Exactly. No one knows if we're coming or going. Everyone is like, "Okay, are we going this time? For real?" And then everyone else is either, "Yeah, yeah, totally, we mean it this time!" or "What?"
It's not exactly the underage porn thing they're upset about. Well, okay, it is, but not the way LJ's making it sound. ;-)
It's "HP" fen who might want to write about romance and/or experimentation at Hogwarts, which, IMO, hardly counts as underage porn. It's also, remarkably, people like me, who 'ship the living hell out of Connor/Fred on "Angel." When they met, Connor was seventeen and Fred was somewhere in her mid-twenties. I don't think that counts as underage porn...he turns eighteen somewhere while they know each other...but, like, if I wanted to write about them in a sexual conotation during the offscreen three months between S3 and S4 (which holds the juiciest potential for me as a writer), that'd theoretically not be allowed
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No, no, it's fine on my part! I just, to be perfectly honest, my first reaction is never as a member of a fandom, it's someone who was molested as a minor, which ... makes the issue kind of twofold for me.
Because hey, I understand where ships between people who are obviously consenting come from, but I also really don't want to see chan and incest. They're handling it horribly, and sure, it's annoying, but it's yet to be the enough to force me to leave LJ.
The whole part of the issue that has been grating on me is how people seem to be taking it as a thing against fandom or against writing, when it's not, and that's most of what bothers me. From your angle, I totally understand. It's the outbursts of conspiracy theories that are getting to me the most.
And it's not like I think LJ's doing a fantastically good job either - but I wish the battle cries could be over defending something that's more user rights than potentially squicky fic.
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LJ users: First you take away our chan, now you take away ANY underaged sex? FUCK YOU, I'M GOING TO JOURNAL FEN.
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It's "HP" fen who might want to write about romance and/or experimentation at Hogwarts, which, IMO, hardly counts as underage porn. It's also, remarkably, people like me, who 'ship the living hell out of Connor/Fred on "Angel." When they met, Connor was seventeen and Fred was somewhere in her mid-twenties. I don't think that counts as underage porn...he turns eighteen somewhere while they know each other...but, like, if I wanted to write about them in a sexual conotation during the offscreen three months between S3 and S4 (which holds the juiciest potential for me as a writer), that'd theoretically not be allowed ( ... )
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Because hey, I understand where ships between people who are obviously consenting come from, but I also really don't want to see chan and incest. They're handling it horribly, and sure, it's annoying, but it's yet to be the enough to force me to leave LJ.
The whole part of the issue that has been grating on me is how people seem to be taking it as a thing against fandom or against writing, when it's not, and that's most of what bothers me. From your angle, I totally understand. It's the outbursts of conspiracy theories that are getting to me the most.
And it's not like I think LJ's doing a fantastically good job either - but I wish the battle cries could be over defending something that's more user rights than potentially squicky fic.
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