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ANNCast - Omega Men at Work

In the time since this podcast was recorded, Alice in the Country of Hearts was relicensed by Yen Press, and the Tokyopop facebook has said that the licenses are "insanely difficult to get back."

As a huge fan of Hetalia I'm sincerely hoping that they won't be able to get their hands back on it and another publisher picks it up, because lately it feels like Levy and co have just been baiting the fandom for months. Its an extremely lucrative title and I'm sure that it and other properties that sold really well have a lot of publishers who would jump at the chance to license them (and who haven't screwed over the original Japanese publisher by shutting down, now seemingly for no reason if they're just going to jump back in months later). I can only see this be a good thing for some of the lower selling titles that other publishers may not have any interest in licensing. Tokyopop might just get those because its better than not having it licensed at all.

Sorry if that wasn't entirely coherent, It's almost 1AM.

What happened in this episode? Besides Zac laughing after everything he said.

My older daughter likes visiting fan fiction sites, and has talked of wanting to write fan fiction. My husband and I have both stressed to her that we don't mind if she writes the fan fiction for her own personal enjoyment, but we do NOT want her posting it on the Internet. She has talked of wanting to be a writer when she's older, and we have emphasized to her that it's better to not have her name publicly associated with fan fiction if she wants to be taken seriously as a writer.

You don't have to have your real name associated with fanfic, in fact most don't. Most people use pen names, and keep their real names completely separate from that life entirely. And then there are people like Cassandra Clare who where big in the Harry Potter fandom before she went on to publish her own young adult books. Not trying to tell you how to parent or anything like that, just throwing that out there. And it's nice to see parents who actually are aware of the dangers of their kids posting stupid stuff online. I'm mildly involved in the fanfiction/fandom myself scene but I take care to scrub and omit any information about my real name or life from those accounts.

I'm actually a former fanfic writer myself; I wrote some Jem fanfic back in the late 1990s/very early 2000s. Yes, it was posted on the Internet, but never at a site like fanfic.net. It was first posted at the website for the TRULY OUTRAGEOUS! Mailing List(which I founded and maintain), back when I was hosting fanfic there. About ten or so years ago, I decided to quit hosting the fanfic there, because I didn't have the time to maintain the archive. I turned over the maintenance of the fanfic to someone else in the fandom.

After that, I did briefly have the fanfic up on my personal website for maybe a year or two. About eight or nine years ago, I decided I wanted to work at becoming a serious writer and to disassociate myself from the fan fiction. I pulled all of my fanfic off of my personal website; just did a Google search, and I'm not turning up any copies of it, so as far as I can tell, no one can find it now.

So when I tell my daughter that I don't want her posting fanfic on the Internet, I'm speaking from personal experience. Instead, we have her focus on things like the youth version of NaNoWriMo that takes place in November at the same time as the regular NaNoWriMo.

Honestly its kind of mind boggling that people respect these fan films more than most creators. "Hey look I created a 5 minute Street Fighter film" and this is followed by people saying that this person is a great director. In my experience these people don't take criticism well with them basically saying that people who criticize are just jealous, and they generally think that they are great creators.