: Monday, April 12, 2010
- norah: Just for the record... - writing (or reading) fiction in a primarily female community, without an eye to profit/publication, as part of an exchange of creative work and community value, can be transformative in and of itself. If not of a previously published work, of the author, or the reader, or their relationship to the text (or texts in general.) -
- starlady: AMVs versus vids (Can o' worms? Check! Can opener? Check! Let's rock and roll!) - particularly in the last three-four years, AMVs have become feats of video editing and digital clip creation achievement.[...]So the end result is this amalgamation of transformed and original content in a transformative practice that ends up somewhere in between the two, in terms of impact, I think. Whereas most vids I've seen are almost wholly using transformed content -
- majoline: The confessions of a woman who's never written any fiction at all. - So, yeah, this is my story. A story of a beta who ended up a scaredy cat lurker. This is probably the story of quite a few people out there. I don't write fic or really participate. I was too ashamed of what I liked and wanted to write. And now I write nothing at all. -