any language questions will go here

[kaigou]

Questions for DE-fandom

From one of the beta-reviewers, this point/question, about this question:

Schreibst du auch eigene Geschichten/freie Arbeiten?

"...original fiction stories were mostly called "Originale" ... "freie Arbeiten" comes from the original fiction category of fanfiktion.de ... but I'd never call it that. Is it possible to discuss this with the other betas? Three parallel words
might be a bit much? *ponders*"

Any suggestions? What's the most common/best-known way to refer to "original fiction (as in, NOT fanfiction)" versus "fanfiction" -- which admittedly can be highly original, hence the massive confusion THANK YOU ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Just thought I'd toss it out there. Once the translations are finalized, this post will come down, but until then, feel free to weigh in.

Also, question for other French speakers (in comments).

Comments

[kaigou]

Doh. That is a completely different way of structuring one's sense of fanfiction, ownership, etc, than modern-US fandom does. I wonder, is that the way it worked in the original Star Trek fandoms? No identification because everyone already knew?

This is totally off-topic for this thread but still: who first started doing disclaimers, anyway?

[dancing_serpent]

No identification because everyone already knew?
Could be. Also, we had/have contact to the publishers and some of the authors and they definitely knew/know about our fanfiction and sometimes even read them, too.

That reminds me...several of us did write their own official novel for the Perry Rhodan series which was published in the same format as the original by the original publishers. Those had the subtitle "Fan-Edition" - wait, here's the link to a review (German) with picture..

My first contact with disclaimers was when I branched out from that group and started reading in English-speaking fandoms.

[dancing_serpent]

Hmmm...now you have me thinking...I definitely have to check the old zines. Maybe there was something like a general disclaimer in the "about us" section and I missed it?