Sometimes reasonable rocks::

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a day or so ago, I pointed you to heatherly's meta post...

Today, I offer you xanphibians repsonse. Xanphibian touches on some of my objections to heatherly's post, but only peripherally, and her perspective is certainly different from mine (not in a bad way -- we just don't share a particular common background).

Anyway, it's well reasoned, and again, even-handed and well thought out.

I'm still working on my own shake down of my overall response to both Strikethrough07 and the way fandom is responding to it and the issues surfacing as a result of it.

luckily the world doesn't have to rely on my brain.

You all owe ellen_fremedon a round of applause and possibly cookies because she's managed to summarize and illustrate some of the issues I've been trying to get to gel in my fractured brain for the last couple of days only it's already taken me 30,000 words and I still haven't managed to make it make sense even to myself.

...and in doing so, she reminded me of something I'd written as a forward to a piece of original fiction a decade or so ago, that could apply to my fan fiction as well as any other fiction I write -- in which I tried to summarize that I do, indeed write with a sense of honesty and responsibility but both of those things are more a matter of me being honest with myself and responsibile to my own moral and ethical principles.

Therefore, enjoy, suspend disbelief and know that while all of this is true, none of it is the Truth.