About sharing Xie's fic

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Hi, everyone!

miss_alysandra suggested I post this here.

I very much support efforts to archive, back up, and preserve fandom creative works. It breaks my heart when something vanishes when a journal is deleted or a site taken down.

That's why all my fic is not only on my own journals, but also in the Archive of Our Own. So if I get hit by a bus, it will still be available to anyone who wants to read it or share it.

Here's the thing, though: I have not been hit by a bus. I'm still in fandom. Still writing. Still posting both on IJ and LJ as well as Twitter and Tumblr. Even commenting here from time to time.

I am not hard to find.

So if you -- an individual or community, including this one -- want to archive my fic, please ask me first.

In most cases I'm going to say no, not because I'm an evil hateful bitch who doesn't want her fic preserved, but because I want to be able to control where my fic is posted on the web in case I find an error and want to correct it, or if a site is transferred or sold to another owner and I don't support their policies, or a few other situations I've seen arise in other fandoms over the years. Just as an example, the upload of my "Only Time" series on this community's 4Shared archive has the wrong title on it, and I have no ability to fix that.

If you want to download one of my fics to your own e-reader, you don't need to ask. If you want to link to anything I've written, you don't need to ask, as long as you're linking to A03 or my journal. And my journal is unlocked and always will be.

But please don't upload my stories to the web. And if you have a good reason to want to, please ask me first. And I'd be very grateful if this community would remove my fic from its archive on 4Shared.

Thank you.

Xie

TQL - Spring Fever Challenge

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TQL is proud to announce its Spring Fever Fanfiction Challenge.

There are three categories for this challenge;
long fiction (25.000+ words),
short fiction (-25.000 words)
and drabble (100 words).

Complete rules and how to sign up can be found at TQL by clicking the banner above or the link below.

Spring Fever @ www.truequeerlove.com

Welcome!

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Posted with moderators' permission

Brian and Justin in character (for Queer As Folk purists everywhere)

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(I tried to find a similar post but there is no such tag. The closest thing was somebody asking if some specific fanfics are in character and this is what actually gave me the idea to file such request.)

There are many fanfics out there - epic in proportions, well-written, with great plots. But I have to admit that many of them, even those considered must reads and classics - give me a feeling of OOC-ness. There's Brian - nice and affectionate in a schmoopy way, not afraid of commitment. There's Justin - pliant and a completely damsel in distress-like, letting others abuse and manipulate him. There's evil and plotting Michael that actively tries to break Justin and Brian up... No matter that according to canon!Brian, there's nothing to break up. There's even more evil Ethan, Mel and Lindsay being such bad mothers that their children have to be taken away and even though all of those plots are fun to play with, they're not very much true to the characters from the show.

So I was thinking about compiling a list of stories and authors, that could be considered QAF purists when it comes to characterization. No matter if it's a gap-filler, or an AU story, I just need something to sooth my QAF withdrawal, something that will really feel like the show.

I trust your judgement, even though I'm aware that people can feel very differently about some stories. It doesn't matter, I still want your opinion! (After a while, I'll compile your recs into a nice list and put it in this post, under the cut).

( Big Damn IC!Rec List )