OK, after taking a look around on my lunch break for new fanfiction by a few favorite authors, I found out that one has (1) switched her livejournal to private, (2) placed a visible post ranting about people who were confused by this and dared to ask to be friended or otherwise gain access, and (3) directed them in very talk-down-to-the-morons tone to the blog on her website, which has (4) restricted access links to her recent stories.

Congratulations! You win at making your fiction more difficult to get to than it's worth. Maybe you should consider having it translated into a dead language just in case there's anyone left who might offend your sensibilities by going to the trouble to read it...

Oooh, who?

(Actually, I'm halfway asking because I want to know if I need to update any PolyRecs links.)

Rageprufrock. She writes beautifully, but the combination of multiple obstacles to getting access and the apparent hostility attempts to do so now inspire in the writer would probably put me off even astolat's or synecdochic's stories.

I'm not sure if the same roadblocks apply to old stories that have been posted to her website for a long time. I ran into the access restriction on more recent works that were linked in her weblog on the site.

Man, that sucks. I do like her stuff.

Oh, my god, she flounced again?

Oh, my god, she flounced again?

(Hugs shrift, even though I know she'd hate it. Sorry. Had to.)

Oh, I'm not angry or upset! Heh. Um. I'm more, uh... amused. In a finger-pointy way that isn't very flattering. To me.

I'm not a very nice person sometimes.

Oh, I'm not angry or upset! Heh. Um. I'm more, uh... amused. In a finger-pointy way that isn't very flattering. To me.

I think it looks very nice on you.

Oh--I wasn't hugging you for comforting. I was just treasuring your mind, in a kind of sloppy overt way. Because. You know.

Oh, well, that's all right, then! I accept your sloppy mind hugs with glee!