explodes into this plurk in a shower of unhinged sticky notes about the sonny bono copyright protection act ITS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, THERES NO SUCH THING AS FANFICTION, ALL FICTION IS FICTION, ALL CULTURE FOLLOWS FROM THE CULTURE PRECEDING IT, THE LEGALITY OF YOUR FICTION OR QUALITY OF YOUR STORY IS IRRELEVANT, ALL FICTION IS THE SAME
YOU ARE A WRITER AND A CREATOR OF CULTURE AND THEY ARE TAKING IT FROM YOU TO MAKE YOU THINK THAT CULTURE CAN ONLY BE CREATED BY THE APPROVAL OF DESIGNATED CORPORATIONS
please read "free culture" thoguh its by the guy who founded Creative Commons and tried to take disney to the supreme court to keep them from extending copyright indefinitely
kirk/spock, while historically important, is more like a group of people that became legendary for inventing a method by which you could still draw things using burnt sticks after someone made all pens and pencils only legal to use if you were a media corporation
SPOILER ALERT
sorry if I'm reading your vibes wrong, but that response feels a bit rude? Like, okay, it's not the cuban missile crisis but Kirk/Spock is absolutely historically important if you're interested in the intersection between fandom as it exists now and the relationship between fans and the media we consume, and what shaped that.
Basically female fans of Kirk/Spock in the 70's kind of invented fanfic and art as we currently know it, by writing and publishing zines of their work exclusively for other fans.
re: pre-modern hair: My sister's been doing sewn-in crown braids as her daily style for work for a few years now since she read a post like these and loves it. Big bone needle, ribbon, braid that will not BUDGE all day out in the wind.
simply writing a novel where kirk and spock with their own full real names on the full real named enterprise and then publishing it and making money on it
once we lost tiny pieces of it they never came back and every amendment makes the noose tighter until its very existence is enshrined in our culture around thinking about fictional franchises/properties
Like, off the top of my head CLAMP, who made Cardcaptor Sakura (along with about a million other things) were partly able to sustain themselves as a collective because they were publishing yaoi.
by which of course I mean it highlights that in a different copyright model other forms of art and structures of artists could have had a chance to thrive.
I think their only canonical yaoi was in their days as a doujinshi collective - when they stopped making fan comics and started creating canon, they moved the gay themes into subtext
WHERE IS YOUR ANGER
WHERE IS YOUR RAGE
RISE
RISE
RISE
when violations were much harder to police
when works entered the public domain much faster