: Monday, February 25th, 2008
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ciderpress: this is my universal translator. so far it only translates into an incomprehensible language. - We're still circling that first very crucial and yet very basic stage -- how to have a conversation about race -- instead talking about issues in depth. -- kattahj: CoC in demand - I started thinking about just how many CoCs are underrepresented in fandom, sometimes vastly so (*cough* Gus on Psych * cough*), and it became rather depressing – and then I started wondering about the ones that aren't underrepresented, and why that is -
- ametistina: Synchronicity - Seeing the film and reading the comments at the same time was unexpectedly thought-provoking. I wonder, is that is what racism looks like to people who deny its more subtle manifestations? Like the time I mentioned to a friend that there was an appalling -
- originalpuck: Cross-Genre Writing: Professional, Amateur, and Fan - It's one of the foundational joys that internet fiction builds on -- we see a niche, which has a tendency to be a previously unconsidered conglomeration of sub-genres, and we fill it. Generally these niches exist because printed mediums are selling worse -
- babydraco: [untitled] Written by a virgin - Writing from the pov of your own gender and your own orientation doesn't always mean you're going to get it right. If that was true, there would be no terrible gay porn in the world. Unfortunately, the world is full of terrible gay porn, written by grownu -
- j_crew_guy: Is there an anti-gay bias at As The World Turns? - Ratings have gone up, the show has the younger viewers they so desperately want and what do they do? Treat Luke and Noah like something that's acceptable only if we don't see them acting like a normal, loving, affectionate gay couple. -
- moondancerdrake: Being Heard - A white writer looking at his or her computer screen with blanks stares as a reader of color struggles to explain to them why they were offended. Not only is the white writer often unaware of these issues, nor do they seem to have the experiences to have -