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The following was originally posted in August 2004. Some present thoughts, qualifications, and addenda follow the original text, after the footnotes. The entire thing is rather long, about 5800 words.

( I am a slash writer. )

At Escapade, slashpine and I were talking about different kinds of meta. We came up with at least three:

( Cut to be polite, even thought I don't really think this is long enough to need one, but since it's possible this'll be backdated and remain at the top of the page and get awfully boring for people who've seen it before: Canon, Fandom & Meta Meta described inside. )

So, umm... hi. Welcome. We have no idea what we're doing here. Maybe we'll come up with meta challenges like weekly fic challenges. Maybe we'll come up with community rules at some point. So far, this is pretty much an anarchy, with the obligatory journaling protocol: put big stuff behind a cut tag, don't link to or quote locked stuff without permission, try to stick within the general topic ("fandom metadiscussion" of some sort), and by the way, this isn't fandom_wank; heated debate is fine; hostile wankage should occur elsewhere.