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 version of the post in my journal is now on metafandom, so there are even more comments, some in support, some politely disagreeing, and some rude. I've added some paragraphs of clarification (basically explaining that I typed it up very late at night while seriously annoyed, so the stuff about "special place in Hell" isn't meant literally) to each version, and left a comment at metafandom asking that the link be switched to fanficrants. That way, I don't get my "recent comments left in your jounral" that I use to keep track of conversations like this flooded with wank, and people can see the dissenting comments and extra debate by me over at fanficrants.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

That's good - and with it up at metafandom now, there's at least a slightly higher chance that there'll be a real debate, rather than just snarling.