florianschild | Covering My Butt (Reply)

Occasionally, in my fanfiction, I like to include homages to other media that I have a fannish love for. Mostly this manifests as turn-of-phrase being borrowed from other works and incorporated into my fics. I like to do this for three main reasons: 1.) It makes me smile when I go back and reread my work and see my "inside jokes", 2.) If anyone reading my fic happens to like the same things that I do, they may also appreciate these little nods, 3.) There are a lot of quotation fragments rolling around in my brain and, like a song that is stuck in your head, I find it cathartic to release them. I do this in conversation a lot too, but luckily you don't generally have to disclaim what you say in casual conversation.

Now, I know that a similar practice has gotten some other fanfiction authors into heaps of trouble. Not to put myself on the same level as any BNFs, but I want anyone reading my fic to know that I am aware of the history here. That being said, I wouldn't want anyone to think that my use of quotation fragments is on par with blatantly stealing entire concepts, conversations, and paragraphs of prose.

In the list below, I've cataloged every instance in which I've knowingly incorporated a quotation fragment from an uncredited source into my fanfiction. I don't credit them in each individual disclaimer, because I want people who read the works to be able to find them on their own. I'm listing them individually here, however, and I will link back to this post in my general disclaimer whenever possible.

Fic Title: Making Plans for the Future Link.
Line: No teenager from the back of beyond could possibly have any notion of what it was like in the arena.
Source: The phrase "back of beyond" is ripped from the musical Evita. In the song "Eva and Magaldi / Eva Beware of the City" Eva sings: "Monotony passed, suburbia departed. I could never be fond of the back of beyond."

That's it for now! I'll continue to update the list of references when necessary.