I've just been informed (thank you ever so much, dracothelizard!) that my most popular fic by far, Because The World Belongs to the Devil, has been plagiarised by an "Anastasiia Petrushova" in Amazon's self-publishing section. (They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... guess that proves Devilry has really made it big time ( Read more... )

So I guess it's worth pointing out that I'm still alive and stuff. Made it to 38 today. And I wish I wasn't so exhausted and ill that I could enjoy it better, but I guess it's better than... not being around, I suppose. Feel so, so tired, but I guess that surviving for so long what with all the crap the world's thrown at me (whether it's bodily ( Read more... )

Once again, I got a comment on one of my fics from someone who said that I was a good enough writer to be published. That person undoubtedly meant it as a compliment, but I felt disheartened and even insulted, beacuse I most definitely do *not* believe that publication is validation. I feel that she completely missed what to me, is the whole point ( Read more... )

I suddenly realised why I've never really "got" shipwars. Or, I mean, why I've never wanted to be involved in one. (I've been accused of ship hate in terms of a certain very popular ship which shall go unnamed, but it's always been about me being put off by the characters being dicks rather than anything else; it's never really been the ship itself ( Read more... )

Also, I really had no idea people did watch fanvids on Ao3. I've had a really surprising amount of hits on the fanvids I've posted there. Million Dollar Man has 200 hits by now! Which is far more than what it got on Tumblr.

Although, the post with links to the explicit Devilry 3 trailers?

500 hits and not a single comment.


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Cutting this for length, but the last few days have been food for thought.

( Prisms )

I normally avoid any 50 Shades whining these days because of reasons I've mentioned before--I really am not interested in political/moral wank over the content any more. But fandom history always interests me, so:

I just found this on ushas42's Tumblr. It's a link to a fascinating Reddit thread on how 50 Shades became so big, from an actual Twilight fan ( Read more... )

Thank you so much to acitymadeofsong for reblogging this because FUCK ( Read more... )

There should be a fangirl equivalent of Godwinning an argument. As in, that moment where a fangirl gets so upset by a personal squick that she begins to politicise it and go off on a paranoid rant about it. How this bit of writing here or this bit of character there clearly indicates the author is into X and therefore approves of Y and perpetuates ( Read more... )

...do you know what's really depressing? I'm sure that fandom folks are familiar with this, since it's old hat, but ( Read more... )