*snort* Well, yes, there is that. Which is why I advised him to shut the hell up and figure out what his next steps are, because right now, anything he says is going to be wrong.
(Did not. Know what. SLASH. Was. My brain, my brain, bits of my brain are scattered all over my desk from hitting it so hard.)
Out of sheer sympathy I'd point him at a basic primer about "this is what fandom is, and this is what ficfandom is, and this is what LotR fandom is, and this is how fanfic archives work" ... except there aren't any. It's all a big blurry organic mess, and when we do the navel-gazing part, we don't write it in Corporatese.
I have no interest in watching a young earnest business-dude get the Ogas treatment (because unlike Ogas, this one is young enough and possibly mentally flexible enough to learn), so I'd love to find a way to suggest how he can get through this without hitting the beaten-by-ploughshares stage. But I can think of so *many* ways he could be just stupid and offensive enough to push this into seriously ugly, instead of the laugh-and-point snark that's going on now.
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(Did not. Know what. SLASH. Was. My brain, my brain, bits of my brain are scattered all over my desk from hitting it so hard.)
Out of sheer sympathy I'd point him at a basic primer about "this is what fandom is, and this is what ficfandom is, and this is what LotR fandom is, and this is how fanfic archives work" ... except there aren't any. It's all a big blurry organic mess, and when we do the navel-gazing part, we don't write it in Corporatese.
I have no interest in watching a young earnest business-dude get the Ogas treatment (because unlike Ogas, this one is young enough and possibly mentally flexible enough to learn), so I'd love to find a way to suggest how he can get through this without hitting the beaten-by-ploughshares stage. But I can think of so *many* ways he could be just stupid and offensive enough to push this into seriously ugly, instead of the laugh-and-point snark that's going on now.