: Tuesday, April 22 2008
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halfshellvenus: On Writing: Punctuation and Sentence Construction - One of the reasons for the obviousness of the problems I'm seeing now (in this book and so many others) is precisely the fact that I'm reading it out loud. You may have heard the advice to read your own writing out loud, to help find missing words and vag -- addie_logan: My Big, Fat Meta Post - Conflict is what brings a plot from point A to point B. It’s what allows the reader to feel the “pay off” when the story ends. ... Angst describes an emotional state, and is often a product of conflict. -
- maculategiraffe: *goes all meta and feminist again* - But seriously, y'all. This is why I do see slash as potentially feminist; when you look at roles without gender, you see gender roles more clearly. Even those weird Dworkinite essays about how slash is antifeminist and women write it because they're incap -
- metametameta: [elfwreck] Celebrating Slash, Chan & Other Squicky Topics - I am sick of the implication, sometimes the outright claim, that an interest in a "dark" topic (slash, chan, incest, torture, non-con, bdsm, RP, whatever) in fic is the same as promoting it in real life. That we have a sick, nasty hobby that shouldn't be -
- branchandroot: Oddities of ownership - A character inside my head is not the same one as in someone else’s head. I might call it the same name, it might look a bit the same, but it isn’t the same character. No one can do anything to someone else’s character, because the only place someon -
- gnosis: Ironic Entry About Journal Wank - Every so often there's a journal that's filled with overly verbose existentialist wank that we all seem to go through in our late teens to early 20s when some of us have an overwhelming desire to appear intelligent. I guess they feel the need to prove the -
- fandom_discuss: [on JF] Identifying with a character & shipping. - My random fandom-y pondering of the day is; why only slash? Why aren't het pairings seen in this way? I'm pretty sure het romance is not free of this "I identify with X because I like to think it's me who Y loves madly". I mean, what other premise does al -