Poll: Separation of Canon People and FF People

[thefourthvine]

(Note: I'd like to get responses on this from as many different fan writers as possible. Anyone who pimps it will have my eternal gratitude. And if you leave a comment letting me know where you pimped it, you will get my eternal gratitude and an imaginary cookie.)

This poll is for anyone who has ever written fan fiction and in some way shared it - internet, zine, carrier pigeon, coded broadcast to Alpha Centauri, whatever.

So. If someone connected with the canon found and read your fan fiction, how would you react? For the purposes of this poll, I would like you all to imagine that we live in a world where there are no possible legal consequences. In other words, your weird new readers can hate you, but they can't take you to court or send a C&D.

[Poll #698126]

Comments

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

I think there'd be nothing cooler than getting an email from some actor saying, "Wow, I love what you've done with my character!"

On the other hand, I don't care at all what the writers think.

Also, I want that pony.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Interesting. So, to you, do the actors have more to do with the characters they play than the writers do - more ownership, if that isn't a word that's been beaten into the ground already? Or is it that the actors just seem like cooler people in general?

Also, I want that pony.

Don't we all.

*wistful sigh*

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

So, to you, do the actors have more to do with the characters they play than the writers do ...

Yep, but that's because in the only fandom I've written fanfic in, Starsky & Hutch, there were lots of writers and no real creative force, like a Joss Whedon, behind the show. If I wrote in a fandom that had a more auteurish writer/creator attached, I might feel differently. I would feel differently.