FanLib and stuff
Even I, with my head buried in the fandom sand, have noticed the recent mess over FanLib.
So I have dusted off my soap box and have some words. Keep in mind that I'm tired after an 11-hour work day and am pretty much incoherent. So I will let the linky links do my talking.
First off, I can't even begin the backstory on this one, I have some links that I think will nicely sum up my feelings on the matter:
The comm to end all comms: life_wo_fanlib
101 reasons by liz_marcs to stay away from FanLib
As proof that we will slash anything: FanLib is already generating its own advertising slash fic: "In Just Seven Fics, I Can Make You A Man" (FanLib slash, rated ... Um.) by lizbee
And something from a dude named Henry Jenkins who sets out the whole FanLib background in nice plain text and language.
Then, word from on high:
Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic -- in which a nice level-headed guy says something nice about us fanfic writers.
He's even so well liked that Tanya Huff/andpuff (my new saint, after having watched the first several eps of Blood Ties -- omg a fun show) points everyone in the essay's direction, without mentioning FanLib directly.
Then why I'm not too worked up over it:
My fandom has already been put on notice.
I speak, of course, about the Anita Blake books. If you follow my fics, you'll have noticed that no matter how annoyed I get with current canon, I can't stay away. Dawning Light, Inevitable, Switchback, etc., etc. Anyway, Laurell K. Hamilton has made some noise in the past about fanfic being disallowed, and to this day most mainstreamish fic archives won't allow Anita Blake fic in. That's fine. I can pretty much guarantee that my fandom's never going to bcome part of the mass of FanLib (Can't tell if the "Lib" here stands for Liberation, Liberty or Libel). I like it like that. Ignore me and I won't hurt the canon.
And that's not even beginning with the crossover angle to all this.
To make a long story short (too late!) I'm going to stay as far away from FanLib as possible, as it's not the sort of place I want my writing.
In unrelated news, I'm fascinated with the song Fulsom Prison Blues. I miss Johnny Cash.
So I have dusted off my soap box and have some words. Keep in mind that I'm tired after an 11-hour work day and am pretty much incoherent. So I will let the linky links do my talking.
First off, I can't even begin the backstory on this one, I have some links that I think will nicely sum up my feelings on the matter:
The comm to end all comms: life_wo_fanlib
101 reasons by liz_marcs to stay away from FanLib
As proof that we will slash anything: FanLib is already generating its own advertising slash fic: "In Just Seven Fics, I Can Make You A Man" (FanLib slash, rated ... Um.) by lizbee
And something from a dude named Henry Jenkins who sets out the whole FanLib background in nice plain text and language.
Then, word from on high:
Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic -- in which a nice level-headed guy says something nice about us fanfic writers.
He's even so well liked that Tanya Huff/andpuff (my new saint, after having watched the first several eps of Blood Ties -- omg a fun show) points everyone in the essay's direction, without mentioning FanLib directly.
Then why I'm not too worked up over it:
My fandom has already been put on notice.
I speak, of course, about the Anita Blake books. If you follow my fics, you'll have noticed that no matter how annoyed I get with current canon, I can't stay away. Dawning Light, Inevitable, Switchback, etc., etc. Anyway, Laurell K. Hamilton has made some noise in the past about fanfic being disallowed, and to this day most mainstreamish fic archives won't allow Anita Blake fic in. That's fine. I can pretty much guarantee that my fandom's never going to bcome part of the mass of FanLib (Can't tell if the "Lib" here stands for Liberation, Liberty or Libel). I like it like that. Ignore me and I won't hurt the canon.
And that's not even beginning with the crossover angle to all this.
To make a long story short (too late!) I'm going to stay as far away from FanLib as possible, as it's not the sort of place I want my writing.
In unrelated news, I'm fascinated with the song Fulsom Prison Blues. I miss Johnny Cash.