: Monday, March 1, 2010
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crazydiamondsue: Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love! - I don't need my characters to be in love. I only need them to be in character. -- anotherslashfan: Mini-Meta-Fest prompt #2 - I cannot identify mental illness in fandom in a singular way, other than to say: it is more accepted than in real life. -
- schemingreader: The Argument Clinic and "tone" - I deeply respect people who are able to have an argument without offending the other person. I work very hard to be such a person, myself--to be able to say the exact right thing to change people's minds. I'm very impressed when people with whom I disagree are able to maintain good manners and civility. // I also know that when someone accuses me of bad tone, it probably means I won the argument on points. -
- betnoir: Breaking News: Santa Claus is Not Real - No, fiction is not required to be a consensual process. If you want that, go read a history book. Part of reading/watching/experiencing fiction is accepting the creator's control of the process. And yes, that they will sometimes misdirect you. That's the art to fiction and what makes it not a history book. -
- sabrina_il: God entry why must you be so long - I don't want to go back to the days of yore where every piece of meta had to be structured and written so that any random passerby would get it, which made posts either really long or not particularly thorough or complex. I want this space, where the structure is more complicated and segregated, where you send newbies to the newbie place (a place I've frequented and intend to continue frequenting in my quest to be less ignorant) and the people who have already have conversations 1-3 can get together in their own space (not necessarily locked but not necessarily easily accessible either) and have conversations 4-6 on the topic. -
- senior_witch: Derailment - Writing slash... My position here is very clear: It is problematic if women write slash - and for this it does not matter whether they are queer themselves. You cannot do it naively but have to be aware that you are writing about a group of people you don't belong to, so you have to do it respectfully. Respectfully does not mean 100 percent realistic, it just means to take them seriously as people and try to avoid stereotypes. -
- princessofgeeks: Escapade 2010 Panel: "Damn, They're Figuring It Out!" - Shows do get close, sometimes, to 'the gay' and then back off, out of writers' or producers' discomfort with the topic, or sometimes perhaps because they realize that fans are slashing certain characters and they don't want to encourage us, or give us that ammunition for those characters. -
- princessofgeeks: Escapade 2010 Panel: "Gay Is Not Slash" - This discussion got into the issue of women pro writers marketing m/m romance novels and short stories, and how a segment of the gay male community outside fandom responded negatively to discovering that that was going on. But it also examined the issue of how slash differs from 'gay lit' and who the audiences are for the various kinds of m/m romance or porn that exists online and in print, whether it's fanfic, 'original slash' or whatever label is being used, and the question of niche markets and labeling came up as well, for commercially published fiction. -