The Elite Vidding Bitch Cabal icons have been around for awhile. I think they were made in response to another kerfuffle and have been pulled out for the current one.

Frankly, I'm not surprised onlist vid critiquing imploded, Serge (ds mailing list) tried to do a fic of the week thing and I left right when it was getting really wanky.

Fandom has this problem. It's a terrible one I'm sure you all recognize. This problem's name is Incredibly Bad Acronyms.

Yes, IBA strikes fandom as much as the federal government, and with less creativity than the US army. It's a sad, sad illness.

Surely we can come up with something that trips off the tongue more gently than BOFQ?? I'm convinced any organization called EVBC must, in fact, be devoted to the treatment of an unsightly skin ailment.

As the people who invented the term MPREG, I know we have the human capital to do better. I think we are just not putting enough brain power into this sadly neglected arena of fandom politics.

Consuela, if she'd consent, I'd certainly be interested in reading it -- I think a lot of beginning writers (or writers who never progress beyond the basics) don't understand the process of writing and the hard work & decisions that go into solid fiction.

Theo, one of the things I've considered doing for a while is posting the sequence of beta notes on a story. For a long time I kept the beta notes I got on one of my toughest X-Files stories (The Mill) in order to use it for that. Unfortunately, I think I lost them because I was changing email addresses & running out of space. Stupid me.

The BI notes are... long. (Fi does verbose beta: the beta notes on Fimbulwinter alone were about 75K.) I'll think about it.

Yeah, that's actually one of the things I find most interesting about that DVD commentary meme when it goes around.

Fandom wank got deleted? That sounds...odd, knowing Bonnie and Robin.

It wasn't deleted this morning when I looked at but there was some big long post that I didn't read. Guess I should have.

But now there's no more fandomwank.

Yeah, that's actually one of the things I find most interesting about that DVD commentary meme when it goes around.

Yeah, I'm sorely tempted to do dvd commentary on BI, except it seems kind of presumptuous, since I only posted the story two weeks ago. Who knows whether anyone would be interested?

You may indeed want to wait on that, or just make notes on it now while it's fresh... time will give you more perspective on it. But then I go through an almost predictable cycle of "love it!" "hate it" "it's OK" "it's the worst crap EVAH written" "ah, not too bad" about my own stories, regardless of how they get received.

Fandom wank got deleted? That sounds...odd, knowing Bonnie and Robin.

Bonnie and Robin didn't delete it. It was an inside job.