IS THIS REAL LIFE?!
Oct. 2nd, 2011 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gryphonseggI first found out about Fanfic.Me from Ithiliana's post. The excerpt there makes the whole venture look comically ill-conceived all by itself. Following the links to Watersword's post and the corresponding post at Fanficforensics leads to even more unintentional hilarity:
Fan fiction is "mostly on fanfiction.net!" (Did I just imagine the rest of the internet? I couldn't have; I have a great imagination, but I'm not THAT good.) It is "stuck in the era of text-only" format! Silly me, I thought it was supposed to be text-only because it was fan FICTION instead of fan ART! But never fear, Jacky Abromitis and Fanfic.me are here to "bring fanfiction addicts into the twenty-first century" using Wordpress technology and lots of orange! ("Addicts?" "Bring" us "into the twenty-first century?" That's not patronizing at all!) Presumably there will be some kind of special graphics option, so the fanfic won't be "stuck in the era of text-only" anymore (text-only is sooooo twentieth century!), but that isn't up and running yet, so if you want to post fic with accompanying images at the site, you'll just have to embed the images like you can already do on LJ. Maybe the special features will come out at the same time as the TOS-- they don't have that up and running either. But other than that, they're ready to go, all set on "making fanfiction as easy-- and feature-rich-- as blogging." Whew, it's a good thing the Terms of Service aren't generally included under "features!"
Imagine, fanfiction as easy and feature-rich as blogging! *falls over*
Fan fiction is "mostly on fanfiction.net!" (Did I just imagine the rest of the internet? I couldn't have; I have a great imagination, but I'm not THAT good.) It is "stuck in the era of text-only" format! Silly me, I thought it was supposed to be text-only because it was fan FICTION instead of fan ART! But never fear, Jacky Abromitis and Fanfic.me are here to "bring fanfiction addicts into the twenty-first century" using Wordpress technology and lots of orange! ("Addicts?" "Bring" us "into the twenty-first century?" That's not patronizing at all!) Presumably there will be some kind of special graphics option, so the fanfic won't be "stuck in the era of text-only" anymore (text-only is sooooo twentieth century!), but that isn't up and running yet, so if you want to post fic with accompanying images at the site, you'll just have to embed the images like you can already do on LJ. Maybe the special features will come out at the same time as the TOS-- they don't have that up and running either. But other than that, they're ready to go, all set on "making fanfiction as easy-- and feature-rich-- as blogging." Whew, it's a good thing the Terms of Service aren't generally included under "features!"
Imagine, fanfiction as easy and feature-rich as blogging! *falls over*