Today, I find this at the Live Journal of wendwriter:

Okay, I'm going to say it here: T- and N- cooked it up and told M- about it, knowing she would rush in guns a-blazin' and without questioning the "evidence."

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I see here that The Battling Bard has had her poem, Felagund's Requiem, accepted by Amon Hen, the Journal of the Tolkien Society. Kudos to The Battling Bard. However . . .

( In which I try to avoid using the 'P' word. )

I guess I won't be damned after all. The reaction has been predictable:


So, back to the story-stealing thing. What I haven't seen is the "money shot," the PWNing piece that would blow into orbit any attempts at denial, so neither innocence nor guilt has been proven. There is enough room for suspicion on both sides, and for that reason I am sitting on the fence, waiting for either an explanation of the cheeky message or a screencap of the story in question with the incriminating email address. If such a screencap can be produced, I would be forced to admit that supporting the accused person was a foolish thing to have done. If it can't, all I have is a reasonable doubt of either guilt or innocence.

The stories in question were deleted by a LOTRFF admin before anyone could read them and associate them with Maiafay -- whom we have proved did not create that account herself. The person who created the account used the email address of The Battling Bard and would have to have had access to that email to activate the account. This has never been about 'story stealing,' although the stories in question definitely were not written by Maiafay. This is about attempted identity theft and impersonation to ruin another author's reputation.

No screencaps of the stories in question exist. The need to preserve evidence was not a priority at the time. Since The Battling Bard choosing to be honest in her explanation of the 'cheeky message' is as likely as the ghost of Harold Stassen winning this year's Presidential election, Wendwriter will no doubt remain on her fence.

Edit: The Battling Bard suspects her old email account was hacked. Yes -- there's the ticket!

There is enough room for suspicion on both sides

Ah, yes, because Wendwriter has had fallings out with Nieriel Raina, Maiafay and myself, whereas she is BFFs with The Battling Bard -- for now. I wish these two individuals joy of each other.

Edit: In case anyone is wondering what the heck is going on the genesis is to be found here.

The writer of this rant ( seen here ) left out one very important detail. It is impossible for people to talk to each other, or email, when all forms of communication have been blocked unilaterally, as I learned when I found one of my replies to to a certain person deleted and attempted to take this discussion private.

This Live Journal remains open to comments from anyone, and I give my promise that no one will be censored. My email is to be found in my user profile. In addition, I have not blocked private messages or reviews from anyone at Fanfiction.net. I am willing to reason, both privately and out in public. The choice is up the the ranter. It always has been.

Anything else is . . . unreasonable.

Someone has left me a message. I'm touched. 

Er, friends, if you don't want to see a rant and a huge donnybrook, you might want to skip this.

( I've always preferred a stand-up fight to a bug hunt ) 
As long as we are in the mood for explaining contradictions, I have a few of my own that puzzle me.   Perhaps the Hall Monitor would be so kind?

( these two beauties ) 

After two weeks of sitting on my hands and gnashing my teeth at veiled and not so veiled comments in another venue, I finally broke down and hugged a 'Suethor' today. I ask you, what courage and wit does it take to pick on fourteen year olds? Does it make one's own writing better? Judging from the efforts of *certain writers* I think the answer to that question is no.

Professor Tolkien may be dead, but the last I heard, he had not passed on his mantle to anyone I know. I share the frustration of having to wade through page after page of adolescent writing at ff.net to find the occasional gem among the dross, but that is the nature of the archive. That is why Eru made back buttons.

For those who insist on a modicum of writing standards, I have one suggestion: Henneth Annun Story Archive, otherwise known as HASA.

And for those who wish for a juried archive that follows canon to the letter and eschews 'Sues' I go one step further and say, try Stories of Arda.