Subject: Comm consensus needed: de-quarantining works written by Anne Rice
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Posted on: 2023-03-06 00:33:36 UTC
As a result of this thread, Nessie has suggested that a separate thread be made for the comm to vote on whether or not to remove Anne Rice works from quarantine status and allow missions into them. Reasoning is provided by doctorlit in the post linked above.
-Yuki, who has zero experience in running voting threads and does not use Discord.
She had already recognized that her main motivation for not wanting fanfiction was an overreaction, and her passing rendered it fully moot. As such, I believe the quarantine can be respectfully lifted.
Anne Rice will be removed from the quarantine list, stat. Have fun protecting your favorite hawt vampires.
Do keep in mind that I'm not in the fandom or have much knowledge about the canon, but this thing here seems to have all the makings of a classic Wattpad badfic, set in the Vampire Chronicles universe. Here's a sample:
After I went and sat on the couch in the living room with a mug filled with hot tea. I turned on the TV. A scream broke out of it and Le stats pale gorgeous face appeared again. It was on MTV, one of his music videos were on. Goose bumps crawled all over my skin. Then that's when a new thought came in. What if I went to the vampire club where he goes to, tonight? My mom wasn't going to be home for another 3 days. Why not? I had my license to drive. A car and my brain. It was a Friday night, no school the next day. But let's face it people if you’re going to go to a vampire club, hide out, alone. Then you’re probably crazy, not thinking strait. I clearly wasn't thinking strait at the time. Or any time after it.Also, the fic's entire text is in bold.
Imagine all the hawt vampire badfics out there that can be sporked…
I'm glad she came around on fanfic eventually.
Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Yuki! {= )
~Neshomeh's energy today was spent blocking a persistent vandal with a grudge against Hermione Granger on the wiki. Fun...
-Ls ran that one PG vote... somewhat. Also, Discord has been notified.
Especially taking into consideration she had a change of heart later on.
As I said in the other thread, her main motivation seemed to be fear of being accused of plagiarizing a fanwork, which can no longer happen.
—the book nerd doctorlit
Anne Rice's views on transformative works were rooted in hypocrisy (I point to her writings as A.N. Roquelaire, specifically the trilogy of garbage erotic novels about Beauty And The Beast, by way of evidence) and now that she's dead an explosion of fan creativity has occurred. The PPC as a community is well within its rights to join in. Will I specifically be taking part? Probably not. I don't know any of Rice's canons well enough. But someone who joins up some day might be in love with the world of the vampire Lestat, just as I am with niche computer games and forgotten webcomics, and that person should have the right to engage with their favourite canon the same way everyone else does.
As OrangeFox pointed out in the Discord, it's not clear whether anyone would even make use of the option to go for this material, so this entire vote may very well be a technicality. (I don't even remember anything she's written, so it sure won't be me.) But if the author has relaxed limitations, I don't see why we shouldn't let ourselves move in.
Vanishes off the face of the Board for another six months.