Title: In Darkness, Chained ( Read more... )

For those currently Friending duskpeterson_ij in order to be able to read my blog entries on your Friends pages: Unfortunately, LiveJournal is choking on the size of my feed (I will omit all relevant jokes here), so I've had to set up a second feed that will link to blog entries in my main journal. The new LiveJournal syndicated feed for my blog is ( Read more... )

This is just a reminder to those of you who missed my previous notice that I now have a new blog. Though it's located at InsaneJournal, you can watch it on your LiveJournal Friends page. I'm continuing to post notices of my fiction and everyday life there.

Some of you will have already guessed that this announcement was coming. I'm moving to InsaneJournal. I'll no longer be updating duskpeterson, eternaldungeon, and gayleatherlit at LiveJournal. My other LiveJournal blogs, which are for other people's works, will continue at LiveJournal, though I'm going to be seeking new maintainers for a couple of them ( Read more... )

News via metafandom: rydra_wong reports that a member of LiveJournal's Abuse Team has stated that linking to offsite material that LiveJournal considers to be a violation of its terms of service can get you suspended. In other words, if you link to a story on your own Website, and LiveJournal considers that story to violate its rules, it will suspend your journal "in ( Read more... )

LiveJournal has posted a response to the latest protests. In addition, aura218 has kindly compiled a list of LJ staff members' buried comments.

msinvisfem has a pointed comment on the legal aspects of the official post. Various folks have pointed out that at least one staff comment contradicts things they've said elsewhereAt any rate, their bottom line is that ( Read more... )

A message from alicettg in this post at voxpopulli, referring to the hosting service found here: "In light of LJ's ridiculousness," she will soon be offering free hosting again for sites by people from fandom (including original fiction writers). "Remember that Vox Populli is fan-friendly, post all the porn you like! :)" RPS fiction is also welcome. The service (not ( Read more... )

Responses posted earlier by LiveJournal's administration here. I am not reassured. I am especially not reassured after reading this thread. It is clear that LiveJournal has decided to do what courts find it very difficult to do: become literary critics.

Two enlightening posts on the recent LiveJournal suspensions, one by Erestor and one by Kara ( Read more... )

News via maureenlycaon: Strikethrough has begun again, with reports of several fan artists being suspended by LiveJournal for posting underage fan drawings. All of the reports are from the Harry Potter fandom so far, which was the main target of the last Strikethrough.

( General summary of the latest events )

I posted this at a forum for professional writers and thought it might be of interest to some here. The initial quotation is reprinted with permission of the person I was responding to. It was part of a thread where a bunch of us were talking about professional authors who take part in the fan fiction community ( Read more... )