Huh? Post in Jenkin's blog on my behalf?

[icarus]

Someone named FANtastic has left a response in Henry Jenkins blog to remove the link to my FanLib summary. This person is obviously well-meaning, but I do not know them, and they never contacted me to ask my feelings about this.

Trust me, if I had a problem with being linked by Henry Jenkins, I would say so in no uncertain terms. I am jazzed that he linked to me. I'm a writer trying to get published and I've done some journalism, so exposure for something I've written? Is a good thing. I was once roasted for linking other people's work in public, so I'm careful about that now. But I'm not shy. My response has not appeared in Jenkins blog yet since he's at a conference:

FANtastic, I do appreciate your concern, but I am tickled pink that I was linked to Professor Jenkins' blog. In fact, I linked back to his post here in my summary.

A troll tried to attack my critical comments regarding FanLib on Mashable (comments that later became that summary) by linking to explicit fanart for one of my stories. I posted a link to the NC-17 story in question and a copy of my invitation to FanLib, suggesting they take a look at what they'd requested.

Belatedly, it occured to me that right below my summary was a series of story recommendations including NC-17 slavefic and steamy Wincest, and various links to other people who might not be too comfortable with the exposure. This morning I was sent an alarming message from several trusted friends who were as duped as I was by what turned out to be an LJ hoax concerning deleted LJ accounts. I've worked very hard to establish a readership and it would be a heavy loss for me. The hoax has been exposed* and I've locked reference to others' work. It's not a problem.

I guess we're all a little jittery at the exposure FanLib represents.

Icarus

* By the way, per azurelunatic the transcript of the LJ Abuse team's reaction to the hoax ran something like this:

"That's so hysterical, no."

"... Ahahahaha..."

"Aahahahahahahahahahahahaha-!"

"Wincest sounds like a new product from Mr. Gates that promotes incest somehow. NEW FROM THE MAKERS OF WINDOWS. WINCEST."

Comments

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

That's a little strange. I'm usually not completely paranoid (OK that's a lie, I am) but circumstantial evidence is building to the point where I suspect FanLib involvement.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Nah. I think this was a well-meaning person. I caused all sorts of misunderstanding with the announcements.

Why did I feel compelled to leave them in the first place? It's not like anyone cares whether I'm... anyway. It's hard to explain a panic reaction.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's probably me thinking the worst. Sorry.

As a side note, I posted about this on life_wo_fanlib but I searched the FanLib forums and haven't found anyone yet complaining that the fanfic.net importer doesn't work, though it should be blocked as of three days ago.

This may just be an indication that no one cares to import their stories there, lol. Stats have been remaining pretty static.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You might be right, actually. I'm getting trolled over this in a comm JDSampson belongs to. *shrugs*

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Wait, she's still posting on LJ somewhere? Where's this?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm getting anonymous troll comments but putting pointers to it will just make it bigger. I'm working on Out Of Bounds now.

[boji.livejournal.com]

Please we all had a panic reaction last week. It was Fanlib - then I got caught by the Urban myth that went round my f-list. I f-locked a whole ton of fic, then went back and hung it all out in the open again.

But slight panic? With such close scrutiny? I get that.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It's a little like cleaning up the house when visitors are coming. You might not be ashamed of that sexy neglige hanging on the bathroom doorknob, but do you leave it there?

*sighs* Turns out the rumors were true after all.

Icarus