Neil Gaiman
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[edit] Introduction
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[edit] The Author
On April 7, 2002, Neil Gaiman discussed what fan fiction is in his on-line journal. He has been relatively tolerant of fan fiction written in his universe.
[edit] The Canon
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[edit] Terminology
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[edit] Fan fiction policy and history
In "Neil Gaiman is a really nice guy." by ZuZu for DangerMedia, Neil Gaiman is quoted in the article about his fans creative outlets while using his work for inspiration or as the basis of that output. He says:
- There isn't an official website. I don't own control over alt.fan.neil-gaiman, and the other one neilgaiman.com... It has been registered, though not by me. The guy said he'd give it to me, if ever I want it. There's The Dreaming website, which is terrific. On the whole, my perspective is, that any essays anyone wants to put up, any original art, anything like that... any tribute sites...all that kind of stuff, I have no trouble with at all. I like the fact that people are inspired, I like the fact that they put the stuff up. Once every couple of months, I waste an evening and search around, and go and look at what's there, and so on and so forth. Then I go 'Why? They're all mad!' and then I don't go and look for another 4 months. So there's that. [1][2]
[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
- On February 19, 2002, the LiveJournal community neil_gaiman was created. [3]
- On April 11, 2003, the LiveJournal community neilgaimanfans was created. [4]
- On September 19, 2004, the LiveJournal community neil_isalitgod was created. [5]
- On June 8, 2005, the LiveJournal community real_gaiman was created. [6]
[edit] Kerfluffles
[edit] Author entitlement
This event took place on May 13, 2009. It is described on sf_drama as follows:
- Over in Neil Gaiman's lj feed, Neil talks about George R. R. Martin's slow writing progress and talks about entitlement issues of fans. But [info]aeldergoth disagrees. Which is fair enough, he's entitled to his opinion, but his tone and insulting the other readers with; 'Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to lock down my journal, lest it be carpetbombed for having the temerity to disagree with an unbalanced fan's Own Personal Jesus.' does not go down well.
- Includes him saying that if an author doesn't give progress updates, it's basically saying 'piss off' to fans, and also that he's basically saying 'the dog ate my homework'. And of course, claiming that he's not complaining, whilst writing long posts complaining. [7]
[edit] Influential Fanworks
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[edit] Fandom Members
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[edit] Fandom Size
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[edit] External Links
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