kate_nepveu: type O, but for fanfic - Fandoms cross over [*] with others easily and well when they have canonically thin or low barriers to other realities (Dungeon Dimensions, time travel, alternate universes, etc.) or are explicitly metafictional. Thus, Discworld, Princess Tutu, the Stargate series, presumably Doctor Who, and so forth.Given this, I propose Sandman as the universal crossover fandom -
me_ya_ri: Writing Thoughts: Beautiful Words - I adore detailed description when it's handled gracefully. It's easy to overwhelm a reader with poorly chosen details delivered in a flood. It's simplicity itself to throw so much at the reader that they simply skim right past the descriptive passages that you spent so much time constructing. Heck, I've done it to myself in my own stories. To get the right details into the right places, with just the right amount of action to keep the story flowing while still painting that picture in the reader's mind is such an elegant thing. -
fera_festiva: I'm a fangirl without a fandom. - So I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the nature of being a fangirl and about being into a fandom and how it feels and what it does to you.//[...]And the best that I could come up with was that being in a fandom is like being in a relationship, sort of. As such, you relate to things in different ways and do things differently each time and learn from the past. -
asim: Getting Wiscon on the Cluetrain. - Cluetrain Manifesto, over a decade ago at the rise of the commercial Internet, put it best -- "Markets are Conversations". And Conversations should be real, and you, as a company -- profit or not -- need to be part of that real, emotional, powerful conversation, or risk losing your customers. As Wiscon has already done, to my eternal sorrow. -
trinker: Nice people and bigotry - The world isn't divided up into saints and villains. There are real villains out there. But most of us are just flawed human beings, and covering up our transgressions with some banner of sainthood just sweeps things under the carpet, to fester. -
yuki_onna: New Moon - this was a fucked up, poorly handled situation by just about everyone involved. But really, it all comes down to Moon thinking it was an awesome idea to post a racist screed essay on just who counts as civilized human beings (hint: not brown people!) on her blog during the year when she knew she would be a GoH at the most activist, progressive SFF con currently going. At best, this shows poor cause and effect modeling skills -
unusualmusic: On the reaction to the disinvitation of Elizabeth Moon as GOH - Why on EARTH should anyone spend their time supplicating this woman that she stop being a ignorant, bigoted arse at a con which is supposed to be be predicated on equality of all, that is; fighting against the very fuckery that Moon and her allies are spewing? -
sami: because ranting to housemate.Dave is funny but inadequate - This doesn't mean that WisCon is enforcing a particular set of "left-wing political views". Hostility to people putting forth extensive screeds of flagrantly racist crap and refusing to acknowledge even the slightest error in their words or deeds isn't even a political stance, it's standing up for good manners. -
nojojojo: Wiscon: Thoughts on the disinvitation of Elizabeth Moon - I, and most of the people I know, come to WisCon because it is a feminist convention. That means it needs to, uh, be feminist. Or at least try to be. In order to be feminist, everyone involved in making the con function needs to, uh, know something about feminism. And, like skilled tradespeople or knowledge-based professionals anywhere, they need to refresh every few years, since feminism is by no means a static philosophy. -
salexa: WisCon - I have been concerned over the last few years how a convention known for discussions of different views has gone down a road that makes it appear to be more intolerant. -