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- pandarus: Unpopular Fannish Opinion - But - honestly, it makes my soul shrivel a bit, every time I see a story (which may or may not be my cup of tea) being reduced in its descriptors to who tops whom, and a characterisation reduced to Bottom!Cas or Bottom!Wesley or what the fuck ever. -
- janni: On Jewish --and other -- fantasy stories - And even Narnia is not Christian because Christ more or less shows up on stage. It's Christian because of its notions of how one lives a worthy life, how wrongdoing can or can't be redeemed, and what the rewards and punishments are for living or not living life properly. Aslan doesn't make Narnia Christian. It's how Lewis uses that lion and his world that makes it so. -
- m_dono: Should Fanmade Items Be Illegal? - You’re making money, okay. You’ve created the items by yourself, okay. But, the characters used (i.e. a bookmark or fancomic/doujinshi with the movie character on it), are not yours. I’m very sure that a lot of fans do not have direct contact or relations to the creator and company so I’m guessing a lot of the money they earn don’t go to said creator and company. Doesn’t that mean that they’re stealing money that should rightfully be earned by someone else? Thus I’ve made this discussion to hear everyone’s opinion on the matter. -
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hils: Fandom meta - What makes a BNF in your opinion? Is it because they write particularly good fic, or really intelligent and thought provoking meta? Is it just whoever happens to be the one to launch a new ship in a fandom? -- schmevil: Expectations and preferences - We all have preferences for how writers treat feedback and comments. Many of us also have hidden expectations. -
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kaigou: cake, having of; see also, cake, eating of - I say it's not derailing because derailment hinges on privilege to deny or dismiss the posted thesis. "You're not really that marginalized," and, "oh, I get that all the time," are dismissals. "I absolutely agree with you" is not, on its own, a dismiss but an affirmation. Furthermore, I won't say the OP is derailing (denying via privilege), because I don't think you can really derail your own train, so long as you remain on the thesis-track you'd laid down*. (Though I concede an OP can definitely assist a derailment, if unintentionally; all it takes is getting caught in a back-and-forth with a respondent especially skilled in classical derailing.) -- ssquirrel_fic: Meta: commenting - As a writer I love feedback. Somebody saying 'aww' or 'I liked this' is enough to make me smile. I've had people leave more detailed feedback - how the fic affected them etc - which has had me grinning like an idiot for days. But, I don't expect people to comment. Just as I don't want to leave crit, others find the joy sucked out of fandom by being expected to participate. If you want to lurk, by all means lurk! =] -
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torino10154: Canon vs. Fanon vs. OMC/OFC - How far can you take a character from canon before the character is no longer himself or herself but is in fact an OMC or OFC? If Snape grows up with the Princes in a manor is he Snape? If Harry's parents live is he Harry? What about settings, non-magic, etc? Or does it take a certain combination of factors, not just one significant change? -- the_willow: Once We Let 'Those People' Into The Neighbhourhood It Was All Downhill - And it all boils down in my ears to "The Meta In Fandom Is Moving In Directions I Don't Like." And I cannot even say then those people should instigate the meta they do like to see, because the fact is, fandom and fans are changing (slower than molasses in winter, but still). And the old meta was rather one sided and privileged and exclusionary. The new dimensions in meta are here to stay. Calling it 'The ruin of fandom' really isn't going to make it go away and it certainly won't stop the momentum that's built up. -
- betnoir: No saving throw - (or "Why the death of your Beloved!Character is not the end of my world") -
- zing_och: your hit counter is lying - Lots of hits / not many comments doesn't have to mean "people read the story but don't like it". -
- lanjelin: Yaoi, slash, and characterisation - This is the origin for the wars of who's seme and who's uke in shounen-ai fandom. It's not actually about the positions, it's a disagreement on characterisation. -
- betnoir: The stories we tell each other - So there was this panel at Gallifrey - "Fan Reactions to Character Deaths." And it was intense and difficult and fantastic all wrapped up in a bundle of making me feel awkward and touched all at once. -
- merryish: So, I've been following the various disc - Maybe it's just that I'm less jaded, now that I've been on Dreamwidth for a while and see how different it can be. But I'm finding myself persuaded by the argument that by crossposting, I'm providing LJ with the content it requires to stand in competition with Dreamwidth for fannish participation. I mean, on the one hand, crossposting makes it easier for fans on LJ to read my journal entries if they want to, without bothering with Open ID or RSS or whatever. But on the other hand, by crossposting to LJ, I'm providing Our Corporate Overlords with the content that helps them keep fans on LJ...on LJ. And as time goes by, I'm less and less happy about that. -
- accioslash: Pointing to a Post About Feedback... - I think this advice is good not just for comments to fic and art, but to all posts. This pisses me off in ways I cannot even begin to express. Trust me, I am the queen of nosy people. I read comments to all your posts all the time. Occasionally I will comment to someone else's comment. But I will ALWAYS then comment on the original post whether that post is fic, art, or even a meme. -
- amberlynne: Just...no. - As a bamboozler, I tend to hang out with a lot of really talented fic writers (and artists!). As a commenter on the fics (and art!) that they post, and as someone who is generally having a chat with them after they have posted, I have picked up on a few things that I think every fic commenter should know. -
- iambickilometer: we're all in this together - A friend and I were discussing race in comics, and an Asian-American character came up that she hadn't known about. She protested that there was no way, his last name was too white, to which I replied that he was mixed race. Her reply? "That's a copout. That practically doesn't count." -
- thefrogg: Confessions of the Multifannish - I read sex scenes in particular as an exploration of language. It's what makes a fandom a fandom, because the language changes. The tone changes. Hell, even the vocabulary changes. The euphemisms commonly found in SPN will be different from those found in bandom, in Babylon 5, etc. The combination of these things may not be unique, but they are different from fandom to fandom. I have yet to come across two fandoms that have the same fandom language signature. -
- hkath: girl, you'll be a woman soon - when I'm reading a fic which is entirely focused on romance between 2 male characters, and one character expresses some weakness or emotion or performs some romantic gesture, and the other guy calls him a girl for it? Oh, boy, do my hackles rise.Why? Well, often, in the case of a one-shot or a very focused and shippy fic, this is the only mention of a girl in the entire story - a fond little jibe, sort of a patronizing "aren't you cute?" that also serves as a license to write men being emotional without being accused of being out of character. -
- cimorene: Seriously, lj? (Seriously, fandom?) - if you keep using lj because other people are doing it, you're providing the content that lj is selling. You're part of the giant ball-and-chain anchoring fandom to lj. I don't want to be part of that -
- melannen: On the feasibility of moving to all-DW, all-the-time - about a month ago I had to remove lj's javascript access completely in order to be able to log in to my account. On the upside, I am also no longer getting virus warnings every few days! And pages load a disturbing amount faster! On the downside, wow, there's a lot of stuff I can't do on lj anymore. Including bookmark fic on delicious/diigo, so I have even been trying to find as much fic as possible other places.So, here's why I still read my LJ friendslist despite all that: -
- evelynvaughn01: Canon Schmanon -- the Joy of Non-Canon Pairings - The very nature of the NCP, however, demands constant participation. In each episode, fans read between the lines, trying to differentiate deliberate foreshadowing from throw-away comments (sitcoms are particularly problematic this way, because the "Rule of Funny" often flies in the face of consistency). - -
- green_maia: Feminism and Complex Female Characters - To be human is to be complex. To be feminist is to treat females as fully human. Ergo, to be a feminist writer, it isn't enough to write strong female characters - you need to have COMPLICATED female characters. -
- phantom_blue: Thinkyful Thoughts on Fandom, Part the First - I harbor a deep and abiding fondness for fanfiction.net.... no, really. I do. -
- liz_marcs: Reasons Why She Might Not Be So Awesome - In the end, this is all very simple: Women like it when women are portrayed as people, not a stand-in for something else, and definitely not when the character's whole reason for existing is to make some kind of point.It seems that an awful lot of male writers for television and movies don't get this. -
- naraht: Not a rhetorical question - If you saw a fic tagged "Christian character" (on AO3 or elsewhere), what would you assume about the character? About the fic? -
- darksybarite: YAY metafandom! - So a call was put out for Woobies, specifically fandom Woobies, not necessarily canon Woobies. Someone noticed that, as of yet, no female Woobies had been nominated. Here are a few of my randomized thoughts on a few of the possible whyfors: -
- kaigou: reset on linkspam with a few blue giraffesIf I ran the world, here's my list for linkspam, though also applicable to linkspam's siblings fandomnews & metafandom. (See comments for further discussion, clarifications, and digressions of interest.)
1. Set a grace period, say, 72 hours before linking. - green: it's about how you say it. (a post about style) - There's lots floating around about the writing process: how to outline, how to turn a scene, how to get the most out of beta.[...]But I haven't seen much about personal style and finding your own voice. I think the reason for that is that you can't teach style. A writer can imitate style and voice, but their own personal style only comes out of practice. -
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metafandom [ kiltslave ] |
8:53p | Sunday, March 21, 2010 |
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metafandom [ p_zeitgeist ] |
12:51a | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
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metafandom [ acari ] |
3:43a | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
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metafandom [ kiltslave ] |
10:39p | Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
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metafandom [ inalasahl ] |
9:39p | Saturday, March 13, 2010 |
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metafandom [ p_zeitgeist ] |
11:08p | Friday, March 12, 2010 ( Cut for number of links ) |
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metafandom [ fairestcat ] |
1:20a | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
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metafandom [ acari ] |
10:07p | Monday, March 8, 2010 (slightly overdue) |