Oh, no - totally canon. I hear they're engaged.
'Dirty Girls'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Nice, Sail. Vera nice. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Oh, as usual, dear.
Also? Snirk.
When Bookmarks Were in Mustache Land, a drama in six scenes about social bookmarking. Hella funny.
So, fandom.
Someone decided to gather up all the fic she approved of in her new fandom, strip out the author's notes, edit it for spelling and grammar, and compile it into PDF and EPUB "books" for other people to download from her personal website.
... would you expect to be asked permission if one of your stories were included in such a compilation?
YES.
Yes.
But I'm not shocked. Appalled, not shocked.
They not only stripped out author's notes but EDITED? Was this supposed to be something backchannel? Because that is not cool.
I can see why you might do that for yourself (especially if you haven't discovered AO3's download function, or your fandom isn't well represented there), though personally I would stop short of removing notes. I probably wouldn't edit, though I can see that once you've got a story in a word processor or similar, the spellchecker might seem irresistible. I can even see that you might email it to your best friend when she said how cool it was. But once you're at public redistribution, you're redistributing, and fandom has rules about that, of which 'ask first' is the most important one.