I never know when to keep my mouth shut...

[elspethdixon]

Posting a rant while violently angry never works out *sighs* I should have known better than to rant about how much I hate it when people erase their fics from the net for no reason (i.e. no C&D letter involved, not publishing it as a book, just yanking it apparently for the hell of it) and think it's rude to other fans and earns one a place in the Archivist Special Hell on fanficrants--the comments saying that I'm an arrogant bitch with an entitlement complex just keep on coming.

Fine then. I am at peace with my arrogance. I am likewise at peace my entitlement complex, since it's the same principle that makes me write and read and believe in the concept of fanfic and fandom in the first place (the idea that stories, once shared, are a part of a greater literary landscape that has some amount of communal ownership, rather than the personal property of the author).

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[werewolf-lib.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about these issues earlier this morning in regards to something similar and had a really clever thought, but today was one of those days that left me grateful I can remember my own name. I vaguely recall it being along the lines of your comparing it to stripping libraries, though.

I think most people like my fics a lot more than I do, honestly, but I'm not about to take my ball and go home just because I don't think things are perfectly as I want them to be. If all artists destroyed their sketches or all poets burned their rough drafts, I think the world would be a poorer place. Much of my personal enjoyment of any art, be it a Brancusi sculpture, a Beddoes poem, a Vermeer portrait or a well-crafted fanfic, comes from the revelation of how it it emerged from thought to evolve into the finished product.

As for the 'I'm leaving this fandom!' drama, I say only that I'm not getting rid of my weaving supplies just because I'm now studying metalworking and I sort of pity someone who think change means destruction of the past.



Also, icon cuteness

This icon is ten pounds of cute in a two pound bag. Some days, it's even too cute. It is simultaneously cheering and a good indicator of my total geekiness. Your icon, now; if you drew that, I am deeply envious of your skills. The shading is just lovely.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

The icon's from a picture (http://www.ponderosa121.com/artwork/movie/potc_guideline.jpg) drawn by the talented ponderosa121, who's also done some nice Remus/Sirius art. I a) like PotC, b) am blonde, and c) "Elspeth" is a nickname for Elizabeth, hence the iconage.

[werewolf-lib.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check out her art! It cheers me to see someone drawing in a non-anime style and something about the colour choices reminds me of a book I loved as a little girl.