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icarusWhat Is This Pornish Pixies of Which You Speak?
We fanfiction writers and readers wish that people who stumble on this odd thing we call "fandom" would take their time to learn what it is. Look around. Read some of our better stories (instead of selecting something at random, and really, would that even work in a book store?). Get to know us before you pass random ill-informed judgments.
Now that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pornish_pixies has come into the limelight because of Strikethrough 2007 to a variety of fandoms, I'm going to ask other non-Harry Potter fandoms to do the same. I'm seeing pornish_pixies used as an example of "fanfic I wish didn't exist" in some fandoms, and I find that distressing, given pornish_pixies's history in the Harry Potter fandom.
But you don't know that history yet, do you? Give me a moment of your time.
First, Harry Potter is a megolith of a fandom that has kept the hecklers at Fandom Wank entertained for half a decade. The political infighting (a.k.a. "wank") has been in proportion to the size and variety of the HP fandom: immense. It became a by-word. Whenever a new fandom had a lot of wank, the folks at F_W gloated, "This could be the next Harry Potter."
If you wish to understand the history of Harry Potter wank, this well-written editorial (set aside an afternoon), The MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography, covers 2001-2006 and will give you a Ph.D. in that darkest aspect of Harry Potter fandom history.
But it doesn't seem to mentionpornish_pixies. Well, what was fun for the hecklers wasn't much fun for the participants.
Enter![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
switchknife and pornish_pixies.
After a series of inter-related wanks that embroiled many friends, the prolific slash writerswitchknife, who maintained the popular Switchknife Recs website waved a flag (red? white? pink?), calling for a halt to all the battles. "This is supposed to be fun," switchknife insisted. "Let's get back to the porn -- the good kind of wank."
Switch createdpornish_pixies, "The Community You Wank Off To," kicking it off with a series of "write your favorite kink" challenges. Switch's terms (made somewhat solemnly, with a wink):
It was intended to be short fics only, lunch hour length, but that went by the wayside very early on.
Since that time,pornish_pixies has been a sort of Japanese bathhouse of R and NC-17 Harry Potter fic. HP fans take off their fandom affiliations and politics and leave them at the door. "Fluffy Harry/Ron Christmas morning romance" appears next to "Werewolf BDSM Non-con" without a qualm. Slash, (Other?), are all welcome, so long as it's sexually explicit and you leave each other be.
So to stand outside ofpornish_pixies and use it as an example of "that" kind of fic that "I would never read," misses the point of the community entirely.
We fanfiction writers and readers wish that people who stumble on this odd thing we call "fandom" would take their time to learn what it is. Look around. Read some of our better stories (instead of selecting something at random, and really, would that even work in a book store?). Get to know us before you pass random ill-informed judgments.
Now that
pornish_pixies has come into the limelight because of pornish_pixies used as an example of "fanfic I wish didn't exist" in some fandoms, and I find that distressing, given pornish_pixies's history in the Harry Potter fandom. But you don't know that history yet, do you? Give me a moment of your time.
First, Harry Potter is a megolith of a fandom that has kept the hecklers at Fandom Wank entertained for half a decade. The political infighting (a.k.a. "wank") has been in proportion to the size and variety of the HP fandom: immense. It became a by-word. Whenever a new fandom had a lot of wank, the folks at F_W gloated, "This could be the next Harry Potter."
If you wish to understand the history of Harry Potter wank, this well-written editorial (set aside an afternoon), The MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography, covers 2001-2006 and will give you a Ph.D. in that darkest aspect of Harry Potter fandom history.
But it doesn't seem to mention
pornish_pixies. Well, what was fun for the hecklers wasn't much fun for the participants. Enter
switchknife and pornish_pixies. After a series of inter-related wanks that embroiled many friends, the prolific slash writer
switchknife, who maintained the popular Switchknife Recs website waved a flag (red? white? pink?), calling for a halt to all the battles. "This is supposed to be fun," switchknife insisted. "Let's get back to the porn -- the good kind of wank." Switch created
pornish_pixies, "The Community You Wank Off To," kicking it off with a series of "write your favorite kink" challenges. Switch's terms (made somewhat solemnly, with a wink):- Respect other people's squicks. Since this is a pr0n community, there will be depictions of various kinds of sexual practices. Please state warnings clearly before the fic/poem, or place your story behind a cut-tag (as advised above), if you feel that some of your subject matter could seriously upset people. (Examples: chanslash, bloodplay, rape.)
- Respect other people's kinks. Do not tease and/or abuse someone for their particular proclivities, or what they choose to write in a fic. Everyone here reserves the right to perv unchallenged.
It was intended to be short fics only, lunch hour length, but that went by the wayside very early on.
Since that time,
pornish_pixies has been a sort of Japanese bathhouse of R and NC-17 Harry Potter fic. HP fans take off their fandom affiliations and politics and leave them at the door. "Fluffy Harry/Ron Christmas morning romance" appears next to "Werewolf BDSM Non-con" without a qualm. Slash, (Other?), are all welcome, so long as it's sexually explicit and you leave each other be.So to stand outside of
pornish_pixies and use it as an example of "that" kind of fic that "I would never read," misses the point of the community entirely.
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Date: 2007-06-02 08:14 am (UTC)During all this kerfuffle, I went back and edited a post on my journal that was linked to all over the net to say that pornish wasn't an incestfic comm because I was starting to see people say that. It's an erotica community, a porn community. Chan and incest were a tiny fraction of what was posted there kinkwise. For the most part it was your standard NC-17 PWP fare. We've just always upheld a no-censorship clause. I'm hoping that we can continue that, but I'm waiting to hear what SA/LJ will tell me next week. *crosses fingers and toes*
It was intended to be short fics only, lunch hour length, but that went by the wayside very early on.
Actually, they've always been fairly short fics. Up until last month the posting limit was 5,000 words max. Now it's up to 10,000 words, but that still limits stories to one-LJ-post size. :)
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Date: 2007-06-02 03:45 pm (UTC)Yep. That's exactly what I've been hearing people say.
Up until last month the posting limit was 5,000 words max.
Ooops. *scratches back of head, John Sheppard-style* Er. Um. Then I've always, um, cough, ignored that limit.
Me? Ignore the rules? Nah.
Okay, when I was invited I told Switch which stories I wanted to post there and said, "I think they're over the limit" and she said it was all right. Well, more like, "Yes, yes, yes! Post that."
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