: Thursday, May 1, 2008
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bexone: Wow, dude, okay, CRY MOAR. - Wow, dude, okay, CRY MOAR. [discussion in comments] -- cryptoxin: Rhymes with NEWB - I don't think they're using "Nerd Underground" in the same way that synecdochic recently did -- the article lists six types of nerds[...] Is there even such a thing as a singular geek culture anymore, or is it really a geek diaspora? -
- wistfuljane: Poll: Bandslash vs. Bandom usage - If you consumed and/or produced fan generated content of one or more bands outside the MCR/FOB/PATD collective before 2007, to which fandom did you classify these fanworks as belonging: -
- brown_betty: I was going to say "adamantium" but wolverine doesn't do post-modernism - It is, I believe, common knowledge that Livejournal's user demographics skew female. I believe that part of Livejournal's appeal to women rises from its social-networking structure; not the linkages, but the autonomy. -
- hector_rashbaum: Bandom Bandom - What it really comes down to is...there are two almost entirely different bandom cultures: one which traces its roots back through decades of band fannishness and mainly exists in archives outside LJ, and one whose roots are more aligned with media fandom -
- halfshellvenus: On Writing: Narrative Point-of-View - Point-of-View (POV) is the framework from which an author tells a story. It's the narrative approach to the story, and comes in three forms: first-person ("I" or "we"), second-person ("you") and third-person ("John" or "He" or "They"). -