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FanLib wants to patent collaborative storytelling, because, you know, they invented it.

Link to the patent pending application.

Found via the lovely and talented Mary McNamara's TV Crush column discussing FanLib.

FanLib people keep running their mouths, keep offending me

Chris Williams of Fanlib accepts Henry Jenkins' invitation to answer questions from the fan community.

His answers allay no-one's fears.

I particularly appreciate Aja & Mel's responses early in the posted comments.

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BTW, that discussion I posted about earlier, on paradox_dragon's entry the all-male BoD @ FanLib, & why it's relevant?

I decided it was time to stop banging my head against a wall, and therefore wasn't going to keep explaining to the anonymous poster (thread here) why paradox_dragon was right.

And then I checked my email again, and he had responded to my last comment (not to what I was actually _saying_, mind you) by replying that he was a guy in fandom.

( In which I boggle against the idea that men in fandom actually find it okay that the FanLib BoD is all male. )

Also, I love that the FanLib people won't touch the gender discussion with a ten-foot pole. It "offends" them. It offends us that we have to point it out to you, okay?

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I interrupt my ranting about FanLib to tell you that rue_du_hoquet is hosting a Rodney McKay Snaps Cup meme, similar to the totally awesome John Sheppard That Thing We Don't talk or Hug About meme that melagen hosted a couple months ago.

So. Please go tell me how, despite my total greed for fanfic (particularly the kind starring people-turned-into-kittens, or chickens named Baby Jesus, or including the X-made-them-do-it trope), and that I haven't posted actual fic in ... um. Too long to mention - that I'm still a decent human being. Maybe. Although I should've finished my math degree instead of switching over to English/Drama.

In return, I will tell you why you are worth the good coffee. :-)