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Allow me to rant once again on Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan, dumbfuck extraordinaire. Who forbids all fanfiction, but especially slash (which he still calls K/S. Which either shows his age or that he used to read it). He compares fanfic to someone stealing his ATM and piracy.... To which one must (is compelled, bloody fucking must) point out that a)in Japan they consider fanfic and fanart free advertising and seem to get along just fine side by side b) no one makes him read it and c) he FRAKKIN' STEALS FROM EVERY OTHER FANTASY AUTHOR EVER!!!! The world's biggest thief denounces others for it. Apparently, when Robert Jordan does it, it's clever (and profitable for him judging from the way the last books have dragged on needlessly) and therefore ok. Someone dares to take something he's done and spin their own universe from it, it's *gasp* piracy!
Well I'm a pirate. A pissed off pirate who might mention to Asslick Jordan that a woman can think and still be sexual. They need not be separate. I might also mention that when George Lucas made Star Wars, and studied archetypes, and Wagner's Ring Cycle, and Kurosawa films and a thousand other sources, and used them to create his gloriously cheesy vision, he admitted it. But noooo, Jordan's 'vision' is his and his alone, and if it isn't, well then he's a damn pirate too. A fat sexist one. (...is childish, so?)
He writes the most brain dead stereotypical women outside of het anime (think Meryl from Trigun) and then gets irritated when people then want to pair the men...the only ones with brains. He admits to the presence of lesbians (vaguely) in his books, so one can only assume the talentless hack finds chick on chick hot and thus acceptable. God forbid the men get with equals.
I give him credit for two things. Creating Matrim Cauthon (archetype though he is, and not really created from any one person) and creating Moiraine (ditto). Other than that, he can burn in hell, or be trapped in a small room with several hundred women who beat the shit out him.
**rant over for now**
Well I'm a pirate. A pissed off pirate who might mention to Asslick Jordan that a woman can think and still be sexual. They need not be separate. I might also mention that when George Lucas made Star Wars, and studied archetypes, and Wagner's Ring Cycle, and Kurosawa films and a thousand other sources, and used them to create his gloriously cheesy vision, he admitted it. But noooo, Jordan's 'vision' is his and his alone, and if it isn't, well then he's a damn pirate too. A fat sexist one. (...is childish, so?)
He writes the most brain dead stereotypical women outside of het anime (think Meryl from Trigun) and then gets irritated when people then want to pair the men...the only ones with brains. He admits to the presence of lesbians (vaguely) in his books, so one can only assume the talentless hack finds chick on chick hot and thus acceptable. God forbid the men get with equals.
I give him credit for two things. Creating Matrim Cauthon (archetype though he is, and not really created from any one person) and creating Moiraine (ditto). Other than that, he can burn in hell, or be trapped in a small room with several hundred women who beat the shit out him.
**rant over for now**
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You know, it seems to me it's always the most mediocre authors who get the most outraged over fanfiction. Ironic, considering they ought to be thrilled that anybody cares enough about their maudlin shit to create paeans to it...
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heh