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thamiris' journal name, comments, stories and, wait for it, profile (although now the only thing that's the same is the "navel-gazing, porn-loving" descriptors, so I guess he's been beaten into submission).
Reportage/comment round-up:
- JournalFen Fandom Lounge report here
-scribblinlenore posts here
-musesfool posts here
Lastly, the culprit (boyan_fraser) posts a hoity-toity response and locks down his journal.
I readthamiris' HP fic early in my fan-life. Reading it assured me that yes, fanfic was art, and it could be fabulous. When I started branching out to other fandoms, I'd discover that she'd been there already, and cannily knew other people would want stories about a naked teenage Clark bound to a stone angel on Lex's balcony (fer example).
When she died, I was shocked, not because I knew her (I didn't), but because first-gen fanfic'ers are still active and writing among us second- and third-gen'ers, and I know of no other greats who've passed. (There must be others, even others who posted online, but I'm ignorant of them.) Fandom feels vibrant and alive and new, despite having a good 40 years of archive-able material, but one of our best is dead. I have no personal grief, but I absolutely feel a sense of community loss and of bewilderment.
boyan_fraser was inane. He sounds young -- but surely even a twenty-something in Serbia is able to use Google to check if the person one is stealing from is, you know, know to all fandom. (Not that it would be better if he was stealing from anyone else -- it's just so much grosser this way.)
Whatever. I refuse to think about this anymore, because it's all kinds of icky, and I have a weekend ahead of me.
thamiris' journal name, comments, stories and, wait for it, profile (although now the only thing that's the same is the "navel-gazing, porn-loving" descriptors, so I guess he's been beaten into submission).Reportage/comment round-up:
- JournalFen Fandom Lounge report here
-
scribblinlenore posts here-
musesfool posts hereLastly, the culprit (
boyan_fraser) posts a hoity-toity response and locks down his journal.I read
thamiris' HP fic early in my fan-life. Reading it assured me that yes, fanfic was art, and it could be fabulous. When I started branching out to other fandoms, I'd discover that she'd been there already, and cannily knew other people would want stories about a naked teenage Clark bound to a stone angel on Lex's balcony (fer example).When she died, I was shocked, not because I knew her (I didn't), but because first-gen fanfic'ers are still active and writing among us second- and third-gen'ers, and I know of no other greats who've passed. (There must be others, even others who posted online, but I'm ignorant of them.) Fandom feels vibrant and alive and new, despite having a good 40 years of archive-able material, but one of our best is dead. I have no personal grief, but I absolutely feel a sense of community loss and of bewilderment.
boyan_fraser was inane. He sounds young -- but surely even a twenty-something in Serbia is able to use Google to check if the person one is stealing from is, you know, know to all fandom. (Not that it would be better if he was stealing from anyone else -- it's just so much grosser this way.)Whatever. I refuse to think about this anymore, because it's all kinds of icky, and I have a weekend ahead of me.