“If a Teen Wolf writer doesn’t want us Scott Stans to harass them and bash their non Scott centric works, they have the option not to publish them”
https://princeescaluswords.tumblr.com/post/615927026104352768/one-could-posit-that-this-is-where-stans-were#notes
1) If the Hales didn’t want Scott’s dating life to make their lives more difficult, maybe they shouldn’t have bit him? Absolutely, Derek should have sat down and explained, like a reasonable adult, that he once had a relationship with an Argent and it didn’t work out well at all, instead of breaking into Scott’s room, throwing him up against the wall and threatening “Do as I say or I’ll kill you!” or shouting “That’s who they are!” without further explanation.
When I talk about white privilege permeating the fandom, this is part of what I’m talking about. Parts of the fandom legitimately believe that Peter assaulting Scott in the woods give Derek and/or Peter the right to determine the course of Scott’s life. Maybe if Peter wasn’t trying to constantly mind control in order to force Scott to obey or Derek wasn’t obviously using Scott as bait to catch the alpha and actually took care of the scared teenager, Scott wouldn’t have turned around and said screw you to both of them. But they chose to treat Scott as if he had no choice, and they were surprised – and defeated – when he did.
As for genocidal Argents, Gerard was genocidal and Kate was genocidal, but the family wasn’t. They had a Code, which they should have followed. And they were necessary, it could be argued, considering that a single werewolf murdered nine people over the course of the show – one his own niece and the other right in front of the Sheriff of Beacon County and got away with it.
2) If you have a story with Data and and his cat on the Enterprise, and the cat nearly causes a warp core breach because he’s a naughty kitty, it is not at all rude for a reader to ask where the Captain of the Enterprise was during all of this! When writing a story about Data and a cat on the Enterprise, you are borrowing the setting, Data’s personality, and his relationships from ST:TNG, and that includes Data’s relationship to his commanding officer. There’s nothing compelling you to answer the criticism, of course.
3) I don’t think I will leave Sterek and Steter writers alone.
I don’t care if it’s done out of a labor of love or for a payday, and no one else has to care, either. If I see a man walking down the street with an orange MAGA hat on, I’m going to make judgments about him, because they are presenting their beliefs in a public sphere. It doesn’t matter if Mr. MAGA doesn’t want my opinion or not, he presented that information for my consumption. They’re communicating to me and I have a right to respond.
If I see a Hale Pack manipulation which has Derek, Stiles, Erica, Boyd, Jackson, Lydia, Liam, Cora, Peter, and Isaac as members of the Hale Pack, they’re telling me something to, and I have a right to respond to that. If I see a story with Scott in it that uses every anti-Latino stereotype known to humanity, I can (and should) respond to it.
If I see a piece of writing put out in the public sphere where anyone can see it or read it, I have the ability to criticize that writing. Many of these platforms seem to agree with me, as they give me the ability to comment. Or if I don’t want to do that on that platform, I can talk about the story on Tumblr, on Twitter, or in a newsletter I write out by hand. Just like the original show itself, once you put something out in the public sphere, the author doesn’t get to control how their audience reacts, even if the writer is doing it out of their love for racism or heteronormativity or anything, really. If a writer doesn’t want people to react to their work, they have the option not to publish, but once they do, there is no reason for the audience not to do so.
So, turn on your comment moderation. Forbid anonymous comments. On certain sties, make your plans clear in the tags or the summary. Report abusive commentators. Or, following your own advice, don’t read my or anyone else’s evaluation of your works. But a free society must have a free exchange of ideas, even for the smallest of topics, and that requires the ability to criticize.
If I see a man walking down the street with an orange MAGA hat on, I’m going to make judgments about him, because they are presenting their beliefs in a public sphere. It doesn’t matter if Mr. MAGA doesn’t want my opinion or not, he presented that information for my consumption. They’re communicating to me and I have a right to respond.
But are you going to walk up and tell him your opinion to his face? Are you going to spend the next week following him to his house and place of work and insisting how you’re right and he’s wrong and he needs to change his way of life this instant? I doubt it, you’re too much of a coward for the former, and you know you would get arrested for the latter. You only get off harassing people online because you know there will be no real repercussions.
You’re going on and on about how you have the right to say whatever you want, and yet you seem to COMPLETELY forget that by that same token, we have the right to write whatever we want. It doesn’t have to cater to your narrow view of what fandom should be.
And it would absolutely be rude to insist on the appearance of a character that the fic isn’t about. I don’t give a FUCK that Scott’s the main character of TW; if I want to write a fic about fkn Greenberg, who makes no actual appearance in Canon and has no actual interaction with Scott, then I’m free to do exactly that. If I want to write about Joe Schmoe the Hunter within the TW universe, again without Scott, I can do that too, and laugh in your face if you try to come at me demanding Scott be somehow involved with a character he never met.
TRANSFORMATIVE fiction is exactly that; you take the pieces you like and transform them to what you want it to be. Sorry that no one like your fav. Die mad about it.
