: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 and some missed links from last week
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ephemere: No country for strangers - There are things I want to say that may have been said last year but still bear repeating. I don't believe discussions that focus purely on the positives -- encouragement, "what you could do to improve" -- are comprehensive, especially not when we're talking about these topics. We have to point out what's wrong as well, and sometimes in a manner that demands the destruction of wrongly-held ideas; else how could we fully understand what we are moving away from and why we must not repeat the mistakes of the past? -- petra: Metatexts and references - watch A before B or suffer - There are all sorts of media works out there that are better with a certain grounding first, but some of them are more so than others. Sometimes the references are explicit enough that watching/reading B before A lessens B's appeal, comprehensibility, or relevance. -
- walkingshadow: i read dead russian authors volumes at a time - Because it's something I've been grappling with for a while myself, I got curious about how other people save and store the fanfiction they read (or intend to read), either on- or offline. -
- xenacryst: Livejournal security PSA - I am a sysadmin, and I do a certain amount of security work for a living. What Livejournal has done is given up control of their outbound links to a third party. They have no way to verify that the link you actually use is in any way related to the link that is displayed to you. -
- azurelunatic: Your wish to interact with me is not my obligation to respond. - Let me say that a little louder: a person contacting me does not oblige me to spend my time on them in return. Their desire to create a relationship, even the tenuous relationship of a mutually commenting interaction, does not oblige me to give them that relationship. I'm not obliged to respond to spammers, I'm not obliged to respond to people adding me on Twitter, I'm not obliged to respond to people I don't know saying "me too" on an entry of mine, I'm not obliged to respond to someone trying to troll me or start a fight.I can speak in public without committing myself to acknowledge or respond to every person who has something to tell me about what I just said. -
- das_dingsi: Discussion of "legitimate" transness, round #259 - apparently it's possible to magically detect and discern the "Fandom FtMs" / "Fakers" who are just in it for the attention from the ones who are "really" trans. On the internet. -
- raedbard: { you shut your mouth / how can you say / i go about things the wrong way } - I'm willing to bet that someone reading this, not necessarily on my flist but just surfing around on LJ or DW, thinks I've made all this up; that I've 'decided' I'm trans because I have internalised misogyny and because I'm unattractive as a woman and all the rest of it. Okay, fine. You aren't saying anything I haven't already said to myself. -
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radishface: 5 Essential iPhone Apps for Fanfic on the Go - Until somebody builds the ultimate fanfic app, we'll have to cobble together our own mobile reading experiences. Here are some of my favorite fic-related apps. -