[LMB] fanfic, was Slash (was OT) now Bujold Romance/Slash Meta

[Meg Justus]

>>  > There are readers for whom reading the derivative works, of any
>>  > sort, actively damages the book-in-their-head, in ways they
>> >  then can't get rid of.  Where the original work is especially
>>  > beloved, I suspect the damage will be most keenly felt.
>
> M:
>
> This happens for me--I quit reading some fanfic because of  it, even 
> though
> the original books are not especially favorites  of mine.  I refuse to 
> read any
> Bujold-based fanfic because I think I'd get  really hostile with anyone 
> who
> messed with my ideas of _those_ characters!
>
> Mary

I have the same thing happen to me, to a certain extent.  I did read some 
Vorkosigan fanfic, just the stuff on the Dendarii webpage, early on, not 
long after I read the books for the first time, and while a couple of the 
pieces have become sort of quasi-canonical for me (the one Pouncer wrote 
about Bothari, Koudelka and five-year-old Miles, in particular), I didn't 
make it through most of the rest because they just didn't feel like "my" 
Vorkosigans.  Not that they weren't perfectly capable of being someone 
else's Vorkosigans...

Megaera
who absolutely adores the whole "bite us, Yeltar" cycle, though -- and 
almost thinks it would be worth going through Bujoldia just to wind up in 
the Nexus someday (the operative word being almost)