Heil Honey, I'm Home

It's because they're trying to protect more than one? Although I do like the idea of Clooney and Company working really hard to protect this one fucking bridge, because culture.

Relax. I was just taking your joke to its logical conclusion.

Yeah! How dare those poor people, old people, or rural people who don't live on a grid not conform and use a technology they can't afford, don't understand, or don't have easy access to!

I feel like "Not a ton happens" is Sims's refrain for these reviews.

And really, is the English language just German/Latin Slash fic?

That's an interesting take on the legal side of things.

I think that it is all a bit gray and weird for everyone involved.

That's an interesting take, if only because a lot of times writers talk about setting as character. Take Hogwarts for an easy example. Is it okay to write a story with new characters in such a specific setting?

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus Thanks, I think you're right about MZB.

@avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus But yes. I suppose my life is a little odd.

@avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus I've worked with many authors through my graduate program, and the conversation has come up pervasively with one of student's whenever we hang out. He believes that, as creators of the worlds that people enjoy, writers deserve to have their wishes respected when it comes…

See, but I don't know if that's true, and for an example, I'd have to point to the best (and one of the only) fanfictions I've ever read, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's straight up fanficiton, but it brings up interesting questions never raised in the original, and is therefore extremely valuable.

I was one hundred percent onboard with this until Hank and Arya got together. He's like, four times her age!

@avclub-d4c5630db0ec3444ec43c0982a9e83d3:disqus But there's a difference between interpretation and recreation. I agree that an author can't stand over a person's shoulder and tell them how to interpret their messages or whatever. If the reader's didn't get the intended message, than the author didn't do a great job…

It can go the other way, too. I don't remember the author (maybe Ursula K Leguin, but I'm not sure), but there was one a while ago who encouraged fan-fiction, and encouraged people to send her fan fiction because she was so flattered. Then, when she wrote a sequel that mirrored the plot of one of the fan fictions she…

@avclub-c404a5adbf90e09631678b13b05d9d7a:disqus Again, playing the advocate:

But why? Shouldn't the creator of the work be valued over the work? When the opposite is true, you get to situations like what happened with Jack Kirby back in the day.

I've been involved in a multi-year argument over ownership and fan-fiction, specifically regarding George RR Martin's statement that he does not want fans of Game of Thrones writing fan fiction.

Without commenting on the validity of your statement, I'd just like to point out that your use of quotation marks there is confusing. I mean, through context clues, I get that you're trying to convey the notion that Sorkin is a bad writer, but your use of quotation marks makes it seem like you don't think he's a…