Ah the BBC …

[blamebrampton]

Nobody poshes it up politely quite like the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz: 'And then, there is the issue of readers becoming authors, dramatically illustrated by the extraordinary success of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that started life at a website for amateur writers responding to their favourite novels.'

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Sadly that doesn't sound at all critical to me. Then again I can't diss my fandoms ATROCIOUS holybibleofaonetruefic no matter how much I want to when the diss Sheds. WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING. I'm suddenly wondering what would be a comparable problem for male fans/creators.