Eli Cugini

Which is probably the craziest thing I heard on the job.

I know.

I really liked E. Alex Jung's piece.

I am very interested in how complex the sort of debate is and controversy is over him linking a fanfiction in the piece, which he did then later de-link after the author asked Vulture or him specifically to do so.

The fanfiction in question was circulating quite widely before it got quoted.

That's probably why it got quoted.

It's to do with Ilya Rozanov from Heated Rivalry being in like a WAG group chat with a bunch of the wives and girlfriends of hockey players.

And so it's like fabricated text chats that are very screenshotable.

And so I'd seen that multiple times before I saw it quoted in there.

I recognized it.

And so I'm like, that's a difficult case because it is already publicly circulating.

Just because AO3 is like this quite private space, this quite feminized, sexualized space in a way where we don't want outsiders gawking at it too much, that still doesn't make a public artifact not a public artifact.

Equally, as a journalist, I probably wouldn't have linked it because AO3 kind of has a set...

that is kind of understandable about stuff being cited too publicly.

Basically, it is not great to be a writer right now.

I've heard.

has not been great to be a writer for some time.

A lot of people have this dream, understandably, of making a living from their writing, and that is just not the reality for most people.

And a lot of people do not have access to certain things that might make it easier, like MFA programs, like professional training, like writing retreats, like access to all sorts of professional resources.

Fan fiction communities, like you don't have to pay to join them.