: Thursday, July 15, 2010
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jaythenerdkid: About Context and Connotation: (yet another) Doctor Who rant. - Within the subset of society that is fandom, these phrases have become sign-systems that denote and connote ideas and concepts that we, as fans, understand. Nobody has to explain that when they say "Doctor", they're referring to the lead character. Everyone knows that, and - and this bit is important - they also know everything that term connotes.Because here's the next big secret: connotation and context are important. And that's how I got into a shipwar. -- fan_eunice: I keep going over the warnings issue, be - Well, no, I don't want to hurt people but it is neither easy or simple for me. And that undercurrent to the debate, it really does make me feel like something is wrong with me that it isn't. That in saying 'choose not to warn' I'm deliberately and actively telling people (some of whom I care about deeply and/or respect a lot on a personal level, not just a theoretical audience level), well I don't care if you can't watch my vids because I just can't be bothered. -
- amaresu: Not about the current thing in Doctor Who fandom - I started thinking about how I've started using the term monoshipping more and more and why that is. I think a big portion of the reason is that between Doctor Who and Supernatural the term OTP has, to me, come to mean the really extreme shippers. The far end, can't see how you wouldn't ship it, don't want to hear about other ships, shippers. -
- fish_echoAn amazingly long resource post by someone just starting making icons - Okay, icons! Evidently I am making some? . . . So this post is a way for me to collect all that info which I should have methodically gathered and looked through (or at least skimmed before setting parts of it aside for later) before beginning to iconify (which is totally a word because I used it in a sentence . . .) -