• cesperanza: PWP? WTF? - But now I'm wondering if maybe NONE of these words mean what I think they mean! For me, PWP is 'Plot, What Plot' which I've always interpreted in my own head as--like, huh, wuh, there was a plot? because the story was so OBVIOUSLY about the sex, you know? Like, if you're looking for the plot, you've missed the point, because the story of the story was the story of the sex! The sex is the story, no flying monkeys or juggling clowns needed. -
  
  (tags: poll labels genre terminology)


• lobelia321: leather jackets and TV canon - So in my canon world, the photo of the 'making of' the pier does not count either towards or against any kind of leather jacket theory. It is cute but it is not canon. -
  
  (tags: canon sga television)

• catwalksalone: From Canon to Crack - There are probably other reasons ...that crack and AUs are more prevalent in some fandoms than others, but it does seem to me that canon itself, and the way it is presented, is a large contributing factor. -
  
  (tags: canon crackfic creativity au ds sga sn lom)

• americanleaguer: more thinky things - I think this is mostly understood even by sports slash critics, right? I mean, the guys at that basketball blog, the folks over at Deadspin, when they approached sports slash, it was more out of a sense of... I dunno, horror at the idea, (sometimes merited) amusement at the expense of the concept and the writing both. -
  
  (tags: sports rpf)


• fialleril: race relations in Star Wars - EU style! - There aren't many people of color in the Star Wars universe to begin with (and that's another meta entirely!). But I've started to notice a pattern in how the EU treats them -
  
  (tags: race media starwars characterization)

• puella_nerdii: Erotica and the Unsexy Sex Scene - In a nutshell, how do you strip away the erotic component of a sex scene without making it thoroughly unappealing? -
  
  (tags: writing)

As some of you may have heard, my partial draft of Midnight Sun was illegally posted on the Internet and has since been virally distributed without my knowledge or permission or the knowledge or permission of my publisher.

I have a good idea of how the leak happened as there were very few copies of Midnight Sun that left my possession and each was unique. Due to little changes I made to the manuscript at different times, I can tell when each left my possession and to whom it was given. The manuscript that was illegally distributed on the Internet was given to trusted individuals for a good purpose. I have no comment beyond that as I believe that there was no malicious intent with the initial distribution.

I did not want my readers to experience Midnight Sun before it was completed, edited and published. I think it is important for everybody to understand that what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being. As the author of the Twilight Saga, I control the copyright and it is up to the owner of the copyright to decide when the books should be made public; this is the same for musicians and filmmakers. Just because someone buys a book or movie or song, or gets a download off the Internet, doesn't mean that they own the right to reproduce and distribute it. Unfortunately, with the Internet, it is easy for people to obtain and share items that do not legally belong to them. No matter how this is done, it is still dishonest. This has been a very upsetting experience for me, but I hope it will at least leave my fans with a better understanding of copyright and the importance of artistic control.

So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.

I'd rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes. But how do I comment on this violation without driving more people to look for the illegal posting? It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I've decided to make the draft available here (at the end of this message on the Midnight Sun page). This way, my readers don't have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest. I hope this fragment gives you further insight into Edward's head and adds a new dimension to the Twilight story. That's what inspired me to write it in the first place.

I do want to take a moment and thank the wonderful fans who have been so supportive of me over the past three years. I cannot begin to tell you how much each of you means to me. I only hope this note will stop all the confusion and online speculation so that the Twilight universe can once again become the happy escape it used to be. After this incredibly busy year, I am now focusing on spending more time with my family and working on some other writing projects.

--Stephenie

I don't think I need to add much more than that.  Lol.  This is so bloody beautiful...Oh Smeyer...please to be going over there to cry upon your pile of ill-begotten millions.  We all know that that book is going to be finished and published eventually so that you can add to your dragon hoard of booty. 

aegflota

• airinshaw: Ranty McRanterson - It gets said over and over by the press and bands and such - people writing about them (bands) sleeping together .... And I just want to to shake them and yell "UR DOIN IT RONG!" Because it's not about them. It's about us. -
  
  (tags: bandom rpf media slash)

Furry Art Pile, aka FAP (I see whut u did thar!) is was a knockoff of and competitor to the frequently wanky FurAffinity art site. FA, if you've been living under a rock, is itself a knockoff of DeviantArt, except with more drawings of Simba fucking a triceratops.

From what I can gather, FAP was supposed to have more features than FA, with user input and whatnot, and avoid all the technical problems that plagued FA. (Obviously, nobody expected it to avoid all the drama problems, because: furries.)

Alas, it was not to be. There are links posted to allow authors to download all their content, and users to download all their favorites, which in my mind is a hell of a lot more than most webmasters do when they take their ball and go home.

Nonetheless, this is cold comfort for many. The closure happened late in the evening Pacific time, so the real wank will undoubtedly start in the morning. Still, in the webmaster's LJ entry announcing the closure, the seeds have already been sown.

So far we have in the incubator:

• donation wank
• TOLD U SO
• and finally, popcorn

There's probably also a thread or 10 at FA already, plus at least one in each of the major furry LJ comms, but I have to get up for school in like 5 hours, so I leave it to you intrepid wankas to brave those waters.

Please, no furbashing.

Edit: post in official community (no comments ATM but they are enabled) and one in wtf_fap

• cofax7: Taking a page from james_nicoll's technique - Sociability is part of marketing in the fannish economy. Y/N? Discuss? Pros/Cons? -
  
  (tags: community fandom question)


• sherrold: why ask why? - Hey, why do we call that kind of story "genderswaps"? They aren't swapping gender -- they're swapping biological sex. -
  
  (tags: genderswitch fanfic)

• ithiliana: I am Multitudinous Multitasker! - I get awfully tired of the zero-sum argument that comes up all the time in various activist discussions: "don't do X, do Y instead"; or "why are you complaining about Q when there's this huge R problem?"; I'm tired of that type of argument -
  
  (tags: fandom fancampaign)

The 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in the History of Fanfiction

When traveling in the vast, anonymous, lawless expanse known as the Internet, it's a given that you're going to run into some weird shit. Maybe none of it is weirder than the world of erotic fanfiction.

This is where fans lovingly write up tales of, say, Legolas and Gimli going at it, in excruciating detail. But dig deeper and you find stories featuring such random matchups of character that it'll send your mind, and boner, reeling:

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• penknife: Soulbonding, or what happens when the author gets out the superglue - I'm deeply ambivalent about this trope, but there are lots of interesting things I would like to see people do with it.I kind of like soulbonding in universes where it's remotely appropriate and when it's complicated and ambivalent and problematic and hot -
  
  (tags: fanfic trope)

• the_willow: Watching The Show In Your Head - I began to wonder if the difference between watching the show you want to see as a fan (in fandom, discussing the source and interacting with it and having that mentality) and watching the show as a 'mundane' is that discussing the source and talking about it brings you moments of realizing just exactly how and where and why you ended up seeing what you wanted to see. -
  
  (tags: fandom sga characterization concrit)