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General
musesfool - once they've pegged you, they've pegged you for life - You wouldn't know it to look at my desk or apartment, but I like organization*. Or, I should say, I like knowing where stuff is, and if I don't know where it is exactly, I like knowing how to find it.

loligo - some people... - How I use the term "crackfic": if I as the author ever giggled and thought "It's so crazy it just might work!!" while writing, then there was crack involved in the genesis of that story. And as a reader, I use the term the same way -- when the story gives me the feeling that the author was experiencing that.

marythefan - omg, the RED TAPE - I call shenanigans on the definitions that imply a get-out-of-jail-free card as regards technique or storytelling ability or characterization work. "Crackfic" is not a measure of skill or tone or even of execution. There's bad crackfic. There's good crackfic. There's more bad than good - that's because Sturgeon's Law applies just as it does in any case of fanfic. And good crackfic doesn't become not-crackfic.

saya415 - Observation: Follow the Leader - I'm not sure how other folks become active in a fandom but my understanding of the more "traditional" way into a fandom would be to watch a show/movie/etc and then search the net for like minded folks.

thassalia - Slightly Less Than Keen Eyes - And I run smack into the problem of the genre fan upon reading this, the umpteenth article that declares a love for BSG and a disdain for other scifi, by whatever moniker.

damned_colonial - PSA: Internet standards and your new LJ url - One of these standards documents, RFC 1035 , specifies what you're allowed to include in an internet domain name. And, in short, you aren't allowed underscores in domain names.

Fandom-Specific

destina - Symbolism and symmetry in Brokeback Mountain - Lee had the opportunity to flesh out the spaces in the story, but he wisely chose to let the landscape tell part of the story, representing the interior life of the characters, and to use symbolism and symmetry as a dual means of subtle emotional manipulation.

lunacy - [noooo, not the heetttt.] - We have to deal with this basic truth of her characterization, whatever our opinion of its plausibility in people -like- Hermione. This isn't -about- people 'like' Hermione (or whomever); it's about Hermione , who actually does find something she's drawn to with Ron. Well, what is it? That seems an interesting question to ask (especially if you can't tell!)

glossing - [meta/unfic] A/O Ship, Not Quite a Manifesto - Monsters/Lovers: Shipping, Writing, and/or Simply Appreciating Angel/Oz

On Creating and Criticism
entrenous88 - first to third person switch, POV changes, writing decisions - Am I weird that when someone starts a story in a particular person (first-person, second-person, third-person), I want them to use that mode all the way through the story ? It drives be a little batty when there's one section in first-person, then all of a sudden we're back in third (god help us all if there's a switch to second, though thankfully I've only ever seen second-person stories that stick to that mode throughout).

justacat - Thoughts about fic preferences ..... - There's this "how to tell a story I wrote" meme going around, and since I don't write stories I figured I'd modify it to suit me: how to tell a story I'll love!