Update

[janedavitt]

My Moonridge fic is now done and with its awesome beta, wesleysgirl. It's 30,000 words, well over the 20,000 words I promised, so I feel happy about that. Today, I started work on my next novel, which has to be handed in on Sept 1. I love the plot and I'd already drafted an outline and done 5000 words so I'm excited but I'm feeling very fannish about Numb3rs right now (just about to start the season 2 finale) and I'm torn wanting to write fic for it.

When they give me Don telling Charlie that he supposes he'll have to go on his knees for him and doing it, so they can play fight, it's hard to resist ;-) And I'm such a baa lamb; the Colby love kicked in just like you all told me it would with the episode where a shooter comes into the FBI offices. Loved that final scene with him and David drinking beer and going on to have comfort sex and the way he's so fascinated by Charlie.


I've been following the SG-1 comm kerfuffle over at Fandom Wank. Just utterly incredulous and so very disappointed in how it all went down. I felt my embarrassment squick kick in full force just reading that totally uncalled for reaction to a fic and I'm equally bemused by the fact that the only ones apologizing are the people I see as the victims.

This wank is profoundly depressing.

Fandom's lost some of its shiny.

ETA Recent posts by some of the people involved (links in the comments) have improved the situation some. Still a mess, though. It just goes to show how easy it is for things to go boom :-(

ETA2 Just been pointed out that the links in comments are on the DW post so adding them to the main post:

http://clan-mitchell.dreamwidth.org/13097.html

http://goldjadeocean.dreamwidth.org/71130.html

http://slybrarian.dreamwidth.org/67283.html

http://quinfirefrorefiddle.dreamwidth.org/34029.html

Thanks, green_grrl for pointing them out.

Comments

[carolyn_claire]

DW has lost just a little of its shiny for me, too.

[green_grrl]

Thanks for the pointer. I'm just that much more glad I backed away from IG a long time ago, for this very reason. In better news, recent f_w comments show that three of the people involved have made wonderfully balanced posts, and it seems they are walking away from it not victimized (here, here, and here). So that's a good thing.

[ninetydegrees]

To me, a good part of what makes a fandom thrives is how varied fics are and how often challenging fics are published. My most-loved fandoms don't seem to have limits, for better or worse. I feel that some fandoms never "take off" because everybody writes the characters more or less the same way and congratulate each other on a job well done. That's always made me leave the fandom.

I'm not an author but I can imagine how upsetting it can be to see what people do with your universe (I don't like what some people have done with my designs) but I don't really understand explicitly inviting people to play in your universe and expecting people to play by some rules (either you share or you don't; it doesn't seem to me there's a middle road).

[tesserae]

Thanks for the update. I've added the link to Syne's post to my lj entry. It's a good letter, and I hope that she... develops a more functional set of personal boundaries, I guess is as good a way of putting it as anything. I suspect that, at some point, she's going to need to rethink how she interacts with DW if 6 people weighing in with a very mild criticism can upset her this badly. And I hope that, as a company, they've got a plan for sustaining operations if one of them can't any longer, for whatever reason. It's always an issue with charismatic firms...

[mab_browne]

I'm glad to see a more explicit expression from many of the parties, especially Synecdochic, of the fact that Ivorygates was way, way out of line. This eases my mind a bit.