(Sorry about the delay; yesterday was kinda hectic)

So, I personally am kinda conflicted on this, since I feel that reposting content from other places kinda defeats the purpose of reviving the Library’s concept; but I’m open to the decision being made by everyone who’s expressed interest in the project.

Seeing that I haven’t received any more yays or maybe!yays; I think it’s time to start internally discussing the issue. Linstar’s email idea is probably the best one, since I don’t want to force him to have to get a Discord if he wants to communicate with the group. My plan is to use Google hangouts to communicate, so if you don’t have a Gmail account, it would probably be a good idea to invest in one. To avoid having people’s contact information plastered on this site, send me your email address via the Asylum contact form (at https://crazyminhzone.wordpress.com), and I’ll send an invite to the google hangout.

There's also the issue about sharing the emails with each other. I don't feel particularly comfortable with having my personal email shared with up to twelve other people, and I know myself well enough that a burner email would end up being forgotten about almost as soon as it was created. I dunno, is there a specific objection you have to creating a Discord account, Linstar? It's fine if there is, but I think it would be easiest if we used a Discord server for communications, rather than dealing with a tangled web of emails. Alternatively, if everyone has Gmail (and, if not, is comfortable with Google reading through communications posted from a burner address), we could use the Google group system? Although, that just goes back to the issues of sharing emails.

Honestly, not that big of a deal if I have to share my personal email address or commit to using a new one; just think it would be easier and faster to communicate with Discord.

I feel that, having to ask a author for permission to criticize their work, is antithetical to the concept of criticism to begin with. Especially given that the work being riffed is, by default, a publicly available work, and is therefore free game as far as criticism is concerned.

It's perfectly OK to avoid swearing in your riffs, which is why I said "at the riffer's discretion" not "swearing is mandatory". I think the only rules I care to implement for riffing (in no particular order of import) are:

1. No badmouthing the authors. At the end of the day, the only thing laid out for riffing is their poor-quality work. Providing details about their history online is permitted, but only if it is to provide context for something about the work (e.g. "Squirrelking is well-known for writing some bizarre badfics, and this story is an example thereof." rather than "Dear God, Squirrelking is so horrible for writing this, how can anyone with x braincells condone writing this!").

2. No bigotry, humorless political discussion (again, unless used for context), or degrading or defamatory language.

3. Untagged spoilers are allowed due to Wordpress's poor implementation of spoiler formatting, but try to avoid spoiling things that aren't old enough or well known enough to justify it. We're not out to ruin someone's fun about a particular work, even if it's in the name of fannish enthusiasm.

4. No doxxing or revealing of sensitive information. If you don't have permission to share it, then don't bloody share it.

5. Remember, it's all for fun and the task of constructive criticism. So have fun, but remember that the goal is to criticise, not to solely lambast.

And I think it would’ve been better phrased as “my proudest spork”.

—Ls admires your writing