I've been Slashdotted!

[elfs]

Apparently, I've been Slashdotted over the The Only Fair Game. Poor Larry. One mistake (mentioning it in Man Kz*n Wars IV, not slamming me) and it was all over.

Not that that's bad, mind you. I normally get about seven hundred story downloads a day. So far, TOFG was download 1600 times. I don't think that's going to overwhelm Drizzle's poor little server, which is a pretty robust commercial webhosting server, but it's nice to see that kind of traffic.

Now if only it would generate some donations, that would be something!

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

That sad part of the whole tale is that, despite Larry's assertion, I did remove all of the works in my stories that referred to his own. I was writing Kz*n and P*ppeteer slash when he came down. TOFG I wrote much later, when I realized why I was inspired to write Kz*n slash-- the Kz*n only make sense to me if gay Kz*n can exist. The periods of High Heresy seem like a good time for such an underground movement to exist. (Terms elided to avoid search engines.)

I'm somewhat grateful to Larry for the kick in the pants he gave me. He inspired me to write in my own universe, to come up with my own characters and situations. To get out from under the forms and restrictions of trying to write in someone else's pond.

And he's still among my favorite authors. I don't think I could do serious harm, nor do I think Larry could ever successfully argue that I've hurt his franchise. In an attention economy (http://www.redherring.com/insider/2003/01/copycats011003.html), I might have even done him a favor by providing a point about which once can ask, "What is all the fuss?"

All of my parodies are tongue only gently in cheek-- I do like all of the people I've made fun of-- Larry, Disney's Aladdin, The Thundercats-- I just think they all had flaws that were best illustrated by, um, example.