Mod Post

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Evening, all.

Earlier this week, a request was made for a fic. Someone nicely linked to a memories page that had the fic listed, but the author came in and asked that her fic not be shared. However, it seemed that people were emailing the fic to one another. I could be wrong, please correct me if I am. But this appears to be the case.

Please note: if an author askes not to have their fics linked to, please abide by this. If we upset the authors, we get no fic to read, and that would make us all pretty sad. Most are perfectly fine with us linking to their journals, and oftentimes have posted their fics to outside archives. Also, please be courteous about sharing fics. Try emailing the author to see if it would be okay to share their fics. Some may even be gracious enough to send you a hardcopy to keep on your computer. Trust me, I've emailed lots of authors, and they are generally very good about this. They will also at times unlock certain fics if there's enough of a interest.

Let's all remember to be considerate towards our fellow authors and readers.

K, SUN

Comments

[court1429.livejournal.com]

I must've missed the original post, but I don't understand, at all, an author objecting to someone providing a link to her fics.

If that link turns out to be to a flocked journal, then the reader has to decide whether to friend an LJ of someone they don't know and don't necessarily want to friend (not because they object to the writer, but because there's no relationship there) and this is why I'm a fan of the various fic archives. Friending solely to read a fic is a particular peeve of mine, but has nothing to do with this comm, which is asking about fics and *getting links to same*!!

I'd think authors would want their fics to be read, no?

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

In this case, it's a flocked journal, but the author says she'll friend back as long as people have an age statement. We just wanna make sure there's no toe-stepping.

I don't mind if people share fics by emailing hardcopies, and most authors don't mind. But again, we don't want to piss anyone off. Plus, the only problem I have with sharing hardcopy is having it show up somewhere under someone else's name. I can't tell you how often I've seen that, and there's a whole site devoted to outing people who steal fic and claim it as their own. For some reason, the always run to either FFnet or AFFnet. The dregs of fandom archives. lol Yeah, I have fic posted at AFF, what of it? ;-)