Desperately seeking...

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

"A Season in Hell", by Cassandra Claire. Does anyone have a saved copy they can send me? All links appear to be down. I'm not going to be able to go to the midnight showing of HP7 tonight and could really use some Harry/Draco to cheer me up.

Comments

[beaumort.livejournal.com]

I uploaded copy if you want one http://www.mediafire.com/?fuq4q7k1c8o75g2

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks, another user sent it to me.

[lia-the-demon.livejournal.com]

would you be so kind to send me the work?? i tried the link but the work isn't hosted there anymore. (i mean i write you this 6 years later but in case you will see this...)

[dureeena.livejournal.com]

Then i`ll say thanks for the upload. ;-)

[lia-the-demon.livejournal.com]

would you be so kind to upload the work again?? i tried the link but the work isn't hosted there anymore. (i mean i write you this 6 years later but in case you will see this...)

[aubergineautumn.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I am curious. How do people give you the fic? You have no e-mail adress listed other than lj mail. I didn't think you could send attachments through lj.

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

PM for email address, natch.

[aubergineautumn.livejournal.com]

....why can't you get an anonymous hotmail account like everyone else? You ask for something the author would prefer you not to have, and on top of that, you then make the person willing to provide it work harder by having to obtain your e-mail address instead of you just providing it. Gen Y entitlement much, natch?

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

I don't know what an anonymous hotmail account is. Guess I'm just not up on this happening new technology all the hep cats are using these days. As for what the author would prefer, I suggest you read Barthes and Foucault; the author is dead, darling. The text is what matters. After generating said text, what the author wants doesn't count for diddly. Especially, I might add, an author infamous for plagiarism, making your defense of her wishes somewhat ironic. Besides, if the author had preferred people not to read her work it shouldn't have been posted on the internet -- or shared at all. Thinking that one has the right to forbid their readers from ever enjoying what was once freely shared? Now that's entitlement.

Furthermore, I don't know what version of livejournal you're using, but mine makes it very simple to send a personal message requesting an email address. Perhaps we simply have different definitions of 'hard work'?

Oh, and 'natch'? Ur doin it wrong.

[aubergineautumn.livejournal.com]

A lot of fans actually do respect authors' requests. When authors leave archived versions of their stories and say don't share, fans sometimes interpret that to mean share discretely. But when authors start using robots? That's a whole another level of don't share.

Sometimes fans just want, regardless. Everyone has been there. Most people who ask for fic that's been removed from pubic access provide their e-mail address in their request and then modify the request to indicate the fic has been received when they obtain it. Sometimes people even delete the request after they get the fic. Yes, it's a compromise. No, it's not ideal.

But having gone there (and everyone has at least once)- yes, you are making it unnecessarily harder by not proving an e-mail address with your request. See: person who went through the trouble of uploading the fic you wanted because you didn't provide your e-mail upfront.

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

Just because fans respect an author's request doesn't mean that request isn't unreasonable. When authors start using robots? That's a whole nother level of unreasonable. And, again, ironic, given that Cassandra Clare's fanfiction is far superior to her 'original' work. She's wiped the internet of her only worthwhile contribution to literature so she can publish derivative shite. Brava.

I would have used the download (and, as you see, another user has already used it) had someone else not gone through the MASSIVE TROUBLE of pm'ing me to ask for my email address. As for said email address, no, it isn't something I crosspost to a bunch of communities full of total strangers, some of who may be spambots or serial killers for all I know. Serial killers with the technological proficiency to track me down via my email address. If the person who pm'd me turns out to be a serial killer I will at least know that zie is a fellow fan.

In conclusion, this entire silly interaction reeks of you trying to pick a fight. Why so butthurt?

[aubergineautumn.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I've nothing better to do tonight. I'm waiting for the laundry to finish. Also, the Vampire Diaries is on mini-break.

The upload is a good idea, it prevents tons of people from also requesting the fic. An anonymous post with the upload would be better, but I'm not sure anonymous posting is allowed in this particular journal.

If you're protective of your identity, I can sympathize with that. But don't make people click on your user profile to get your e-mail. Just state it upfront, with the caveat that the reason you want people to PM you is because you are protecting your RL identity.

*shrugs* I'm critical, you're entitled.

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

Oh for the love of...now clicking on my user profile is too much work? Good fucking lord. Yes, you are critical to the point of utter and hilarious ridiculousness, but you have failed to establish how exactly I am 'entitled'. I feel entitled to...a PM? Truly I am spoiled beyond human measure. You may want to ponder, while waiting for your laundry, upon the fact that you -- not the person who gave me this fic through an email, or the person who uploaded it -- is complaining. About what, I'm not exactly sure. But gosh darn it, air your vague, petty complaints anyway! Why not. You have nothing better to do.

[tsukiihime.livejournal.com]

this convo is so interesting...because in the end, you're just complaining, but not contributing... since you're not the one doing all the work, and the ones who ARE doing the work aren't actually complaining, why so butthurt? o.o;;

[dureeena.livejournal.com]

you`ve got a strange attitude: critisizing everything from now to eternity? it`s hardly your business how people exchange fics. and most of the authors who take their fics down have no problem with people exchanging them as long as they`re not published online anymore - that goes for those i contacted in the past and asked for a pdf. so what`s your fuss about?

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

This. So much this.

[aj-socks.livejournal.com]

So, joining the party a bit late because I was curious why this had so many comments and geez, this was a bit interesting. I have to wonder who in the world has an anonymous hotmail account and/or expects others to do the same.

Anyway, just saying I totally agreed with you!!

[pierrot-dreams.livejournal.com]

I agree with me too! XD

[anoena-lilium.livejournal.com]

Just wants to say that i feel sorry for you, honestly don't know why people wants to give you so much trouble over this.
ps. you're very coherent and awesome at defending yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

This has switching, just so you know!