Well, that's not good...
Feb. 21st, 2005 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedI just got an email from someone about one of my Wild Wild West stories. And not in a good way.
The main reason I love writing Wild Wild West is that I get to indulge my love of historical research. I usually find something interesting that happened somewhere between 1860 and 1875, research it to death, throw Jim, Artie and sex into the mix and watch what happens.
Problem is, someone just found my WWW Civil War story when they were Googling the real event it's based on. I'm sure James West and Artemus Gordon having sex wasn't quite what they were expecting.
So now I'm not sure what to do. Search and replace the names of historical figures in all my WWW stories? Add pop-up disclaimers to all stories? Say fuck it and let the chips fall where they may? (I'm tired enough at the moment that the last alternative is looking the most attractive, but I'll problem look to come up with some way of covering my ass sometime in the future.)
The main reason I love writing Wild Wild West is that I get to indulge my love of historical research. I usually find something interesting that happened somewhere between 1860 and 1875, research it to death, throw Jim, Artie and sex into the mix and watch what happens.
Problem is, someone just found my WWW Civil War story when they were Googling the real event it's based on. I'm sure James West and Artemus Gordon having sex wasn't quite what they were expecting.
So now I'm not sure what to do. Search and replace the names of historical figures in all my WWW stories? Add pop-up disclaimers to all stories? Say fuck it and let the chips fall where they may? (I'm tired enough at the moment that the last alternative is looking the most attractive, but I'll problem look to come up with some way of covering my ass sometime in the future.)
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:10 pm (UTC)googled the term, my MFU stories came up.
The site owner found this amusing, (he remembered MFU) however, and actually put a mention and a link on his own site to them. I just happen to stumble across his site one day myself.
So the oddest things make connections, thanks to browsers.
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 08:04 pm (UTC)If only. But with the internet, that's probably not possible.
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-22 05:46 pm (UTC)