big YAY to fanfic!

[czeri]

I've gotta admit that the whole kerfuffle with "responsible" fanfiction was pissing me off a lot these last few days. Especially the eagerness of so many fen to jump on the bandwagon and aim an "even-handed and well-thought-out" kick at the writers of stories they personally object to. Luckily, although I still do find it vaguely unsettling that the daily_snitch linked to heatherly's post but not to any of the answers to it, I did get much better now that hd_holidays started posting. There's nothing better to cheer one up than good fic, after all :-)

Well, good fic and a good laugh. So, blissfully floating on a cloud of canon-based Draco goodness (Götterdämmerung ROCKS!), I offer you newspaper headlines:

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Comments

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

It's ok, hon, we're in touch via e-mail -- no hard feelings on my part. I'm glad you didn't filter this, btw, because at least this way I was able to explain what happened instead of having you both walk away thinking that I had deliberately not linked to the posts that disagreed with heatherly's. As I said to melusinahp in e-mail, it was a bit annoying to see so much dissent behind flock but almost nothing out in public or in comments to heatherly's post. It's kind of like separately delivered monologues that lead to side-taking rather than a dialogue, and as we learned through the FanLib debacle, little is as important as fandom dialogue when it comes to keeping us a community.

Note to self: next Saturday, start compiling Snitch links in the morning. >.>