I've been trying for days to get on here and been getting that error message.  I thought it was gone for good until I just tried again.  I'll join your new one Mare

As this place seems to be slowly dying, I really do recommend anyone who may just come here to browse, come on over to the new message board which you can find here:
https://marescorner.freeforums.net/

And I saw both those posts actually did go through. This place is weird. If you talk to Dee, give her the link to the new board.

The forum seems to be working now, but I know what you mean.  It did that to me a couple of different days this past week.  Everything seemed to load fine, but then it wouldn't let me post.

So, it seems this forum is fine until someone tried to post something. Then it gets all wiggy. I posted a response to your fanfic question, Julie but then it disappeared. I answered it over on the other forum. Now I'm just testing to see if this goes through or not.

Today is the last performance of GlenGarry. 

Actually, J Smith Carmeron. The woman who plays Gerri. Not only was aware of fanfics and all that people that ship Gerri and Roman, but she was also known to like people's posts on Twitter when they mentioned their fanfiction updates when it came to those fics, which tells us that she most likely reads them as well. Personally, I'm pretty sure she has a little crush on Kieran in real life just by the way she talks about him, so it makes sense. lol No one else as far as I know from the cast has mentioned them at all.

Yeah, I don't know why anyone would try to share their fics with the people they are writing about. I know there was supposedly this girl who gifted Tom Felton a Harry Potter fic when she met him, and it wasn't even hers! It was just her favorite fic so she had it bond into a real looking book and gave it to him. Yikes! And can you imagine being the author and then finding that out?

I just made an account over on the new forum. But it sure is a change having it all be white. I'm so used to AC's dark mode aesthetic. But the blue and white is unironically perfect timing for 2.0. lol

I’ve never had cheese curds. I do believe they have them here, but I’ve never seen that down in PA.

I get what you’re saying about it being too late for the boys. I never even thought about the weird factor until I saw the discourse. Fan fiction seems to be more mainstream now than it ever was before so the odds of them not knowing what it is are less greater than it was a decade ago.

Cheese curds are good, whether they're breaded and fried or just plain lumps of cheese.  Some places around here call the fried version "cheese balls," but I didn't want that to be confused with the Cheeto kind because they're totally different (and much better).

Yeah, I never thought writing fiction about celebrities was any weirder than writing it about other people's fictional characters.  No one's getting consent for that either.  I can definitely see why said celebrities would be uncomfortable with some of the stuff people write about them, but I can also see published authors, screenwriters, etc. being uncomfortable with what people do with their characters LOL.  With RPF, the general rule of thumb is "Don't share your fics with the people they're about," which I totally agree with.  I would be mortified if I thought any of the Boys had actually read any of mine.  But you're right; fanfic in general has become a lot more mainstream than it was when we first got into it, so they might be more aware of what it actually is than they used to be.  Has anyone from Succession ever commented on fanfic?

I hope more people join the new forum so we can move the discussion there!

Okay. That’s good to know. Tracy said she tried to upload a picture but she couldn’t. I’ll just tell her try again.

People can upload their own images. I think you can also upload a selection of avatars for people to choose from, but you don't have to do that.