[split] the fanfic discussion thread (NO fanfic please)

[Nuytsia]

Hmm on the fanfic thing, GRRM has had a couple of huge rants about it on his blog, apparently in response to some other author posting on the topic and getting a lot of people apparently up in arms about it.
I can see both sides of this, and I can certainly see how authors would feel horrified to read some of the fanfics (especially if emailed TO them - I'm still gobsmacked by that). But I don't really feel strongly against it - especially if it is just using the world and not the actual characters made by the author.
I did find it kind of interesting to read GRRM saying, re 3rd Alien movie

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" I had come to love Newt in the preceding movie, the whole damn film was about Ripley rescuing her, the end was deeply satisfying... and now some asshole was going to come along and piss all over that just to be shocking. "

Kind of ironic that those sorts of feelings by fans are probably what prompts a lot of fanfics actually... and not sure how GRRM would like to hear

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'I loved the Starks and then some asshole came along and had them all brutally killed just to be shocking' ....

(although he probably HAS heard that