Clarification

Questions on badfic authors by OrangeFox on 2019-10-30 16:02:58 UTC Reply

Do things like this happen a lot?
[ https://plotprotectors.neocities.org/DoSAT/story03.html ] [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fSuamhzfV1kmIa2Dk3Oc_EVvyB-6OHhfby0OJvXspgY/edit (Warning: cursing) ] And while searching through the archives, I think another revenge fic got directed at somebody called Herr Wozzeck, but it got taken down. Like, what are your thoughts on these, and how do we avoid this if possible?

It probably can't be avoided. by Neshomeh on 2019-10-31 16:13:37 UTC Reply

I vaguely recall the Herr Wozzeck one you mentioned. (Was the Gdoc one not it?) Other than that, though, I don't think it's happened very often at all. As far as I know, it's rare for an author to find out we sporked them, and rarer still for them to say anything about it, let alone go to the effort of writing a whole nother fic just to have a go at us.

But, if someone does want to write a revenge fic, we can't stop them. They're as free to write a response to our stuff as we are to write a sporking of theirs. We don't have to like it, but we also don't have to have a fit about it. If it's entertaining, we should laugh. If it has a point, we should listen. If it's nasty enough to violate the TOS of the archive it's on, we should report it. If it isn't any of those things, we should ignore it.

Then we should move on. Simple as that.

~Neshomeh
I can speak for the first one, at least. by Delta Juliette on 2019-10-30 16:11:33 UTC Reply

It was written by myself, with my own character - that's not revenge fic, that's an agent having a very bad day. (Plus or minus fifteen years of growing as a writer. You know how it is.)

Clarification by OrangeFox on 2019-10-30 16:30:26 UTC Reply

So it's not a response to a revenge fic or anything?

Nope! by Delta Juliette on 2019-10-30 17:29:36 UTC Reply

It was written on its own, without provocation, because I wanted to play with the lines of fiction and reality a bit. Tess never even missioned a badfic, she was thoroughly enjoying the relatively low-stress life (compared to being a Matrix-verse renegade) of being DoSAT's secretary.