rheasilvia: Fiction vs. Reality - The reason I don't want fiction to intersect with my own, lived reality is that when fiction comes too close to reality, it interferes with my suspension of disbelief. I want to get into a different universe with fiction, not be reminded of the real one. Allusions to or reminders of the real world take away from the reality of the fictional one; they puncture the autonomy of the fictional realm, dragging it too close to the real world and forcing it to reveal its lack of reality by too-close association. -
brownbetty: Somehow, he knew that the dark-haired man did not trust easily. - Here is a crossover I invariably love, except when I don't:Take two canons, two groups of people (one from each). One group should be people who are accustomed to keeping a secret or concealing things from the world at large; Buffy, Angel, Leverage, Psych, Supernatural, Batverse, Torchwood, Sarah Connor Chronicles, you get the picture. The other group should be a group dedicated to figuring out mysteries; any CSI, cop show, Torchwood (yes), Psych (again), Batverse, Supernatural, Criminal Minds, X-Files, The Mentalist, etc. The Figure-Outers should come across the Secret-Keepers and work to understand them. -
commodorified: Apropos of a discussion with legionseagle - But if I may just put in a quiet word for the beta-reader who is first and foremost a, well, a reader?A good reader. A reader who, in a perfect world, reads widely, in the genre you want to write, in a fairly engaged way, and has strong opinions not so much about how you ought to write, but about what they like to read. and whose reading one admires - by which I mean that when they recommend things to read, you tend to like those things, and when they review or discuss things you have read you tend to find what they have to say interesting, smart, and a pretty good guide to things you yourself might like to read, and when you given them something of yours to read, you know that they are going to read it the first chance they get and you're happy when they like it and look forward to their comments a lot. -
damned_colonial: My AO3 feature wishlist - This is a high level wishlist of things I'd really like the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) to support, from the perspective of someone who works with Web 2.0, Big Data, Creative Commons, and the like. I don't expect any of these to be implemented in any particular hurry, and I suspect there'd be some issues around doing them in ways that make everyone comfortable, but hey, a girl can dream. -
princessofgeeks: hmm - I think it's a fantastic, wonderful, worthy thing to write stories like "Cameron Mitchell struggles with the contrast between his religious faith and his orientation" or "Harry Potter's daughter is bullied at Hogwarts for having a gay dad". I love DADT stories, for example, in the Gateverse and read all the ones I can find. Whether there's porn and romance in there or not. I've read some terrific ones and some awful ones.But it's very hard for me imagining myself writing stories like these for two reasons, which I need to do something about. -