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).

Comments

[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.