Fanfic authors are pulling their works and here's why

Mar 01, 2024 12:04


And it's live! For @WIRED, I wrote about the illegal fanbindings have led to some writers to delete their works recently-and how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave and the ever-broadening, increasingly contextless sphere of fic readers: https://t.co/qEFk1jspFo
- Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) February 28, 2024

books / authors, fanfiction

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 19:13:55 UTC
Also, I will mourn the loss of the website Checkmated until the end of my days.

Sure I can use the wayback machine to read some of them but all the smutty fics are forever lost because it was restricted.

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magicpebble March 1 2024, 19:22:17 UTC

Ugh, yes, I read so much stuff on Checkmated back in the day.

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 19:26:59 UTC
There was a series of the sexiest Ron/Hermione fics where they didn't get together until they were adults and it went from their teasing to getting together all the way to having a kid. I looooved that series and someone on here actually saved them all and sent them to me. It was truly a wonderful day that day. lol

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magicpebble March 1 2024, 19:54:57 UTC

I think I read that; it sounds really familiar!

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 20:03:50 UTC
It's bugging me that I can't remember the name of the series. I'll have to look tonight. I swear it started with a C and he bought a house called The Nook

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swimbee March 1 2024, 22:02:36 UTC
I think it's Clean Sweep by belovedranger

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 22:07:25 UTC
YES! Thank you! I KNEW it started with a C

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swimbee March 1 2024, 22:18:32 UTC
You're welcome! I went looking for it recently, which is the only reason I remembered it lol

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 22:08:06 UTC
It's the Clean Seep series by belovedranger

You actually can read them here!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwfE6l6RtZAsUGpGZlBmaVBHMm8?resourcekey=0-n7--NwbIz9rFVqPw54Pcug

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iheartmess March 1 2024, 20:13:47 UTC
omg the wave of memories that came from reading Checkmated!!

via GIPHY

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ginainabottle March 1 2024, 23:43:05 UTC
Checkmated was so fun! The only place where Harry/Ginny was ever a couple I could ship.

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 23:49:10 UTC
Checkmated was kind of like snobby ff.net in that they were more selective about giving permission in posting. I rarely read a bad fic on Checkmated. Carefully curated is more like.

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ginainabottle March 1 2024, 23:54:12 UTC
100%! I read a fanfiction called The book of Morgan LeFay (I think) that was supposed to be book 6, and another other one from the same author was book 7, and I remember enjoying them more than the actual books lol

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cuteej4 March 1 2024, 23:55:50 UTC
OMG! I LOOOOOVE those two fanfics! They made Ron the focus of the story and they actually made them like teens. His brain scars actually affected him and everything.

Christ. I want to go home and read those two fics right now. They were so damn good.

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