YMMV.... (or not.)
When specific authors go through all the effort to contact FANFICTION.NET and
ask that the site
explicitly BAN all fanworks of their original work, I do not think they want it written.
I, too, bawled my eyes out when I saw that Laurell K. Hamilton was among such authors, because she has created an epic world of pure awesomeness that transcends generations.
But you know what? I DIDN'T POST MY STORY TO FF.NET.
In fact, I didn't post it anywhere. (Which is sad, because it's already several chapters long and was going very nicely.) No, I sucked it up, stopped writing it (writer's block T_T), and focused on fandoms whose authors
hadn't expressly banned fanwork.
You, specific author, what do you do? You circumvent the 'No Anita Blake category' by posting your story as a
crossover. Which, in addition to being
completely against Hamilton's STATED wishes, was also put in the WRONG section.
And not just that it wasn't a crossover. No, you put it in the FFVII crossover section, when you
should have put it in the Kingdom Hearts section (if you weren't directly going against Hamilton's wishes).
BTW, dear specific YOU- it doesn't count as a crossover if you only have the 'crossover' character in for one scene of 'Huh. I wonder who those guys are?'.
Sorry, NO.
This is not even bringing up the horrid characterization that you, *le gasp* FAIL at. For one, I know that Asher and Jean-Claude arent boinking like rabbits. How?
It's freaking canon. Idjit.
*headdesking*,
KIK
PS- WHY are these people allowed on my intirznet???
ETA: Sorry about the lack of clarity- I was more commenting on the way the Asher/Jean-Claude was handled. It was basically 'oh, who gives a fuck what Anita says, we want to have sex!'. Pretty solid self-gratification with no explanation as to why Jean-Claude would risk his power base with 'selfish' boinkery and Asher not caring about what Anita might think of him (since a good part of his character was built on wanting Anita to love him, and just him).
My lack of clarification, and the confuzzelness this brought up makes me worried now that I probably shouldn't be writing fic until whatever this is goes away.... :/