From Mercedes Lackey: As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also Cory Doctorow's agent now, and Cory is a persuasive little gnome. As a result of this, I am happy to announce that we are officially permitting fanfiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the Creative ( Read more... )

Wow, Dollhouse is really good at making you feel terrible. I like the show a lot on an intellectual level, but I spend the whole time watching it feeling cut up inside. So yeah I can understand some of the objections - though the initial objections made me lol and laugh at the people complaining about it with "Do you not realize it is the point ( Read more... )

I'm making my mother's book club read Henry Jenkins. Why? Because I am full of win. Also, Kung Fu Panda was hilarious and awesome ( Read more... )

to add to ponderosa121 and elaboration, it looks like they've started perma-banning/suspending multiple fanauthors as well:

jabez_fics
seventines
sundeygirl

Also, it's a lot scarier than I thought: if you are deleted this way, not only are all of your journals suspended, all of your entries deleted, all of your comments disappear. Ever. They delete a personNow, it's one thing to enforce their TOS ( Read more... )

Kouhei + neko mimi = AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ( Read more... )

the problem with literary types is the intense focus on authorial intent, indeed, the complete meaning and result of the piece is the utmost importance; the message as it is being transmitted, the complicated idea being communicated, all that is what takes supreme importance. I can't subscribe to that rationality. No, I will not deny that intent ( Read more... )