Random Love
May. 30th, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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liz_marcs ages and ages ago because of her brilliant, 100,000+ word fic Living History, which I recommend then, I recommend today, and I will recommend probably forever. It's the single best fanfiction I've ever read. Period.
However,liz_marcs's journal contains way more than fic. She's a former journalist with a social justice streak a mile wide and she's not afraid to show it. Usually, she's after politicians who would diminish our personal freedoms for a little security (making us less free and less secure).
Right now, she's tracking the efforts of a group called Warriors for Innocence (although it may just be one very vocal person from what I can see). They're pressuring LJ/Six Apart to purge journals with interests like "rape", "incest", "child abuse", etc. They're doing so without oversight and without understanding. Many of these journals/communities are fannish, and are read and run by people who would never dream of such acts except in a fictional context (which is their right, I should add, even if I don't like it). WfI's complete lack of understanding is underlined when they refer to the journals/comms as "web pages" and not, say, journals or communities.
Links to all of Liz's posts on the subject, plus the efforts of others can be found at this round-up entry. I urge you to read as much of it as possible, especiallyliz_marcs's correspondence with a rep for Warriors for Innocence. It's very enlightening.
While most of us are content to nod our heads or just blow steam when we hear about this kind of crap,liz_marcs is doing something. She went straight to the source and asked for answers and she got them. For that alone, she has my undying respect.
liz_marcs ages and ages ago because of her brilliant, 100,000+ word fic Living History, which I recommend then, I recommend today, and I will recommend probably forever. It's the single best fanfiction I've ever read. Period.However,
liz_marcs's journal contains way more than fic. She's a former journalist with a social justice streak a mile wide and she's not afraid to show it. Usually, she's after politicians who would diminish our personal freedoms for a little security (making us less free and less secure). Right now, she's tracking the efforts of a group called Warriors for Innocence (although it may just be one very vocal person from what I can see). They're pressuring LJ/Six Apart to purge journals with interests like "rape", "incest", "child abuse", etc. They're doing so without oversight and without understanding. Many of these journals/communities are fannish, and are read and run by people who would never dream of such acts except in a fictional context (which is their right, I should add, even if I don't like it). WfI's complete lack of understanding is underlined when they refer to the journals/comms as "web pages" and not, say, journals or communities.
Links to all of Liz's posts on the subject, plus the efforts of others can be found at this round-up entry. I urge you to read as much of it as possible, especially
liz_marcs's correspondence with a rep for Warriors for Innocence. It's very enlightening.While most of us are content to nod our heads or just blow steam when we hear about this kind of crap,
liz_marcs is doing something. She went straight to the source and asked for answers and she got them. For that alone, she has my undying respect.
