Thursday March, 13, 2008
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- beccaelizabeth: Mulvey, Freud, and an entire lack of castration - Another thing we can do is reconstruct the available text into forms pleasurable to us, put ourselves in the powerful place *without* putting ourselves in the powerless places. We can identify with the powerful characters - our guys in our slash - but put -
- cincoflex: Kidfic - To me, writing about kids is as complicated as writing about grown-ups. Or it should be, anyway. Kids as characters deserve to be fleshed out as much as their parents, and that includes the bad along with the good. For ever sweet hug a kid gives, he also -
- telesilla: what, are you people really surprised?In the past, when fandom has migrated it's been because better technology came along[...]The idea that fandom will move en masse from something that's comfortable and easy to something that's only marginally better?//Yeah right.
- uniquewonders: [in no_lj_ads] The end of Basic accounts 0_o - "Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No account created after this date can be turned into a Basic Account." -
- belladoragirl: Belladoragirl's Guide to Writing Better Fic Summaries - Imagine you're in your favorite bookstore. You find a book that has an interesting cover or is by your favorite author. You pick it up to read the summary and it goes something like this: "fluffy one-shot for v-day i know its short. set during marauders e -
- erestor: Meta / LJ: fare thee well, oh LJ basic account, and Godspeed!There is "thinking your customers are not the brightest candles on the Christmas tree" and then there's "thinking your customers are complete eejits."
Let me introduce you to jasonshellen, who is LJ's Vice President of Product Development. He's of the la - mariagoner: Question on Credit in Fanficton? - As a general rule, I tend to think that the more credit I offer, the better. I obviously always thank the very kind people who decide to risk life and limb by beta-ing my very rough drafts and wading through the vicious sea of typos and linguistic haberda -