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oh look, the trolls are back...
Dec. 7th, 2012 11:54 pmYeah, the self-appointed ff.net police (specifically the group calling themselves Eliminator -- yes, there are multiple groups of these people, and they apparently have schisms and everything -- it's like a bizarre parody of actual fandom, only instead of creating stories, art, or whatever, they can only destroy other people's work) are once again on patrol!
The target this time is a Harry Potter ficlet I wrote back in freaking 2003 and posted to ff.net in 2004: Parseltongue (LJ mirror here), which was previously attacked by Greyshade (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4076901/) on October 26th (as mentioned in this thread). Somehow after eight and a half years of peaceful existence on the net, it has mutated and become miraculously offensive unto the sight of... yeah, no, it's just that I pissed off some trolls and they can't let anything drop. *deep sigh*
"Parseltongue" is an experiment with my own border between squick and kink, specifically centered on the use of live snakes as aids to foreplay. (Yeah, yeah, I know, and I say I didn't write porn until this year. That's because I don't think "Parseltongue" is porn. It's more of a tease, and it fades to black before the actual sex qua sex.) Anyway, I left the characters unnamed and used second person because I wanted to make readers focus on the situation and the kink rather than on their feelings about various HP ships, or their feelings about what kind of sex would or would not be IC for various characters. I particularly did not want to wade into the very fraught waters of, say, Harry/Ginny versus Harry/Hermione, or into the problems that arise when writing Voldemort/anyone. Hence the literary avoidance tactic. :-)
Anyway, I am quite sure these trolls are still after me because they didn't cow me into leaving ff.net or deleting my stories this fall... because once again their bugbear is the false conflation of second person with interactivity, which was the point under contention in the previous round of accusations. There is no mention whatsoever of the ficlet's sexual content, which I think (if I were in the mood to accuse myself of breaking rules, which I am not because I don't think I did) might conceivably be construed to break the rating limit on account of kinkiness. (Kinky sex is inherently higher rated than vanilla missionary sex! It is dirty, bad, and wrong! We must think of the children! *removes tongue from cheek*)
( Lord Imagawa's 'review' )
You know, I am not even going to bother answering these people anymore. They just make me tired and sad about the seemingly inherent flaws of humanity. *deeper sigh*
If this is what ff.net has come to -- if this is the kind of petty, systematic harassment the site owners and mods are happy to let stand by not taking all of five minutes to clarify their rules one way or the other, instead of allowing the muddy wording that appears to conflate second person with interactivity (which I continue to maintain is a false equivalence) -- then I wish the mods and owners joy of their inundation with petty, stupid complaints over infractions that are not actually infractions.
I did my part to request a clarification of the rules. They ignored me.
I wash my hands of the issue.
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ETA: In the interest of keeping all discussion of this issue in a place where people can actually find it, I will mention that I got an anonymouse over at LJ who commented on this issue, but for unknown reasons attached the comment to a post about my recently fired coworker instead of this post. *shrug*
The target this time is a Harry Potter ficlet I wrote back in freaking 2003 and posted to ff.net in 2004: Parseltongue (LJ mirror here), which was previously attacked by Greyshade (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4076901/) on October 26th (as mentioned in this thread). Somehow after eight and a half years of peaceful existence on the net, it has mutated and become miraculously offensive unto the sight of... yeah, no, it's just that I pissed off some trolls and they can't let anything drop. *deep sigh*
"Parseltongue" is an experiment with my own border between squick and kink, specifically centered on the use of live snakes as aids to foreplay. (Yeah, yeah, I know, and I say I didn't write porn until this year. That's because I don't think "Parseltongue" is porn. It's more of a tease, and it fades to black before the actual sex qua sex.) Anyway, I left the characters unnamed and used second person because I wanted to make readers focus on the situation and the kink rather than on their feelings about various HP ships, or their feelings about what kind of sex would or would not be IC for various characters. I particularly did not want to wade into the very fraught waters of, say, Harry/Ginny versus Harry/Hermione, or into the problems that arise when writing Voldemort/anyone. Hence the literary avoidance tactic. :-)
Anyway, I am quite sure these trolls are still after me because they didn't cow me into leaving ff.net or deleting my stories this fall... because once again their bugbear is the false conflation of second person with interactivity, which was the point under contention in the previous round of accusations. There is no mention whatsoever of the ficlet's sexual content, which I think (if I were in the mood to accuse myself of breaking rules, which I am not because I don't think I did) might conceivably be construed to break the rating limit on account of kinkiness. (Kinky sex is inherently higher rated than vanilla missionary sex! It is dirty, bad, and wrong! We must think of the children! *removes tongue from cheek*)
( Lord Imagawa's 'review' )
You know, I am not even going to bother answering these people anymore. They just make me tired and sad about the seemingly inherent flaws of humanity. *deeper sigh*
If this is what ff.net has come to -- if this is the kind of petty, systematic harassment the site owners and mods are happy to let stand by not taking all of five minutes to clarify their rules one way or the other, instead of allowing the muddy wording that appears to conflate second person with interactivity (which I continue to maintain is a false equivalence) -- then I wish the mods and owners joy of their inundation with petty, stupid complaints over infractions that are not actually infractions.
I did my part to request a clarification of the rules. They ignored me.
I wash my hands of the issue.
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ETA: In the interest of keeping all discussion of this issue in a place where people can actually find it, I will mention that I got an anonymouse over at LJ who commented on this issue, but for unknown reasons attached the comment to a post about my recently fired coworker instead of this post. *shrug*
