Crossposted from TLC, more or less

[heidi]

The Spring 2005 issue of Movie Magic Magazine has just hit newsstands with about 40 pages of stories on Harry Potter, with a focus on Book Six, Movie Four and various fandom projects as well (thanks to Jenna at DanRadcliffe.com for the Table of Contents scan). The issue includes my follow-up to last year's article about fanfiction (I'll be able to post the original article in July - it was edited a bit, and some things were tweaked from the way I originally wrote it, as happened last time, but that's showbiz journalism, as well as a story about fan films, including Potter Puppet Pals, and a focus on some popular fandom websites including TLC and I think they also mention The Lexicon. ladyjaida has a snip of the fanfic article here and I'm going to see if I can at least post the whole list here on my LJ...

Enjoy!



(Oh, and PS - last year there was some wank along the lines of OMG TPTB will know about fanfic from this article! Eeeeek! and some less panicky "will this impact JKR's take on fanfic?" posts as well. Hopefully, that won't happen again, because, well, nothing negative happened because of last year's article, did it? Is everyone more relaxed this year? Please?)

Comments

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

Don't people realize that WB people read and write fanfic just like the rest of us? what? :P

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

If I ever get my scanner working I'll scan the whole article :)

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

Go Jaida Go!

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

Oh, would you please? That would be lovely of you. Congratulations to you and dorkorific for being mentioned; that rocks. :D

[ancarett]

Thanks for the alert. I am totally buying this for my nine-year-old -- heck, I'll admit it -- buying this for myself!

As for TPTB finding out about fanfic. . . hah! I remember waaaaaaaaay back when Star Wars slash came to the attention of Lucasfilms. Now there was an interesting time. Since JKR and her team have repeatedly made it clear that they know that HP fandom exists, I don't think this article will blow our cover.

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

Five Galleons says this article doesn't change any official policies about fanfics.

I have to find this magazine! I've never seen it before in my life. Though perhaps I'll just be lazy and wait until people scan it...

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know which of the fanart images were chosen, if any?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Alicey, let me know when you know?

[magnolia-mama.livejournal.com]

I find this very fortuitous, in light of the dicussions that rapidly devolved into a wankfest on FanficSavvy's blog. I should have seen it coming, but when one mother went into heart palpitations over the mere fact that "Little House on the Prairie" fanfic exists, the writing was very clearly on the wall. I hope someone is in a position to point them towards this article. :-)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

But wasn't the LIttle House series Little House fanfic? I mean, the creation of random extra siblings, including one who ended up addicted to drugs, is fanficcy enough but when you have the protagonist, at 18, marrying a man who was what, nine years older than her? eleven years older?

Oh wait. That's real life.

I do hope they see this article! My feeling about stuff is, generally, if JKR and TPTB are ok with it, and ok with the restrictions we've put on kid-access, we're doing something right. I wish we could have things for younger kids, and it's COPPA that bars us, not a lack of interest. Silly federal government...

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

series = TV series, I mean...