The Heart of the Maze

Good grief, yes, please do! Of course! And will friend you back! (I am unfortunately careless about updating on communities and keeping names straight, so am very sorry!) not a snoop at all--I put this link page there for people to use!

*drags you in and shoves fiction at you and apologizes for not updating*

actually now that I think, I wasn't posting the new stuff to either "interspecies" or "sons of gondor" because I see it as so intertwined.

Will be posting all at the new open community--lotr_fanfiction though!

And thank you!

*shades eyes and looks out to sea anxiously*

Nope, you're still there! And still alive since your posted in your lj after making this comment! I'm glad to meet you!

Sorry for such a delay in responding to this lovely comment, but obviously, the last few days have been sort of...well, intensely insane. Yep. That sums it up.

Topped off by lj maintenance or whatever keeping things in read only mode and sucking things away last night.

Hopefully that's over for a while.

Hope your eye recovers! I have bifocals myself and it's harder than heck to read long stuff on a screen. As I've told several people, if it's easier to get word files and read long stuff in printout, drop me a line at ithiliana13 AT aol.com; I have everything in word file and hard copy because I find reading too much electronically hard on the eyes. Emailing attachments is *so* easy.

And let me share some words of wisdom from my housemate, coined when I was fairly new to lj: "nobody ever died wishing they'd done more housework!"

Yep.

Oh, and if you're a Viggo/Sean girl, I really must recommend a piece (epistolatory, long, hotter than hades) by my friends:

Click here I think you will love it!

I was in an APA for many years, but am afraid it was a general apa, with some comics guys, not a LotR apa, so I am not able to help in this case. I'm sure they must be out there, LotR apas, but I have absolutely no idea where they might be. Might be worth doing a google search 'cause some of the apas might advertise online so to speak, or publish in two forums these days. I was in APA-5 from the late seventies, on and off, through the early nineties.

But wasn't in LotR fandom then (shocking waste of my time now that I look back on it, snicker).

Sorry I cannot help!

*oops* Not any more! I wanted to open up that entry (which is a muchly expanded version of my introduction!) at the same time that Henry posted--but not two days before which is when I finished it. Guess he didn't have a chance to email me (or it got caught in my university's spam filter!). Thanks for notifying me--it's all open now!

Totally cool reading! I love it! Thank you! I expecially like the sort of poetic association going on.

It riffs on a fandom expression (tl;dr = too long, didn't read) often applied to academic looking meta or essays, or lengthy rants, often extended to "tealdeer" by adding some new vowels, heaven only knows why, to make another word. Of course, that just means there can be multiple layers of meaning applied to any single text.

Speaking of tl;dr and all the layers in meaning in fan stuff reminds me, I meant to ask if you had ever heard of fan glossaries; I'm interested in them in relation to literacies issues, i.e., fans providing information on fan discourse to "newbies". And you mentioned the problem with shorthand and acronyms and such in entries about fandom (and it's true, we all do it, and there's other levels of shorthand for academic terminology), but there are glossaries. (And I still have to ask friends sometimes because my fan slang was learned years ago, and a bunch of new stuff came in w/the internet, including "LEET" speak.)

There are many fan glossaries, some more specialized than others, but this is a good one!

I've been thinking about icons lately--some people are known in fandom primarily for their icon skills (there are whole communities devoted to featuring them, in and across individual fandoms),and a whole set of mores and manners around them: for example, my tealdeer is gakkable (meaning, you may save it to your hard drive and then upload it to your LJ--depending on what type of account you have, you can have different numbers of icons), and use it. Giving credit is nice (but I don't require it): by credit, it means that when you upload it you'd put in something like "made by X." Other of my icons are personal presents to me, from friends, often with personal meanings, so are unique, and others are expected to respect those boundaries. (In theory, anybody can nick any icon, of course, but in practice, there's a whole set of manners.)

In LJ, icons are for decoration, for allegiances, and sometimes for major rhetorical points, slams, or expressions of support. It's a whole language (since you work primarily with a visual medium, you'd probably be better at analyzing them in some ways than I). Some are also erotic, others ranging to downright pornograph (including realistic and graphic portrayals of anal sex, among other practices). (There are animated icons--I'll put one of mine on this reply so you can see it--one I made based on a quote by another LJer about slash which I so loved I wanted to memorialize!).

I love my tealdeer icon (and am very proud of it!) because it embodies so many layers of textual meaning specific to fandom in a visual pun (I also must admit to nicking the image of the stag in the best fannish theft fashion!).



Edited at 2008-05-26 02:56 am (UTC)