Nice do I need to say more

i suggest you go here: http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/626928.html
for some indication as to how FANLIB is being viewed by, you know, actual fanfic authors. a pathetic attempt at making a buck off-of other people’s work. i am only comforted by the fact that it will be sure to fail.

Yeah, there’s nothing as awesome as writing for free so that other people can a) make money from your work, and b) expose you to all legal liabilities.  Their TOS is one big “hold harmless” clause that no professional writer would ever sign.

Web 2.0 my asterisk--this is old-school robber-baron nonsense at its finest.

Um, yeah, I have yet to find an actual fan who thinks this is a good idea. 

Then again, we all know that turning underground creative movements into mainstream capitalist ventures is always a good move, especially when an all-male board claims to provide validation to an overwhelmingly female community that has operated independently and successfully for at least forty years.

Or you know… not.

p.s. Crappy adds with overtures of homophobia and sexism which belittle the kind of men its target audience is most likely to identify with and want to write about?  The glue is not for eating boys.  Makes the brain meats sad.