by bookloverblue » August 16th, 2019, 1:26 am
I am referring to works hosted on sites like Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own, where stories about the characters (most usually the premades) are written and published, but the absence of gameplay and screenshots means they aren't Sim Lit in the sense we use the term here.
I suggest works are shared by the use of a link to the original hosting site and story, so the author gets all due credit, and feedback can be posted directly for them to see. In the top post, we can set ettiquette rules about naming authors in the links given, and encouraging comments to be posted on the original work.
If there are any fanfic writers among us, they can mention that they wrote the piece when they share a link, but still have to post the link to the traditional fanfic site it's hosted on, as they would with any other.
I suppose my argument is that we use pre-made Sims with an established backstory in Sims challenges all the time, and use these histories as baselines to create stories of our own. This is completely great and I fully support it. Yet I feel those in the Sims fanfic community on Ao3 and FF.net, who essentially do the same thing minus the screenshots, tend to be left behind in the wider community, and that we should share and promote their works as we do with each other's, to show appreciation.