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amireal (amireal) wrote in metafandom,
@ 2008-02-14 13:27:00

Thursday, February 14, 2008

hth_the_first: big gay meta: slash communities and queer fan communities - Queerness is the turf of queer fans, not of slashers. You know who gets to say what's so totally gay? Gay people. -
(tags: sexuality fandom slash identity)

elynross: On Tone (from a non-fannish source (more or less?)) - Looking at the miscegenation issue, the discussions of racism in SGA and PoTC and etc., does this idea of an expectation of being educated ring true? -
(tags: race)

sailorptah: Sexuality, with a side of WNGWJLEO. Come for the survey, stay for the pictures. - And yet, I absolutely loathe the fanfiction trope which goes by the unwieldy acronym WNGWJLEO: "We're Not Gay; We Just Love Each Other." The basic premise: Guy A and Guy B are in an exclusive, committed, romantic, sexual relationship, but it's not because -
(tags: wngwjleo sexuality)

olivia_circe: Holy Jesus Fuck, or, "Good Call on the Stockings": An Essay on Fandom and Celebrity Interactions - In media or literature fandom, however, the uninvited secondary audience - the authors and creators of the canon texts - are more or less legally obligated not to read the fanfiction. When they do read the fanfiction, they can get somewhat overly protecti -
(tags: bandom celebrity fourth-wall)