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[kangeiko]

So, I'm on hiatus. I didn't mean to be on hiatus, which is why I never really posted a "goodbye, cruel internetz!!" post before disappearing for three days and then emerging, fresh-faced and glowy, from post-work doom. Um. Somehow, post-work never really happened, and so, instead, I have current work doom

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[invisible_al]

OMG the guy who wrote Textual Poachers has a weblog! http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/05/transforming_fan_culture_into.html

[kangeiko]

Hee! Thanks for the links, hon', I had a fun time reading through them and chasing it up through metafandom... hours of amusement...

Re: Fanlib

[lilka]

As briefly as possible- a bunch of internet entrepreneurs, with the backing of a variety of companies such as Harper Collins, decided to set up a for-profit archive to host fanfiction. Said archive is pretty ugly and has a fairly dodgy TOS, which gives the archive owners the right to edit and/or redistribute anything posted there, while handing off any legal responsibility for posting to the writers in the case of lawsuits. They've also demonstrated a pretty complete lack of understanding of how fandom on LJ functions in their interactions with various people. And their advertising is truly hideous.

In response, a lot of people have written essays on why it would be a Bad Idea to post fic there, and some of them (headed by astolat) have decided they should set up their own multi-fandom, anything-goes archive as competition.

In other news, I'm glad you're still alive, and I hope work gets better soon.

Re: Fanlib

[kangeiko]

A belated 'thank you' for this - it cleared up a lot of the stuff swirling around for me.