It's a slow week here on the blog, partly because I'm busy at work (busy but productive! I actually have time to do the parts of my job that isn't just putting out fires. It's nice), and partly because I just don't feel like saying much. There's construction going on, on the roof above my cube and outside the window five feet away, and it involves a lot of REALLY LOUD pounding, and it's not very conducive to thoughtful post construction. It's more conducive to getting headaches, nervous tics, and having to reign oneself in from jumping up from one's chair in the middle of the workday and screaming "For the love of TiVo, SHUT THE F*** UP!!!!"
It's happening now. "POUND! POUND! POUND! POUND! POUND!" with a slightly less loud "bang-bang, bang-bang, bang-bang" serving as backup.
ANyway.
I'm sure those of you from the fanfic community who either followed or managed to track me down here probably already know about the FanLib fracas, but in case you don't, allow me to point you to it: Making Light blogged it first, and then Scalzi blogged his two cents, and now Lis Riba has uncovered the "shocking" truth of what they're really all about, which is essentially, as Scalzi put it (there's just too much hammering to put it in my own words *tic*), to "[control] and [exploit] [Fanficcers] as cheap labor by the copyright holders."
As I'm not really part of the fic community anymore, I don't really have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said by these guys and others, other than that I took a curious peek, and I don't get what about this site could possibly appeal to veteran ficcers. My guess is it's populated with young, impressionable newbies with high hopes of getting discovered via their fic who think this will get them more exposure than FF.net or a niche archive.
So there, at least, is something to keep y'all busy whilst I get caught up on stuff, or while I'm working things out with my court-appointed attorney for pounding a construction worker in the head.
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