Storms...bah

I hate storms. No strike that, I like storms, I hate dogs that hate storms that wake me up at an ungodly hour by scratching frantically on the bedroom door.

I hate seeing someone in a LJ, clicking on them and see the first entry is dissing Victor in MX. But sleep deprived Terri before the first coffee of the day is a bad thing so I just clicked on out of there before I did anything rash.

I hate that we had plans to go to the fair at Newcastle but it's raining so hard that the field will be nothing but a muddy mess.

Still, I suppose things could be worse. I can still sit and watch as the world goes Harry Potter mad. For someone that's never read any of the books it all just flows past. I understand the need to get the book, hell I'm a fan, I know what it's like when there's something you need. But for me I'm content to watch everyone else on their Harry Potter high.

Cascade Library

I've just been reading the new policy that's been announced at Cascade Library, The Sentinel's gen archive. It's here, "http://www.skeeter63.org/~tslibrary/bondingpolicy.htm if you want to read.

What it says is CL is not going to archive any more stories with scenes of intense bonding. So I guess that covers all the stories like Susan Fosters GDP series and all it's spin offs.

I'm not sure how I feel about this just now. One one hand I know that some of these stories are clearly edging close to slash. In fact I think that most heavy smarm should be labelled slash and be done with it. CL *is* a gen archive, so some people may be uncomfortable reading that level of contact between Jim and Blair.

But, I also think CL goes too far sometimes in what it classes as unsuitable. A friend's story was rejected as a supporting character was gay. One story was rejected for containing rape, while another with the same subject matter gets in. I know that the archivists do a *fantastic* job, it just seems at times the line moves a little in terms of what is allowable.

I know some people have pulled their stories. Do I want to do the same? I don't know.I've never had a problem announcing a story there, but what about in the future. I hate the thought that I could have a gay supporting character and that would be enough to get my story banned. Or that I wrote a darkfic, or a sexscene. Not that I'd ever do het sex! It's just...I don't know, like the archive is becoming more and more restrictive.

I'll be honest. Comparing slash to gen and slash wins every time. I do write gen TS because SA was the group that eased me into writing. They're always friendly, will LoC mostly but outside of that list gen TS does *nothing* for me. So what I'm trying to say it would be no big deal to pull out of CL. I'll never be a loss to the gen TS fandom.

I'm going to think about this a bit more.