"Not being a hill, I take no offence."

Ah Sark-asric, my beloved.

“There’s a saying about it, or maybe a joke—I can’t remember all of it. About how two people disagreed over a cow and brought it to a priest. Priests of the Forge God would take the cow as a tithe for wasting their time, the Dreaming God would kill the cow on suspicion of being possessed by demons, and the Four-Faced God would wait until the cow died and deliver a sermon about how all of us, men and cows, must pass away. But the White Rat’s priests would take the cow, breed her, give a calf to each of the people arguing, and then sell the milk for a profit.” PLEASE don't make me leave this world

So, recent news is that one Harry Potter/Marauders fanfic "All the young dudes" apparently got bought to be traditionally published.

https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/seven-figure-auction-for-former-fanfic-at-lbf/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVyR47ACCJU/

I can't read the full article because I'm not subscribed but what it does say that I can read is "An adaptation of All The Young Dudes has taken publishers by storm", There's also an Instagram post by bookbrunch.news talking about this more.

Now I have a lot of thoughts about this. Especially because of Alchemised being a very recent-ish and famous example of a Harry Potter fanfic getting traditionally published, one of which I have complex feelings on. Fanfic getting turned into traditionally published books is not new, but what makes the case of Alchemised different is that Senlinyu used their AO3 username which is marketing and profiting off of the fact that people know them from AO3 and know that Alchemised was originally a harry potter fanfic. People say that alchemised is so different from the fanfic work that it originated from, and even though I haven't read it (and personally don't plan to) I digress. It's not truly a separate piece of work when the author uses their AO3 username. Which also goes into fanfics supposed to be free and available for anyone, if a published author uses their AO3 fanfiction writing username that brings up a lot of legal questions about fanfictions. I mean older fanfictions people would start out with a disclaimer that the characters didn't belong to them due to Anne rice's lawsuit. Not to mention if I recall correctly, Senlinyu said they wanted alchemized to be separated from the original source, harry potter/the fanfic, but they can't do that when they use the AO3 username which ties them right back to the source.

Which if these rumors turned out to be true about All the young dudes, how will it transpire? How will they turn a very famous fanfic and make it completely separate from the OG work? Will they use their AO3 username to publish it under? I can't say I am the biggest fan of Alchemised but at least that was an AU of harry potter in a way, with all the young dudes, it isn't. It takes place directly within the universe of Harry Potter within the Marauders time era.

Does not pass the Bechtel test. Which is frustrating when it was written by a woman. I knew there was a chance of that because of its age but, beyond just that, it goes out of its way to disparage women and women’s “witch magic”. That’s probably what bothers me most. It’s a “very special boy” story and every woman you meet is either pitiful or conniving or generally both.