: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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accioslash: Pointing to a Post About Feedback... - I think this advice is good not just for comments to fic and art, but to all posts. This pisses me off in ways I cannot even begin to express. Trust me, I am the queen of nosy people. I read comments to all your posts all the time. Occasionally I will comment to someone else's comment. But I will ALWAYS then comment on the original post whether that post is fic, art, or even a meme. -- amberlynne: Just...no. - As a bamboozler, I tend to hang out with a lot of really talented fic writers (and artists!). As a commenter on the fics (and art!) that they post, and as someone who is generally having a chat with them after they have posted, I have picked up on a few things that I think every fic commenter should know. -
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iambickilometer: we're all in this together - A friend and I were discussing race in comics, and an Asian-American character came up that she hadn't known about. She protested that there was no way, his last name was too white, to which I replied that he was mixed race. Her reply? "That's a copout. That practically doesn't count." -- thefrogg: Confessions of the Multifannish - I read sex scenes in particular as an exploration of language. It's what makes a fandom a fandom, because the language changes. The tone changes. Hell, even the vocabulary changes. The euphemisms commonly found in SPN will be different from those found in bandom, in Babylon 5, etc. The combination of these things may not be unique, but they are different from fandom to fandom. I have yet to come across two fandoms that have the same fandom language signature. -
- hkath: girl, you'll be a woman soon - when I'm reading a fic which is entirely focused on romance between 2 male characters, and one character expresses some weakness or emotion or performs some romantic gesture, and the other guy calls him a girl for it? Oh, boy, do my hackles rise.Why? Well, often, in the case of a one-shot or a very focused and shippy fic, this is the only mention of a girl in the entire story - a fond little jibe, sort of a patronizing "aren't you cute?" that also serves as a license to write men being emotional without being accused of being out of character. -
- cimorene: Seriously, lj? (Seriously, fandom?) - if you keep using lj because other people are doing it, you're providing the content that lj is selling. You're part of the giant ball-and-chain anchoring fandom to lj. I don't want to be part of that -
- melannen: On the feasibility of moving to all-DW, all-the-time - about a month ago I had to remove lj's javascript access completely in order to be able to log in to my account. On the upside, I am also no longer getting virus warnings every few days! And pages load a disturbing amount faster! On the downside, wow, there's a lot of stuff I can't do on lj anymore. Including bookmark fic on delicious/diigo, so I have even been trying to find as much fic as possible other places.So, here's why I still read my LJ friendslist despite all that: -
- evelynvaughn01: Canon Schmanon -- the Joy of Non-Canon Pairings - The very nature of the NCP, however, demands constant participation. In each episode, fans read between the lines, trying to differentiate deliberate foreshadowing from throw-away comments (sitcoms are particularly problematic this way, because the "Rule of Funny" often flies in the face of consistency). - -
- green_maia: Feminism and Complex Female Characters - To be human is to be complex. To be feminist is to treat females as fully human. Ergo, to be a feminist writer, it isn't enough to write strong female characters - you need to have COMPLICATED female characters. -
- phantom_blue: Thinkyful Thoughts on Fandom, Part the First - I harbor a deep and abiding fondness for fanfiction.net.... no, really. I do. -
- liz_marcs: Reasons Why She Might Not Be So Awesome - In the end, this is all very simple: Women like it when women are portrayed as people, not a stand-in for something else, and definitely not when the character's whole reason for existing is to make some kind of point.It seems that an awful lot of male writers for television and movies don't get this. -
- naraht: Not a rhetorical question - If you saw a fic tagged "Christian character" (on AO3 or elsewhere), what would you assume about the character? About the fic? -