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FanLib: One Year Later
There are versions of this post: The Long One and the Short One. Why two versions? I started writing the first one, intending it to be an all comprehensive guide to what FanLib's been up to over the past year. I've been watching them and I've been watching what fandom has been saying about FanLib. It's been a fascinating to watch and fascinating to participate in. I really love the topic. The long version says everything that I need to and want to say about FanLib. As I started writing it I realized that important points were being buried in my love of the minutiae. A short version, a greatest hits of FanLib in the past year, was needed. So there are two versions.


( FanLib: One Year Later, The Short Version )

( FanLib: One Year Later, The Long Version )

Last week's Meta Friday went so well, we've decided to try to keep it going. On Thursday, I (or someone) will try to post a small group of prompts in the hopes of inspiring meta to be posted on Friday.

Da Ruulz (so far, subject to change at whim)
THURSDAY (by my calendar, west coast USA), 3-5 meta-related fannish prompts are posted.
FRIDAY, people post meta that's related to the prompt.
That can be: an essay directly answering the prompt, a reply to someone else's essay, a bit of meta indirectly related to the prompt, or even meta about the episode of Star Trek that one of the words in the prompts reminded you of. We're easy here; we like meta.
LATER, CONTINUING THROUGHOUT WEEKEND: Comments and more meta yay!

Meta can be posted here at metametameta, or in your journal with a link in a comment here, or, if you're feeling selfish, you can post meta in your journal and not tell us about it. And we'll scowl at you. Through our monitors. After we find out where you've been hiding the meta. So there.

So here's the first set of Meta-Prompts For Meta-Fridays:

( I've been thinking about parenting, so you get kid related prompts. Okay for childfree people too, I promise. )