James Marsters squeaking and some talk about open and closed canon and how wrestlefic doesn't fit in

I was channel surfing after the end of the Hungarian GP and came across Smallville. And lo and behold who was on it but James Marsters. And while I normally squeak about his timing or his ability to enunciate, this time I wish to squeak about his body language. Because I'd never seen this character before, but I knew there was something not quite right about him from the set of his shoulders. And that takes some doing.

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About open and closed canon

Thoughts mostly brought about by the publication of HP and the Deathly Hallows but no spoilers involved. Basically, the end of a story means that we know what happens to all the characters, and therefore limits our options with what to do with them. While it opened more vistas, explaining the motivations of various characters closed some too. And that's one of the dangers of writing for something that's continuing, it might all change and things you thought happened for one reason, really happened for another.

But, and here's the rub, it's the open fandoms that have the widest possible sets of fic because the characters still have so many avenues to explore, and with closed ones its difficult to write some paths without going madly against the character's core.

This is were wrestle-fic comes in. Because of the nature of wrestling, it's both a perpetually closed and a perpetually open canon. A character's motivation might change, but it doesn't change what happened 5 years before, so you can go and write fic about him/her and the 5 years ago opponent with the new motivation, or fic for the new opponent with the old motivation, or you can write about the change. It makes so many more things possible.

I think I may be missing something in the latest round of LJ v HP fen

So as far as I can tell the story is this:

People outside of LJ complain that there is kiddie porn on LJ.
LJ have a fit and suspend everyone who they think might have it.
HP fen object.
LJ try, and fail miserably, to clarify their stance, but do, in some of the most tortured English ever get across that, okay, we'll let you back, just try not to post anything that might be misconstrued as kiddie porn.
HP fen grumble but acceed.
Only they don't and some people do post art which could be seen as kiddie porn (I don't think it is, but you know that's why I said misconstrued).
LJ act and ban the fan artists in question for breaking the rules.

I fail to see how anyone can be offended at LJ for that.

It's really not the freedom of speech issue some HP fen are making it out to be. LJ aren't saying don't draw/write it, they're saying don't stick it on our servers where we can get into trouble for it. Which is understandable. They have a business to run.

Sorry to anyone I've offended, I'm in a bad temper and also presently taking part in the ancient British pass-time of moron baiting, or rather, moron-goading, on an on-line game I play.