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[heidi]

FictionAlley's been Farked - they (read: the honchos there, not all the posters) think we're stupid, and that Harry Potter fanfic in general is, too.

Whatever.

The end result, of course, is that we've had an extra - and unexpected - server load. FARK's modis operandus seems to be to, as copperbadge just said to me, "Let's mock it... and crash it!" So we apologize for the slowness of FA today. Hopefully, they'll get over it.

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[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand how people who have never heard of fanfiction or don't realise that it exists for about a million fandoms think that fanfiction writers don't live in the real world. Where on earth have THEY been? How can you go online and not find out about fanfiction? I knew about SF fanfiction long before I ever went online, since my father-in-law is an SF writer and fanfics used to be printed out and mailed (snail mail, that is) to individuals, who would sometimes add to the stories in a round-robin fashion.

Perhaps they're also not aware that there are published writers who started out doing fanfiction. The refrain of, "Why don't they write something original?" was rather annoying. We ARE doing something original. Our plots are not stolen from anyone, and some of us are also adapting our fanfiction plots for original characters or doing other original fiction writing in addition to fanfiction.

One thing I never quite got after looking at the Fark site: is there a POINT to that thing other than giving people a place to wank?