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Friday, November 20, 2009

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:11:03 GMT

albumsontheside: I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me. - what makes certain fics popular? - why are some fics so unbelievably popular in certain fandoms, and why do the fans often react so personally to any criticism levied against said fics? -
(tags: fanfic fandom criticism)

thefrogg: Muses and Fic Nicknames - Am I the only writer who happens to actually...give a personality/name/body/whatever to their muse? -
(tags: writing)

Wednesday, November 19, 2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:16:15 GMT

trobadora: All-Human AUs? - Someone explain this trope to me. You have characters who aren't human: aliens, vampires, demons, angels, gods. What they are is an important part of their character, and writing them as ordinary humans takes away something essential to that character, and I just don't get it. Why is this so popular? -
(tags: fanfic writing au)

alixtii: AoOO Thoughs - I'm very uncomfortable with the implication, given by the existence of the primary warning tag "noncon/rape" that dubcon isn't rape. -
(tags: warnings archiving ao3)

smallbeer: my random morning thought processes - So, tell me how you would define "manpain" in a fannish context? -
(tags: question terminology)

just_katarin: But Katarin, you just posted! - I distinctly remember, when Heroes fandom started talking about the problematic aspects of the show, the racism, the sexism, how uneven storylines and deaths were, all of it, we all maintained it was unintentional....We thought they meant well but now I see that that was a lie. That was... they never intended good things for the People of Color on Heroes or the Women on Heroes. -

(tags: sexism racism heroes)

hradzka: Donny Osmond RPF. By pros. - Mike Sterling has an interesting post that touches on on for-pay RPF from the 1970s. He points out that teen magazines included fictional stories about celebrities, mysteries and adventures and romances and -- yes, *exactly,* it was totally RPF. -

(tags: prowriting rpf history)

melannen: Statistics! - But when I was going through all the Dear Writer posts being linked in the yuletide community over at lj, I kept noticing that there were actually quite a *lot* of people who were linking their letters from their DW accounts instead of their LJs, and I was wondering if there really were a lot, or if it was an illusion based around what I wanted, and was expecting, to see. And then it occurred to me that this might actually be a pretty good metric of how fandom actually *is* moving: yuletide participation is probably as close as we can get to a real cross-section of people who are active in the sort of fandom that is on journal sites, and it seems like the site people link in their letters would be the site they consider their primary home, regardless of whether they crosspost and how. -

(tags: migration lj accessibility dreamwidth statistics)

Monday, November 16, 2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:27:55 GMT

facetofcathy: AO3 Tags and Warnings - Under the cut is a screen shot of the tag fields at the AO3, and my thoughts on using them. -
(tags: ao3 tags warnings)

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:38:45 GMT

rheasilvia: Posting a Fanfic Novel: The "How To"-Poll - In your opinion, what is the best way of posting a very long piece of fanfiction (think novel, 150.000 words or more)? [POLL] -
(tags: poll fanfic reading)

zvi: Podfic grumblings - Okay, I think we have established that I actually hate it when people put music as an intro or outro of their podfic. -
(tags: podfic music)

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:25:13 GMT

serrico: What can I say? I like it when my existence is acknowledged. - I've been thinking about this whole "interactive storytelling" thing TV's trying these days, and the difference, for some shows, between what it says on the label and what's actually in the can. -

(tags: tptb fandom spn castle media heroes)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:25 GMT

emeraldsword: random fic editing query - What is the etiquette of rewriting/re-editing fic after posting? Is there any? Do you all feel deceived if you go back to an old favourite and find that the author has amended the text since the last time you read? Do you even notice? -
(tags: writing editing archiving etiquette fanfic question)

accioslash: Thirty Days of Spam...Day 2 - Fic and art clearly aren't treated the same by fandom when it comes to unauthorized re-posting. Seriously, how long do you think I could actually keep up a site with a re-post of a popular fan fic with the notation "I don't know who wrote this, but if it's yours, let me know and I'll credit you." But I see that with art all the time. -
(tags: fanart icons)

ladydreamer: Easy Out - I've heard producers and writers often talking about how flattering it is that fans can get so angry at them about what they've done on a television show or a movie, and how it's an ultimate compliment in a way, since what they want to do is move the audience, to make them feel intense emotions. Any emotion is good, right? -
(tags: fandom fanfic tptb)

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:07:18 GMT

viggorlijah: Fandom Primer on International Adoption as a story trope - A couple of the stories get stuff really right, and are amazing reads. Some stories have it as background material, and it works fine.Some stories get it painfully wrong in a way that jolts a reader who is in the adoption triad out of the story. [...] So here's a very basic primer: -
(tags: fanfic trope)

access_fandom: Challenges, challenges, challenges - Here are some suggestions of things you could do to make things possible for me, and other disabled people who might have these kinds of problems. -
(tags: exchanges accessibility)

vulgarweed: Thinky Thoughts: Kinkin' and Pimpin! - So I was thinking about the roles anonymous kink memes play in fandoms. -
(tags: anonymity kink participation fandom community)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:06:51 GMT

zahrawithaz: The White Mists of Avalon: Thoughts on Morgana's Race - And lot of the dynamics that play out around Morgana, both in the show and in fandom, are not only gendered but also racial. Whiteness is a presence, not an absence or a neutral zone, and the show often contrasts Morgana and Gwen in racial terms. -
(tags: merlin race gender)

littlehollyleaf: Opinions on fanfic/fandom - I mean, I care if a piece of writing doesn't read well and if it has GLARING errors, but for fanfic it's the IDEAS that matter most to me and there is almost nothing I won't forgive. -
(tags: fanfic writing)

the_willow: Twilight & Other Creepy Thoughts - It's startlingly to me to contemplate that Edward / Bella is the romantic story of the century [...] because the heroine is aware of, and is allowed to feel her own desire and have her own sexual wants outside of the social act of the new female/feminine performance of pretty and the hero gives a damn about it. -
(tags: twilight gender sexuality)

Friday, October 23, 2009

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:13:31 GMT

facetofcathy: Out of Patience - Fanfic is not all sexually explicit, it's not all shippy, but shit tonnes of it are. Those kinds of fics are about taking our source characters and fully exploring the totality of their humanity in all its possibilities. Sex is human, nothing else, and it's not naughty, or dirty, or wrong, or icky or nasty or any other fucking schoolyard word. -
(tags: sexuality fanfic fandom)

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:48:36 GMT

xparrot: On character hate, villains, and literary tropes - A basher who casts a female character as the evil obstacle in a slash pairing isn't necessarily doing it because they want to make people hate the character, or even because that's actually how they view the character; it's because it's how they want to view the character, what is the most emotionally satisfying way to see them, properly fulfilling their role as villainness. -
(tags: fanfic characterization trope slash het)

accioslash: Poll... - I was talking with several different people about recs and have noticed that there seems to be a change in the way people rec these days. -
(tags: recs poll)

twistedchick: thoughts on a common language - I think that as writers we need to be aware of the jargons we're using, when we're using them, and whether they're appropriate to the character and the situation. And it wouldn't be a bad idea if, as participants in an online community, we could be a little more aware that not everyone is working with the same jargon within a given discussion, or the same connotations of words, or the same background in understanding a topic. -
(tags: writing language culture)

puella_nerdii: Saying Yes: I Want Your Opinions! - I want more stories and art where being the submissive partner during sex is FUN and not demeaning. I want more stories and art where characters shout "Yes!" instead of "No!" I want more stories and art where characters get up to all kinds of kinky crazy fun, and are never made to feel shamed for their desires. -
(tags: fandom sexuality kink fanfic fanart poll)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:03:46 GMT

lim: comment record - Be honest: don't assume improbable mantles of impartiality, objectivity, 'professionalism' or generalised godhood--relate to your members as fellow fans and adults, ask their opinions, and then make a firm decision and take responsibility for it. -
(tags: fandom community modding)

ion_bond: Slash on TV - Lots of us would like to see the relationships we read as slashy (House/Wilson, Arthur/Merlin, Morgana/Gwen, Sheppard/McKay or whatever) elevated to the status of canon. This, as I see it, is distinct from the desire to see queer people represented for political reasons, and we ought to try to keep the two things separate when possible. My question is, would a relationship like one of those above, which people like us might find satisfying, dissatisfy other viewers? -
(tags: slash television canon sexuality)

Friday, October 2, 2009

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:14:52 GMT

puella_nerdii: It's not FOR you. - It's the same kind of thing here. This isn't about establishing a hierarchy of talent or skill, it's about giving queer writers the tools they need to succeed in an industry that, let's face it, is not quite as friendly towards us as you'd hope. -
(tags: prowriting sexuality awards)

Monday, September 28, 2009

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:25:13 GMT

erastes: Lambda's Explanation of the New Guidelines and my comments - Instead of whining about how the world is shrinking for gay books, what we should be doing is submitting our books - en masse - to the mainstream, to Mills and Boon, to every book publisher out there. Instead of hiding behind a lavender veil and agreeing with the hype that "there's no market for it" "no-one wants to buy it" "No-one will publish it" we should be pushing - no, stabbing furiously at the heart of mainstream and forcing them to pay attention. -
(tags: awards prowriting sexuality)

kanata: Oh, ew. - The landscape of queer fiction has changed dramatically with the rise of original slash, much of which (like slash) is written by straight women. A minority space is being taken over by a majority. It is not discriminatory to take steps to change that. -
(tags: awards prowriting sexuality)

rm: on the Lambda Literary Awards and the art of disappearing - The idea of awards honoring queer authors is good. So is the idea of honoring queer stories. -
(tags: awards prowriting sexuality)

Friday, September 25, 2009

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:00:56 GMT

jane_elliot (in epic_rants): Whumpage Meta - Most whump fic is just like most teenage suicide fantasies: emotionally overwrought, featuring a main character who is totally right but terribly misunderstood, and who gains his validation through horrible trauma that makes everyone realize what a wonderful person he is. Thus a happy ending all around! -
(tags: fanfic mag7 trope)

elf: Meta: Chapters vs. long oneshots - Fortunately, there are some software tools to fix the chapter problems.// I'd rather pause my reading when I'm ready to, not necessarily when the author thinks I should. -
(tags: reading fanfic howto)

sam80853: How to become a... - ...successful mod? // How does one keep a com alive, and how to animate people to participate? -
(tags: modding LJ)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:31:23 GMT

jazzypom: Fandom, its kicking, sparkly pony and the right of reasonable protest - The whole notion of memes, and the right to have protest. As it stands, there's no right of protest, because it doesn't fit into the fandom convention of the "free for all" and *unlimited non judgemental squee* with such memes. So, although I want to participate, to enjoy, I don't want to be inadvertently giving my consent to a meme, or a fandom squee that celebrates any form of fail. -

(tags: kink racism sexism fanfic meme criticism)

glockgal: Yuletart: What is fanart? - It's just another example of how in fandom the two fanwork biggies are Fanfics and Fanart - but the fanart umbrella stretches wide and is very nebulous. In [info]yuletart a lot of discussion was needed for us to define what constitutes as acceptable fanart for the fest. -

(tags: fanart fests)

selenak | Best Friends For... a rather limited time-span? (Spoilers for West Wing, BtVS, AtS and DS9) - What do you do, oh flist? When characters are portrayed as good friends in canon (doesn't matter whether or not you also ship them in a romantic sense or see the relationship as platonic or the family type of bond; there just has to be an on screen closeness that awoke your interest), and then these characters cease to have scenes together, and don't reference each other in dialogue anymore, either. Do you go the denial route - "they're still friends, we just don't see a lot of scenes"/"they're still friends, I reject on screen canon" - or do you accomodate for the changed on screen circumstances in your perception of the relationship(s)? -

(tags: tww btvs ats ds9 shipping)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:44:09 GMT

logovo: That word might not mean what we think it means. - I'm starting to wonder if they mean the same thing I'm thinking when I hear acafans, as in actual people in academia, writing, publishing, teaching or fanlore's entry. Are people now using that word interchangeably with fans who are just into meta? Anyone else getting that impression? -
(tags: acafen terminology)

attackfish: I Hate 'Teachable Moments': Disability and Fanfiction, or How Not to Fail at Disability in Comments - When I was a kid, books about people with disabilities seemed to end one of two ways. Either the pure, good, tragic cripple died, or the pure, good, tragic cripple was cured. Okay, there were also villains whose disabilities were a symbolic sign of their inner corruption, but I'm not even going to touch that one. [...] I had to carve out a happy ending of my own that included my disability. -
(tags: fandom disability writing)

Friday, September 4, 2009

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:38:01 GMT

Friday, September 4

cupidsbow: "Let me show you my fannish entitlement" by cupidsbow - But why, why, why is it so fucking outrageous for us to have strong, stupid and/or outspoken opinions about canon and fanworks? Why does expressing those opinions make us "entitled"? -
(tags: fandom)

ithiliana: Protest art, Fandom, and NOT being homogeneous - One reason why I love Alchemia's art so much is the way in which it totally parodies key elements of THE INCREDIBLY BADLY WRITTEN INTRUSIVE TRIGGERING HORRENDOUS SURVEY, not to mention some of Ogi's lovely lovely commentary about people he stereotypes and marginalizes and dismisses -
(tags: fandom fanworks parody gender sexuality)

zvi: Signalboost - The problem I have is that people in fandom (as demonstrated to me by the links on my d-roll or in comments that I have seen) are celebrating depictions of these guys as 'sexual deviants', in a way that makes me think the external deviance is meant to symbolize their internal moral failing. -
(tags: fandom sexuality kinks fanworks)

darkrose: Inversion and Parody - It would be one thing if fandom as an entity (which is problematic to start with, granted) thought that cross-dressing tentacle porn was something to be ashamed of. But I don't--or I wouldn't write it, or read it. Ogi and Sai are the ones who came into our space and told us that we should feel ashamed of our kinks and our fantasies; instead of internalizing that, we're turning it back on them and saying, "We're not ashamed--why do you think we should be?" -
(tags: fandom kink sexuality parody)

kanata: Ogi/Sai - Here's how I read the fanworks coming out of this. I didn't see the fics and art being about humiliation at all. My understanding of the reason for writing fic was not to humiliate these guys but as an illustration of what fandom always does when things frustrate us. Favorite character dies on your show? Write fic! Don't like the way the show is going? Write fic! So in these situations when I see fic and art coming out of them (there was fic for strikethrough and fanlib as well, though they obviously are not individual people), it just reads like fandom saying let's make the best of a bad situation and create fanworks for it, yay! I wasn't reading it in the context of bashing a character, but rather humanising them. -
(tags: fandom fanworks)

shaggirl: I was wrong. - I am trying not to regret working with them. They were going to write this book with or without my help and if it contains no appreciation or understanding of fandom, it will not be for lack of effort. -
(tags: aca research fandom)

Thursday, September 3

bluefall: i should get one of those "fandom is my fandom" icons - So I'm thinking about the fandom nature/nurture question tonight. See all fandoms have their local quirks, certain tropes or moods or writing tics that pop up all over the fanwork milieu like some kind of meta-fanon. [...] If a fandom is born from its source material, it only makes sense that it grow up to resemble it. On the other hand, some of it's gotta be nurture. -
(tags: fandom trope genre)

sohotrightnow: Your music is bad and you should feel bad! - I have no problem with RPF, fic or art. I have a problem with the fact that people are creating these things with the intention of maliciously shoving them in the subjects' faces, specifically for the purpose of humiliating them. There's been a lot of really intelligent discussion in this mess, and that we feel the need to undercut it with crap like this really disturbs me. -
(tags: fandom criticism sexuality)

daedala: SurveyFail and Cultural Appropriation - If anyone in fandom ever wonders again what is the matter with cultural appropriation? This. Is. It.We have outsiders, coming to fandom and viewing it under a microscope, from a privileged viewpoint; relating everything about the fannish other to their privileged lens; taking things out of context; taking their own unmarked privilege as the Natural State of Humankind; using shoddy science and shoddy research and shoddy thinking to justify treating fans as somehow less than them; and doing all this for fame and profit. -
(tags: fandom culture privilege)

Wednesday, September 2

greenlady2 [in slash_pov]: Dark Fic and Slash... - [...] there seems to be more truly violent Dark Fic in Slash fan fiction than there is in gen or het. I'm wondering if fans believe the Slash aspect justifies horrific violence. She thinks perhaps that writers, and maybe readers, use Slash as a way to distance themselves from violent fantasies. We put ourselves into a male persona, thus removing ourselves from any blame for our fantasies. -
(tags: slash fanfic darkfic)

bossymarmalade: Recent Entries - I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.

They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
(tags: community poll research sexism)

r_becca: rule comparisons - Wow, I am such a geek about running a fest. I really just love to look at other comms' rules. -
(tags: exchanges fests modding)

thingswithwings: no, I'm not posting fic - you can relax! - Like, seriously, it sounds so ridiculous when people feel the need to preface the comment with "HEY GUYS I DON'T LIKE WATERSPORTS, PLEASE DON'T THINK I DO" as if to preemptively defend themselves against all passersby, and PS it sort of shames the author and anyone passing by who genuinely likes that kink even as it pretends to be praise. -
(tags: etiquette comments fanfic kink)

linkspam: SurveyFail Masterpost - SurveyFail Masterpost -
(tags: aca fandom research)

Tuesday, August 1

rivkat: Discipline and publish - I still think this is a mistake, because IRBs use the very same totalizing, naturalizing models of personhood, risk, and harm that the original kink_bingo response so powerfully deconstructed. Fans can assert the entitlement to be disciplined only on their own terms, and I think we should, but the IRB move goes against that commitment. -
(tags: acafen community gender research sexism values)

shaggirl: Aftermath - The days of our flying under the radar are long gone, I am sorry to say. We are out in the wide, wide open here, and research is going to happen whether we participate or not. I would rather do my best to help correct faulty assumptions at the outset than allow them to be nurtured through the entirety of a project. -
(tags: aca fandom research)

Monday, August 31, 2009

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:36:29 GMT

mecurtin: Talking about who writes fanfic - As far as I know, I'm the only person who has even tried to collect stats on the universe of fanfic, and as you can tell I pretty much gave up a few years ago, because I didn't believe there was any way of getting good numbers. -
(tags: aca media fandom fanfic)

jonquil: Harry Winston, tell me all about me! - A couple of evolutionary "cognitive neuroscientists" -- pause to make your saving throw against incoherent rage -- are turning their not-at-all-biased gaze on fanfiction. Fanfiction and GIRLS. Fanfiction and what it says about GIRLS PSYCHOLOGY AS DETERMINED BY THE EVOLUTIONS. They modestly comment, "First, let us say state clearly that we are not psychologists, nor are we cultural critics". -
(tags: acafen commercialism gender fandom fanfic fanworks feminism nescience research sexism)

eruthros: please don't take the fanfiction survey - They are outsiders to fandom. They are outsiders to fanfiction. They are outsiders to slash. And they haven't tried to learn, or to understand, or to think about fannish communities. Instead, they have made assumptions about who we are, about what we read, about what we find hot; they plan to use those to explain what makes women tick, what our brains make us do. -
(tags: aca fandom sexuality gender)

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:55:07 GMT

esorlehcar: laurashapiro has an interesting post on - A friend recently commented that she sometimes misses the days when fandom seemed like this shiny, egalitarian place where issues surrounding race (and gender, to a lesser extent) just didn't exist and she didn't realize it was an illusion courtesy of her own privilege, and it struck me how telling a comment that was: For a whole lot of people, the anger that their fandoms are being "polluted" or "ruined" by this kind of discussion stems from a deep-seated conviction that these problems didn't exist in fandom before some troublemakers started talking about them, -
(tags: race fandom privilege)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:56:00 GMT

kass: Vividcon 2009 Con Report! - Short version: Vividcon 2009 was fantastic. -
(tags: vidding cons)

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. -
(tags: vidding community cons lj)

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. -
(tags: disability race gender cons)

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 -
(tags: fandom)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:28:55 GMT

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. -
(tags: vidding community cons lj)

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. -
(tags: disability race gender cons)

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 -
(tags: fandom)

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. -
(tags: copyright fair_use fandom)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:49:13 GMT

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. -
(tags: cons fandom)

general_jinjur: untitled - expanded notes from writercon podfic program -
(tags: podfic cons)

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. -
(tags: podfic cons)

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. -
(tags: cons genre fanfic trope)

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. -
(tags: cons fanfic)

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. -
(tags: cons fandom media otw community recs)

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. -
(tags: cons fandom privilege)

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. -
(tags: fandom cons privilege sexuality race)

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] -
(tags: television disability beautystandards sexism sgu)

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. -
(tags: trope beautystandards sexuality size)

Friday, August 14, 2009

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:31:22 GMT

alias_sqbr [in girlwank]: Quietly tragic femslash - And I don't know, I have this feeling that in general femslash is rather prone to bittersweet and understated endings where the pairing aren't together at the end. -
(tags: femslash fanfic)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:30:38 GMT

azurelunatic: How Dreamwidth is helping save LiveJournal - And no longer embattled with the same factions of the userbase, LiveJournal responds, with further attention to detail in new feature rollouts, and a high level of responsiveness to beta feedback. LiveJournal is changing. LiveJournal is up and running and starting to actively develop instead of just treading water. -
(tags: dreamwidth IJ lj community)

china_shop: More words I'm trying to ecradiate - What words do you weed out? -
(tags: betaing writing editing)

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:34:11 GMT

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. -
(tags: remixing podfic fanfic fanworks)