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Thu, Aug. 20th, 2009, 07:28 pm
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amireal: Thursday, August 20, 2009
- bop_radar: On inclusion and exclusion in vidding fandom: personal reflections - I've become increasingly uncomfortable about the politics of inclusion and exclusion within the community, and specifically at Vividcon. -
- laurashapiro: Vividcon 2009: Some observations about race, gender, and accessibility - Vividcon has been a very safe space for white women in the past, where our gaze is privileged, our opinions are valued, and our sexuality and our bodies are celebrated and safe. -
- musesfool: ten is for everything - For various reasons lately, I've been thinking about how to get along in general fandom-at-large (as opposed to a fandom for a specific source) on LJ/DW/etc., or at least how to not piss a majority of people off before you even get to things that are actually worth pissing people off over, and though it's not anything that hasn't been said a million times before, I thought I'd share what I came up with -
- zvi: Creative Commons and Derivative Works: That Does Not Mean What You Think It Means - I wish CC would have a more sophisticated discussion of what exactly a derivative work is (I know, I know: legal questions are hard), and a licensing scheme which allowed for the licensing of some derivative works but not others. -
Tue, Aug. 18th, 2009, 06:48 pm
- yourlibrarian: Writercon Panel Write-Up -- Cage Match: Science vs. Magic - Kalichan discussed how in the Buffyverse the fact that canon is sloppy with its magic doesnâ™t keep the story from being compelling because magic is used as a metaphor in that show. However, normally the reader has to put too much effort into suspension of disbelief in fantasy stories where even the writer doesnâ™t seem to take it seriously. -
- general_jinjur: untitled - expanded notes from writercon podfic program -
- yourlibrarian: Writercon Panel: Podfic 101 - There are maligned genres even in podfic, among them very short audiofics, because users feel frustrated in making all the effort to download, upload and playlist, only to have a short payoff during perhaps long activities. -
- yourlibrarian: Writercon Panel: Genre - On Saturday afternoon, Kristina Busse did a presentation from a paper she had written on Affect and the Individual Fan: The Role of Genre and Tropes in Writer Creativity and Reader Engagement. -
- yourlibrarian: Writercon Panel: Hurt/Comfort - Friendshipper then brought up how in h/c there are generally active and passive characters, and the favorite character is generally the one who is doing the suffering. -
- yourlibrarian: Writercon Panel: If You Build It They Will Come - Rec communities also make LJ a space that has some searchability, which itâ™s not set up for. People may start just by keeping lists of fic they like, but if those recs gain some traction there may be the development of a centralized and important rec community that can lead to exclusion. -
- rahirah: Writercon 2009: -ism in Fandom - 'Privilege' is a term that gets thrown around a lot in these discussions, and in this context, it's a word which may not mean what you think it means. It's not about individual people being mean, or being racists or homophobes or whatever. It's about the biases that are built into our society. -
- rm: WriterCon: *fail edition - Because no, you are not marginalized or oppressed because you are part of the dominant group and people who are part of other groups are stepping up to say that we want some damn consideration. -
- sheafrotherdon: OH EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE NO - So, the first introduction of a major character with a disability . . . and the disability will not be explored, or presented in a realistic manner... [SG Universe spoilers] -
- gnatkip: Canon het couples with extreme sexual dimorphism? - I've been thinking about this lately, the fetishization of the dainty woman and the hypermasculine man. -
Sat, Aug. 15th, 2009, 01:31 am
p_zeitgeist: Friday, August 14, 2009
Mon, Aug. 10th, 2009, 10:23 am
Sat, Aug. 1st, 2009, 11:33 am
inalasahl: Saturday, August 1, 2009
- general_jinjur: okay, so: i'm at writercon. which--well, - stating you are open to further transformative use of your work removes a huge barrier to that use--it's scary to approach someone out of the blue to ask permission, and it also creates a commitment that may be too much for people who are (a) overcommitted, or (b) new to the form. -
Fri, Jul. 31st, 2009, 10:18 pm
p_zeitgeist: Friday, July 31, 2009
- lothy: A guide to using RSS Feeds in Fandom - The main intent of this essay is to help with the use of RSS in fandom, but of course it is also applicable to many other uses, including subscribing to news, blogs, quotes, jokes, and all kinds of other things. -
Sat, Jul. 25th, 2009, 01:50 pm
inalasahl: Saturday, July 25, 2009
- rahirah: Voice - The bottom line is, voice is not something artificial that you impose upon a story from outside, or it shouldn't be. I's an organic outgrowth of the way you think and speak and write, polished up and made spiffy. -
- furiosity: If You've Got Nothing Nice to Say... - So we sort of veered into a mostly unstructured discussion of various topics...and participant-submitted index cards listing their number one fandom "don't" behaviours (i.e. things they feel Should Not Be Done by fen). -
- mariness: Readercon, final post: disability - The short version: Readercon made me feel like a freak. And not in a good way. -
- wordweaverlynn: Nightmare Con Experiences - I'm especially interested in issues of accessibility, but also curious about anything that makes a convention unwelcoming or miserable. -
- pgdudda: Convention panel ideas - Because I am tired of the Token Disabilities Panel at cons: -
- karnythia: Fandom fail...the blackout Bingo edition - being invited in only to satisfy prurient interests (until you no longer satisfy them) and having your history co-opted when convenient isn't inclusive or welcoming. It's the same old bigotry dressed in a post-racial context free bow. -
- sunhawk: le's try to SEE this clearly - So okay, the SEE people want K/S for bigger reasons, to promote social equality, tha's a reason I can dig. But is it really necessary to focus on K/S to achieve that goal? I understand the fear that without choosing prominent characters, there is a risk that the writers might try to appease fans by making a token Red Shirt couple [...] but I still find the reasoning a little convenient, a little self-serving for K/S shippers. -
Tue, Jul. 21st, 2009, 07:02 pm
oulangi: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
- musesfool: baby, i got my facts learned real good right now - I am in the minority that thinks you can totally have a sex scene (of any variety) and still call a story gen, as long as the story is not about the relationship carried on in the sex scene*. -
- zvi: Remix Redux 2009: First Reactions - Below are reactions to selected remixes, not reviews. I am more concerned with how stories approach remixing than I am with how well or poorly they are written, although I do give some of my personal reaction to the texts as well. I extensively spoil both the remixed texts and the remixes themselves. -
Tue, Jul. 21st, 2009, 06:48 am
acari: Monday, July 20, 2009
- sockkpuppett: Thinking about Vidding - That emotional component isn't in every fannish vid; they're as different as the vidders themselves, but the foundational raison d'etre of fannish vids is born of our emotional connection to the source. -
Fri, Jul. 17th, 2009, 10:16 pm
p_zeitgeist: Friday, July 17, 2009
- karenhealey: Which readers? - I laughed when Molly Grue told Schmendrick the magician that he didn't know much about unicorns. I punched the air when Misty Knight declared there was about to be all kinds of kung fu up in here. I clenched my fists as Valerie Russell fought back addiction to do battle with the glass sword. I cried when Gemma Doyle stood at the ship's railing, for it was morning, and there was so much to see.
I was there. Not my father. Me. -
- elizah_jane: Oh, Fandom. You are so very, very crazy! - But wank is a fandom thing. Hell, it's an internet thing. It just feels more personal in fandom because you consider the people in it your friends. Some of them are, some of them are just crazy. Wank is not fandom specific. There is no non-wanky fandom. "What about fandom X?" you say? Just wait. It'll happen. -
- sistermagpie: Fandom Shame - what I really wanted to talk about was just this obvious SHAME thing that always seems so present in fandom. -
- keerawa: Fanfiction for Dummies and My Writing Process - I write fanfiction because story-telling is too important to leave in the hands of the professionals. [WARNING: TORCHWOOD SPOILERS IN LINKED POST] -
Thu, Jul. 16th, 2009, 12:26 am
fairestcat: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
- yagathai: Dear Fandom - I tend to be conservative by inclination, but every con that I attend makes me want to declare a revolution, storming the barricades and flinging greybeards** from the ramparts, just a little bit more. -
- cofax7: Humpday links, Sea Patrol, and convention meta - cons are meat-space infrastructure for SF/F fandom, the way LJ is electronic infrastructure for media fandom, and I love to investigate the way the infrastructure affects the form and content of the discussions it hosts. -
- coffeeandink: Readercon, authority, and models of readership - The con is missing out on a huge richness of diversity of experience and thought; it is missing out on some of the greatest pleasures of reading, not to mention the chance for writers and critics and "just readers" to challenge and change each other. -
Mon, Jul. 13th, 2009, 10:44 pm
acari: Monday, July 13, 2009
Sun, Jul. 12th, 2009, 01:22 pm
inalasahl: Saturday, July 11, 2009
- sistermagpie: On the appeal of bad boys and girls - There are probably more shows on now than ever before with explicitly "bad" characters. One would think these shows required an audience who liked characters who didnâ™t share their morality, but they seem to also attract a large number of people who think the characters do share their morality until they do something really bad and the illusion is broken -
- prozacpark: Thoughts on fiction and gender: So, what about the men? - Every time there's a good discussion of the treatment of female characters in fiction or a mention of female deaths/refrigerations, there's always the inevitable derailment of the discussion with the very brilliant question of, "But what about the men? Do they don't die/get mistreated/etc, too?" So, I've been thinking: Indeed, what about the men? Are there problems with the way they're portrayed? -
- dachelle: Me + my fandom = OTP - It strikes me that in discussions of "fandom" as an entity, it's kind of assumed that people are multi-fannish, flitting around from fandom to fandom, constantly distracted by the new and shiny, and that that's just how fans are. To me, this is odd, because I am staunchly monofannish. -
Fri, Jul. 10th, 2009, 09:45 pm
p_zeitgeist: Friday, July 10, 2009
- regan_v: Something Big: the NuTrek Fandom - Ah, but now it's come: Star Trek has been reborn, bright as a rose. And dear God, it is even bigger than I could have dreamed. // Anyway, based on my own limited reading, here are some things I've noticed about this lovely phoenix of a fandom: -
Fri, Jul. 10th, 2009, 10:27 am
fairestcat: Thursday, July 10, 2009
- impertinence: Anonymity and LiveJournal - Most importantly, however, hating and fearing anonymity and arguing against it presupposes that anonymity fundamentally changes the method and nature of communication and socialization in the fandom it concerns itself with. I reject this supposition entirely. -
- iamtheenemy: Fandom experience? - What has your fandom migration looked like? How long have you been around? -
Wed, Jul. 8th, 2009, 06:29 pm
fairestcat: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
- wistfuljane: In defense of Bandom - Of course, bandflesh is problematic and it's something that has been discussed many, many iterations before, but I firmly do not believe bandflesh should be blamed for the recent warnings implosion. -
- skuf: Random meta thoughts from Sunday-Monday - This continues to be such a het issue to me! Have slash fans ever really vilified each other over preferring a different slash pairing? Since most (as in non-canon) slash pairings are equally not-gonna-happen, there's just not much to fight about. I do have some vague recollections about maybe some Snarry fans thinking H/D fans immature and silly (or actually, maybe that was just me before I discovered H/D, hahahaha), but I only remember that from around the time I entered fandom. So, do I glorify slash fans when I say we don't vilify each other in the same way? -
- writrgurl: My Failures As A Fan - Where did I fail as a fan? I forgot to remember that not everyone who has a different view on my favorite characters/ships are bad people. I forgot that just because I don't like what the production staff are doing with the characterization and the show, I'm not entitled to blame the actors for it. -
- curia_regis: Ayla's Mini-Guide to Fic Exchanges: How to Stalk Your Recipient - Most people enjoy writing and reading similar things. You could look through their rec lists. -
Tue, Jul. 7th, 2009, 12:34 pm
oulangi: Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
- kudra2324: on bandom as a fannish community, or: what the hell, people? - there have been people, these village elders, who work together, however informally, to make it clear that certain behavior violates community norms. these aren't norms specific to a particular fandom, these are norms that relate to all fannish interaction, and although on the surface some of them may seem, to readers of this post, like nothing more than minor etiquette points, the impact on others of repeatedly violating them can be devastating. -
- readerofasaph: we return to the can of worms: characterisation in fanfiction - Impulse to write/read fanfiction is strongly linked to the desire to see characters in satisfaction of author-kinks and reader-kinks, which are generally more important than ICness; ICness possibly an acquired taste from reading too much fanfiction and may be a kink in itself. -
Mon, Jul. 6th, 2009, 09:05 pm
acari: Monday, July 6, 2009
- st_crispins: Where Fandom Began - I would argue that THIS is where Fandom ---modern media fandom --- began. Lest we forget, before there was Spock, there was Illya. If this were 2001, Illya would be the big black monolith. -
Fri, Jul. 3rd, 2009, 10:47 pm
- executrix: Meta: Femslash ToTTBoTB? - So my question is, is there a lot of discourse about Who Tops in femslash? -
- penknife: Apparently, my ability to handwave only goes so far. - My own thoughts on why AUs without homophobia usually don't work for me: -
- eumelia: Gay People are Real, Slash is Meta - As a queer woman who reads fiction that is more often than not written by other women (queer and not) about men who are sexual with each other... in a society that tells me that that is not so legitimate, I feel stronger. -
- fiercelydreamed: [in queerlygen] Soon, this place is gonna be a party, and you're all invited. - Drawing a line in the sand between "slash" and "gen" erases the fact that many of us live our daily lives aware of our identities and experiences as queer or genderqueer people. It's not something we only think about when we're falling in love, getting our hearts broken, or getting off. -
- thingswithwings: slash/gen: I would like to ship it - het/gen, the slashing of het and gen, het and gen making out with each other, is a system that reinscribes heterosexuality as the norm and as normal, a system that excludes queer sexualities from representation, from general interest. -
- morgandawn: PSA: Submitting vids to vidorama & Mediawest and other conventions - As a bit of historical context*, Mediawest (a media based fan run convention) has - for decades - segregated slash vids from the main vid show, offering to show them in a separate show 'after hours." They have explained that the reason they do this is because they are a 'family friendly' convention. -
- sockkpuppett: Vidorama, a personal opinion - I don't know the moderator(s) of vidorama, but I believe that there is a better way to seek out specifically-themed vids than creating a homophobic fannish community. That's like inviting the swim team out and then closing the pool. -
- cryptoxin: Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a copyright lawyer! Except for the doctor part. - In this light, fannishness counts against you: in rejecting the parody defense, the judge reasons that "60 Years' plain purpose is not to expose Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness, but rather to satisfy Holden's fans' passion for Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness..." -
Thu, Jul. 2nd, 2009, 09:48 pm
- rm: Oh Noes! There's Gay People In My Fandom! - Real, live queer people exist out there in the world and real, live queer people exist in fandom. And I am sick and tired of us being either something merely fetishized or relegated to a genre either appealing or not. -
- beatrice_otter: Meta: Fandom as a Safe Space - I mean, sure, the shows/movies/books are awesome, and we all love the characters and the actors who play them (or at least love to hate them), but that's not what keeps us in fandom over the long haul, keeps us moving to new corners of fandom as old ones slow down from cancellation or whatever. -
- cofax7: bad news - a United States District Court has ruled that an unauthorized sequel doesn't qualify as transformative if it's not a critical parody. -
- merricatk: If only there were some way to take authors out of the equation . . . . - In the zine days, I would have been happy to have traded my writing for something to read. But in the internet days, I'm trading my writing for rules and regulations that I have no say in. -
- ficangel: On being nice. - However. The "it takes five seconds to not trigger someone"--fraught with its own problems as it is--has been taken over in way too many fucking spaces with, "It takes five minutes to add this warning in exactly the way that I want you to, what's fucking wrong with you, don't you want to be nice? // Arguments towards social utility are no longer necessary; "nice" and the fact that it honestly wouldn't take much to comply are rhetorical tools with which to bludgeon dissent into quiet without the necessity of having to have any kind of argument at all, because who doesn't want to be nice? Only assholes, obviously. -
