Don't get me wrong, I mean there's no denying it, if you're a fanfiction writer or avid reader, it's the place to go (if you have the patience to wade through the ankle deep pile of bad writing and sewage that comes with it of course to get to the actual good ones, that is.) But seriously, this whole "buckling down" thing FF.net is going all Nazi with is starting to seriously try my patience. Things were fine when I first registered -- now I upload something new a year later and they've established so many new rules and restrictions on every single aspect that it's sick.

The whole no more NC-17 thing last year -- fine. Whatever. There's AdultFanFiction.net for that, and it's dandy. But the thing that annoys me is the fact that while they removed the NC-17 stuff but still graciously allowed R ratings, showing that they're fine supporting those, but at the same time they're so freaking prejudiced against them! Story searches are automatically listed in only the G - PG13 categories, you have to actually select "all ratings" to include the R ones in the list and anyone not tech savvy isn't even going to realize that, so that's a huge percentage of readership knocked down for you already. And now they have the new popular C2 groups ("like a favorite stories list on steroids",) but R ratings aren't allowed to even be linked to in them. So there's another drop in readership, because all the ways that authors are able to use FF.net to get their work spread around are locked out to any of the more adult-themed and insome cases with stuff I've read, extreamly amazing stories! I don't GET IT. The whole rating fiasco aside, the rules with story formatting and uploading has gotten to the point of being just rediculous -- no author's notes; no author's contact email; no characters like * @ < or > which ninety percent of authors including me use in story formatting and paragraph seperation, you can't even use tags like < pre > for extra line breaks -- two line breaks, that's all they allow now, and sometimes they even remove THOSE; no uploading "two-liners" (which I've found can be incredibly interesting short scribbles); no uploading anthing "scrypt-style" or "chat client-style" (which even though I don't personally read, doesn't mean they should be forced off); you can't even change font size. WHAT THE FUCK? It just makes me so angry the way they're restricting the concept of free creativity in writing.

< End wrath >

Okay, so that needed to be expressed and now it's done. I'm in class again this morning, again doing nothing, because the zip disc I brought with stuff to work on from home doesn't bloody work with the drives here, and they won't allow students to use FTP, so I have to wait until noon until Chelle comes for her class and drops off my stuff on a different disk. *Disgruntled* Before all the sitting around I've done in the past two days in this class, I don't remember the last time I've spent so much time reading fanfiction. (Hense sparkage of sudden rage above.)

Anyway, break time. I actually brought healthy food today. HUZZUH! *Bathes cucumbers in awesome, cleansing, holy light*