metafandom's Journal -- Entries on 8th February 2010

7:28am: Sunday, February 7, 2010

elf: Mini Meta Fest: Closed canon vs open canon - We need a third category: sprawl canon. I've been dabbling in DC comics fandom, mostly the Bat-family, and it is a veritable Shub-Niggurath of canon, with tentacles wrapped around bits of fandoms (which are parts of itself) and strange orifices opening and closing endlessly. -
(tags: canon)

rhoboat: Thoughts on vidding stuff - Where I'm going with all this is that there have been occasions where I've definitely noticed some technical issues from vidders who've been doing this a long time, often a lot longer than I. I think it's easier to forgive newbies, especially when I see improvement over time. But sometimes I feel like I'm dancing around eggshells (mixed metaphor, ha!), because I have no idea how to approach certain people or if I even should approach them. -
(tags: vidding concrit)

8:38pm: Monday, February 8, 2010

kaigou: three things! just three!: In general, I don't have a problem with a fanfic writer who poaches his/her own work for use in an ofic. You'll see the advice all over the place: you can get away with basing an original work on a derived work, as long as you file off the serial numbers.

All good and well, but how does one know just how much filing is enough?
(tags: fanfic reading prowriting writing)

rahirah: On Writing Children: "So you want to write babyfic, but don't want to get tarred with the dread brush of 'Eeeeew, babyfic!'"

Well, the bad news is, you can't avoid the dread brush no matter how hard you try. The good news is, you can take steps to ensure that if some babyfic hater clicks on your story link by accident, they won't immediately click away. If you play your cards right, you may even get the coveted "I usually hate babyfic, but..." feedback. So let us say that you've given in to the compulsion to make your favorite characters breed. What next?
(tags: writing btvs ats)

princessofgeeks: "social networking doesn't scale": Clive Thompson writes: "...Technically speaking, online social-networking tools ought to be great at fostering these sorts of clusters. ... But when the conversation gets big enough, it shuts down. Not only do audiences feel estranged, the participants also start self-censoring."

...what's the magic number where social network lapses back into old-fashioned broadcasting or column-writing, in your experience?
(tags: discussions blogging networks)

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