0001 - I'm all for boycotting companies that support SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/etc. I am generally a fan of voting with my wallet, and I've boycotted Walmart (for its discriminatory employment practices) and a number of cosmetics manufacturers (for their refusal to stop animal testing), among others, for years ( Read more... )

ETA: FictionAlley has withdrawn from the Pepsi Refresh project

Wow, I just. I just saw this post linked from wank report, and I'm, wow, I am just floored. Fiction Alley is applying for a corporate grant to help keep the site running.

Setting aside the fact that a fan fiction site is asking for $25K from a huge corporate entity, which I think has ( Read more... )

First, a meme from jetamors:

1. Grab a book near you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet. Just pick up whatever is closest.The theme is not always the subject in a sentence. An ( Read more... )

0001 - A reminder! Don't Like Don't Read is only a logical and reasonable defence if the person hasn't actually read it already or had ample warning they wouldn't like it but read it anyway (i.e. "don't complain about Mpreg in a fic if there's a clear label on the header" = reasonable. "if you don't like Mpreg, don't read it!" when NO labels are ( Read more... )

( pollcut )

( In far, *far* more than 140 characters ;) )

You know what I really hate? Fen looking down on other fen for how they engage in fandom. Like, the long-standing disdain for slash at certain archives, or the general disapproval of fan fiction in some circles, or fictional character shippers from one fandom disparaging RPS shippers from another, or ficcers/fanartists snubbing vidders or ( Read more... )

Azkatraz is over; we are now in LA, and tomorrow we're going down to San Diego for Comic Con. I seriously doubt I'm going to have time for a con report any time soon, but I did promise these to the folks who attended my roundtable on Sunday (If You've Got Nothing Nice to Say, Should You Say It Anyway?When I'd introduced the panel, the crowd mostly ( Read more... )

( extremely tl;dr windbaggery on warnings, fandom, bumper stickers, morality, political correctness, passing judgment, and your mother. okay, maybe not that last one. I mean it about the tl;dr though. )

( on splitting this journal )