Cascade Library
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turpsI'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.
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.
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Date: 2003-06-22 01:35 pm (UTC)Just my non-TS fan take on it, of course. YMMV. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-23 04:30 am (UTC)I don't think that the librarians are being homophobic, at least not deliberately. The archive in question is run by volunteers and gets a *lot* of stories. It's not possible for them to read them all, therefore the guideline.
*But* these new guidelines are far too restrictive in my opinion. I'm just waiting to see if they change things now before taking any more action.