Truth is still hard to swallow, @entirelytookeen
As you continue to talk about me with your supporters, hahaâŠ. Well, you almost certainly misunderstood me a lot with the âapologyâ post of mine. You donât accept it, thatâs ok. You donât want to reconcile, thatâs fine too. Iâve no problem. I guess admitting that I infringed your copyright and I was wrong is not enough, taking down my youtube vids is not enough, and I thought I did say âI apologize for bla blaâ, but that is still not enough. Hahaha, I guess because I didnât bend the knee and say âyour grace, I beg your forgivenessâ, hahaha, sorry, Iâm rewatching GOT these days.Â
You said I would get myself into trouble one day with my attitude. Come on, you know I wonât. I wonât in my real work world, of course, and within fandoms, you know that next time I want to podfic, I will ask for permission. Well, I lied there, I wonât ask for permission. I will instead avoid authors like you and look for fanfics whose authors give blanket permissions or real world works listed in the public domain. See, I told you Iâve learned, and Iâm always open to learning new things, even the strangest kind of things. So, donât worry, I wonât get into trouble.
Well, you said you want to turn the page over, I wanted to too. So weâll just go on and live our separate lives, right? You will continue writing your fanfics, knowing that I will be there enjoying it when your chapter 19 comes out. And I will continue working hard at work trying to make peopleâs lives better, and yeah, that includes you, and Iâm totally ok with that.
Occasionally, I will come back to this blog and talk about my very unpopular opinion on how hypocritical it is to be asking for permissions from your fans while some of you didnât ask for permission from the rightful copyright owners and original authors and didnât even acknowledge them anywhere in your work when you used their ideas. No side note, no P.S., no anything. I bet some of the fanfic authors may not even know the names of the original authors/creators. Nothing personal, just an observation, and this does not refer to all the fanfic writers, only to those who didnât do the above mentioned things. These original authors, regardless of their attitudes toward fanfics, have without exception called the characters they created and settings of the original story their intellectual property. And yeah, my supporters fed me these ideas, and I agree. Donât take me wrong, Iâm not using this as excuse for myself, I have already admitted Iâve done wrong. I guess it is really a general thing to think about, it can be anything: not just fanfic, anything in life really, that before you accuse someone of doing something, maybe first reflect if you have done the same thing and havenât even admitted yourself.Â
And I applause those authors who give blanket permission. Again, not saying everyone should do so. If you do, I applause, if you donât, I donât applause. I now simply accept the fact that both types of authors exist. I may not agree, but I donât call names. Just saying.
OK, lunch break is over, time to get back to work.