#E.L. James

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

C. S. Lewis is like the anti-E. L. James in that James's writing has a core of Virtuous™ trad gender norms hidden under a layer of kink, whereas Lewis's writing has a kinky core hidden under a layer of Virtuous™ trad gender norms

[bjellen13]

My Do Not Read List of Authors:

Authors I do not read or have stopped reading. Because they are 💩ty human beings or at one time supported a 💩ty human being.

- Neil Gaiman

- J.K. Rowling

-Cassandra Claire (aka Cassie Claire yes THAT Cassie Claire)

-John Green (Cassie Claire supporter at one point)

-Holly Black (ditto)

-Sophie Lark

-Tori Woods (or any of her other pen names)

-E.L James (Just a terrible writer and person altogether)

I may update this list at some point. I hope not though.

[fictional-men-id-smash]

Let me have hiiiimmmm 🥺

I read the books and every single time Taylor was mentioned, I marked with a blue highlighter. I've written the E.L. James begging for a small spinoff about Taylor's POV on the story. Maybe a lil Taylor action too. I love him.

[dunne-ias]

In a comment thread about Fifty Shades of Gray and E.L. James’ horrible management of criticism:

I feel like that last point is so underappreciated when we discuss fiction and its effect on life.

The post: http://jennytrout.com/?p=934

[questioningespecialy]

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Twilight version of the Domino Effect meme with 10 black dominoes from 2009's "World record for the largest domino toppled in a chain". On the lower right is a hunched over male about to tip over the smallest domino (1st domino). On the upper left is the largest domino (10th domino), which is 8.8 times taller than the smallest. Starting from the male and ending with the largest domino are individual sentences indicating specific moments in what is essentially Twilight history.

Male: “a group of “friends” get together at a villa (1816)” 1st domino: “Lord Byron proposes the “Ghost Story Challenge” (1816)” 2nd domino: “Polidori steals Byron’s idea (1819)” 3rd domino: “Stephanie Meyer wakes up “from a very vivid dream” (2003)” 4th domino: “Twilight gets published (2005)” 5th domino: “E.L. James writes a dangerously inaccurate BDSM fanfic (2009)” 6th domino: “Master of the Universe is published as Fifty Shades of Grey (2011)” 7th domino: “Dakota Johnson becomes famous (2015)” 8th domino: “Dakota calls Ellen DeGeneres out on her own show (2019)” 9th domino: “Ellen’s treatment of guests and employees finally gets noticed” 10th domino: “Ellen ends The Ellen DeGeneres Show after 19 years (2022)” 10th domino image: On the 10th domino stands an image with 6.9% opacity of Kelly Clarkson from The Kelly Clarkson Show.

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[darkcrowprincess]

“I do not look at the world in terms of black and white – and I find people who do rather scary. I think it’s all shades of grey.”

— E.L. James

[bizarrepotpourri]

Uh... E. L. James?

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Updated: https://ko-fi.com/Post/March-7-Orange-Crush-N4N81C8H82

[jaxihammer]

Aabria Iyengar participating in tumblr discourse about her own character is absolutely top tier. Balance is being maintained. The world is coming full circle.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Alex Price/Eli Rodriguez - Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey

Will Kempen/James St Clair - Dark Rise series by C.S. Pacat

[alisoncooper]

i've only re-written 9000 words of my 137,000+ fic to turn it into an original novel or w/e and it's like. oh my god. i love this little world i've create and the characters and the story and i miss it and i want to write more but i gotta focus on the novel because there's no more to write. but i'm thinking about it constantly

[sparkymalone]

Why do I have to work a real job?

Why can't I just get paid to write smutty fanfiction?

[boneless-mika]

I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that I love seeing book reviewers in pain

[racnarath]

I have a lot of thoughts on this - for one, there seems to be at least two or three different issues being argued in this thread (OP was probably talking about the $100+ mass market production of a draco/hermione fanfic that shows up on Etsy when you look for general bookbinding stuff, some people are talking about the legality of fanfic, others about the morality of money in fandom) - but for now I think I'll bring up this point. What about zines?

Zines often charge money. They often include, if not exclusively focus on, fanfic. They're sold new online and at cons, and old prints are on ebay and the like. I see from Fanlore's page that there's been a long debate about no money charged versus coverage for materials versus compensation for time and labor. I've never really seen a debate here though about the legality/ethics of them here though.

The only real difference I can see between a zine being made for sale and this bookbinding debate is that the zine (presumably) has the permission from the author and the author is aware that their work will be put into a mass-produced item that will charge money.

Fellas, fellas

Why on earth are you BUYING PHYSICAL BOOKBOUND COPIES OF FANFICTION????

ACTUALLY WHY ARE YOU EVEN BOOKBINDING FANFICTION TO SELL?!?!?!

IF ANY OF YOU DO EITHER OF THESE THINGS, GET OUT!! I AM NEVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN.

In all seriousness though, authors on AO3 have begun to pull their works off of the site to avoid getting sued by people stealing their works to make a pretty bound book for profit. Entire accounts could be shut down as well.

Listen, I’m all for saving favorite works by printing them out and putting them in a binder, or learning how to make a bookbound copy yourself and/or assembling one with a pre-made and purchased fancy binding for a fanfic FOR YOURSELF or AS A GIFT to someone, but making bindings with and putting fanfiction in it TO SELL is where I draw the line.

Literally the entire point of AO3 is that you can read it FOR FREE.

It is DISRESPECTFUL for people to make money off of hardbound copies because guess what, the original creators of these fics get nothing. We are literally only writing fanfiction for our own pleasure.

Buying and selling book-bound fanfiction is also ILLEGAL YOU DUMB SHITS. People who are selling content while claiming to be a book binder is a misconception of their services. Book binders make the covers and all that, not the actual content of the book. Selling fanfiction is also an immediate violation of copyright law / Creative Commons licenses. The original fan work will get erased from the internet.

Fanfiction is already a legal grey zone since they are works being written about are protected by copyright. Copyright holders can in fact go after writers as well as the person who sold the fanfiction.

This also goes for people who steal fanart and, claim it as theirs, and put a price on it.

Don’t make it worse.

rest assured, we can still write our fanfics and make our art.

Buying a binding for you to assemble onto your own fanfiction or fanfiction you printed for PERSONAL USE is fine.

HOWEVER,

Bookbinding fanfiction for profit is literally ruining things for everyone. DON’T.

If I see any of them on Etsy, I swear to god-

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

A Wraith at Midnight

A Historical Romance Anthology

Ghost stories can be read any time of the year. This book has eleven historical romances written by some authors that I have read and enjoyed before and others that were new to me. This type of collection is a great way to find a new author you might like to read again.

THE CAT WHO WALKED THROUGH WALLS by Mary Jo Putney

Childhood friends who had feelings for one another parted and thought they would never meet again end up at the same party and with the help of some magical felines manage to find their HEA.

THE NIGHT WE MET by Chastity Bowlin

A bit of a gothic feel to this one. A woman wanting to get away, a man who needs a governess for his niece, chemistry aplenty, and some negative energy to overcome.

GHOSTLY LADY OF BRAEMORE by Susan King

Friends that love one another and plan to marry suddenly are broken apart by a curse – they do manage to later work together to try to fix the situation so they can marry.

MIDNIGHT TEMPEST by Mary Wine

Forced proximity with some travel between the real world and a ghostly one that intrigued me and really enjoying the story that saw two people perfect for one another fighting for life and for one another.

LADY VENGEANCE by Jade Lee

Scottish miss who had a rough childhood is in London to find a husband but takes on the role of Lady Vengeance and in so doing meets the perfect man for her.

I have more to read and am looking forward to doing so soon.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dragonblade for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

BLURB

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[intellectures]

Die Meisterin der Short Story

Joy Williams ist eine Grande Dame der amerikanischen Literatur. Jetzt erst wird sie in Deutschland so richtig entdeckt. Ein Band mit dreizehn dunkel schimmernden Erzählungen liegt bereits vor, ihr hochgelobter Debütroman erscheint im Frühjahr.

Die bald 80-jährige Schriftstellerin Joy Williams ist eine Grande Dame der amerikanischen Literatur. Jetzt erst wird sie in Deutschland so richtig entdeckt. Ein Band mit dreizehn dunkel schimmernden Erzählungen liegt bereits vor, ihr hochgelobter Debütroman erscheint im Frühjahr. Continue reading Untitled