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."

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

What?

[boji.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe pornish_pixies wasn't one of the groups Fantastic named - I could be wrong for which I apologise, thing is a couple of fan-comms have apparently just been suspended.

I thought it was interesting that one of them had been outed by Fantastic over on Henry Jenkins' blog.

Mind you SN_slash seems safe as houses, so maybe it's utterly unrelated.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Here's what I've learned so far. Apparently a number of journals with pedophilia listed in their interests were deleted. A number of those were journals for fictional RPG characters. Someone put the point to a post about it in femmequixotic's LJ: http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/266024.html

It was also brought up in synecdochic's LJ:

Here is a direct link:
http://www.warriorsforinnocence.org/2007/05/livejournal-allows-child-rapist-free.html

and the rest are here
http://www.warriorsforinnocence.org/search/label/LiveJournal

If it were just pornish_pixies and not all those RPG journals, I would say it's FanLib, because Pornish was one of the comms. The person who posted (who was probably with FanLib) had no percentage in deleting those comms since the goal was to prevent my summary from getting linked to elsewhere.

By the way, I have not been able to post or clear this up in Professor Jenkins' journal.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

P.S. it was someone else posting in synecdochic's LJ, not synecdochic who said it.

Icarus