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[pearwaldorf]

The whole Fanlib thing makes me disdain so much about the process of venture capital, both the idiots people who would think this is a good use of money and the people who come up with silly business plans to bilk investors of their cash. It makes me go all squinty-eyed and suspicious when they promise "legitimization" of fan-created works. Perhaps it's my perspective coming from a heavily slash background, but isn't half the fun of fandom/fanfic doing things to characters that would make the original authors blanch in horror, or at least squirm a bit? I just have this nauseating image of an officially-sanctioned Battlestar Galactica archive featuring nothing but sappy Lee/Kara songfic. And what kind of gorram fool fanfic archive doesn't allow you to search by pairing, or do they expect everybody to be writing nothing but gen and MOTWs? I also note that the only shows that have signed onto promotional things with FanLib kind of, um, suck to begin with, and they presume that all user-generated content is good content, which anybody who's ever ventured onto a fic archive and hit "random" knows is false. This is of the bad in so many ways that people smarter and more articulate than I have discussed already, so I won't. I will, however, grab the popcorn and watch the fun when it spectacularly implodes.