marina: Some very interesting things have been s - To me it's not about bashing those characters (or, even worse, the real people depicted) at all. It's about bashing the flawed canons in which these characters were reduced to supporting roles, isolated, used to service other storyline, undermined, underused or fridged. It's about how actresses get pigeonholed into playing That One Type Of Woman and about how women in the public eye are perceived in narrow, often misogynist narratives. -
dagas_isa: There's this flowchart. It ticks me off. - I'm all for critical examinations of source material but seriously? This is the kind of critique that says, "Hey, there's no right way to ever write women," and takes for granted men are more nuanced** because seriously, trying not to write a woman who calls to mind one of those tropes is well, a nightmare, and something of a useless effort. -
mekosuchinae: As I'm certain this chart will be making - Isn't it interesting how there's only one way to be a strong female character? Isn't it fascinating how every other possible way culminates in SLUT BITCH ANNOYING SHY SLUT SLUT "YOKO ONO"* PRUDE SLUT? I find this interesting. -
hollow_echos: Neat Little Boxes - To me, at least, people don’t have to either be in a relationship or not. A fic doesn’t have to be slash or gen purely. I view this stuff as a spectrum instead of two little boxes, one labeled gen and one slash, where you must force your fic into one or the other category. -
ainm: is there such a thing - as a dark fic with a happy ending? Or resolved angst? My definition of 'dark' doesn't accommodate that, but maybe I am being less flexible than the current convention. :-) -
smirnoffmule: "But what if they're just fucking?" - it is hard to come up with a term that freely and easily connates all possible combinations of twosomes, threesomes, moresomes, friendships, families, fucking, frotting, cheating, idle hate-sex, one night stands, dub-con, non-con, masturbation fantasies, etc etc, that could occur in fic, but AO3 coming up with “Relationships” as a solution is one I have serious problems with. -
jjhunter: Anonymity - Anonymity is secrecy in public. It strips out the pressure to be polite, to be respectful, to be socially correct. It gives breathing room for unvarnished truth. It allows one to say what one really thinks; it gives permission to open the closet and shed light on the taboo. That kind of freedom can be incredibly empowering. -
rawles: HERE HAVE SOME FANDOM META - sometimes I do not want to have a conversation. Sometimes I do not want to engage. Sometimes I do not have the fucking energy to want to express certain things on LJ because it's way harder to ignore when someone says some stupid shit to me in response. Sometimes I just want to look at pretty pictures or post pretty pictures or reblog pretty pictures or thoughts or quotations or videos -
glassbomb: world series attitude (the see you later, tumblr post) - I have an arch-nemesis in my life, and that arch-nemesis is tumblr. Its blogging format is completely inferior to livejournal's, yet everyone spends most of their time posting there and not here. -
paraka: Podfic Thoughts... - one of the reasons I keep seeing cited for not liking podfic is that they can read the fic faster in their heads than the podficer reads out loud.Which is totally true, however it misses the point of podfic -
verasteine: Thoughts: Why Witty Anagrams Are Not Enough - Because queer subtext is nothing like Lois & Clark: The New Adventures. It's dirty, hiding in a corner, hidden behind words, shrouded in deniability. And it holds no promises. -
staranise: Automated bingo cards, get 'em while they're hot - I wrote that program with a little under a month of first-year University-level computing science under my belt. I was in that class at all because fandom, Dreamwidth and the AO3, said, "Coding isn't scary. Anyone can learn it." That's something I've tried to carry forward with this code. -
sailorptah: PSA for vidders - if you post fanvids on YouTube, sometimes they will get the audio disabled due to "copyright violation." Thing is, copyright law includes provisions for transformative works, not to mention parody.Here's what you can do -