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General
amonitrate - This is not a pipe, pt. 3 - My greatest difficulty in thinking about canon is with the assumption that anything "not directly expressed" in a text should always be categorized as wide open to interpretation.  This doesn't give enough credit to the craft of creating a text - whether it's written or audiovisual.  Good authors make conscious use of implication to guide their audience.

synecdochic - random pet peeves about military language - A few linguistic details, courtesy of many fine servicemembers I have known:

femmenerd - Will someone tell my brain to shut up? - So I realize that my last post was a bit strident in tone, and I didn't mean to make people feel like I was pointing fingers--"You--homophobe--there," so I hope that that didn't happen. Because that's not it at all. And no, no one has flamed me for a lack of warnings on my slash fics (because my headers are pretty F-ing informative, right?). I just had a strong reaction to some community's info (I don't remember which but it was general, not shipper, het or slash specific) where their guidelines instructed that people warn for slash but said nothing about het, which has always bugged me and I was reminded of that.

Fandom Specific
corinna_5 - Instarec for synecdochic and the Question of Realism - It's always a difficult thing to read stories written in a world you know well and the author clearly does not. Stories set in academia are often particularly weird for me on this front because college-educated writers often know just enough about how academic life functions to get the details really wrong, and I can't get into the story with the back of my brain screaming fact-checking at me.

chaodai - man of plans, man of improv - i don’t care whether they had a plan, no plan, or a fragment of a plan because i trust ron moore. now, i don’t know ron moore save for meeting him socially once or twice, but i do know his writing - have been watching episodes written by the man since i was in college - and i certainly know his reputation. [Lost, BG]

Polls, Questions, Misc.
rianax in fanficrants - Untitled - What is the expected lifespan of spoilers?