Once more the wave of kerfluffle hits Buffy-verse fanfic.

I swear to God, it's become the annual right of spring. The same suspects are even involved.

And it's caused the same thing: the fundamental disconnect between people who hold two distinct theories of fanfiction.

There are issues over proper writing mechanics, themes, characterizations, subject matter, inaccurate and inappropriate appropriation of various cultures, and all of that. But every one of those issues still comes down to the same thing: the Disconnect (here now rendered with a capital "D") between two distinct theories of fanfiction.

On the one hand, you have people who look at fanfiction as a way to constantly challenge themselves and improve their writing.

On the other, you have people who look a fanfiction as a fun hobby and are less worried about the mechanics of it.

I suspect a few people will unfriend me over what follows beneath the cut. Fair enough. It's your right.

But this is my LJ. I pay for this space. I'll bitch if I want to.

( About your story and the fall-out... )

Well, that was a lot of .02. Sorry to take up people's time with a tl;dr post.

Don't ever change your wanky little heart.

And bashing on the TWoP Buffy boards for failing to recognize the comics as cannon and that JW is the be-all and end-all of genius really isn't helping your case.

Try this on for logic: Most Buffy fans have moved on. Only a very small subset of those who are still around will ever read the comics. If there's ever a filmed follow-up to the Buffyverse and if there's a RL reason to go directly against the comic-canon, you can bet every single comic will be efficiently handwaved by "the master" because most people not only wouldn't care, they wouldn't know comic-canon in the first place.

Don't say you weren't warned.

And the spoiler-y bit JW posted about Andrew and the overwhelming defense of that choice?

Really, is it possible to make me want to read the S8 comics any less than I already do?

Hat-tip to omnie

Warning: Comments may be spoilery for the comic books, if you're trying to stay spoiler-free.