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Turns out it's a good thing that I read a number of Tumblr blogs despite not having an account, or I never would have heard of this. Ebooks Tree is a website claiming to have free ebooks for download (though it turns out there's some financial skeeviness involved if you try to sign up for a membership). Turns out they've taken a lot of fan fic from AO3 and posted it without the authors' permission, as well as original published fiction.

Thankfully all of the AO3 stuff seems to have been taken down in the past couple of days (they even seem to have had my self-published book on there, the assholes). Still, I thought it would be good to do a post about this in case anybody reads my blog and hasn't seen what happened on Tumblr.

Diane Duane has a very useful post on how to search for your writing online in case it's been pirated elsewhere.

A discussion at FFA.

A post by the OTW/AO3 folks on the situation when it was happening with helpful information on how to fill in a DCMA takedown notice.

Title: Naughty or Nice

Fandom: Labyrinth
Author's Notes: Written for Winterfest 2014 at labyfic
Summary: It was the first time somebody had wished Santa away but it wouldn’t be the last. A look at some of the encounters between Santa Claus and the Goblin King over the years.
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue, I don't want to end up on the 'Naughty' list.

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I was dealing with some frustrating stuff earlier today and this cheered me up so much: a fic of mine was (positively) mentioned on fail-fandomanon!!! That explains where the recent kudos and comments came from.

I'm struggling with revising an original fiction scene, so it's time to distract myself with LJ. I LOVE writing crossovers. And for some reason, almost every "Bloody Jack" plot bunny I come up with involves a crossover or historical figures. I posted about this a while back, but here's an updated list of the things I want to write. Some are historically plausible; others fall into the "crack fic" category.

Zorro

Brothers Grimm

Louisa May Alcott

Jane Austen/her characters

Mary Shelley

Washington Irving/his characters

Mark Twain

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper

Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Johnny Appleseed

Cowboy Bebop

Muppet Treasure Island

Previously, I wanted to see Blossom Culp and Flavia de Luce meet. Now I want to know what Blossom and the Crawley sisters from Downton Abbey would make of each other. You could throw in the Dowager Countess for good measure. Blossom and Alexander were in England in 1912, it could happen!

Title: Selections from the Professional Correspondence of Amy Trevelyne, 19th Century American Author

Fandom: Bloody Jack
Word Count: 2,100
Summary: AKA, Amy’s fan mail.
Disclaimer and Notes: I am sorry to say that I still do not own any of the characters from “Bloody Jack”. My thanks to bookelfe for beta-reading.

( I firmly believe that Amy Trevelyne has fangirls and at least a few fanboys of her own )

Title: No Gold Medal

Fandom: Vision of Escaflowne
Summary: The appearance of a dragon during an Olympic event is cause for disqualification.
Disclaimer: I don’t own either Escaflowne or the Olympics.
Author’s Notes: While watching this year’s Olympic track events, I started to think about what tends to happen to Hitomi when she’s in races. And then I couldn’t stop giggling.

( Is this a bad time? )

I had to do it! I regret nothing.

Title: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
Fandoms: Bloody Jack, Labyrinth
Summary: Five times Jacky and Jaimy didn’t get married, and one time they did.
Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters from Bloody Jack; if I did, Jacky and Jaimy would be married by now.

( featuring abductions, other suitors, and jail, among other things )

Today I got all depressed over my real life problems so like any good fandom girl, I started another Bloody Jack fic to cheer myself up. I've only written the opening so far:

It wasn't hard to identify the morning sickness--Dorothea had never experienced it before but she knew what to look for after Jacky's most useful lecture on "Things Your Own Mothers Should Have Told You But Plainly Did Not". She wasn't entirely certain what would happen along the way--Jacky's lecture didn't completely cover Dorothea's situation--but there was one thing she knew for sure:

Mistress was going to kill her.

Not sure where this came from but all of a sudden I want an AU fic where the ladies of Downton Abbey (at least the Crawley sisters and probably Lavinia, too) are spies and run around getting shit done during WWI.