I'm testing the dreamwidth crossposting feature right now....

ETA: It worked!

I was lucky enough to get an invite code for Dreamwidth (randomly selected after logging on with an Open ID). I'm mchand over there for those of you migrating. Next, I will figure out how to crosspost.

Via Feministe again--

WARNING: YOU MAY CRY


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

Sorry for all the political posting, but this made me smile on a week when I've gotten really worried about the November election.

Not counting states driven through or had layovers through...



visited 24 states (48%)
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I'm so excited about the ongoing Archive of Our Own project.  It seems to get at exactly the issue (disappearing stories) that I was talking about several posts ago.  This is a nonprofit that I will be proud to support, I think.

A group of fanfic fans is forming to set up a nonprofit organization for collective fannish projects, including building a central fanfic archive. We are setting up shop in the fanarchive community on livejournal, located here:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/

A couple of big updates have been posted today (Monday June 4), including the basic outline of our organization structure and our call for volunteers. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please stop by, give us your thoughts, and sign up for announcements!

Here are the two posts:

The Organizational Structure
http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5634.html

Willingness to Serve
http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5913.html

If you don't have an LJ account, you can subscribe by email with this handy free service:

http://www.rssfwd.com/

All you need to do is paste in the following URL:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/rss

(If you use an RSS newsreader, you can use that same URL to subscribe to the news feed.)

You also do not need an LJ account to make comments on posts -- please just remember to put your name/pseud somewhere in your comment, so everyone knows who is talking, and include your email address so others can reply to you directly if you want.

If you would like to catch up on the last week or two of discussion, a helpful summary post is up here:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5406.html

 Congratulations! You've been put in charge of a brand new television network, dedicated to bringing canceled shows back to life for a new season. You've got ten hours of prime time to fill per week, and any show, regardless of how long ago it went off air, is eligible. What's playing on YOUR network next fall?

I've been reading fanfiction for about five years now. Mostly I stick to "active" fandoms, but about 6 months ago, I got bored with what I was currently reading and dipped my toe into reading RPF--popslash (NSYNC popslash, to be specfic). I was completely hooked, but I realized how hard it is to suddenly start reading in a fandom that many of the authors have moved on from. Mostly I limited my reading to recommendation lists, but there was a slight problem. Becuase many of these stories were written three, four or five years ago, the stories are no longer there.

This made me think about the transient nature of the internet. I've never been one to save files as I read them--I've always counted on them being there if I ever wanted to reread--like a favorite book that I can pull off the bookshelf in my office. It's never been an issue for me in active fandoms, where website and livejournals are being continuously updated, but I was shocked at how frustrated I got when following a recommendation to a dead link. And it's even worse, when I find another recommendation of that same story!

It's really made me reevaluation how I read fanfiction online. I've become much more prone to download stories that I loved because they might not be there tomorrow.