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::scratched head::

I tried with and w/o the http:// and got "URL not found". I deleted the stories for just www.twistedchick.org/ and got "Sorry, not tonight. I have a headache." That's grin-worthy (and I did), but it doesn't get me anywhere.
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argh. Very sorry -- forgot that when there was some nasty RL stuff going on a while back I boosted the archive one level deeper.

Try: www.twistedchick.org/original/index.html

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Thanks; that does it.
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*follows URL* You wrote Amanda fanfic? I probably read all this stuff when you first posted it. Er, I'm sorry, I could say things substantive about the main content of your post too, but it's early, and I'm squeeful over Amanda fanfic.

Er. Anyway. The post non-fic related content itself:

There are some acafen who approach fandom in this odd way. It would make me happy if they would, perhaps, not try to put me and my fannish groups under a microscope. I feel odd, and kind of squirmily uncomfortable, because I don't get the feeling that some of them are there to enjoy fandom, so much as to stake their claim on something. If that makes sense?

I come from Forever Knight fandom initially, and there, pretty much everyone dissected the stories and the source material in some way, because we loved it so much we wanted to dig out every detail. The producers don't give us a year this scene takes place? We'll figure it out by the clothing Janette's wearing! Why is Nick acting like that? Oh, he's a medieval Catholic; of course he believes he's irrevocably stained by sin! What's up with Lacroix being such a controlling bastard? He's a Roman general. He's the pater familias, at least in his eyes. How come Nick treats Janette and Natalie differently in the same situations? Oh, yeah, Nick's mired in the virgin/whore dichotomy.

I'm not even close to an acafan. I don't have any kind of a graduate degree, which I think is a requirement to be defined as an "acafan." If it's not, someone tell me, because then I might feel like I have license to go in and start talking about these things. I swear, my personal insecurities, plus the massive amounts of wank that acafen can - SOMETIMES ONLY - generate, it makes me feel like not having a graduate degree means I'm not 'allowed' to do the things I love.

But the other thing I learned in FK fandom was that anyone can look at their fannish source materials and draw from the incredibly rich historical traditions that those stories are based on. All it requires is a quick mind, a love of learning, and the willingness to do things like read a lot of books, listen to the other fen, and talk with them.

(Please don't think I'm slamming all acafen. I have a few of them on my LJ friendslist, and I really enjoy their company. But some of the others do behave, er, shall we say poorly? I think those are the ones you're talking about, and I think they're making a bad name for acafen everywhere.)

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I remember a little of the FK discussions, and I really liked them. They were adding to the context instead of removing it.

And I'm not slamming all acafen either. There are some who are scholars and gentlepersons. There are also others who are ... not.

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