In fact, I'll give you the quick and dirty. Read everything you can by: Punk M., Plausible Deniability, Jesemie's Evil Twin, Sabine, M. Sebasky, Fialka, Analise, Torch, Jill Selby, Rachel Howard, bugs, Syntax6, wen (if you can find it), CazQ, Magdeleine (yes our own wayward Lena), Wayward, Khyber, Nascent (and her evil twin Dark Nascent), Anjou, Revely, Kelly Keil, Marasmus, MustangSally and RivkaT (together and apart), Vehemently, Jess M., Livia Balaban, Maria Nicole... There's a ton of good writing in XF, and those are just a few of writers of "my" generation, mostly het and gen.

There are a lot of good newer writers I'm not as familiar with, as well, and I never read much of the slash but I know there's a lot of good slash too.

Suela, you pusher you. 'Twixt you and Nutty I'm liable to become very well read very quickly. At least I am next time I have more than a few minutes online. ;o) Thank you.

And I'll spare everyone my canned rant on the inapplicability of First Amendment Law to much of the internet

Let me make it for you. WE ARE NOT IN AMERICA. Your first amendment is meaningless, oh dimwitted shouty people, because your fellow fans are in Canada, Australia, India, Britain, Gibralta, India, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, China, in fact the rest of the world. Because The USA, splendid though it is in many, many ways, is not the world. And the Internet is not in the USA. [/totally redundant rant which nobody here needs.] Sorry. Yes, it pisses me off too and I did make a comment on Jenny O's journal to that effect.

Well, a lot of people like ff.net for finding NC17's outside their normal fandoms, or for reading the works of new writers who haven't got stuff up at the major archives. Right now there's talk among some of simply doing a mini-Bowdlerization of their NC-17's, listing them as R's, and then providing links to the full smutty story.

Yes, it pisses me off too and I did make a comment on Jenny O's journal to that effect.

Yes, but the site in question is located in the USA, and any legal threats it may or may not have received would have involved US law.

(Edit: I don't know what all the pressures were that lead to the decision, but I imagine there must have been at least something that smacked of potential legal action.)

Cereal:

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If the owner is a US citizen and the site is being run out of the US, then it makes sense to be that US law would apply. The internet is not its own country, so each site would obey the laws of the country it's from. Otherwise, nothing could really be sent because everything is illegal somewhere.

Though now I'm thinking that it'd be worthwhile to find out about running a site from some area not specifically under control, like a bit of Antartica or International waters.

Though now I'm thinking that it'd be worthwhile to find out about running a site from some area not specifically under control, like a bit of Antartica or International waters.

This had me, again, thinking about the Buffistas buying a small island country. Sigh.

Our own island, and for us, instead of 17 or 18 or 21 as the age of freedom, we could go by maturity or intelligence or ability to construct sentences. (I mean, I wouldn't mind all those spams about the gang-banging of Shakira if they were spelled correctly and used the subjunctive tense in the right place.)

Nascent (and her evil twin Dark Nascent)

Awww. Connie's making me all nostalgic and shit. I haven't read Nascent's stories for ages, but gah, they rocked so hard.

Because I'm feeling random, here's a drive-by rec for the Barnyard series (link in the bottom of the page), which is so evil that it just makes me chortle with joy. You don't even have to know much about X-Files to enjoy it for what it is, an absurdist meditation on the nature of Eeevil.

I want Nascent to write for Buffy. But then, I want a lot of my favorite X-Files writers to write for Buffy.

I just wanted to say that I'm actively encouraging someone to write Harvey songfic, since I wrote Harvey mpreg.

I like being bad and wrong.

Also, I think everyone should read the X-Files story My Little Demons by a frightened little girl. It's sublimely hysterical.