: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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originalpuck: Bisexuality IS An Option -- And An Intriguing One, At That - Bisexuality allows canon relationships to have been intimate and fully sexual, while still allowing the characters to realistically fall in love with someone of the same gender. For example, Tonks is a character in my fandom who is commonly considered to -- sandersyager: race, procedurals, and princesses - The blunt reality is there are a lot more white people, white women specifically, in many of the media fandoms than there are POC, and white people have a responsibility to talk to each other about racism, to educate each other and call each other out -
- helsmeta: On the term "Oriental", defining terms, and losing my shit - You know, some people talk about how they get into it with fen of color based on definitions and such (of racism, of particular words, etc.). So, okay, look. I'm a Libra; I'm genetically incapable of not looking at both sides of an issue. -
- wesleysgirl: Thinky thoughts: Why I'm Afraid of New Fandoms - At some point, I discovered fanfic, and I read a ton of X-Files fic. I even started writing one (in a notebook, still kicking around somewhere). But I didn't TALK to other fans. I don't think I ever even sent feedback. -
- ignazwisdom: Re/expanded post on fan activity and the non-fannish world - So the dilemma is: how do you document knowledge and skills that were learned in these "alternative," private spaces? What do you do when you know coding and web design but the only programs or sites you've ever created were for hosting fanworks? -
- alixtii: Constructs, Celebrities, and Real PeopleI've most often seen this type of "Viewing people as constructs is bad" claim in RPF arguments, [...]
And I don't get it. Life is a text; the processes we implement to interpret it are, on some level, literary analysis. We get to respond to it in the fo