Kerfuffle windfalls

[vulgarweed]

One thing that for me has come out of my fortunately-very-limited participation in recent spitsfests over the merits and irritations of Certain Archives has been this revelation:

In Tolkien fandom, those of us who read and write both het and slash and things in-between can have a hard time of it on the archive front. Mind you, I'm fine with putting my slash stuff up at Library of Moria and my het stuff at Open Scrolls, but then there are things like this, which are kind of both and neither (Thank you, Tolkien Fan Fiction! And I'm interested in writing and reading many more stories that blur the boundaries, or just refuse to honor that silly distinction in the first place.

So I really enjoy this community: hp_bitextual, and I'm wondering if there's interest in a sort of Arda Bitextual. (All time periods/cultures/characters inclusive).

What say you? Mind you, I'd still have to ask the hp_bitextual folks if they mind other fandoms nipping their M.O.

Comments

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I like the idea of a community, but are there enough of us? I've written an in-betweeny thing or two, but I don't make a habit of it, and I only write from challenges irregularly.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Tolkien Fan Fiction is great, as long as you're willing to be a member of Teh Evil HA Mailing List. No doubt some people will eventually start grousing at that requirement. Well, they're always free to post at ff.net. As for me, I'm hoping to slowly transfer all my old fics onto Mike's new archive over the next couple of weeks. Here's hoping TFF thrives!

The 'everything goes' Tolkien LJ community you're proposing sounds interesting. I think all the divisions in this fandom are so silly, especially the big het/slash division. Since when are all story ideas pigeonholed so easily?

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

There's lotr_canon which allows het and gen: in effect it's mostly a "slashers who occasionally experiment" community. The gen and het LOTR folks on lj don't seem to be very cohesive; that or there's just very few of them (or I'm not well-connected n that field), I don't know. It's possible one could forge an actual community out of an lj community... :)

[teasel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link to Tolkien Fan Fiction; it's a beautifully designed site, and I love the idea of a place that does not over-insist on the distinction between slash and gen. I hadn't heard of TFF before (like everyone and her sister I'm on the HA mailing list and am archived at HASA, but must admit that I haven't kept track of doings at either place for a very long time, apart from popping into HASA now and again to review stories).

Um, I have a curiousity question: I call it that to wave a big flag that says "harmless! harmless!" and to distinguish my question from the sort of question people ask when they intend to start fulminating at some point. I haven't followed the HA list for almost a year, but when I did follow it, HASA itself was more or less HAs archive. Membership in the two was distinct but, well, "Henneth Annun Story Archive" and all that. Um, do you know the reason why TFF seemed necessary to the folks who founded it -- what its distinct mission is that HASA does not fulfill? Oy: even asking the question feels like dipping my toe into a gigantic heaving sea of controversy that I know nothing whatsoever about, but, well, I'm curious, and the FAQ file and rules on the site didn't seem very enlightening on this point.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I don't have any comments that anyone else didn't make, really. I just wanted to say that I adore the idea of an arda_bitextual, and would really love to be able to participate in it.