The MSScribe Report.

I tried to read the the msscribe report, but somewhere around page two my head exploded.

The report's excellent, written in a journalistic style, carefully researched with disclaimers about unclear or missing information and almost completely without the usual "Rita Skeeter" glee you find in wankery and those who love it. charlottelennox has done a good job. The tone, at least as far as I've read, makes this much easier to stomach, despite the level of lurid detail.

That said, I couldn't stomach it. Lies, blatant manipulation, sock-puppetry of the worst kind where someone invents their own fans and their own pseudo-Christian troll. I fell for this, too, back when "The Black List" was published by fandom_scruples on LJ in 2004. What it says about slashers' biases (and fears?) towards Christians (the real Christians apparently told the troll to turn the other cheek and whatnot) is a little disturbing.

It only occurs to me ... and please forgive my deep and abiding cynicism that arises from having exposed one LJ financial scam, dealt with a harrassing flurry of sockpuppets attacking wildernessguru for criticizing certain pack designs -- (from a designer we know; the guy finally screwed up and dropped info he could only know in person via his sockpuppets, oopsie) -- and one rather persistant troll who hates my Buddhist stuff ... wouldn't it be something if this were all a final grab for attention by msscribe?

I doubt it, but this oldtimer leans on the sidelines and waits for the other shoe to drop. *Icarus chews a toothpick, narrow-eyed*



ETA: Chatting with sharp_tongue and orca_girl, apparently in chapter ten charlottelennox explains how she got involved in writing this account. I haven't been able to read that far. orca_girl points out it's the nature of this type of account for people to doubt it.

Yeah. I've run into that. People immediately want to distance themselves and show that "I'm an oldtimer" *cough* so "I'd never be fooled, nuh-uh, not me!" It's also a sign that the account is successful in making people alert -- too alert at first.

SG-1 FIC: First Time A Soldier - Jack/Daniel - PG-13

Just under the wire. Check out the other Jack/Daniel Fic-A-Thon stories here.

Title: First Time A Soldier
Author: Icarus
Website: Icarus.Slash.Fiction
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Stargate SG-1, Jack and Daniel Fic-A-Thon
Challenge: for sherrold who asked for post Sha're's death; first-time story and gets, er, something that interprets First Time very differently. theemdash worked like the dickens to help me add some SUBTEXT, and I hope you like it even if it isn't what you had in mind.
Summary: It took Jack years to convince Daniel to qualify on the Beretta. "I've become something I've never wanted to be."
Notes: Thank you to wildernessguru and theemdash for the beta review.



( 'A gun's different. The staff weapon was like … Moses pointing a stick at the Red Sea. You don't really expect it to work.' )