: Links for 1-28-2009
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spiralsheep: In which Teresa Neilsen Hayden joins her husband in a pantsless state - I feel this is the place to state yet again how extremely disappointed I am that a discussion of cultural appropriation and characters of colour has been refocussed onto the fragile egos of white people (multiple, as in very many in addition to the four I've mentioned in this post). -- haddayr: On cultural appropriation, apathy, and the whole kerfuffle - I don't care if you were a horribly outcast nerd or raised by wolves or use a wheelchair or were really poor. You were, in all of these cases, a WHITE poverty-stricken outcast nerd in a wheelchair who was raised by wolves. Acknowledge who you are. Do not deny. -
- coffeeandink: How Not to Engage in Discussions of Cultural Appropriation - When you publish stories and books, people will criticize them. This is an inevitable, natural, and even desirable part of reading and reacting to reading. -
- coffeeandink: The elephant in the room - We have a problem. Can we at least stop trying to pretend that racism is something that's about other people? -
- bessemerprocess: Rambling Rachel Meta - There is always this underlying question, especially since we're dealing with RPF, of how to go about respecting Rachel's and/or other lesbian characters/people while writing them with men. I don't think I have an answer to that. -
- morgan32: Thoughts of the role of the Beta - It is not a beta's job to re-write a fic to her own satisfaction. It is a beta's job to understand what the writer is trying to achieve and help her to achieve it. [...] If you can't get behind a writer's vision, or you find the story utterly incomprehensible, it's okay to gently withdraw, apologise and say you're just not the right person to beta this particular work. [...] Even the worst of badfic has something in it worth nurturing. -