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[evildrem]

Wow! You know you've *arrived* in a fandom when you get accused of being in a clique!

So a big hand please for the lovely Ms mckrycek who unmasked herself as the Anonymous poster I mentioned previously and then proceeded to leave this adoring love letter as a reply thus proving once again that absolutely everyone wants to have sex with me as well as the fact that I am 'teh EVIL' and you should all grovel in fear and awe at my feet!

Now that I have reached this pinnacle of achievement in fandom I shall of course expect everyone to address me as Ser Evil Dr Em (none of this Evil Drem nonsense) and then make the sign of the horns as a show of respect.

I shall also set up my own private moderated mailing list where I shall forbid anyone to even *think* the name of mine enemies in the FAQ and shall hide my fic in a password protected archive (the password of which I shall change whenever the moon is in Aries) so that only those I deem suitably sycophantic and worthy can read it.

*Mwahahahahahaha*

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

[...] thus proving once again that absolutely everyone wants to have sex with me as well as the fact that I am 'teh EVIL' and you should all grovel in fear and awe at my feet!

I know this is a little foward of me, but may I bear your children?

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As a non-slashfic fan, I'm finding this exchange utterly bewildering. I know who Leslie Fish is, from my dark past as a filk fan. Some of her filks have been pretty good, some have been stinkers. I know what her politics are; I may not agree with them, but I appreciate those times that she has tried not to let her politics get in the way of a good song. I'd expect her slashfics to be much the same.

What I don't understand is why it is so offensive that the maintainer of an archive of slashfic should impose any sort of editorial control. Sturgeon's Law, people!

But sir..

[evildrem.livejournal.com]

I know this is a little foward of me, but may I bear your children?

..your married *winks* But I'll bear you in mind as a child bearer should I decide to breed

This is just a small sample of how pathetic slash fandom can get. You wait..it'll probably get worse :)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm married, but what's the point of Wednesdays if I can't invent new and bewildering grand passions?

I guess I find slash fandom a bit bewildering in general. Mark me down as a lit SF fan who got lost while looking for the dealer room.

[tritorella.livejournal.com]

I'm not exercising editorial control. I just choose not to archive stories which offend me (and no, we're not talking about the abortion of a sequel that Ms Fish wrote, entirely with my permission but entirely without my cooperation), by people who bore or offend me.

if I wanted to archive all the wankers in the world, there would be a note to that effect on my website, along with a request for a fee to help pay for the cost of it all. As it happens, strangely, i do not wish to do this.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that the choice you're making (whether or not to archive) is a form of editorial control, but that's entirely your prerogative as the sole financial supporter of the archive. To my mind, this is exactly the same as if you were assembling an anthology fanzine of stories that you liked, and paying for it out of your own pocket.

I think your decision not to archive the world is entirely reasonable.

[tritorella.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that the choice you're making (whether or not to archive) is a form of editorial control

I suppose it is, in that way - i don't edit (and never would) individuals stories, and if I archive an author, subject to my webhost's legal controls, I don't say what they can't have. But as for an author's entire ouevre - especially when that ouevre (a) reeks and (b) requires me to spend a shit load of time formatting each fucking offering? Not doing that for people I don't really like, not any more.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. I see where we were talking at cross purposes. I'm most used to academic publishing, where an editorial board decides whether or not to publish an article. The editorial board is distinct from the editorial staff (subeditors, mostly) who correct our speeling mistaeks and turn our lumpen prose into poetry. Or something like that.

Generally, life is too short to correct other people's writing, and the gains are minimal.