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6th October 2008

inalasahl2:30pm: Monday, October 6, 2008

24th September 2008

fairestcat10:09pm: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

23rd September 2008

inalasahl9:55am: Monday, September 22, 2008

20th September 2008

inalasahl7:46pm: Saturday, September 20, 2008

19th September 2008

p_zeitgeist10:05pm: Friday, September 19, 2008

  • [info]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. -
    (tags: otw)

  • 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. -
    (tags: fanfic sexism)

16th September 2008

oulangi12:16pm: Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

15th September 2008

fairestcat12:21am: Sunday, September 14, 2008

11th September 2008

fairestcat6:23pm: Thursday, September 11, 2008

  • [info]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 -
    (tags: writing fanfic)

7th September 2008

lovelokest9:06pm: Sunday, September 7, 2008

  • [info]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? -

  • [info]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). -
    (tags: fanfic)

4th September 2008

amireal3:39pm: Thursday, September 4, 2008

  • [info]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. -

  • [info]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

fairestcat10:33pm: Wednesday, September 3, 2008

29th August 2008

p_zeitgeist9:48pm: Friday, August 29, 2008

28th August 2008

amireal8:12pm: Thursday, August 28, 2008

  • [info]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

fairestcat6:07pm: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

25th August 2008

acari7:40pm: Monday, August 25th, 2008

  • [info]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

inalasahl6:37pm: Saturday, August 23, 2008

22nd August 2008

p_zeitgeist10:57pm: Friday, August 22, 2008

  • [info]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

fairestcat10:17pm: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

15th August 2008

p_zeitgeist7:26pm: Friday, August 15, 2008

12th August 2008

acari12:30am: Monday, August 11th, 2008

  • [info]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. -

  • [info]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

p_zeitgeist10:41pm: Friday, August 8, 2008

7th August 2008

amireal6:18pm: Thursday, August 7, 2008

  • [info]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. -

  • [info]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. -

  • [info]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

oulangi10:29am: August 5, 2008

  • [info]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 -
    (tags: vidding)

  • [info]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

p_zeitgeist2:41pm: Friday, August 1, 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. -
    (tags: fandom otw)

  • 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 -
    (tags: LJ)

  • 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? -
    (tags: poll copyright)

  • 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. -

  • [info]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

fairestcat10:14pm: Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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