: Friday, July 3, 2009
- executrix: Meta: Femslash ToTTBoTB? - So my question is, is there a lot of discourse about Who Tops in femslash? -
- penknife: Apparently, my ability to handwave only goes so far. - My own thoughts on why AUs without homophobia usually don't work for me: -
- eumelia: Gay People are Real, Slash is Meta - As a queer woman who reads fiction that is more often than not written by other women (queer and not) about men who are sexual with each other... in a society that tells me that that is not so legitimate, I feel stronger. -
- fiercelydreamed: [in queerlygen] Soon, this place is gonna be a party, and you're all invited. - Drawing a line in the sand between "slash" and "gen" erases the fact that many of us live our daily lives aware of our identities and experiences as queer or genderqueer people. It's not something we only think about when we're falling in love, getting our hearts broken, or getting off. -
- thingswithwings: slash/gen: I would like to ship it - het/gen, the slashing of het and gen, het and gen making out with each other, is a system that reinscribes heterosexuality as the norm and as normal, a system that excludes queer sexualities from representation, from general interest. -
- morgandawn: PSA: Submitting vids to vidorama & Mediawest and other conventions - As a bit of historical context*, Mediawest (a media based fan run convention) has - for decades - segregated slash vids from the main vid show, offering to show them in a separate show 'after hours." They have explained that the reason they do this is because they are a 'family friendly' convention. -
- sockkpuppett: Vidorama, a personal opinion - I don't know the moderator(s) of vidorama, but I believe that there is a better way to seek out specifically-themed vids than creating a homophobic fannish community. That's like inviting the swim team out and then closing the pool. -
- cryptoxin: Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a copyright lawyer! Except for the doctor part. - In this light, fannishness counts against you: in rejecting the parody defense, the judge reasons that "60 Years' plain purpose is not to expose Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness, but rather to satisfy Holden's fans' passion for Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness..." -