Ladies, I give you the Scribblit Revolution.

So we know about the upheavals on LJ. I was on a Strikethrough community yesterday and a poster observed that there's a distinct "first they came for the chan writers, but I thought chan was icky so I did nothing" air about the whole thing. That's what I'm concerned about, too. It almost seems as if the powers-that-be are starting at the top, with the squickiest kinks and genres, and working their way down a list.

My two main fandoms - Led Zeppelin and From Eroica With Love - are fairly small and obscure compared with, say, HP, most manga/anime fandoms or even contemporary band slash, so it may be possible to fly under the radar for a while. That said, it's becoming clearer and clearer that slashers - any adult fanficcers, in fact - don't really figure in LJ's Grand Scheme of Things, whatever that scheme may be. In the future, we can expect to be tolerated at best.

There are alternatives - GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal - and I currently have mirror accounts at both of them. They're okay, but not ideal - neither sparks that absolute feeling of rightness that LJ had in the early days, the themes aren't the best and there's already talk of GJ deleting journals. I don't think they're fen-run, either, which is always a risk.

So fen-run and fen-welcoming is the way to go. Journalfen is, but the proximity to Fandom Wank might unsettle some people, and you need codes to join.

By chance, I found out about a new, planned fen-run journal tool called www.scribblit.com which sounds great and looks pretty good. It's not up and running yet so I'm trying not to get too excited, but it does seem as if the creator has fandom and fen's best interests at heart. S/he's already taking community reservations, so if you know any comm mods, please pass on the news.

I got this nifty icon (created by twocorpses)from the Scribblit community. You can too!

Here's the link:

www.livejournal.com/community/scribblit

http://scribblit.livejournal.com