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Fanfiction.net is deleting the internet! We should, er, Occupy! No, wait, BOYCOTT!
As some of you may have seen in the last few weeks, ff'net has started a massive crackdown on fic posted there that is not allowed by the terms of service. This has sent the community into a massive tizzy and backlash culminating in authors (well, some of us) being sent rather alarmist private messages.
Because nothing says "LET'S ORGANIZE" better than The Man taking away our porn.
Subject: Petition
Already, you know these people mean business. It's a PETITION, GET IN THE CAR.
I can't believe fanfic is doing this!
...well, technically, since we write it, we make the fanfic do what it's doing...?
Subject: Please pass it on to anyone you can!
I'm doing that right now. *beams*
IMPORTANT!: Fan-fiction is still deleting stories that contain yaoi, yuri,
lemons, violence, stories based on songs, and any detailed sex
scenes…so…just about every story on the site.
This is the most amazing sentence ever, you guys. DETAILED SEX SCENES are the ONLY thing fanfiction is for. Obviously.
Oh, wait, sorry. Apparently, yaoi and yuri, too. Because god knows there's no g-rated yaoi. (and god also knows that people would never, ever, use hyperbole scare tactics to rally people. Why, that might be considered lying. Also, apparently, ff'net doesn't consider femslash in the same light as yuri, as all of MY femslash? Yeah, it's still there--even that one where Jean and Domino are screwing, though it's not exactly detailed sex, so, I'm safe.).
Point three: stories based on songs and detailed sex scenes? HAVE BEEN NOT ALLOWED SINCE TWO THOUSAND FUCKING ONE. Or thereabouts. Your panties are in a bunch over something that was already not supposed to be there. WAKE UP AND READ THE BLOODY TOS, YOU DIPSHITS.
Most everyone knows of the
petition going around. If you haven't signed it, the link is www . change .
org /petitions/fanfiction-net-stop-the-destruction-of-fanfiction-net
Please remove spaces and sign petition so they don't remove mature content
including fics and accounts.
Internet petitions! Shit, ff'net will bow to our whims now, baby.
Also: mature content hasn't been allowed... FOR A VERY LONG TIME. So your petition is ten years too late. Suck it up, dumbass.
HOWEVER. However, this message is not over! Oh, no. It isn't. =D
But there is more we can do. someones organizing a Black Out Day.
On June 23rd(according to GTM timing, so that we know we're doing it
together), do NOT go onto fan-fiction. Don't read,
don't review, don't message your friends, don't update. If enough people
participate, then the site will notice, and will realize we take our stories
seriously.
BOYCOTT FOR GREAT JUSTICE. and porn. I'm not sure what GTM means, or how we're all gonna do it together without the AMAZINGNESS THAT IS OUR PORN UPLOADED. Or whatever. (also, fanfiction.net. It is NOT HARD TO TYPE, fan-fiction, it is not)
Please spread the word any way you can, in any fandom!
Done! *gestures at post*
And let me know if you're going to join.
I'd rather block you from being able to contact me, actually...
The motto is "Unleash Your Imagination." How can we if
we're being given a LONG list of what we cannot write?
YOU GUYS, I CAN'T. *cracks up*
June 23rd. Remember it. Please.!!!!!! i...
And so, the day came when fanfiction.net was boycotted. And the servers knew silence, ticking over gently as they seconds passed and the hours lengthened until finally--the traffic came back, they couldn't stay away. The traffic came back, the very next day.
So basically, don't go on FF tommorow. At all.
Well, you can stay away. Me? I've always wanted to rule the Just In section, and since I've not uploaded a damned thing since 2008, I might manage that for several hours. It could be amazing. Kinda like this private message of sheltered youth.
Kids, I remember the day they kicked mature content and songfics off site. This? Is nothing but them actually, FINALLY, cracking down on all you idiots who go "oh, well, that doesn't pertain to me! I am a special snowflake! You can't keep me doooown!"
If you're that het up about it, go get an ao3 account, ffs. They won't stifle your creativity.
*cracks knuckles and starts the difficult road of 'taking notes and making summaries' (oh, god, I hate this.)*
Because nothing says "LET'S ORGANIZE" better than The Man taking away our porn.
Subject: Petition
Already, you know these people mean business. It's a PETITION, GET IN THE CAR.
I can't believe fanfic is doing this!
...well, technically, since we write it, we make the fanfic do what it's doing...?
Subject: Please pass it on to anyone you can!
I'm doing that right now. *beams*
IMPORTANT!: Fan-fiction is still deleting stories that contain yaoi, yuri,
lemons, violence, stories based on songs, and any detailed sex
scenes…so…just about every story on the site.
This is the most amazing sentence ever, you guys. DETAILED SEX SCENES are the ONLY thing fanfiction is for. Obviously.
Oh, wait, sorry. Apparently, yaoi and yuri, too. Because god knows there's no g-rated yaoi. (and god also knows that people would never, ever, use hyperbole scare tactics to rally people. Why, that might be considered lying. Also, apparently, ff'net doesn't consider femslash in the same light as yuri, as all of MY femslash? Yeah, it's still there--even that one where Jean and Domino are screwing, though it's not exactly detailed sex, so, I'm safe.).
Point three: stories based on songs and detailed sex scenes? HAVE BEEN NOT ALLOWED SINCE TWO THOUSAND FUCKING ONE. Or thereabouts. Your panties are in a bunch over something that was already not supposed to be there. WAKE UP AND READ THE BLOODY TOS, YOU DIPSHITS.
Most everyone knows of the
petition going around. If you haven't signed it, the link is www . change .
org /petitions/fanfiction-net-stop-the-destruction-of-fanfiction-net
Please remove spaces and sign petition so they don't remove mature content
including fics and accounts.
Internet petitions! Shit, ff'net will bow to our whims now, baby.
Also: mature content hasn't been allowed... FOR A VERY LONG TIME. So your petition is ten years too late. Suck it up, dumbass.
HOWEVER. However, this message is not over! Oh, no. It isn't. =D
But there is more we can do. someones organizing a Black Out Day.
On June 23rd(according to GTM timing, so that we know we're doing it
together), do NOT go onto fan-fiction. Don't read,
don't review, don't message your friends, don't update. If enough people
participate, then the site will notice, and will realize we take our stories
seriously.
BOYCOTT FOR GREAT JUSTICE. and porn. I'm not sure what GTM means, or how we're all gonna do it together without the AMAZINGNESS THAT IS OUR PORN UPLOADED. Or whatever. (also, fanfiction.net. It is NOT HARD TO TYPE, fan-fiction, it is not)
Please spread the word any way you can, in any fandom!
Done! *gestures at post*
And let me know if you're going to join.
I'd rather block you from being able to contact me, actually...
The motto is "Unleash Your Imagination." How can we if
we're being given a LONG list of what we cannot write?
YOU GUYS, I CAN'T. *cracks up*
June 23rd. Remember it. Please.!!!!!! i...
And so, the day came when fanfiction.net was boycotted. And the servers knew silence, ticking over gently as they seconds passed and the hours lengthened until finally--the traffic came back, they couldn't stay away. The traffic came back, the very next day.
So basically, don't go on FF tommorow. At all.
Well, you can stay away. Me? I've always wanted to rule the Just In section, and since I've not uploaded a damned thing since 2008, I might manage that for several hours. It could be amazing. Kinda like this private message of sheltered youth.
Kids, I remember the day they kicked mature content and songfics off site. This? Is nothing but them actually, FINALLY, cracking down on all you idiots who go "oh, well, that doesn't pertain to me! I am a special snowflake! You can't keep me doooown!"
If you're that het up about it, go get an ao3 account, ffs. They won't stifle your creativity.
*cracks knuckles and starts the difficult road of 'taking notes and making summaries' (oh, god, I hate this.)*
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they're so cute when they're young.
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They are.
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I don't remember some of this, can I be 22?
Mature content, yeah, I remember that. Why would anyone want to put their explicit fic there anyway? "You can't take away my right to hide my porn fic where no one wants to find it!"
Is this songfic as in, inspired by a song, or is this the kind where you include all the lyrics? Maybe line by line, following each line with a paragraph of purple Tell Don't Show goop?
Re: I don't remember some of this, can I be 22?
Re: I don't remember some of this, can I be 22?
Most songfic is Maybe line by line, following each line with a paragraph of purple Tell Don't Show goop? (what an excellent description for it. =D)
A little bit of songfic has more heft to the prose.
I don't think the inspired by/lyrics as the title kind are being gone after, though (I still have at least one fic up with some quoted lyrics at the top, I was very fond of that, in my early days)
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I enjoy the occasional ego-boost from getting notifications about being favorited or reviewed, though.
Sadly, I was never very good at keeping up with posting there--I hate writing summaries, for one thing. And then they made it harder and harder to do it in one, quick upload. And then they took away various dividers, and I was just done for a while.
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I wonder how many signatures their petition has?
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please don't tell them to do that! *shudders*
I like your plan for swamping the Just In page. Sounds like fun. :P But I am all sadface that I did not get such a note in my inbox, for it would have been entertaining (though not as entertaining as your post). Made me feel like a REAL fan-fiction wrighter.
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If only swamping the Just In page didn't include actual work. Sigh.
I could forward mine? =D
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Even I know ff.net doesn't allow mature content and I'm not even there. I think GTM are the content warning things, right?
LOL the whole thing
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Heheheheh.
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FF dot net has run by incompetent asshats since it was created, however many years ago. Nothing's changed on that front, far as I can see. Every change they've made is pretty much guaranteed to make the experience worse.
Still, what's worth it with a petition? Just post your stories somewhere else, that's my attitude!
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But.
Entry title and summary must be rated K for all audience. No exceptions.
That? Has been there since (apparently, the date listed on the guidelines might just correspond to the last time I agreed with them) 2008. They've just never actually gone through and enforced it. Now they are (lord only knows why--maybe they had an internal audit? Those can cause all sorts of panic).
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The heavy-handed means of belated enforcement - pull and short-term ban the user, deleting stuff suddenly - that's sucky, rather like the entire site in my eyes. Honestly, I have to psyche myself up every time I write a story to x-post it there. I know some people seem to like it but, for the life of me, I've never seen why: it's as ugly as any 1990s-era website can be. The only way I can make a story there bearable is to use my Readability plug-in and I can only rarely be bothered to go to that extra click's worth of effort.
I know it's their site and whatever they want in their TOS is their business. But I think they've got a lousy site, give lousy service and really don't have any advantage other than venerability and a SEO-friendly URL so all of this is just one more reason not to click through on a link to there.
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