Jane Austen fanfic fandom and other non existent things

[alias_sqbr]

Following on from What annoys me about fanfic meta about itself, the OTHER thing that annoys me about "fanfic" meta about itself is the assumption by people in the american dominated english speaking scifi-con-culture-associated mostly-inspired-by-mainstream-tv-and-movies LJ-based metafandom-reading part of fanfic-and-other-related-fannish-

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[redbraids]

It is fun to see comments on Jane Austen fandom! I am a real fan myself :-)

[alias_sqbr]

Yaaay Jane Austen :D

[hlbr]

Indeed, not a bear. (Or not.. 'Bear'?) Just my incredibly unimaginative alias based on name and last name.

I'm glad you're diving in and that you like the meta! There's an incredibly lack of it, in general, or it's just that I'm used to having more and so the amount there falls short.

I saw you in AHA. That thread is awful. I kept away because I know how those things end, and I don't trust the mods to understand any angry reaction to the subject.

I... honestly like threading a lot, and lj, and dw, but I'm adaptable. I can get used to anything, really, and the only thing that actively bothers me is that forums are a really shitty way to archive fic, and that individual static html pages are barely better. It just makes it hard to search for stuff. I will pitch the AO3 software once it's ready; I'm decided, even though I'm pretty sure they wouldn't use it.

[alias_sqbr]

I can only be bothered checking out the forums etc very rarely, so there's enough for me for now :)

Thinking about it, the reason I felt comfortable reading the "POC in JAFF" thread was that, as I said, I started out thinking it was about something else, and read most of the comments through that filter. In retrospect..nng. Still, in the other post I made after decided to dig back in, the people at the Republic of Pemberley were very helpful answering my request about inheritance laws, even if I have to remember to go back and check the link every now and then because omg no comment notification :) EDIT: except now my post seems to have vanished o.O

Yeah, I haven't dug into the fic, partly because it all seems so hard to get to. I wait until people rec it to me, much easier :D

[hlbr]

In the RoP? I don't visit the forums much--they seem to have lots of rules and all that. -_-

But if it was old, perhaps it was a matter of... it getting cleaned out? I'm told that they do that, every now and then.

[alias_sqbr]

It wasn't old, maybe I broke one of the rules :/