I just got started on your fics and have a really stupid question. What do you mean when you say they're disclaimed? I'm guessing you mean something regarding a disclaimer, but then I started thinking you might mean something else, because I didn't see any typical disclaimers... so I was just wondering. Thanks! :)
OH! Haha. ‘Disclaimed’ just means I’m an old fogey as far as fanfiction goes. There was this time when people were actually getting sued because authors were meanie-pies and were all like “they’re trying to make money off of our work grrrr! >:{” (Not an actual quote, hah!) Anyway, so, everyone started to put something to the effect of “not making money off of this, I don’t own the characters, etc etc, ad infinitum, wish I did own the characters but I don’t but I love them so much cry cry cry.”
My apologies, I believe I am a little hyper right now!
Anyway, so basically ‘disclaimed’ is just a super short way of stating all the above. Instead of writing the whole “Disclaimer: these characters do not belong to me and I am not making any profit off of this work,” some people shortened it to just “Disclaimed,” like I do.
It’s an old habit. People actually stopped adding that to fics but I was never entirely aware of when that shift occurred because I was probably between fanfiction obsessions and the real world at that point. ;)
I hope that answers your question!
If you want I can dig out the history of its use in fanfiction. I’m sure I can find it somewhere if you like. Just let me know! I always enjoy chatting. :)
I hope that you enjoy my work! Thank you so much for reading, you wonderful person, you! xoxo