It's not really accurate to talk of any of the various manifestations of PrivilegeFail in online communities as separate, any more than the periodic aboveground outbreaks of underground coal fires represent unique events; but one of the first seismic tremors in this latest eruption was a return of the Helix horrorshow, with William Saunders taking ( Read more... )

...that a small bunch of fans got together and put together their own fanfic archive - it has been known to happen, now and again - volunteering their time and using a donation model to pay for bandwidth and server space and it gets a number of submissions and a bit of a name among all the other fanfic archives out there, but it's not a household ( Read more... )

Big surprise, this:

via Tobias Buckell again, I see this a.m. that Sanders has:
1. Minitrued his 'pantiwadulous' insult to Yoon Ha Lee and Nora Jemisin, in keeping with his rep for doing this - apparently unaware that people who get reps for retconning their faux pas also get screencaps;

2. Has now decided that he's going to charge people $40 to ( Read more... )

That's a Shorter William Sanders, responding to Yoon Ha Lee's request that Helix take down her story from their archive in rx to his bigot eruption the other day. You can read the longer version here on her LJ, in which he declares that he never liked it really, he only bought her story 'cause he was TRYING to be more diverse in his publication, ( ( Read more... )