Bah. t twitches

I really don't like random people in my LJ giving me *hugs* because I wrote a story they like. I don't know you, people! Back off!

Dana, please let it not be (whitefonted for those who wish to spare their minds) Cox talking about JD.

Because I fear fandom would go there.

Oh, of course fandom went there.

Cox/Dorian. The wrong, still burning.

Oh, dear god, newbies. Don't post that. Keep in your diary with the shiny, shiny, lock on it. Because I reh-eally don't think so.(/Channeling Cox) God, it's fun to talk like that.

Cox/Dorian. The wrong, still burning.

And yet, one of the top pairings (if not *the* top) in a very small fandom.

So Dana, do you remember the last time we both did recsite link-checking, and you (or maybe it was me, I can't recall) found that chick that was archiving other people's stories in a livejournal account, not crediting herself as the author but just "for archival purposes"?

I just found either her again, or another one doing the same thing. And I'm really torn, because she's archiving Calypso's Horatio Hornblower story "Ransom," which has disappeared from the web, and is un-waybackable because of the robots.txt script the owner of slashcity installed. So the fact that she has the story that I want to read is really great, because I can't find it anywhere else. And it's not like she's taking the credit, but there's still something...off about it. You know?

Hey, if you want to read it, doll, it's one of the very few stories I've got saved on my laptop. In pretty website format, even.

And, yes, if she hasn't asked permission of the writers that's...not quite on. (I mean, it's the nature of putting one's words out onto the interweb that this kind of thing will happen, but still - not entirely cricket.)

I am all over Dr. Cox/J.D. Just not when it sucks, which is... pretty much the entire time. I've read maybe four good Scrubs stories ever.

And it's not like she's taking the credit, but there's still something...off about it. You know?

It's an eternal debate, at least in my head. But I think I still come down on the side of "if it's archived without permission, then it's weird." At least for public purposes. I'd have no trouble saving a personal copy on my hard drive.

I'm with Dana.

Both on archiving and Cox/JD.

I've read good Scrubs once, and it was gen. My sifting through the crap is strictly limited to DA these days.

Also, unrelated to anything, I wrote. My first thousand word plus SPN: [link]