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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. -
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6th October 2008
24th September 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] -
23rd September 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. -
20th September 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. -
19th September 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. -
16th September 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? -
15th September 2008
- moonmip: Words You Don't See Often Enough in Fanfic - I try and use the words less written, to look a little farther for language because I so often find that while the word I have may be good, there's another word that just fits so much better. -
11th September 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 -
7th September 2008
- thingswithwings: representational television: SO WEIRD - I've been watching Boston Legal. And I am completely freaked out by it. How do people watch representational television? How do they watch shows that aren't speculative fiction, that don't do their work through metaphor? -
- cupidsbow: Fannish Touchstone Stories - ze said it was that those stories speak straight to our lizard brain. That they are satisfying on this deep emotional level. Thinking about this a bit more, I wonder if these stories present us with an "answer"? [...] And I wonder if these touchstone stories manage to give us one possible solution that works on multiple levels. They are, in effect, One Way It Could Actually Happen (according to fannish consensus). -
4th September 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. -
3rd September 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. -
29th August 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? -
28th August 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. -
27th August 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. -
25th August 2008
- ithiliana: I am Multitudinous Multitasker! - I get awfully tired of the zero-sum argument that comes up all the time in various activist discussions: "don't do X, do Y instead"; or "why are you complaining about Q when there's this huge R problem?"; I'm tired of that type of argument -
23rd August 2008
- penknife: Soulbonding, or what happens when the author gets out the superglue - I'm deeply ambivalent about this trope, but there are lots of interesting things I would like to see people do with it.I kind of like soulbonding in universes where it's remotely appropriate and when it's complicated and ambivalent and problematic and hot -
22nd August 2008
- the_willow: Watching The Show In Your Head - I began to wonder if the difference between watching the show you want to see as a fan (in fandom, discussing the source and interacting with it and having that mentality) and watching the show as a 'mundane' is that discussing the source and talking about it brings you moments of realizing just exactly how and where and why you ended up seeing what you wanted to see. -
20th August 2008
- harriet_spy: Vividcon - So what is it that vids that push the envelope make us fear? -
- prehistoric_sea: In Which I Will Not Win Friends and Influence People - I can see why there's so much fanfic written about Stargate*: there's just enough about it that's compelling and just enough about it that's infuriating, -
- paradox_dragon: Dear Authors Writing Queer Characters: A Request - I appreciate, I really do, that you want your writing to say that queer bashing is unacceptable. It is. But really, a lot of your stories are starting to read like morality plays. -
15th August 2008
- stele3stele3</a>: Thinky thoughts about the Wall Of Some Kind - I suppose in that sense there is a Wall... not a Fourth one, in the conventional definition of a separation between the audience and the subjects[...]However, there is (or should be) a Wall Of Some Kind between the real people and the characters we write. -
- xie_xie_xie: Feeding Fandom - what makes your fannish juices flow? What things get you revved up to post, comment, or create? -
- nineweaving: Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves - If you had to name ten exemplary texts to illustrate the language of fantasy, which would you choose? -
- dawn_felagund: Poll: Author's Notes - I thought I might eventually like to do something on author's notes and how and when they're used (and possibly misused). I have my own opinions on this, of course, but I'm interested to see how those opinions match up to other people's perceptions, [...] -
- xie_xie_xie: First the facts, then the meta... - I had a whole meta -- hell, the fandom had a whole meta -- about something WE TOTALLY MADE UP. -
12th August 2008
- rizny: META: On Creativity In Fandom - In short, according to Epstein's thoughts on creativity, if you want to increase your creative activity, make some new fandom friends and chat with them, learn and practice a new skill such as graphics making or story writing, or find some canon you're unhappy with and figure out a way to fix it. -
- minisinoo: Abandoned stories ... POLL - Nonetheless, it makes me curious how OTHERS react to abandoned stories and abandoned series. Personally, I find myself more irked by the former than the latter. If a conclusion of some kind has been offered, even if perhaps not an ultimate conclusion, I find myself forgiving easier. -
8th August 2008
- were_duck: Meta musings (SGA slash, thoughts by a newbie) - I'm also really interested in how the authors insert queerness into the canon, especially in terms of how masculinity gets handled. Clearly, if this hot man-on-man sex is happening between these two guys, it has to happen in AU, or behind the scenes -
- laurashapiro: IBARW: vidding COCs, and vidding POCs - Vidders face one particular challenge when it comes to vidding COCs: limited screentime. -
- oyceter: [in ibarw] Welcome to International Blog Against Racism Week! - Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. -
7th August 2008
- brown_betty: Dear White Feminists - Think. What is the last work you remember that had more than one character of colour talking to each other about something other than the (white) protagonist? You can probably think of examples that would pass, but I imagine you can think of far more that will fail. Many media properties have only one non-white character, who plays a subsidiary role, and may even get killed off in the first season. I would guess far fewer properties would pass this test than Bechdel's. -
- trobadora: The Internet is for Porn? - In our fannish circles, porn is very much ... normalised, for lack of a better word. //There are plenty of other fannish spaces, other fandoms where that isn't the case where porn isn't everyday, or just plain doesn't exist. -
- amchara: the invisible elephant in the room - I am so sick and tired of people with disabilities being the butt of jokes, and the plain thoughtlessness and ignorance of fans who protest, You just don't get our humour! Stop being such a killjoy/sensitive pansy, I know someone who has a learning disability and she thinks our vids are funny! I have an aunt/brother/friend who has a disability, how dare you accuse me of being mean to people with disabilities! -
5th August 2008
- fan_eunice: vid blather - the way I vid almost entirely from the gut and without a storyboard makes it a lot like putting together a puzzle without looking at the picture on the box first for me -
- elspethdixon: If You Write It, They Will Come - Ship-conversion via fanworks, however, happens all over the place in fandom, all the time. Among other things, it's one reason why ship manifestos exist. Vids, fic, art, meta -- all of it encourages our interest in a pairing. The more often we see a ship discussed, written about, drawn, etc., the more likely we are to check the pairing out -
1st August 2008
Ed. note: Today's edition incorporates some earlier links that were mislaid because of issues with del.icio.us and its version upgrade. If you see duplicates here, my apologies!
- queenzulu: The True Difference - Do you know how I have managed to learn new things? Because of fans[...]The OTW is following in this tradition of generosity. They may not have their archive up and running yet, but that is because they are teaching fen how to make it. -
- princessofg: still pondering... - Is it difficult to find betas? Have you had trouble hooking up with betas that suit you? If you have a great beta, how did you find her? -
- azurelunatic: Friending! - Friends on LJ ... Friending Rules and How to Find Them -
- heidi8: Law School Exam Hypothetical of the Day - Do you think that the Scrabulous creators - who are fans of the Scrabble game (which is protected by copyright and trademark laws), who created something similar and yet with strong and obvious differences - should have removed their game as soon as Hasbro asked them to? -
- slwatson: Laura Hale "Apologizes" - Is some of this reply and anger related to my own bitterness? Absolutely. You bet I'm a bit bitter. Not all-consuming, but sure. See, I bought her story, hook, line and sinker -
- nestra: Laura Hale has posted a statement on FanHistory's blog - I don't find her explanations and apologies credible. I know she's taken information from friends-locked posts. I know she's repeatedly reverted edits that outed fans even after being informed of the problem. -
- randomsome1: Math is ugly. - Is fandom massively spazzing out over ff.net, or the membership dues paid to an essentially dead organization, or any of the other half-dozen things that are making money off fans/fanworks? No, they'd currently rather be piling on Fanhistory -
- synecdochic: Internet business numbers for the layperson - So, thanks to several simultaneous issues going around, there are a number of people who are pointing at various internet properties that "fandom" uses and trying to place a valuation on them: how much money they're bringing in, what their operating costs -
30th July 2008
- morgandawn: Jensenvention: Why We Need To Remember Show Business Is First A Business - Show business is a business. Jared and Jensen may be nice people but they (and their handlers) are in it for the money and making a living. They really don't care about fandom's 'good intentions' or "we were just having fun" -