How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor

How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor is a 2007 post by cupidsbow
==Topics Discussed==
* "How to Suppress Women's Writing" by Joanna Russ (Russ comments on this in Interview: Joanna Russ (2011))
* feminism and fanfiction
* fandom and profit
* copyright
* fanfiction
==Some Context==
Other major discussions and proposals regarding fannish control over fanworks took place during that spring. Some examples:
 
* FanLib (FanLib was a commercially-owned, for-profit multifandom fanfic archive which was open between May 18, 2007 and August 4, 2008... It was widely perceived as an attempt by outsiders to profit from the work of fans.) 
* An Archive Of One's Own (post by astolat) which proposed the Organization for Transformative Works and Archive of Our Own (May 17, 2007) "For record keeping, the straw that broke the camel's back was fanlib, if you see the post dates and the incorporation dates, that's the very basic cause/effect. Very. Basic.") (January 4, 2008) 
* Strikethrough and Boldthrough (LiveJournal's attempts to control fannish journal content, beginning on May 29, 2007) "On the other hand, now that the pitchfork and torch waving mobs have gone after Six Apart, the "really cool" guys at FanLib must be breathing a sigh of relief. It's been a shitty couple of weeks for fandom.") -- May 30, 2007 comment at Metafilter: 
==Introduction from the Post==
==Excerpt==
==Posted Responses==
: See How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor: Posted Responses
* , cupidsbow, April 28, 2007
* , matociquala, April 26, 2007
* Fanfic and Authorship, Archive, ellen fremedon, April 27, 2007
* , inalasahl, April 27, 2007
* , communicator, , April 26, 2007
* , peterchayward, April 28, 2007
* , Julie Frost, April 27, 2007
* Thinky-thoughts about writing..., Archive, starwatcher307, April 27, 2007
* , sahiya, April 27
* , executrix, April 27
* , queenofhell, April 28
* , lazette, April 29
* thorny thoughts, Archive, Swan Tower, April 26
* Is meta contagious? I guess fanfic writers are particularly prone to memetic infection., Archive, china shop, April 28
* , celisnebula, April 26
* , ithiliana, April 29
* Alles neu, macht der Mai, Archive, frogspace, May 1
* , Wax Banks, May 3
* , kbusse, May 6
* , hedda62, April 28
* Masculine-Feminine, Archive, marcelproust, April 27
* , sarken, April 27
* , hoshikaze, April 27
* , khazell1, April 26
* , mawaridi, May 4 
* , foxe, May 4
* , kbusse, May 5
* , saeva, May 7
* , starkiller, May 5
* , angriest, May 5
* , louisedennis, May 11
* convergence and fears of intimacy, kbusse, May 14
* Inspiration, Archive, anotherusedpage, May 11
* Feeling Ranty, Archive, lotesseflower, May 16 
* What are the similarities and differences between fanfic and other similar communities?, Archive, alias_sqbr, May 18
* Gendered Fandoms, Archive, etrangere, May 22
==Excerpts from the 417 Comments to the Post Itself==
karadin: 
cupidsbow: 
astolat: 
moliya: 
cathexys: 
anonymous: 
stungunbilly: 
cassiphone: 
pnh: 
js cavalcante: 
muneraven: 
juliabk: 
muneraven: 
loligo: 
executrix: 
wychwood: 
ellen fremedon: 
kaiz: 
astolat: 
highway west: 
lookfar: 
mgsmurf: 
threerings: 
==Meta/Further Reading==
* by ellen fremedon (April 26, 2007)
* by matociquala (April 26, 2007)
* by executrix (April 27, 2007)
* by agilebrit (April 27, 2007)
* discussed in Interview: Joanna Russ (2011) (2007)
* discussed at length in Fansplaining: Real Person Fiction (2008)
==References==
Category:Fanfiction Meta
Category:2007 Meta
Category: Meta on Journal Sites
Category:Fandom & Profit Meta