Sum stuff.

[elisi]

Stuff to be cranky about:

I'd heard about the MJ statue, but not actually seen it until this morning. I've boggled until I can boggle no more...

The launch of FanLib.com. From the press release:

The launch of FanLib.com represents the coming of age of fan fiction, or "fanfic." Fan fiction is the original consumer generated media — original works of fiction written by fans and based on their favorite TV, film and book characters.

FanLib.com launches with co-promotional partners including HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster, and Starz Entertainment. The launch partners are heavily featured and have customized marketing integrated on the site while providing promotion for FanLib.com.

Good post here with lots of links. (Thanks to ruuger for the link.)

As we all suspected, W&H are real! *shudders*


Stuff to be happy about:

It's treacle_a's birthday! Have a fantabulous day dear and may your husband spoil you rotten and the baby never cry! *smooches*

For those of you unfamiliar with this lovely lady, she's a brilliant writer, and if you've never read Mortal Wounds you must go do so immediately. (Yes it's a WIP that might never be finished. Read it anyway!)

Comments

[ruuger]

Could be I'm paranoid, but babybubblebutt isn't so very long ago, and it's very easy indeed to cruise LJ and lift stories to post under an alias.

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you - one of the posts linked at metafandom actually mentioned that one FanLib's visions is to "make it easy to share your favourite fanfics". Which does not sound good to me...

[gillo]

"Easy to share" is remarkably close to "easy to steal" - and there's o evidence of any serious anti-plagiarism policy there. Not if decent fic keeps readers coming and thus encourages the adverts. So far there isn't a lot of evidence of particularly decent fic, mind you.