I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Really, who wouldn't rather get free money, as opposed to working some crappy temp job?

Send laminate bookshelves to EVERYONE!

By the time they get them set up, they'll have no energy left to build a nuclear arsenal. It's a perfect plan!

I think that if people ask for money and get it, power to them.

There's definitely this aspect. She's possibly something (insert word of your choice here) for asking. And in some ways, she is no worse than the utne woman who got people to collect for a new computer for her.

I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Then they should do so, by all means. That said, I wonder how much of the rage is inspired by the red-on-white text motif in her journal.

That said, I wonder how much of the rage is inspired by the red-on-white text motif in her journal.

bahahahah!

Ah, people are strange.

I think some people are pissed because she is asking to be paid for writing something which is already infringing copyright, and making fan fiction a for-pay endeavor is likely to bring negative attention to a form of writing which is already on shaky legal ground. I can see how that would rankle--and I don't read fan fiction.

Also, people are protective and irritable about fanfic in general. I mean, there's this sense of "We know we're not doing anything wrong, but we also know that we're better off not attracting legal attention," and what she was doing could attract legal attention. Honestly, I understand people getting pissed.

Well, that and maybe they've had it up to here with STUPID MORONS and are on a SHORT FUCKING FUSE and ONE MORE IDIOT WAS TOO MUCH... er, I could be projecting, though.

(Or, rather, What Robin Said, with a little added Internet Ire (like road rage, but it needed allusiveness. consonance. alluooooo something. chole?))

No, I get why they're pissed and why it's wrong. And I also get why they want to not have the bright eyes of C&D people on them. And they should take her ass down because of that.

But how they choose to do it and the language they used? It just reminds me of the anonymous notes that 6th grade girls leave for the other girls they hate.

But, I think that's my inner midwesterner speaking.

I had to stop reading the IMDB movie boards, due to the toxic combination of stupidity and rudeness. "U are to much of a moron to relize what a good movie is, so shut up!"

Veteran emergency room nurses in San Francisco can all run off a list of unexpected objects they've had to remove from various asses.

My best friend the ER doc once treated a guy who had

put a deck screw up his penis.

When she asked him how he got it up there he looked at her like she was stupid and said,

"With a screwdriver."