Wha-?
I have been guilty of skimming through the f'list, so I wouldn't claim to have a comprehensive grasp of the strikethrough/lj deletion issue. I don't want to be typing this, I should have posted some TV reviews and be reading POTC reactions while packing already. The timing sucks. I've been behind on the f'list since mid week and now I am going away for a long weekend, over which my paid account status expires. I had decided this morning to just pay for the minimum amount possible, but now I'm not sure about that (how much do I love my icons? polls? larger font stylings?).
I've had a little anxiety about how this affects me, although I haven't posted NC-17 fic and my reading tastes are pretty vanilla. I've never got round to posting my thoughts on fics involving adult/child relationship, mainly because it's murky, sometimes it's a squick for me and sometimes it's not an issue (but then I live in a country where the age of consent is 16 and I watch a lot of shows where 16 year olds are played by people who have seen and gone their 21st). So, I've written a couple of adult/legally a child fics - though my Julie/Luke was canon and he's in his late scenes and the fics, like the canon, do register the issues inherent in such a cross-generational relationship. Whereas I've always found James/Elizabeth's near engagement squicky because he watched her growing up although Julie knew Luke from before, so there's no logic in that.
And then, there's Wolverine/Rogue. For some reason, I've aged her up in the fics I've completed and posted, but never really thought of the (Marie and Logan, that is) as chan, and have read a lot of X1 set fic over the years. There was some anxiety at the WE comm, because of past reaction to the pairing. I'm wondering whether I should delete Julie/Luke and Wolverine/Rogue as interests - but a part of me doesn't want to, because I like having my interests reflect the fic I have written, and stuff I am interested in. And I resent that this is considered the same thing as adult/prepubescent relationship fantasies etc. etc. Oh yeah, all the complications would be why I haven't metaed on this.
But the more I've read about what's happened, the more I want to show solidarity with fandom specifically and those who were unfairly deleted. I don't know what to do about the account, and as things have changed over the past hours, I wish I didn't have to make the decision now. What do you think? How many of you have joined fandom_counts? Will fandom migrate? (I've got good at getting what I want out of lj fandom!) Where to? So many questions (and this time last night I was busy pondering over whether to join scmoopfest or not. Also, as it's unrealistic for me to archive my LJ, I really wish I'd found time to go through my meta and save some of it to my geocities website, something I planned to do when LJ was down for ages, and I realised some stuff I wanted to keep was only available here.
AND, OH YES, I AM HAVING TROUBLE POSTING THIS. TYPICAL.
I've had a little anxiety about how this affects me, although I haven't posted NC-17 fic and my reading tastes are pretty vanilla. I've never got round to posting my thoughts on fics involving adult/child relationship, mainly because it's murky, sometimes it's a squick for me and sometimes it's not an issue (but then I live in a country where the age of consent is 16 and I watch a lot of shows where 16 year olds are played by people who have seen and gone their 21st). So, I've written a couple of adult/legally a child fics - though my Julie/Luke was canon and he's in his late scenes and the fics, like the canon, do register the issues inherent in such a cross-generational relationship. Whereas I've always found James/Elizabeth's near engagement squicky because he watched her growing up although Julie knew Luke from before, so there's no logic in that.
And then, there's Wolverine/Rogue. For some reason, I've aged her up in the fics I've completed and posted, but never really thought of the (Marie and Logan, that is) as chan, and have read a lot of X1 set fic over the years. There was some anxiety at the WE comm, because of past reaction to the pairing. I'm wondering whether I should delete Julie/Luke and Wolverine/Rogue as interests - but a part of me doesn't want to, because I like having my interests reflect the fic I have written, and stuff I am interested in. And I resent that this is considered the same thing as adult/prepubescent relationship fantasies etc. etc. Oh yeah, all the complications would be why I haven't metaed on this.
But the more I've read about what's happened, the more I want to show solidarity with fandom specifically and those who were unfairly deleted. I don't know what to do about the account, and as things have changed over the past hours, I wish I didn't have to make the decision now. What do you think? How many of you have joined fandom_counts? Will fandom migrate? (I've got good at getting what I want out of lj fandom!) Where to? So many questions (and this time last night I was busy pondering over whether to join scmoopfest or not. Also, as it's unrealistic for me to archive my LJ, I really wish I'd found time to go through my meta and save some of it to my geocities website, something I planned to do when LJ was down for ages, and I realised some stuff I wanted to keep was only available here.
AND, OH YES, I AM HAVING TROUBLE POSTING THIS. TYPICAL.