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serynSome funny things. John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton are having a contest to benefit some organization and people are supposed to write about this cartoon-ish caricature picture of them as an orc and a unicorn. 1) They're calling it a fanfiction contest. 2) It says, "No slash" in the instructions.
1) It's not fanfiction if you look at a picture and write your own story to go along with what you imagine unless the original work is part of a fandom. Scalzi and Wheaton are not fictional characters in a world owned by someone else. It is, Real Person Fiction if someone were to write about them by name, but I do not approve of RPF--- it's making shit up about real actual people and telling everyone.... that's libel for all normal people (only famous people are prohibited from complaining about that. If someone writes RPF about me and the yoga instructor or something... I can sue.)
1a) The picture they've proffered for inspiration looks like a Shrek ripoff. So the contest is already in violation of fandom rules--- someone (their chosen charity) is going to profit from creative works originally derived from copyrighted and restricted material.
2) No slash. Um. If you call it the John Scalzi/Wil Wheaton whatever contest, you've pretty much guaranteed that's what people are going to be thinking of. Convention says Harry/Draco is a story with a romantic pairing between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.
2a) Supposedly Scalzi issued a clarification that says they meant no explicit sex, not that there couldn't be slash. Scalzi clearly does not understand the conventions. It should have been, "No squick, no explicit sex, no non-con, no drug use, no illegal actions." Or "PG-13 rating, maximum." Or something which specified the warnings. Not all slash is explicit.
Given how idiotic they've been about this, I will suspend my boycott of RPF and my anti-preference for slash.
1) It's not fanfiction if you look at a picture and write your own story to go along with what you imagine unless the original work is part of a fandom. Scalzi and Wheaton are not fictional characters in a world owned by someone else. It is, Real Person Fiction if someone were to write about them by name, but I do not approve of RPF--- it's making shit up about real actual people and telling everyone.... that's libel for all normal people (only famous people are prohibited from complaining about that. If someone writes RPF about me and the yoga instructor or something... I can sue.)
1a) The picture they've proffered for inspiration looks like a Shrek ripoff. So the contest is already in violation of fandom rules--- someone (their chosen charity) is going to profit from creative works originally derived from copyrighted and restricted material.
2) No slash. Um. If you call it the John Scalzi/Wil Wheaton whatever contest, you've pretty much guaranteed that's what people are going to be thinking of. Convention says Harry/Draco is a story with a romantic pairing between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.
2a) Supposedly Scalzi issued a clarification that says they meant no explicit sex, not that there couldn't be slash. Scalzi clearly does not understand the conventions. It should have been, "No squick, no explicit sex, no non-con, no drug use, no illegal actions." Or "PG-13 rating, maximum." Or something which specified the warnings. Not all slash is explicit.
Given how idiotic they've been about this, I will suspend my boycott of RPF and my anti-preference for slash.
