Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithPeople keep clamoring for this sort of thing. Ideally, everyone should have a "blanket statement." While I don't have a stance on many of the points, it seems useful to post the ones where I do have a stance. (See the 2020 version.)
* If you wish to make something of mine available for free to a wider audience, such as recording it in podfic or translating it into a new language, by all means do so. I am particularly supportive of alternative communication modes and rare or heritage languages. Some other venues provide tools for sorting by language, linking translations to original text, etc.
* If you have other suggestions or contributions to make something of mine more accessible to a wider audience, please share those too. I encourage inclusive and adaptable entertainment and education.
* If you want to illustrate anything of mine for free, go for it. I love fanart and will be thrilled to see it. I don't care about quality; feel free to use my writing as inspiration for art exercises if you wish. Love Is For Children has a list of photogenic scenes, some with links to previous fanart.
* If you want to riff on my fanfic, you may do so. It would hardly be fair for me to say you can't borrow from something I already borrowed from somebody else.
* Some of my fanfic and original work contains rather detailed descriptions of concepts which can be replicated with local resources. They are described in that much detail for precisely that purpose. If you see a game you want to play, a game system you want to construct, a mental exercise to try, a craft project to do, a cultural practice you wish to adopt, etc. -- for free, go for it. The nonsexual ageplay in Love Is For Children is cobbled together from a few therapeutic resources, but such material is rare and tends to disappear quickly, so I've actually built up one of the better showcases for this technique. Should you involve other people who didn't read the original, I would appreciate credit.
* Shared worlds and open-source fandoms are available for everyone to use. Please cite original creators if you reference someone else's work, and preferably, point back to the landing page so other folks can find the fandom.
* Fair use includes educational use even for my original materials. If you want to use my work in class, let me know; I actually have supporting materials for the books.
* Private use means you can do anything you want with anything as long as you keep it to yourself.
* Once an original work has been sponsored and posted, it is free for everyone to read. You may forward it to anyone you think would enjoy it. Just don't reprint it without permission. See the Fiction and Poem tags on Dreamwidth or my Serial Poetry and Schrodinger's Heroes pages in PenUltimate Productions for the biggest archives. Warning: this content is flypaper for eyeballs.
* If you want to make money from anything relating to my work, please ask first.
* You can also ask me if you want reprint rights to something. Do not reprint or repost my work without asking. But if you sponsor or cosponsor a piece, you get reprint rights to that piece as a donor perk.
* Do not feed my work into artificial intelligence programming. 1) AI trainers should pay a fair price for works they wish to use in training. 2) All works used to train AI should be used only with the content creator's freely given, prior, and informed consent on a legal contract. 3) I tend to fry technology, so if you put anything of mine into an AI and it breaks the program, your computer, the internet, and/or the dimension you're standing in then that is not my problem. Also if it knocks up the AI, the baby is your problem. You have been warned.
That said, creative AI is really just another tool that people can use to make stuff, so try not to have huge fights about this, and don't be a dick. We don't need another round of "Printing presses ruin writing" or "Photographs will put artists out of business."
* I recommend the Three Laws of Fandom. Do not come on my blog, or comment on my work, telling me what to do. Don't like, don't read. Don't tell other people what to do, say, like, feel, or be. And don't make a messy scene in front of my audience either, they come here to get away from that crap.
* If you do something with my work, I would appreciate a link so I can connect it. If there's a hardcopy, I would like a complimentary copy. I also expect to be credited for the inspiration, source material, or whatever.
This post is listed on Fanwork Permission Statements.
* If you wish to make something of mine available for free to a wider audience, such as recording it in podfic or translating it into a new language, by all means do so. I am particularly supportive of alternative communication modes and rare or heritage languages. Some other venues provide tools for sorting by language, linking translations to original text, etc.
* If you have other suggestions or contributions to make something of mine more accessible to a wider audience, please share those too. I encourage inclusive and adaptable entertainment and education.
* If you want to illustrate anything of mine for free, go for it. I love fanart and will be thrilled to see it. I don't care about quality; feel free to use my writing as inspiration for art exercises if you wish. Love Is For Children has a list of photogenic scenes, some with links to previous fanart.
* If you want to riff on my fanfic, you may do so. It would hardly be fair for me to say you can't borrow from something I already borrowed from somebody else.
* Some of my fanfic and original work contains rather detailed descriptions of concepts which can be replicated with local resources. They are described in that much detail for precisely that purpose. If you see a game you want to play, a game system you want to construct, a mental exercise to try, a craft project to do, a cultural practice you wish to adopt, etc. -- for free, go for it. The nonsexual ageplay in Love Is For Children is cobbled together from a few therapeutic resources, but such material is rare and tends to disappear quickly, so I've actually built up one of the better showcases for this technique. Should you involve other people who didn't read the original, I would appreciate credit.
* Shared worlds and open-source fandoms are available for everyone to use. Please cite original creators if you reference someone else's work, and preferably, point back to the landing page so other folks can find the fandom.
* Fair use includes educational use even for my original materials. If you want to use my work in class, let me know; I actually have supporting materials for the books.
* Private use means you can do anything you want with anything as long as you keep it to yourself.
* Once an original work has been sponsored and posted, it is free for everyone to read. You may forward it to anyone you think would enjoy it. Just don't reprint it without permission. See the Fiction and Poem tags on Dreamwidth or my Serial Poetry and Schrodinger's Heroes pages in PenUltimate Productions for the biggest archives. Warning: this content is flypaper for eyeballs.
* If you want to make money from anything relating to my work, please ask first.
* You can also ask me if you want reprint rights to something. Do not reprint or repost my work without asking. But if you sponsor or cosponsor a piece, you get reprint rights to that piece as a donor perk.
* Do not feed my work into artificial intelligence programming. 1) AI trainers should pay a fair price for works they wish to use in training. 2) All works used to train AI should be used only with the content creator's freely given, prior, and informed consent on a legal contract. 3) I tend to fry technology, so if you put anything of mine into an AI and it breaks the program, your computer, the internet, and/or the dimension you're standing in then that is not my problem. Also if it knocks up the AI, the baby is your problem. You have been warned.
That said, creative AI is really just another tool that people can use to make stuff, so try not to have huge fights about this, and don't be a dick. We don't need another round of "Printing presses ruin writing" or "Photographs will put artists out of business."
* I recommend the Three Laws of Fandom. Do not come on my blog, or comment on my work, telling me what to do. Don't like, don't read. Don't tell other people what to do, say, like, feel, or be. And don't make a messy scene in front of my audience either, they come here to get away from that crap.
* If you do something with my work, I would appreciate a link so I can connect it. If there's a hardcopy, I would like a complimentary copy. I also expect to be credited for the inspiration, source material, or whatever.
This post is listed on Fanwork Permission Statements.
