Thursday July 3, 2008
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- dunmurderin: Fanfiction vs. Original Fic -- the Battle Continues. - Fanfiction provides a scale against which I can measure myself -- did I stick close to the characters? Does what I wrote feel like it's at least in the spirit of the original? -- as well as a built in support group -
- prehistoric_sea: The Kink in Kinkfic. Or: "Those shoes are definitely Bicurious." - I love people with mismatched desires working it out--I love negotiation, love someone doing something because their partner loves it and they love their partner. I love someone being turned on not by a kink, but by how turned on their partner is by that -
- malnpudl: Poll: Podfic preferences - Much as I enjoy recording podfics....I've found that it's incredibly difficult to get explicit feedback and concrit about them. That's frustrating, because I'm trying to produce something that listeners will thoroughly enjoy.... -
- velvet_mace: Doing Fandom Wrong - What it seems to come down to is what I call "Presumpive Consent": the fan presumes, based on a character's canon behavior and sensibilities, that they'd consent and approve of the way they are depicted in a fic. It's as if the character truly exists, not -
- erestor: Meta: Pardon my French, but "SCREW YOU", Viacom! - Stop treating fans as enemies and begin to understand that the world has changed, communication has changed, entertainment has changed and we, your customers, have changed as well. Time for you to start changing the way you do business, and if you can't d -
- puritybrown: Your thoughts on copyright and piracy: I am honestly and genuinely interested. - It's come to my notice that a lot of my friends and acquaintances have more casual attitudes to copyright piracy than I do, and it's occurred to me that my own relative reluctance to do various copyright-violating things is not really consistent with my s -