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A Ginny/Draco piece. Summary: It couldn’t be her of all people to do this to him! It didn’t make sense. It wasn’t right. She was a Weasley and he a Malfoy. It was unheard of to think of one and the other to be anything but enemies.

I think that says it all. It's very short, and I'm not entirely sure how to handle it, so I'll offer it up for grabs.

Was just saying that limiting and keeping out completely are different things. I dunno if you misinterpreted or something, but I didn't mean what you seem to think I mean.

The 1632 series was initially conceived to be just written by him, but what ended up happening was that he invited other authors to cowrite the main novels with him and there's also a pay-for e-zine of fanfic for the series.

He edits said fanfic himself. And it's made canon.

I make bookshelf beasties in my spare time... Cthulhu is one of them. He has little tentacles made of yarn, is four inches tall, has a wingspan of seven inches. Stuffed, literally. Ish sho kyoot!

I think you may have missed part of my point.

I do see your point, but also don't entirely agree, especially when it's a more or less a pretty nonoffensive term.

That's the thing - what counts as inoffensive? We all have different standards. If we tried to hash out a list of acceptable and inacceptable words, we'd be here forever and we'd never all agree. So we err on the safe side, and we stick to the unspoken rules of the group, because that way we're demonstrating mutual respect for everyone in it. And, of course, the converse is true - if we deliberately break the unspoken linguistic conventions of the group, we set ourselves apart from the rest, which isn't good in terms of social cohesion.

(Chase, if you're reading this, I'm not actually having a go. I'm just a linguist at heart and find the reasons behind swearing fascinating.)

Can I just point out that some people do think that 'crap' is an offensive word, and therefore may not appreciate seeing it as a subject line, be they a Boarder or a boss/teacher/parent reading over a Boarder's shoulder at the wrong moment. In blocks of text, such as a main post, it wouldn't be as noticeable, but when it's the only word used it is quite noticeable.

I think I saw in "Things I am not allowed to do at the PPC" that he was on a Sue-free diet or something.

Or was it the Watcher in the Water? Maybe both... Anyway, my point is that Cosmic Horrors with enough power to consume immortals are a dime a dozen, maybe cheaper.

TARDIS' started to be used during the Macrovirus Epidemic because they were moveable whereas RCs are (supposedly) fixed locations. RCs are the norm, and the use of TARDIS' is recent, which is probably why you don't see many of them.

Not using one myself and not being greatly familiar with it all, I could be wrong. Best get a second opinion.

KG, I don't see anyone jumping on anyone else. This entire issue strikes me as being no more dramatic than making sure a newbie knows the rules. Chase is new, and might not have known. That's all. If it were "total suppression", someone other than you would have commented by now.

S/he didn't even get it right, either. the Interhamwe were the ones committing the genocide, not the victims. I personally would like to see Romeo Dallaire and Paul Russibegina take turns punching this moron in the stomach.

I'm not saying we should all start dropping f-bombs like Quentin Tarantino characters and such, but there's also no need to immediately jump on someone for something relatively minor. There's limiting, and then there's total suppression, which I assume isn't what we're going for. I do see your point, but also don't entirely agree, especially when it's a more or less a pretty nonoffensive term. I had some other stuff to say, but I've forgot it. Point is, moderation is good, but that goes both ways. Not something worth fighting about.

You could look up Gregory Maguire. He wrote Wicked, which is basically a fanfiction of The Wizard of Oz, AND got it published. Just a thought.

...find that paper, very helpfully linked from TV Tropes. It is indeed a useful piece, and thanks for the additional rec on it. ^_^

~ Rath ~

Raymond E. Feist, writer of the Riftwar Saga and many surrounding volumes. He doesn't allow fanfic either, as far as I'm aware.

She did a rather lengthly study that basically concluded that when fanfiction can be considered a transformative work, the author's distaste for it is not reason enough to suppress it. There's a lot of other issues around that so don't quote me directly, but I found it useful.

According to his Wikipedia article, George R. R. Martin does not allow fanfiction based on his works. And while I'm usually all for freedom and stuff, I'm quite happy that Westeros is a Sue-less area.

I'm a big fan of GRRM.

Is it OK to get a TARDIS ? It looks like nobody chooses this option, why ? What is exactly the difference with a RC ?

... you might particularly look up Anne (it's always the Annes!) McCaffrey. She formerly banned fanfic, but as of June 4th, 2006, she allows it (with rules and guidelines). Nothing specifically legal, but there might be something in it.

hS