When the plot of a Hawaii Five-O episode resembles your seriously crack due South story with the Elvis impersonators (sorry, Elvis Tribute Artists) that have diamonds sewn into their costumes, it's time to hang up your slash credentials.

um. at least there was no blue lube?

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I do love fanfiction. I love it a lot. But when something like this happens—

The Highlander worked the vibrating cock until the explosion...

—my love becomes more of an academic thing.

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There's been a big rumble today about the ebooks-tree.com thing. If you haven't heard about it, they are a site that's been scraping mobi and pdf versions of people's fic (including 34 stories of mine) from AO3 and posting them on their site for free download.

If you are upset about it and want to take action, the AO3 has a good posting on exactly what to do and how to do it.

As for my own stuff, I dunno. I am finding it hard to muster a fuck for some reason. But I am sorry people have been upset by this, and that Systems/Abuse have to deal with the fallout.

eta: it appears James has fixed it, or maybe they panicked from the deluge of take down notices; in any event, my stories are no longer being listed, and James' fix means no more scraping from that site. yay Systems!

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my peeps:

for my own amusement, and because I was discussing with em_kellesvig the other day how tragically behind the fandom curve I tend to be, I thought I would plot out all the fandoms I've participated in and how many decades slow I am. The interesting thing is when I plotted them out and told Excel to make a graph, it illustrated not only how perfect my curve is, but that I'm backsliding with the recent addition of Highlander. oh noes. bwah.

( mind the gap.Collapse )



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You know, I was so busy getting ready for the Fest and *enjoying* the fest that I never got around to doing the introspective "What SGA means to me" kind of post. I guess it's too late, now. :) But I just want to say this is one of the very best fandoms it's been my pleasure to be part of, and will remain so.

It has become apparent to me from people's sort of wistful responses in comments that a lot of folks have moved on; I obviously haven't, and plan to be producing for SGA in the future; I also plan to produce for other fandoms, as I always have. I've always been a multi-fandom gal.

But SGA has a place in my heart that will never be filled by any other fandom. The characters are unique and varied. The show itself has unmatched potential, with a premise and universes that remain (always) to be explored by our imaginations.

Even though I only entered fandom at large less than 10 years ago myself (my own fandom anniversary is coming up soon! I published my first story ever 09/08/04), I'm kind of old school. My first fandom was a closed canon fandom, and it was still going strong 25 years or so after it went off the air. And I believe the sheer body of work under SGA's belt, assuming we can preserve it, may serve to keep our fandom active for many, many years to come.

So happy SGAnniversary, Gate travelers. I consider myself so fortunate to have found you all. Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with me.

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busaikko is holding an SGA Love Fest! All pairings and gen welcome!



Click on the banner for rules and stuff. It's a very easy-going fest. You can lay down prompts here.

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Not that I condone this sort of thing, but some screenshots from The Storm and collected by mezzo_cammin and melagan and posted by mischief are enough to make my eyes jump out. Run, come see.

I'm enjoying my Second Puberty here. It's kind of like Second Childhood except less deadly, more chafing time-consuming.

And while you're following links, go vote for John and Rodney in the Ultimate Slash Madness Tourney, if you like our loopy duo.

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So, I know folks have been chatting on the Internets about this Amazon Kindle Worlds thing (read Scalzi's thoughts on the matter), and I find the whole phenom interesting on a meta level, because it really was just a matter of time before someone figgered out a way to cash in on fanfiction, somehow, someway.

It really is quite ingenious, and it's all contained in this one little clause

"By using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster."

They're not trying to sugar-coat it at all. It's a straight-up, bare-bones IP theft type dealie, the kind of thing Big Media has been doing to comic book illustrators, musicians, and other artists since copyright first was invented, but even worser. Pennies, pennies will they offer to pay fanfiction writers for their brilliant plots and 'verses and OCs, because Hollywood has been out of ideas since 1965 and has been rehashing the same ol' since then.

If I have to see another remake of the A-Team or Tron, I'll eat my left sock.

So here it is: we are a gold mine, and they want to cash in by putting some pasty interns on the job of hashing through the heaps of fanfiction that impoverished writers will publish on the new service because they, you know, want to eat and stuff. One of these writers will make maybe $54 all-told on their fabulous 150K wd AU where, I dunno, some glittery vampire has a meet-cute with a barista at the magical coffee shop on the corner when he has an allergic reaction to her Chai latte. Which turns into the next mega hit for MGM starring Jennifer Lawrence and Ryan Gosling.

Writer goes to the movie, pays for the ticket out of her meager budget and gets to see her characters on the screen. But doesn't see her name on the ending scroll, or get paid a single penny.

Repeat ad infinitum.

Awesome.

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me: esteefee, how long have you been on the internets?

esteefee: since November 15, 1991.

me: and when someone puts up something (a gif, a clip) from canon and then makes a statement that directly contradicts canon in a way offensive to one of your favorite characters, what do you do?

esteefee: I know the answer to this one. wait.

me: [looks at watch]

esteefee: no, no, seriously, I got it: NOTHING! right? I let it slide.

me: now the real answer. there will be no points deducted.

esteefee: compose a massive screed flaying the flesh from their bones and deconstructing them, psychologically. spend hours on it so it really just pounds all the most deliciously sarcastic bits with a mighty hammer. cackle loudly while re-reading it one last time.

and then hit cancel, chanting, "do not engage, do not engage."

me: that's what I thought.

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♥ ♥ ♥

Belated happies to all my friends in fandom, especially with thanks to mrs_sweetpeach and my anonymous valentines for the lovely messages. You too might have a sekrit admirer collected by the lovely svmadelyn so be sure to check!

I wonder how many of us secretly want to know each other and don't reach out. It's counter-productive, I think. I recently struck up a convo with mischief that turned out to be an awesome move, and all this time I've been just hovering wistfully on the periphery. Why, brain?

My email address is in my profile, peeps.

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