but it's been hard to defend the opinion that one simply finds them uninteresting without fielding accusations of racism, so, yeah. I think I have a chip on my shoulder about the whole thing. Whoops.
Yeah I totally get that. That's one of the things that drives me crazy about the whole argument. That you can't just *do* something without having racist motivations. Of all the fics that were mentioned in the racism wank way back, how many of them do you think the author was honestly giving into racist ideals, conscious or unconscious?

Are you serious? I've been checking in every few months for that fic -- I had no idea she'd discontinued it!
Yeah, she's taken *so much* heat for it. From fans that object to the BDSM aspect of it, from people who have objected to the basis of the world, and the characterization. I think Coming Home was just too popular and got taken out if it's context, and people were reading it when it wasn't their thing, just because "everyone else" was. Actually, someone on my flist was writing about it yesterday, and from that post it's easy to see why she Xanthe decided to leave, even if it makes me really sad.

I'm going to post my comment to the rest of your post in another comment, since I'm sure I'll end up going over the word count.