And I'm still boggled. I just read my first complaint about a lack of spoiler warnings for The Hobbit fic. The Hobbit. Published in 1937. JFC. And this was a LOTR fan. Supposedly. I suspect she never bothered to read that either, since the Battle of Five Armies is discussed in the Appendices, and that's what twisted her knickers ( Read more... )

Tell me why this was necessary, fandom.Crap like this makes me want to retch. Your entitlement reeks. Putting aside the fact that no one is under any obligation whatsoever to run a fic archive or a fic exchange for you in the first place -- when things go wrong, uninformed ad hominem attacks directed at volunteers are about as far from appropriate ( Read more... )

The Pepsi Refresh Project is a funding program to support humanitarian causes. The keepers of Fiction Alley, a Harry Potter archive, think they qualify for this program, to the tune of $25,000 for new servers.

Believe it or not we've already heard some objections of the, "But think of the children!" variety: i.e., that we are somehow taking money ( Read more... )