How will you deal with Rule 34

I would welcome it with white hot intensity. My works BEG for Rule 34 on them.

Here here.

I would probably ban it from my official site, but if I ever I felt masochistic, Deviant Art is only a click away.

I've sometimes pondered inviting people to contribute to my erotic works. It's not without precedent (for instance, the "Belial" shared universe on Fur Affinity.) Then again, I'm not sure the worlds I've created are robust enough to support fanfiction . . .

I'd probably be pretty squicked, and I wouldn't read the stuff in question unless it was quite tame. But hey, people like my stuff enough to draw/write fanfiction, and that'd be more important to me than the actual content of it.

I think it'd be pretty awesome to have porn made of my works. I mean, that at the very least means they're somewhat popular, or highly enjoyed by a small, but incredibly dedicated group.

Hopefully it'd actually be hot, though, and not just crap writing/art.

Personally, I'd be fascinated to see if they thought of anything I hadn't already thought of.

The whole "creators shouldn't read fan works" idea is frequently based on the spin Marion Zimmer Bradley and her inner circle placed on a lawsuit filed (or threatened) by someone who wrote a short story for one of Bradley's anthologies of works by other authors set in her Darkover universe.

The Bradley et al. spin was that the lawsuit threat was because Bradley happened to have some similarities in her latest (or forthcoming) book to that submitted story, and that it was a case of pure greed by that story's author's husband.

However, it turns out on investigation, which someone did, that this story falls apart.

As long as they weren't making money off my work, I'd be pretty flattered. Hell, I'd probably encourage it by dropping the occasional remark at conventions or online. Bring on the pr0n.

Not sure if I'd ever go out of my way to look for it though.

And yeah, I wouldn't read fan fic, given that there are potential legal issues.

I'd consider it clinching proof that my work had become well-enough known for someone else to bother creating something based on it.

I doubt I'd read it - so as to stave off any claims that I poached someone else's plot - so I could imagine the conversation going thus:

"Do you realise that slash fiction involving your characters has shown up on the net?"

"Has it? Excellent. Was it well-written?"

The way I figure it: fan fiction happens. Slash fiction happens. Rule 34 is a fact of life. Most people are well aware that fanfics are not canonical and those who aren't are too stupid for me to worry about.

If people want to read fanfics, fine. If they want to read the real Mc Coy, even better - especially if they buy my books. If they want to read both, it's winnage all 'round.

Tho' I think I'd get a bit pissy if the writing quality of the fanfic got better praise than mine.

I dunno—I consider something like Methods Of Rationality to be better writing than Rowling's work, and that's no slur on Rowling. If my work attracted something that people were seriously claiming was better than the original, I'd probably be just as thrilled that not only do I attract fanfic in the first place, I attract it by really good authors.

Hm, well my work involves all-female super soldiers, so I think Rule 34 is too easily applied to my work.

What annebeeche said, but with the understanding that whatever squick I receive, I will have brought unto myself.

Why do I do these things, Lord...?

I'd LMAO. But the arguably-most-attractive guy is already in a canon gay couple.

I was going to say ignore it, but Kashchei's answer was vastly superior.

Especially if it comes with pictures.

edited 8th Sep '11 2:00:31 PM by deathjavu

Why, thank you!

"Personally, I'd be fascinated to see if they thought of anything I hadn't already thought of."

Seriously. I have so much sex in my writing that I'd be damn impressed if a reader had the stamina to add to it.

I'd be perfectly fine with it, as long as there's no Ukefication involved.

edited 8th Sep '11 1:56:58 PM by Teraus

Ukefication is always annoying.

I...uh....well...

I have...no idea how I would react...actually. ._.

Yup.

I'd be honored just to have a series with enough fandom to merit a Rule34 reaction. (Tess Stone, I'm looking at you!) Then, depending on the overt weirdness of it, I'd probably just laugh. Like kashchei said, I'd be curious what they'd come up with. I've seen numerous fanfics where people turned My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic into something dark and gory, so it's pretty hard to surprise me at this point.

That makes me think: If one's work tends toward one or the other end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, what is the probability of fan works - including pornographic ones - being at the other...?

My opinion is that that kind of thing can be more traced to True Art Is Angsty (and the fact that that mentality - IMO - tends be associated with teen writers) then to anything to do with the nature of the original work.

You're gonna get dark, angsty fan works of any sufficiently popular series, it's just the way things work.

I would mostly be curious to see what fan artists could come up with for my characters, since I only come up with rough sketches for them that never see the light of day outside a few close friends. So seeing what a talented artist comes up with based on in-story descriptions would b awesome.

I'd probably laugh. Rule 34 should be welcomed with open arms.

I would unabashedly enjoy all of it, even the shitty stuff.

I would also be curious to see if they'd come up with anything I hadn't yet.