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

[werewolf-lib.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to say that I'm currently reading that thread and I'm on your side. I like your idea of 'a greater literary landscape'; imagine the chaos if published authors jerked books out of printing at will(of course, there are some I'd pay to do just that. . .). Some people seem to forget the rant part of that community.

Tape/writing/damage on books makes me weep, too, except in the cases where they bring knowledge of the history of the book.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

What really gets to me is that so many of those people appear to be completely missing the fact that the rant is largely aimed not at people who delete their fic, but at people who make it so that their fics are gone forever and ever.

I'm really kind of saddened by how rude some of the people are being. Even on a rant community, one should be able to express an unpopular opinion without being jumped on, or called 'entitled.'

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

Ummm, I completely agreed with that post of yours? But I'm also an arrogant person so I guess my opinion might not count.