When challenged, she claimed that it was okay because she kept the author's names with the stories (therefore not plagiarism) and encouraged readers to post feedback at the original site (FFN).

She's decided she's not in this fandom and therefore she doesn't have to care what the authors think. I think. Her logic is a bit shaky.

At least one of the writers whose work she has appropriated has an explicit author's note forbidding reposting. And, in an excess of hypocrisy, she has a statement on the site forbidding reposting any material from her site. MERF.

My god, is she *trying* to make people hate her? Because I'm a little fish, you know, and I don't fic that much anymore, but there are a lot of Law &Order drabbles and stuff that I'd be pissed if people treated like that.

My god, is she *trying* to make people hate her?

I think she's one of those people who consider themselves mavericks and thus not bound by the conventions/etiquette of the fannish community. She's got quite a lovely website, but she made the mistake of drawing a bunch of the stories from writers with a presence on LJ and long experience in fandom. If she'd stuck with the FFN crowd, I suspect nobody would ever have noticed.

She claims that the service she provides is for people who aren't fans and wouldn't know where to look for good stories, and now they can just download her PDFs. But in reality, what non-fans are going to look for fanfiction to begin with? There's no point to the exercise.

Man, fandom kills me.

This, for instance, is a Bad_penny report about Chuck Shurley, the writer from SPN, who became a ficwriter in Supernatural fandom, and then caused a wanksplosion.

It's SO AWESOME. It's not even really an SPN story, so much as it is a story about reality and writing and how the invisible people in our computers are actually real people too, even the ones we hate.

That story was flat-out amazing. I wanted to click every user name and link.

I wanted to click every user name and link.

Me too! I was so disappointed that most of them were just links back to the post itself.

I hope she's getting lots of feedback for it; it's so creative.

Just finished it! So good!

Then I got confused as I read the comments, because I thought it was still the fic...

Julie is me.

Just to be clear, in a completely metaphorical sense.

What are some active SPN fic comms on LJ other than sn_fic, supernaturalfic and spn_gen that would accept a long gen fic? To put it bluntly, I've got a case where I have had a hard time finding an audience for a story. The few comments I have received have been gushing (so I'm reasonably sure the story doesn't suck), but they've been few. Hearbreakingly few, and I don't know what to do about it.

I feel bad posting about this because it sounds all beggy and whiny, but the frustration has been building, so if I'm going to ask, this is the safest place to do so.

Does it have any other angle? Is it pre-series? Hurt boys? Involve one or more angels?Anything like that?