Emma Grant

I'm going to stop crossposting LJ content to this journal for the time being. I'll still read my flist here, but I'm trying to simplify things for people who read me.

I'll occasionally post here, but LJ will be the best place to read me until further notice. :-)

• FWIW, I'm probably not going to be crossposting to GJ anymore. LJ is still my main journal and the main place I'll watch my flist, and I'm cross-posting some (public only) content to IJ at ths point. I'm going to wait and see what the fandom does over the next couple of months before I make a shift. I'm not thrilled with the idea of fandom relocating, and despite the asshattery of LJ, I can't help but hope it won't happen. But if the fandom goes, I will too. *sigh*

• I just spent about an hour friending as many people as I could on IJ. I'm sure there are still a lot of people I have friended on LJ that I haven't found on IJ yet, but I'm slowly catching up. It was hard not not notice that many people I've had mutually friended for years haven't friended me there. I'm usually not that concerned about such things, but still. Meep.

• I think some of you have done this already, but you know those new Pepsi-sponsored free v-gifts LJ is making available? Lots of folks have been sending them to LJ News with a message letting them know exactly what they think. You can see all the v-gifts LJ News has gotten here. If you want to send your own message, go here and scroll all the way down to the bottom. Again, it's free (advertising). Gee, I guess now we know why LJ went on an anti-porn spree -- they had to "clean up" the place for their new big corporate sponsor. God, I miss the old days.

Happy Saturday!

Also posted: LJ

I'd love to migrate my layout from LJ over here, but I have no idea how to do it. Of course, it's one of the "official" LJ ones, so maybe I can't. Is that possible?

If not, can anyone point me to some sort of "Creating LJ Layouts for Dummies" reference?

slashcast episode 19 is posted HERE. It features interviews with Prophecy attendees, a GLBT news segment from phaballa, a Fandom opinion on DH by jedirita, and a meta chat about the future of fandom on LJ with elaboration, gmth, furiosity, and mijan.

Anyone thinking of going to Wrockstock, the Wizard Rock festival being held outside of St. Louis the weekend before Halloween? I really want to go (it's an easy flight from here), but it would be a lot more fun if people I know were going to be there. Anyone?

From the web page:

We're the St. Louis Area Wizards, and we are pleased to present Wrockstock Spooktacular 2007. The Wrockstock Spooktacular is a music festival, not unlike Woodstock, dedicated to the awesome Wizard Rock Bands out there. All procedes from the WrockStock will go to The Harry Potter Alliance (you can read more about this at the bottom of this page). Here's some general info (forgive us while the web wizards work their magic!):

Name: Wrockstock Spooktacular

Dates: October 26-28, 2007

Location: Trout Lodge, Potosi, MO


This will be a relaxed weekend full of HP fun, wizard rock and halloween-y goodness. Two nights of music, one electric, one acoustic...other activities will include a Triwizard Tournament, Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday party, HP crafts, plus it's a choose-your-own-adventure weekend, where you can create your own schedule of daytime activities based on what the Lodge offers.

12 bands! w00t!

I'm having some major technical difficulties here on IJ. I can't seem to access the "Edit friends" function. Every time I try to click on it, I'm taken back to my friends page. In fact, I can't seem to do anything at the moment except access my journal, my friends page, and my user info page. All of the functions that would allow me to actually change my settings seem not to be working. Is it just me?

Edit: Everything works in IE, but not in Firefox. In fact, it works in an IE tab on Firefox. Any idea as to what might be going wrong?

Edit 2: Okay, I think I figured it out. I was using the "Clean" site viewing option, and for some reason that one wasn't working for me in Firefox. As soon as I chose another one, everything was fine. Huh. Thanks for listening to me whine here! :-P

( Some unpopular fandom opinions under the cut. )

First, thanks to everyone for all of the birthday wishes! I spent this birthday alone (as MDH is traveling), which actually wasn't so bad. I had a nice quiet day all to myself, something I doubt I'll have again for quite a long time. It was great to keep seeing people on my flist wishing me well. bethbethbeth even wrote Harry/Draco for me!


Happy birthday also to those who share this one with me: mijan, eeyore9990, andcalyxess. And while I'm at it, Happy Birthday to sciencegeek and araythea, who were born on the 11th, and to caithion, batagur, and elanor_isolda, all of whom have birthdays tomorrow. This was clearly a popular three days for fandomers to be born!

In other news, I have now finished restructuring my website (http://www.queerasjedi.net/emma). The old pages are still there so that no links will be broken, but the link on the front page now goes to my new archive. I installed eFiction 3.3 and uploaded every bit of fic I've ever written. The only fics I didn't upload were the ones from Queer as Jedi, since they're all already hosted on the site. I've also included art when I could. AFAIK, all the artists have given me prior permission to post their stuff on my site, but if you see something of yours there and would rather I take it down, let me know.

It was frightening how much of my fic was only on LJ. I've never been one to cross-post, and so much of it was just on my journal, with a link to the post from the index on my web page. If my LJ had been deleted, a lot of that would have just disappeared. It was also interesting to note that back in 2003, I wasn't posting a lot of fic on my LJ. Most of what I was writing was posted to mailing lists and wound up on associated archives. When I first started posting fic on my LJ, it was with the idea that just a handful of friends would see it and give me constructive feedback, but I had no expectation that lots of people would see it, or would consider it a finished product. That all changed about two weeks into Left My Heart, though. After that, LJ became the primary place I would post new fic, and I don't think I posted on mailing lists again after the summer of 2004. It was interesting to look back over the last five years and see how the way I've used LJ has changed. Sadly, I think it might be about to change again.

There's a love meme over at eeyore9990's journal and my name was put in! I usually avoid these sorts of things on LJ, but hey -- it's IJ! It's a whole different ball game, right?

I've installed eFiction 3.3 on my site and am in the process of uploading every fic I've ever written there. I've been using LJ as an archive of sorts for the last couple of years; in fact most links from my web page go to LJ entries. And with everything that's happened lately, the thought of having a good chunk of my fic only on LJ is a bit disconcerting. I have a lot of it archived in other places (like Skyehawke and TQP), but there was really no single place where every bit of it was located. Well, there will be very soon!

So I'm re-reading a lot of my fic as I go, which is kind of fun, but also a bit sad. So much of what I've written is connected to someone else's work -- to a post someone made, to a piece of art someone drew, or to another fic someone wrote. And as those things get moved or flocked, all of that connectivity is being lost. I have a lot of dead links now, sadly, and I know I'm not the only one. It's not quite the same without the context, and I'm angry and saddened to see that slipping away. I understand that no one wants to be a test case for LJ Abuse, but at the same time I want to tell people not to back down so quickly, you know? *sigh* I'm not flocking any of my stuff on my own journal, FWIW.

By the way, if you have anything posted on pornish_pixies or erotic_elves on LJ, please go and flock it if you haven't already. If you don't do it by the comms' deadlines, your work might be deleted -- meaning that we've lost yet another bit of our fandom history. And if you are 18 or older, please go JOIN those comms so that you can still read all the good flocked stuff. More info on PP here and on EE here.

You know what the saddest thing about all this LJ controversy is? No porn.. Dudes, two weeks after DH, we should be rolling in the porn, but no. So I decided to do something about it. Besides, I promised people at Prophecy that I had Snarry to write. This is a start... ;-)

Title: 101 Uses for a Pensieve
Author: Emma Grant
Summary: Harry learns quite a lot from digging through Snape's memories.
Pairing: Snape/Lupin, Snape/Lupin/Harry
Rating: Adult.
Length: 2100 words
Warning: Spoilers for DH. Threesome. Porn. May defy the physics of pensieve memories. Link to this at your own peril.
Disclaimer: All characters in this fic are over the age of 18. So nyah. :-P

(  Harry closed the door… )

People are starting to dig a little, and it looks like the sites folks are fleeing to aren't any better than this one.

maeglinyedi points out that there may be an issue with Google ads on Insane Journal, since Google doesn't want its ads on sites with adult content. I could swear that I read somewhere that the site owner has said he wouldn't TOS people for fanfic or art, but I can't find that comment now. Their FAQ is a bit nebulous on the subject, though.

shaggirl posts that Greatest Journal has a history of deleting fan artists. Several people are commenting on that post that GJ isn't a great alternative for fandom for a variety of reasons.

JournalFen is 18+ and invite-only, so that may not help fandom much in the long run. [Edit: According to ciel_vert, you can request invite code for JF at leavin_eljay on LJ.] Scribblt is still in the development phase and looks promising, though it will also be 18+. We might just have to face the fact that places that will be safe for adult fandom are going to be age restricted.

Scribblit is being developed and financed single-handedly by one person (twocorpses on LJ), and she is taking PayPal donations to help support the project. Please go HERE to donate.

vichan made an appeal to us to find the humor in this situation So I went looking for something, and found some funny comments to this post. I don't particularly agree with the post, because I don't think that all fan fiction and art is by definition illegal. But that's neither here nor there. Back to the point, which is humor.

First, behold the freaky code that inserts your user name! Cool, huh?

Fanfic is totally gay. Dude, that's the whole point.

Personally, I'd like to see somebody try suing a Harry Potter fanfic writer. At least that way there'd be one court ruling that mentions Snape's penis. That would be worth it fro being able to cite the case law alone.

If Livejournal content were cut back to only what's really allowed by fair use, that would make the last couple rounds of bans look like a Hogwarts picnic. Okay, maybe not so funny...

Actually, it's NOT me because I have said repeatedly and publicly that I do not read or write fanfic. Nor do I draw or look at fan art. Not now, not ever. It does not interest me and never will: quite frankly, I think it's derivative, unoriginal and pointless. Nor am I a member of any fan communities, either on the internet or real life. So unless you're stating that I am somehow suspect because I read published science fiction and like several cult shows or have publicly objected to Livejournal's cackhanded handling of this whole affair, then quite frankly I fail to see why I have been personally singled out in this post. Remember the part about the cool code? Yeah. PWND.

You say, "Harry Potter is a child in the eyes of the law." No. Harry Potter is a *fictional character* in the eyes of the law. Fictional characters *have no legal rights.* None. Note that, according to this logic, JKR is guilty of the murder of Cedric Diggory. (And Harry Potter, if one wants to get weird about it.) Okay, that makes some weird sort of sense.

I think that writing fanfiction is a lot like smoking pot in B.C. Really? I gotta go to B.C. sometime.

Their repeated failure to give specific definitions helps keep both Six Apart *and* fandom safe from the evil ones. Those darn evildoers, at it again.

I have now duplicated the public posts of my LJ on GJ and IJ, where I have the same user name as this one. Feel free to friend as you like.

For the foreseeable future, I'm not leaving LJ. I'm pissed off beyond belief at 6A's horrific approach to customer service, but dammit, we built our community here and we paid for it. We've worked hard to make this a place we could all congregate, and I ain't leaving without a fight.

So even though I'll be crossposting my public entries to all three journals from here on out (flocked stuff will stay here, and I will be backing up weekly from now on), I'm still calling LJ my home.

Okay, and what happened to these journals? They are all bolded out now when I look at my "manage friends" page, just like Ponderosa's and Foo's LJs are. Were these intentional deletions, or are they more casualties?

doodleydo
elizabeth_ice
fic_fairy
frotting_goodhp
smut_wednesday

This will be long and detailed, just to warn you!

( Overall impressions )

( The good and the bad )

( Formal Programming and Prevalence of Slash )

( Informal Programming )

( And most importantly... )

( So, next year? )

We're sitting around watching YouTube vids in the lobby, and ficlette just pointed us to the "Hard Gay" videos (which she pronounced as "hahd ghey" with that cute Boston accent). It is FUCKING HILARIOUS OMG.

Still in Toronto, hanging out in the Room of Requirement with everyone who's still here: tracy_loo_hoo, sexts, anathema91, alaana_fair, sesheta_66, fionafawkes, hazelhawthorne, shadowpryde, gothfirefaerie, aurorarain, acromantular, mijan, zedmeister, and reciprocity_. We ordered in food and are now sitting around and talking, being online, reading fic aloud, giving each other massages, etc. The hotel staff found us at one point, but were nice enough to let us stay. I think they realized it was better for us to hang out down here away from the rest of the hotel guests than to be doing all of this in the lobby. It's nice to have a private place to hang out, actually. It makes you feel like the con isn't quite over!

I'm on my way home tomorrow, and I'll make a more comprehensive Prophecy post then.

Edit: After a fire alarm drove us into the lobby at 12:30, we hooked up with everyone else and decided to stay in the lobby, where it seems that the 150 or so people who are still here are currently congregated. Happily, snapetoy has just hooked us up with some Young!Snupin porn, which we huddled into a corner to watch -- yes, in the lobby. The guy who spent the comm as Professor Moody popped by, gave us a very disapproving look, and walked away very quickly! ;-)

And OMG there is Mary Poppins porn. :-P

Edit 2: Moody just came back over and looked again, and said, "You girls are gross!" Toy replied, "We like it that way." *snerk*

I went to two panels today in which a good chunk of the panel time was spent talking about the current LJ crisis. It was a good thing, though, as it felt sort of like a community meeting, with everyone tossing out ideas and banding together. It was like everyone needed a chance to get their frustrations out. We know how to wank hard in this fandom, but we seem to come together when we need to.

( More on this. )

( Back to Prophecy stuff. )

Last night was a laaaate night, so this morning got a late start too. Picked up my name tag, had breakfast, ran into mijan, and eventually met up with fiona_fawkes, djin7, daddybear716 and more people I can't remember at the moment.

( Meet-ups! Squee! Wizard Rock! OOTP! )

Oh, and I see from a quick scan of my flist that a couple of HP fanartists have been suspended. 6A sure knows how to time these things, don't they? :-/

I'm here!!! I had a hell of a travel day, and my luggage has yet to join me. Hopefully it will arrive soon, because I have nothing but the clothes on my back. Okay, and my laptop, but I can't wear that. :-P

hazelhawthorne picked me up from the airport this afternoon and we checked into the Sheraton, then headed down to see who we could find. We almost immediately started running people we knew and ended up having dinner with coffeejunkii and kriken, which was fun.

I finally had to come up to the room and take a nap, as I got almost no sleep last night. We were originally going to go out tonight with some folks who were heading to a club, but I have to say I'm too tired to do it. (I'm getting old, aren't I?) Besides, I kind of want to hang out and wait for my luggage.

We may go hang out in the lobby bar area in a bit and see who we can find!