You know, every time I come back here and think that maybe, maybe I'm ready to come back into the fannish fold, something happens to make me think twice ( Read more... )

In case anyone had any question (or even knew) I've resigned as a sys op from FanHistory.com. Yes I was, and while I haven't done anything in awhile, and found out about the whole kerfluffle just yesterday, I cranked up my cranky laptop and removed myself as an administrator and asked Laura to remove me as a sysop ( Read more... )

back in 2003 I wrote a rant about fannish entitlement that was prompted by an entirely other incident...but the end of it was rather weirdly echoing of what's going on both in regards to my previous post and of several discussions I've taken part of post the Asylum convention regarding fannish behavior.

The old rant is [[here]]It's not flocked ( Read more... )

I probably owe shout outs to a lot of people; in fact I know I do, but I'm going to hit only one: amothea You're a doll. I won't reiterate the conclusion you've already come to, but I will say thank you and sincerely wish you never feel called upon to do that again. Nobody, including me, is worth putting yourself through that, honey. But you know, your ( Read more... )

When I first got on line and stumbled over the thing we now ubiquitously call "media fandom", the huge brouhaha at the time in HL fandom was a disagreement some fans had with a single individual who had compiled a massive amount of links, trying to bring a central location to all of the HL sites from archives to script transcripts sites and ( Read more... )