Below are the most recent 8 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, January 8th, 2009
metafandom [ amireal ]	6:43p	Thursday, January 8, 2009 flourish: What would I do if I were LJ? - My friend Mike Arauz got me thinking about what I would do if I were LiveJournal/SUP to start making money. - (tags: LJ) miriam_heddy: Why we do what we do: riding the wave - If I stick with a given fandom even after noticing it is racist or misogynist, even after being hurt by it, and my friends allow me to do so by providing a cushion of sorts that makes the unpalatable acceptable, then is this a good thing? Is it a positive thing? Are we becoming resistant readers to that racism and misogny, or merely callous toward it? - (tags: fandom gender race merlin) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
metafandom [ fairestcat ]	10:57p	Wednesday, January 7, 2009 sarken: A magic question? - So last night, as I lay in bed wondering, "What happens next?", I realized I was asking the wrong question. - (tags: writing fanfic) (Comment on this)
carlanime	10:29a	Oh look, a post. 1. So, now that Make it Rough is on sale (and excerpted at the Changeling Press blog, if you're curious), I'm doing other things. Specifically, I'm writing and researching other things. Yes, more than one: I get more writing done when I can switch from project to project. But one of the things I'm tentatively writing/researching/poking at is another doll-related fic, and the research for that is proving interesting. More interesting than usual. I am venturing into new, uncharted territory--or, at least, territory for which I personally haven't seen a chart--and talking to some new people. Specifically, I've been communicating with a couple of the folks at CoverDoll. (If you're at work or there are children hanging around your screen, you probably shouldn't click these links). I asked them for input, and a couple have been kind enough to provide some. It's one of the more unusual conversations I've had in a long time. Check it out. 2. I would dearly love my own page at Fanlore, but I would feel like such an ass writing it up myself. Would anyone like to do a swap? I could give you my info, you could give me yours, and we could write up each others'? I don't know, that would just feel less weird to me. 3. Regarding flocked posts: I hate when people break flock, but that does remind me: possibly I should post unflocked sometimes. Not that anything I post is of urgent importance or anything, but if every single fandom opinion or burst of squee is locked down, it does make it more difficult for fandom to function, particularly for anyone trying to enter a new fandom. No, I'm not saying the growth in secrecy is any excuse for flock breaking; I'm just saying, it's a human thing for any community to want to talk about stuff, and if you never ever provide anything to talk about, then it's less of a community and more a series of enclaves. And I have, like a lot of people, fallen into the habit of flocking everything, mostly just because meanspirited stupid gossip disinclines you to participate in communities, but...I don't know, possibly I should flock less. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
carlanime	10:16a	Livejournal The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 5th, 2009
metafandom [ kiltslave ]	8:49a	Sunday, January 04, 2009 francescacoppa: [in otw_news] Is YouTube Blocking Your Vids? Exercise Your Right To Fair Use! - Fair use is a muscle: it gets stronger when you exercise it, so if you believe that your vid is fair use, that it transforms copyrighted material for a new critical or creative purpose, you should dispute the claim. - (tags: fair_use vidding) (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
carlanime	1:12p	New releases at Changeling Press EVERYBODY GO LOOK. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
metafandom [ oulangi ]	7:43p	Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 were_lemur: Meta: Is It Just Me? - Am I the only one who feels a wee bit hypocritical bashing Mary Sues, when the ones that live in my head are just as over-the-top as the ones that the suethors write about? - (tags: writing characterization marysue) firefly99: TL;DR ESSAY ABOUT FANWRITING AT TWELVE O CLOCK - Character development in fanfic, therefore, is nearly impossible. Writers of original fic are praised for deviating from their characters as they originally stood, and writers of fanfic are praised for keeping their character 'sounding like Snake'. - (tags: fanfic characterization) shared_wisdom: Sensuality and Writing - Layering sensuality to your fiction can greatly aid you in that effort by giving a wealth of texture, depth and feeling to your prose. - (tags: writing sexuality) nike_victory: The Sliding Scale of Extroversion vs. Introversion - A major factor in any human - or human-like - character's personality is the sliding scale between Extroversion and Introversion. Unfortunately, it seems very few people are truly aware of this and a good portion of mangled characterization is the result. So I'm going to explain what extroversion, introversion, and the sliding scale between them are. - (tags: writing characterization) (Comment on this)
mina_de_malfois	12:29p	Kissing Cousins [Note: I owe scifantasy for suggesting the Baldur/mistletoe myth, amy_star_ for reminding me of the Magic Box Of Hair Metal Cassettes and for making me write a closing paragraph, ap_aelfwine for the codpiece, and, as always, The Clives for turning this from me-ese into readable English. Also, this post is being left unflocked so I can show it to a couple of people who wouldn't otherwise see it; apologies in advance to any puzzled Supernatural fans who may note Occult is a bit...familiar.] Title: Kissing Cousins Fandom: Occult Author: Anon Disclaimer: These characters and settings belong to their creator, not the author of the fanfiction, and Princely Plots disclaims all responsibility for copyright infringement. Warnings: Some readers have pointed out that this sounds like slash, and therefore has no place in the PP archive, but a careful reading shows that all events are necessitated by the plot, so we're letting it stand. Also, it is canon that Jab sometimes wears a magic codpiece. ~Warr1or ( Kissing Cousins ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)