: March 3, 2009
- This post has no actual value because I'm using a pseudonym! - People like me are not using aliases to hide behind a made-up name, to never own up to the things we say, to never take responsibility for hurting others, for making a point, for speaking out. In fact, many of us make use of aliases so that we might have a voice at all. -
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shewhohashope: Cultural Appropriation and SF/F: Once More, With Apathy - I don't think that there is a shadowy conspiracy. There doesn't need to be. This is what happens when white people with social capital make racist remarks and are called on it. The people who do the calling out are punished for it. Every. Time. Not necessarily by the person who was originally called out, but by their friends and allies who wish to defend their behaviour -- cereta: On pseudonyms - I have not been particularly cautious about maintaining my pseud.**//And yet, I still use one.//I could list my reasons, ranging from, "I would, actually, prefer my students not read my porn unless they're already in fandom" to "I just kind of like having a name I chose."; But really, it comes down to: I want to. And the fact that you don't doesn't mean that you are not a complete and utter asshat if you go out of your way to connect my pseud to my real name just because you don't like what I said. -
- tacky_tramp: PSA: Protecting your pseudonymity - If you like to keep your online pseudonym separate from your legal name, please, please take a moment today to Google yourself and flip through the first 5-10 pages of results. -
- fish_echo: How can I make a useful rec list? - I have a good number of fics I'd like to rec (here's what I've recced so far) and I'd like to make my recs as useful to people as possible. -
- redorchids: [in notyourtoys] On the Thing We Call "Canon" (Or Maybe "Truth") - Does the story become objectively better the more facts we get right when we write RPF? If we use the correct tour dates and birthdays and distant relatives' names? If the boys actually sleep with who we have them sleep with when we write? // I would like to say "no" -
- fluffnutter: Turn the Page author musings - The downside to posting as you write vs writing the entire story and then posting the chapters, is that you can write yourself into a corner. -
- minisinoo: The Actual, the Implied and the Imagined: Degrees of Suspension-of-Disbelief in Slash - It may be self-evident that the degree to which any given slash pairing works for a reader depends on that reader's ability to suspend disbelief -- or it may be more accurate to say "suspend assumptions." -