PSA / Rant

Aug. 17th, 2007 10:48 am
dragonydreams: (Default)
I will not be reading any (new) stories that include West until after Season 2 of Heroes begins to air. There is one story that I've been reading and West wasn't brought in until later, so I'll keep reading it, albeit grudgingly for his parts.

The Rant:
How can people write a character that hasn't appeared on the show yet?????

I may write UC - and in the case of Heroes, AU – pairings, but I remain a stickler for all other canon details. If we've never actually seen the character, aside maybe from promo photos/spoilers, how can an author accurately write them?

Also, I'm doing my damn hardest to avoid spoilers and don't appreciate being subjected to characters that are new popping up in fic.

</ rant>
dragonydreams: (Jareth - Bah)
I really didn't want to post about this, but since this newest forest fire does affect me, I'll comment.

I'm sure by now most of you have hard about Warriors for Innocence and their attack on LJ predators. I won't go into the details because [livejournal.com profile] liz_marcs explains it very well here, with follow-up here.

Last night all of my Heroes fic comms threw up mod posts asking the members to flock their posts containing incest or underage sex. I was fully expecting that after having read [livejournal.com profile] liz_marcs's post during the day. These kinds of things have a way of traveling far and wide and inciting panic.

From what I have been able to glean from reading the various posts - and this is just reading, I'm doing any of my own investigating - LJ is suspending communities/journals that have "hot words" in their user info/profiles. I don't believe that they are looking at the content of actual posts. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

ETA: [livejournal.com profile] athenewolfe has done some research on this too and posted about it here.

I do not have, and never have had, any inflammatory words in my user info interests, not anywhere in my profile itself. I spell out the pairings (Willow/Giles, Spike/Angel – not Spangel, Peter/Claire – although I do have Paire) and even when my interests expanded to include slash, pairecest, and petrellicest, I never added those words to my profile page. I also do not mention the ratings of the fics that I write in my profile, although all fics are clearly rated in their posts.

As I've stated before, I do not condone RL incest. I just like reading and writing about fictional characters having incestuous relationships. And just in this one fandom.

So while I have complied with all mod-requested requests and flocked my posts that contain incest and/or underage sex, I will not be flocking my fic at my LJ. Fic and fandom related things are just about the only things not flocked on my journal. I do not friend back everyone who friends me because sometimes it's just for icons and sometimes just for fic. When people do not comment to my posts, I have no idea why they're there. I do not want to have to friend them back in case they are there for the fic.

Am I being naïve? Quite possibly. Should I be joining the mass hysteria and locking down everything that may be slightly offensive? I'd have to lock it all, and keep it locked. Almost all of my fanfic involves a younger woman/older man – Claire/Peter, Willow/Giles, Willow/Spike, Willow/Angel, heck, even Lindsey is older than Willow, although not by as many years. Two of those relationships aren't even with humans.

I joined Live Journal to communicate with my friends and share mutual interests. This wonderful community is being destroyed and compartmentalized and it is not the same open and welcoming place that it was when I got this journal almost three years ago.


I thought about locking this post, but that seemed hypocritical, so it's public.
dragonydreams: (Phantom - Grrr)
I should have ranted about this last night when I discovered it, but was chatting with someone, so I kept doing that instead of distracting myself with an LJ post.

Has anyone else not been receiving Yahoo IMs? ([livejournal.com profile] rileysaplank, this happens to you sometimes, right?)

I found out that someone who I was expecting to IM me, tried 3 or 4 times to reach me on Monday and I never got them. She thought I was ignoring her, which I definitely was not - I just thought she forgot. I wasn't invisible and I was still receiving email alerts, but no IM windows popped up.

I'm sure that this is a YIM issue, although my internet has been hiccuping a lot lately. (Must remember to contact cable internet provider about that.) But that's only for a few seconds at a time, and I still should have received an offline message if I really was offline.

So if anyone else tried to IM me on Monday and I didn't respond, it's 'cause I didn't get it, not because I was ignoring you.

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