I've really appreciated this particular round of Why Fanfic Is Good, and not only because the arguments get more coherent every time they're dragged out. This is the first time I've really been able to elucidate my mental knee-jerk reaction that goes THE FANFICS IS MINE AND YOU CAN'T TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME. But it's sort of like scholarly analysis of literature: the author can tell me what he was trying to say, or what was going on through his head when he was writing, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to see something that he didn't when reading/reviewing/analyzing his work. He can holler about how I'm interrogating the text from the wrong perspective or whatever, but that doesn't mean my analysis is wrong or lacking just because he doesn't agree with it.