metafandom's Journal

1:17am: Monday, January 28th, 2008

• fictualities: Teal deer vs. the novel: is the internet soaking up novel-reading time? - I've read some great novels, pro and fan, [on the internet]. But the social norms of the internet, even among extremely verbal people, favor short forms. Think about how many times over the past few months you've seen the phrase tl;dr -
  
  (tags: reading culture)


• angiepen: Poll About Sex and Fanfic and Readership - fiesty_red and I were wondering how many writers add or have ever added sex to a fic when they didn't really want to, just because they thought that's what readers wanted or that they'd lose readers if they didn't write sex. -
  
  (tags: writing poll)


• fandom_discuss: Big Name Fans - So, what do you guys think constitutes a BNF? Is it flist size, number of comments received, wankiness, or is it reserved purely for those who get free laptops? Can you ba a BNF just by writing good fic/making good art, or do you have to get involved in f -
  
  (tags: bnf terminology)


• mofic: Anti-canonical vs. Extra-canonical or Round 735,921 of Is Slash Contrary to Canon? - If we as slash writers do our job properly our characters will be credibly gay (or at least credibly behaving sexually with someone of the same sex) and still credibly themselves. -
  
  (tags: canon sexuality fanfic)

6:05pm: Live from InsaneJournal and JournalFen! IT LIVES!
Look under your covers! And behind your doors! Leave no stone unturned! It creeps and leaps and slides into your journal! IT COMES FROM OUTERFANDOM!

Last week it was a revised FAQ, this week IT'S THE WORLD LIVEJOURNAL CLONES!

You asked for it (repeatedly), now you got it. That's right meta fans, the secret's out we fear change we're Invading France we're all naked, yay! we're expanding (and you can't stop us! mwuuahahaha!). We're ecstatic that our soft-opening-still-working-on-the-kinks phase is complete, and can officially announce we're up and running on both InsaneJournal and JournalFen.

( Questions, answers, and stuff in between under the cut. Maybe. )

10:16pm: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

• darkrosetiger: Not Your Granddad's Magical Negro - If you really want to know how we can talk about race in fandom, here's how: White fans have to want to have the conversation with actual fans of color (we do exist!) rather than talking to each other. Realize that the discussion is going to be painful and emotionally fraught. -
  (tags: fandom race)


• matociquala: code monkey think maybe manager want to write goddamned login page himself. - Okay, and that's the thing right now. The internet is not just going to change the nature of entertainment. It's already changed it. -
  
  (tags: fandom media)


• seperis: between a rock and a hard place - The concept of objective quality is one of the things everyone flinches on kneejerk. We are all married to the "I" statement in a very big way when discussing fic we liked. "I liked". "I think". "I enjoyed". "I consider this the best story ever in the his -
  
  (tags: fanfic community)


• cofax7: zen meta... or how I learned to stop worrying and love the polar bears - Fandom reroutes around the blockage. Fandom takes attempts at order as a challenge, not a limitation. (I don't always think this is a good thing, mind you: but it's an observable phenomenon.) -
  
  (tags: fandom)