that's generally what gets people busted, images being much easier to point to and say "copyright infringement".

I can see Ducks getting pissed about that, but I can also see Fox getting pissed about it too.

I'm middle of the road about it. Messing with images (something I have done) or just using them cuts close to home for the product.

I'm just stunned at the people who have no problem going up to actors and saying, "Hey, in case you didn't know, people out there write porn about you! Wanna say something about that?"

Sometimes it makes me think that there should be a fannish SWAT on site at all public appearances by actors, in order that they might swoop in and gag the fans who feel the need to share this kind of information.

Where, oh where, has all the tact gone?

there should be a fannish SWAT team on site at all public appearances by actors

"SWAT? What does SWAT stand for?"
"Stand for? Nothing. We're swatting these idiots so hard it needed asscaps."

Wait. There is Weasley twincest?

Are we talking sad-wrong incest fic a la Simon/River, or more of the twincest-yay! type of a thing? If it's the latter, what the hell? I mean, I haven't read the books, but my understanding (via fandom osmosis) is that Weasleys are a genial and an uncomplicated lot. Is there some weird subtextual thing I don't know of?

I gotta say, I've been finding myself increasingly wigged at the "anything goes" mentality of fandom, prudish as that may sound. There are also people around me squeeing about ME-verse actor-fic (and not delusional barbie-shippers either--these are bright, talented, usually reasonable people), and I find myself bugged way more than I have ever been about popslash, toward which the most I've felt was indifference. I dunno if I'm being hypocritical or what.

If it's the latter, what the hell?

Well, you know...fandom.

I gotta say, I've been finding myself increasingly wigged at the "anything goes" mentality of fandom

It's been, what, four years, since I ventured out of Nikita and into the world of fandom at large, and I think that there's definitely been an increase in that mentality since then. t shrug

My completely-unsupported guess is that it's boundary-pushing. Used to be that writing slash gave you the chance to feel subversive, if you wanted to. (DISCLAIMER: PEOPLE WRITE SLASH FOR MANY, MANY REASONS.) Now, not so much. So if you want to be all "look how wild and crazy I am" incest is a logical next step.

well, yikes.

The guys who played the Weasley twins were 15 when the first one came out.

So if you want to be all "look how wild and crazy I am" incest is a logical next step

That, and also people trying to get heard over all the noise. If you're a mediocre writer (or even a good one who just hasn't built a reputation yet), it's *much* easier to get people to read your stories if you're the one person writing Fred/George than if you're Ginny/Harry shipper #397. Even if people read out of morbid curiosity, it's still attention.

Yeah, good point.