Quoting myself from a reply to someone else, but it belongs here since it was sparked by this discussion.
I didn't see helenish as being nasty to Xanthe. She took an idea, flipped it, and wrote it better. The flip was multifold: flip the sub/dom assignments, flip the "good at being a top" premise, and flip the "perfectly balanced society" presentation of the original. That's not necessarily criticism. That's acknowledging that someone else sparked an idea, and then running with it. ALL fanfic consists of running with someone else's idea. Maybe helenish AU'ed Xanthe, and maybe she did it better. So what? Many of the St:Voy writers produced better stories than the source.
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Date: 11/19/06 03:44 pm (UTC)I didn't see helenish as being nasty to Xanthe. She took an idea, flipped it, and wrote it better. The flip was multifold: flip the sub/dom assignments, flip the "good at being a top" premise, and flip the "perfectly balanced society" presentation of the original. That's not necessarily criticism. That's acknowledging that someone else sparked an idea, and then running with it. ALL fanfic consists of running with someone else's idea. Maybe helenish AU'ed Xanthe, and maybe she did it better. So what? Many of the St:Voy writers produced better stories than the source.