Off topic post - an explanation

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I know OT posts aren't allowed here and I'm being lazy. But I've had a few emails asking why my fics have disappeared from the archive, so I thought I'd answer them here.

It's simple really - I've decided that my journal (like the one I used to keep when I was a teenager) should be more of a private thing - this is to protect me and my real life and to control (as much as it is possible with the internet) material that is clearly unsuitable for people under a certain age from being made widely available. This decision has been a long time in the making and is a permanent one. Because I've locked my journal it was also necessary to remove my fics from the archive. All links have been removed from rugbytackle as well but the fics are retained in my journal for my friends to read. I still love writing and enjoy reading all the stuff that folk post here and in their own journals. I just finally realised that if I was going to keep writing, I had to be accountable for the control of that material.