of annoying we seem to be getting the bargain priced entrepreneurs who lack some fundamental steps in My Business Plan Let Me Show You It, but it's also just grating that when approaching the strange, savage society of fanficsters with their simple ways and strange, exotic, foreign customs, who have been waiting with bated breath for someone to show us the magic of capitalistic enterprise and so forth, the literacy quotient here is so tragically low. Also, the ability to use the magic of google and possibly, the sense required to breathe.

See, I grew up reading Pooh and LOTR and I have in fact slogged through Twilight and the fourth book that made it all so very worth every moment, but I can't assume the person in question read them because again, look at that combination for a fandom enterprise. I felt the natural order of fandom shiver a little, but also, much worse, someone right now is writing a crossover for this, and that shit I don't forgive.

There's also how very, very cross the Tolkien estate gets about things. Like, IDK, Using a Fictionalized Version of Tolkien The Person In a Historical Fiction Book That Does Not Involve Any of Tolkien's Fiction (No, This Is Not Tolkien/Hobbit Porn and More's The Pity For Sheer Why Not-ness), so going out on a limb, it may be possible screaming I WILL MAKE MONEY FROM LOTR FANFIC at the top of your lungs is a course of action which probably will lead to a room with free coffee and a lot of people in suits the price of the average yacht whose first language is Legalese, both spoken and written.

I've heard Disney may be a bit odd about that sort of thing as well; could be wrong. Can't say I am following along with what the Twilight franchise has as policy; I bet google might help.

I'm also guessing they missed the concept of RPS? What a fascinating introduction this will be. I think on page two.

Two people below teh age of fully comprehending verbal communication just found me on my secret balcony to stare at me meaningfully. I'm pretty sure from their expressions they, too, disapprove of this unnatural combination, though I'm still sketchy on how they got through a locked door. I think they may be a bit too young, however, to fully appreciate the horror of Piglet/Edward, though. Maybe when they're four.

Elf's Links I'm still glutting myself on. Sometimes the best things in life really are free.

but Piglet's sociopathy isn't what I'd call well-concealed

I just have to latch onto this for a moment because every time I reread the Pooh stories (which is relatively often) I notice some other subtlety of characterisation that completely went over my head as a child, and one of them is that Piglet is ravingly envious of Pooh and on at least one occasion tries to sabotage their plan in order that he might take all the credit. XD

This post was hilarious, incidentally.

And that is why I have this icon.

I remember being outraged by the whole fanlib(?) thing a few years back, but by the gods, this is cracking me up on many levels. The sheer hilarity is going to provide me with hours of amusement (free even!) and the LACK of knowledge and awareness is glorious.

I think, completely imho, that people who are not part of the fanfic culture (I include readers in this), often doesn't understand the basic idea of the whole crazy fic-thing. Fic authors do not want RL notoriety (well, the sane ones anyway) or money from fanfiction. It is a love, it is a passion, it is that stupid fic idea(s) that won't let you sleep or eat or work until you have either PLOTTED the whole thing out on posted-notes (COLOURS!) or written the whole bleeding thing out.

We don't make money from this, it is insane, I know, but it is a love.

Also, the western fandom gets into fits of conniptions every time a famous person or entity talk about fanfiction.

Oh, seperis, this is going to be awesome.

"It is a love, it is a passion, it is that stupid fic idea(s) that won't let you sleep or eat or work until you have either PLOTTED the whole thing out on posted-notes (COLOURS!) or written the whole bleeding thing out."

THIS.

I am working on a book proposal to send a publishable manuscript out.

In the other window, and taking up online research, offline research, and TV Tropes time? Fic for a YA book no one else I know that I know of has read (Unwind), centering around a backstory and minor character (Marcus) combo plot bunny of great tenacity, and there's nothing for the book on AO3 and maybe 50 stories on FF.net, mostly OCs and mostly badly mangled summaries. I may never ever post this. It's 15,000 words and growing. In the maybe two and a half weeks since I read the book for the first time.

I turned in complete short stories to writing class workshops that were shorter than this. In grad school. For grades!

Then there are two active HP plot bunnies that keep poking me.

And the twice-yearly Chronicles of Narnia bunny.

And that's not even talking about my personal Star Wars fic archive, AKA the boxes of notebooks and looseleaf sheets from 7th grade through senior year of college when plot bunnies would not leave me alone during class and the paper and pen were already right there, so... And nothing before college ever ended up online, and only one fic series from college ever did in that fandom, and offline only one friend ever read any of it, and that was just for two years on the bus in high school.

I stepped back from a paper in college for a 'my hands are hurting' break and discovered my fic notebook and pen in my hands two minutes later, for heaven's sake!

I've been ZOMG HAPPY the few times a 'I can legally sell this' world and characters I created on my own got me into the writing groove a good fic bunny can.

Pretty sure I'm not even doing this for the ff.net reviews and AO3 kudos.

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