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trobadora: Drive-by meta link: Villains and other "dark" characters - So what is it about what we love in fictional characters that overrides our "real" ethics? -
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11 October 2008 @ 12:54 am
Friday, October 10, 2008
09 October 2008 @ 12:22 am
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- meganbmoore: fannish types - Approaching fiction for and like that isn't "wrong" or "bad" but is obviously the opposite of how I read it, as very different things are wanted from it. -
- rockeandroll: Writing for myself - So if I wrote it for myself, why am I posting it online? -
- sasha_feather: "Non-Con" in fanfic - Is there a difference between non-con and rape?//If so, what is it?//If not, why do we say non-con rather than rape? -
- anna_bird: Yaaaawn and Fandom Archives - I spent an intense week doing this): in archives and libraries (both special collections and regular old public libraries), there is never enough space to house everything, there are never enough people to process everything, and something is going to have to disappear or be thrown away in order to keep other items. If these items are going to be saved in their physical form, they need to be archived somewhere that won't treat them like a throwaway novelty. -
07 October 2008 @ 05:02 pm
Tuesday, October 8th 2008
cryptoxin: A couple thoughts re: authorship and authority on LiveJournal - ...my point here is ... to suggest that where pseudonymous fan authorship status is effaced or diminished, authority is transferred or redistributed elsewhere. -velvet_mace: [in fanficrants] Fake cut is fake - It's probably unfair of me, but I don't click on fics that proudly claim that their fic is behind a fake cut when they aren't actually using a fake cut. -06 October 2008 @ 02:28 pm
Monday, October 6, 2008
- wickedwords: Smarm, Emo Porn, and Peak Moments: Are they the same thing? - today's question is: What is the difference between Smarm, Emo Porn and a Peak Moment or Money Scene? -
- wickedwords: A request for the Hurt/comfort and fan history people - I'd like to get some people to work on the History of Hurt/comfort fandom. Things I'd like to know would be: What were the big Hurt/comfort stories in your fandom? Did any of them have huge impact? Can someone talk about 'brain damage' stories, and 'illness hurt/comfort'. -
- brown_betty: Dick Grayson in a fake moustache and glasses - There is a story I will read every time I see it, no matter how many times I see it: Our Hero is undercover, and surrounded by badguys, but someone there, either someone else undercover or someone in trouble, begins to suspect Our Hero is not actually the villain they pretend to be. -
- bop_radar: Vidding chat: Planning vids - How do you get from the idea phase of vidding to the laying-down-clips-in-the-timeline phase? -
- bop_radar: Vidding chat: First vids - What was the first vid you made and what made you take the plunge into vidding? If you haven't (yet) made a vid yourself, feel free to tell us about the vids you dream of making one day. -
- cupidsbow: Australia in fiction - You know what it makes me wonder, though? It makes me wonder if the stuff I write set in other countries sounds off to the people who live there. -
- miyuki_mina: [in fanficrants] Being strong women =/= hating our vaginas - A woman can choose to perform ANY kind of stuff she wants without ANYONE looking down on her - looking down on a feamle because she'd sew clothes and bake muffins rather than shoot others and be a martial artist is actually ANTI FEMINIST. -
- seperis: recording history - See, the thing is, the wiki is a lot of things to many people, but it's, for me, a living memory. -
- cupidsbow: Secret wishes - When you sign up for exchanges, do you ever have a secret wish to be assigned someone in particular? Do you squee when you see their name on the list of people who are taking part? -
- zelempa: Fanlore thoughts - Do you think it's a good idea to have pairing pages in addition to character pages on the fanlore wiki? -
- telesilla: FanLore.... - But still, our history is important and I think that this project is important as well. I'm watching several pages and have done an edit here and there. I wish there were some way I could team up with someone who can write in the wikipedia style and work with them to get some of the stuff in my head into the wiki. -
- laceymcbain: Writing Disconnect - reading one's own work - Have you ever had that experience when you go back and read something you wrote a long time ago, a story you've almost forgotten existed, and you read it with completely new eyes, and you think, "I wrote that!"? -
- xparrot: fan types - I've had a theory for a while that there are two fundamental types of fans - the intellectual/analytical kind, and the emotional kind, and major fan conflict and wank can arise when these two types interact, because they approach fanning differently, and therefore have a difficult time understanding where a fan of the other type is coming from. -
02 October 2008 @ 12:48 am
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
- seekergeek: Oh dear lord, META - If we treat these tropes as the real life-changing events that they are and address all these things, our stories can easily balloon into monstrously huge things that eventually smother the poor overwhelmed writer. -
- xie_xie_xie: Preserving fandom history and heritage - I don't see fandom as just something I participate in or write fic in or consume. It's a structure, a community, a place with a history. Taking away these pieces of that history, making them so new fans can never find them, is like losing our past. -
- tielan: sudden thought on 'Eureka' characterisation - does a character/person of obvious non-white descent need to have some kind of connection to the diaspora of her descent in order to be 'a valid portrayal' of her racial type? -
- bluefall: meta-ish type stuff - I've recently noticed something kind of interesting. Every fandom has its own norms, of course - [...] But something that had never really occurred to me before is that each fandom has its own disclaimer culture, too. -
only_gremo: I learn, because I am a fan - The impact of fan identities on learning - One of the most fascinating things is the ever present wish of authors, artists, fans to improve. While we present ourselves as fans on IJ or LJ or some other site, we show our fannish interests and bridge the gap between passive consument of media and active subject with the desire to be productive. -- friendshipper: I think my standards have risen... - It's not the quality of the writing, it's the style. Over the last couple of years, my fanfic-to-books ratio has been heavily skewed in the fanfic direction. [...] But I wonder if it goes beyond that -- if fanfic in general has a particular style, just like science fiction, on the whole, has a different style from romance. -
24 September 2008 @ 09:59 pm
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
- cupidsbow: A Personal Schema for Meta, by cupidsbow - it's about the way I have included "tone" as an element of my previously unarticulated, but nonetheless expected schema for how people will reply to my meta-ish posts. -
- dragojustine: On titles, and a POLL - So picking titles sure does suck, doesn't it? Most of the time I get to the end of a fic and haven't once thought about a title, and have to come up with something. [POLL] -
23 September 2008 @ 09:51 am
Monday, September 22, 2008
- cupidsbow: Why 'no' still means 'yes': a rant about suffering and sex - Beneath all that great dialogue and character interaction, this is what the story told me://If you want sex and intimacy (especially with someone the world doesn't approve of), you must SUFFER and be TORTURED and have NO CHOICE. You are not allowed to say NO. -
20 September 2008 @ 07:49 pm
Saturday, September 20, 2008
- gnomicutterance: Transformative Works and Culture debut issue - The open access, peer-reviewed fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has just released its debut issue. -
19 September 2008 @ 10:14 pm
Friday, September 19, 2008
- elfwreck: This is what a fanwork looks like - The OTW's academic journal, Transformative Works & Cultures, has published its first issue. Volume. Whatever./Yaaaay!/It is collected in a set of twenty URLs and the Table of Contents, which are (1) annoyingly long to read on dialup and (2) not print-friendly. -
- lyras: I'll ramble, and I'll rant, and I'll blow your house down - So please, if you're female and writing a female character, think about what you're doing. Give her the same respect that you give to your male characters. Give her the respect that you want for yourself. -
16 September 2008 @ 12:10 pm
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
- aryas_zehral: I'm not sure what to think about this. - The thing that gets me is that, ok, much of this blog is public and, yes, it's only a poxy review, but it's my review and it's my work. -
- praetorianguard: HAI, JUDGE PATTERSON! - The court permanently enjoined RDR’s publication of the Lexicon book and awarded JKR/WB statutory damages. But it’s ever so much more interesting than that. -
- paperclipchains: [in fanficrants] Mary Sue Witch Hunt - The knee-jerk, venomous reaction has created a very oppressive environment for those who wish to make Original Characters. -
- gabriellebelle: Beyond the Sex in Fandom - It's all well and good to be progressive and push the envelope, but it's important to also recognize the less edgy parts of fandom as being just as valid. -
- miera_c: Where's ours? - The powah of the network and standing proudly outside the mainstream are great, but can't we have it all? Can't online female fandom maintain our geek cred and our community also have our own house that publishes our stuff when we want it published? -
15 September 2008 @ 12:17 am
Sunday, September 14, 2008
11 September 2008 @ 06:21 pm
Thursday, September 11, 2008
- ayiana2: Sex and the Fanfiction Writer - If you're an author, do you ever include sex scenes in your stories? If so (and please be honest), do you always do it strictly to advance your plot? Or do you sometimes do it because it's what your readers want/expect you to write -
09 September 2008 @ 08:04 pm
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
- penknife: HP Lexicon decision - Reference guides are not derivative works, which the author gets to license; they are generally works that are fair use because they serve a transformative purpose.//However, this particular guide uses too much of Rowling's original language -
04 September 2008 @ 03:39 pm
Thursday, September 4, 2008
- cesperanza: PWP? WTF? - But now I'm wondering if maybe NONE of these words mean what I think they mean! For me, PWP is 'Plot, What Plot' which I've always interpreted in my own head as--like, huh, wuh, there was a plot? because the story was so OBVIOUSLY about the sex, you know? Like, if you're looking for the plot, you've missed the point, because the story of the story was the story of the sex! The sex is the story, no flying monkeys or juggling clowns needed. -
- lobelia321: leather jackets and TV canon - So in my canon world, the photo of the 'making of' the pier does not count either towards or against any kind of leather jacket theory. It is cute but it is not canon. -
03 September 2008 @ 10:20 pm
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
- catwalksalone: From Canon to Crack - There are probably other reasons ...that crack and AUs are more prevalent in some fandoms than others, but it does seem to me that canon itself, and the way it is presented, is a large contributing factor. -
02 September 2008 @ 11:06 am
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
- americanleaguer: more thinky things - I think this is mostly understood even by sports slash critics, right? I mean, the guys at that basketball blog, the folks over at Deadspin, when they approached sports slash, it was more out of a sense of... I dunno, horror at the idea, (sometimes merited) amusement at the expense of the concept and the writing both. -
- fialleril: race relations in Star Wars - EU style! - There aren't many people of color in the Star Wars universe to begin with (and that's another meta entirely!). But I've started to notice a pattern in how the EU treats them -
29 August 2008 @ 09:44 pm
Friday, August 29, 2008
- puella_nerdii: Erotica and the Unsexy Sex Scene - In a nutshell, how do you strip away the erotic component of a sex scene without making it thoroughly unappealing? -
28 August 2008 @ 08:12 pm
Thursday, August 28, 2008
- airinshaw: Ranty McRanterson - It gets said over and over by the press and bands and such - people writing about them (bands) sleeping together .... And I just want to to shake them and yell "UR DOIN IT RONG!" Because it's not about them. It's about us. -
27 August 2008 @ 05:57 pm
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
- cofax7: Taking a page from james_nicoll's technique - Sociability is part of marketing in the fannish economy. Y/N? Discuss? Pros/Cons? -
- sherrold: why ask why? - Hey, why do we call that kind of story "genderswaps"? They aren't swapping gender -- they're swapping biological sex. -
25 August 2008 @ 05:33 pm
Sunday, August 24, 2008
- written_in_blue: [meta] Stop using those words. Please. - It's not funny. It's not cute. When I opened up my flist this morning and saw "[schoolname]faggotry" it felt like I'd just been punched in the gut. Every time I read someone talking about how "gay" certain[...]male characters are, it makes me cringe. -
- capncosmo: This Entry Kind of Ran Away with Me a Bit. - I think when writing an asexual, as the world stands now, it's a lot more important to put in elements of the Asexual Experience[...]than it is to put in any kind of "(a)sexual epiphany" or, you know, the word. -
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