#and like - i don't want people to take the valentines - my eve/claire au

[aparticularbandit]

I'm. wibbly-wobbly on this.

General crossover stuff - sure, have fun, go wild, tag me in things so I can see them! Because like, yeah, sure, I may have come up with a thing - or collaborated on a thing we came up with together - but those are interpretations and stuff. Other people could have come up with them. And fandom is built on community, and that's part of the community aspect. We do be sharing out here!

However.

The more detailed and specific and elaborate a thing is, the more likely I want the credit for it and/or would rather it not be used.

For example, I have a 400k+ post-DSMOM series (most of that is in one fic, it goes a lot of places). If you write fanfic within the context of that specific AU as I wrote it, I want credit for that world. But elements of that - like Agnes being a separate entity from Agatha - I don't want credit for that, I'm not the only one who came up with that, you could have done that on your own, etc.

I write Claire from Glass Onion as trans. I don't own that interpretation. I don't need - or want - credit every time someone interprets her that way. But please do not use my specific interpretation of trans!Claire without credit. If that makes sense?

It's like.

Ugh, I'm going to use Disney as an example, ugh, no, I hate this, but it's the best example I've got.

Disney made its market off of reinterpreting fairy tales (outside of Mickey, I'm not talking about that). That does not mean they now own all fairy tales they have reinterpreted, and it does not mean they should have credit for any fairy tale reinterpretation. You want to write your own Snow White interpretation, go for it! You want to give all the dwarves different names and personalities - go for it! (I've heard this is something that first happened in the Disney version. I have no sources on this. But they do not own this as an idea; you can use it.) But you can't, like, start using Sleepy and Bashful and Doc and Grumpy as they're seen in the Disney movie; they own those; they get credit for those.

Most of the collaborative stuff we're doing is generating ideas and riffing off of each other, and that's what fandom's for, and it's fun, and if you want to take those ideas and run with them, go right ahead! We're just playing with blocks here, and if you see something in the architecture that you like and want to use in your own stuff, go ahead! I don't mind that!

But the more specific you are to the interpretation, the more I'd like some sort of credit. I think.

(I may have made this more convoluted than it needed to be. As far as our current collaborative stuff, I think for the Haruhi/Danganronpa stuff, I would. Not for all Haruhi/Danganronpa crossovers ever, but like. if you're drawing from our collaboration to make Mukuro a werewolf, or if you write them all going to Canada to make a new film that follows what we brought up, yeah. I want co-credit for that.)

Now thats a question

You come up with super cool ideas for like au's and stuff a lot, like the Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya × Dangonronpa and the Ultimate Hide and Seek (I believe it was) and stuff like that

And I was just wondering do we need like. Permission. If we want to use those sorts of ideas or can we like write it and tag you in it or

@aparticularbandit and I did a lot of the Haruhi/Danganronpa stuff together so I can't speak for them. Similarly, though Bandit and I both kick around Ultimate Hide and Seek from time to time - it's a great running bit - that one actually belongs to @thebibliomancer.

But for me personally, I'm not a writer. I actually identify as a critic, personally. I'm just out here shotgunning ideas into the wilderness; I'm never going to do anything with this stuff. So I'm more than happy to let other people take the ideas I've come up with and go have fun with them.

So, yeah. Speaking for me, I would like to be credited for my ideas of course but if you like something I've tossed out there, feel free to run with it. That vague outline I posted for a hypothetical Ranma vs Dragon Ball tournament is probably the closest I'm ever going to come to ever actually writing fic again.

But anything that came from Bandit or Bibliomancer would need to be run by them.