amanuensis1 | For those of you who haven't heard, follow the links. Mood: Outraged.

Yes, I'm pretty upset at the suspension of

pornish_pixies--you can assume that as long as that name has a strike-through through it, I'm still upset about it. But. The suspension doesn't mesh with lj's Terms of Service, and I know that neither the mod nor most of its members plan to take this lying down. Go take a look at

femmequixotic's journal and her post here to see how things stand.

And it was just yesterday that

gmth posed the question that if one could go back to one's beginning in fandom and give one's younger self advice, what would one do, and my response was that I would tell myself not to panic when restrictedsection.org received its C & D letter, thinking that all NC-17 HP fanfiction was going to disappear from the web 4EVAH OMG. So I'm following that advice today, and not panicking. Restrictedsection.org did not disappear;

pornish_pixies may return if we raise enough of a voice. I'm going to see what I can do to help. (In between writing smut. Damn straight.)

Oh, and? I've never locked a thing in this journal; I do not plan to start now.

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http://ataniell93.livejournal.com/818441.html?thread=7531785#t7531785

Holy HECK! Wow! All gentle language and everything!

Except apology is not enough. I expect reinstatement.

Maybe, just maybe, apology is code for "we will make amends by unsuspending the account but we aren't going to say that here because we don't want to be swamped with demands from everyone to unsuspend their accounts, because we're only going to do that on a very careful basis." Maybe.

And I should say to you: thank you for being so thorough and so rational/calm on this issue even when you (like the rest of us) are clearly angry about it.

You're welcome--being loud and irrational rarely helps no matter how justified it is. As for it meaning they're going to be careful, that may be what it does mean--and I understand why that makes us angry and why they may feel they have to do it. But if we want these accounts unsuspended...we do have to be patient and polite about it so that we don't give them the impression that we are exactly what they've been told we are like.

It may or may not be enough; it was more than I expected.

The lines may not be drawn where you or I would have them drawn, but I want someone to draw a line and stand by it for starters, and I did impress upon him that I was embarrassed because anti-pedo sites were linking to my stuff triumphantly because I'm not a pedo!

For those of you who haven't heard, follow the links. Mood: Outraged.

Barak Berkowitz responded to me!

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