You Dont Own Fanfics. Theyre Inherently Public Domain Because They Arent Your IP. Agree Or Disagree With

You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can't believe I have to say this)

Huh. Realized I never linked this on here. Oops.

As I was working on Awakening, I ended up excising half of the first flashback chapter. I still liked the prose, it's just that it didn't really fit in that chapter. So I decided that I'd make a separate work for the series to showcase any "extra scenes" I wrote, whether deleted scenes from the actual stories, or short vignettes that I wanted to scribble down but didn't fit in any of my outlines. And the first chapter of this work is that deleted portion of that flashback chapter.

Enjoy!

Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Tricks With Mirrors," featured in You Are Happy

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yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔

Anna Akhmatova, from A Stranger to Heaven and Earth: Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "Farewell Song,"