Wank alert!

[morwen_peredhil]

Grab a bowl of popcorn and get your latest AO3 wank here!

Short version: AO3 announced that it's rearchiving a whole siteful of stories (from an old archive considered "at risk") with the permission of the archivists but without the permission of the authors of said stories, who will then somehow be allowed to claim their stories (and opt out if

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[ancarett]

I've tried to take some old stories down from other archives in the past. It was maddening, even when I had the email address from which I posted. Unavailable mods are unavailable.

Now, I don't have some of the email addresses (*cough* hotmail *cough*) that I used back in the heydey, so no one could contact me through the old archival links to check whether or not I wanted them archived or no. And I did stupid shit like publishing under my real name. (It was the 1990s. Online fandom was new to all of us

[morwen_peredhil]

I'm not a kneejerk AO3 hater (I have an account and use it), but I don't think (re)archiving without permission suddenly becomes acceptable when the person/group doing it thinks they're entitled to do it for a good cause.

This is really making my opinion of AO3 take a nosedive. If they make it opt-in rather than opt-out, despite the fact that it would be more work, then I'll reconsider.

[morwen_peredhil]

It's certainly hurting the AO3 brand with me, and I was guardedly positive about it before this.

Lucy Liu wank!

All white cock, all the time! For great social justice!

I had a moment of disappointment that she was cast as Watson rather than Holmes, but otherwise I'm thrilled.