Talk:Garbage/@comment-5594403-20130723022032/@comment-7706473-20130927104325

Dayfinder, Clearly this is something you've been thinking of for a little while - since July 23rd, if the post at the start of this thread is any indication. While your hard work is appreciated and your observation logical in it's own way, it is not in anyone's right to change the creative content of a story. I would kindly appreciate you rethinking any future acts.

To clarify - this isn't some poorly worded trollpasta, but an actual story by an actual author. You - or I - or anyone! - may disagree with how it is worded, the conclusion, whatever. But it's similar to pedestrians and the right of way while driving - only the writer has the right of way over their own works.

And also - if I may quote your post from Dracowrath's wall - "...I'm sorry for grounding your story in truth..." We are dealing with fictional stories based on equally fictional videogames. I'm not sure that there can be a mantle of truth when dealing with such subjective creations.

"As it has no context otherwise..." Not so. There were a great many employees at Aperture before the accident. Some were most likely men, others were most likely women. If GladOS is to be believed, then some made it fairly far upon the course - given that this is a 'bad ending' as it were, it has plenty of context; building up the tension of the pregame world and showing the fate of those, perhaps, who were less lucky. "I see no value in you differentiating it and essentially screaming 'THIS IS MY OC!'" Having written quite a lot of terrible fanfiction in the course of my years, this is not the case at all. Not once is a name mentioned above, nor are names relevent to the story. The story is not even truly about either the running man or the test subject; they are nonentities used to show off the twist at the end.

Original Characters stealing the show of derivative works are far more blatant and less subtle; when an OC gets all the powers, all the love, all the abilities... Reconciles Black Mesa and Aperture Science and becomes the focus of a twenty-eight story, twenty-chapter-per-story epic, that's when one should get worried. ;) I think you do a fine job making improvements, especially to the more plague-infested pastas that line our halls - however, if I were to know that there was a risk of someone changing my stories without my knowledge, it would make me seriously rethink posting them at all. I don't doubt there are others who also feel this way.