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Sat, Sep. 9th, 2006, 08:14 am

[personal profile] inalasahl: Saturday, September 9, 2006

General
[livejournal.com profile] aynathie - ...it still has some growing up to do... - So, after I posted so enthusiastically about the notification/tracking system this morning, I found out very soon that it's not as good as I thought. Specifically, it's more invasive than I had imagined.

Specific-Fandom
[livejournal.com profile] tasha18 - how Jk Rowling's shoddy "world creation" leads to fanfiction - Basically, one of my theses is the reason there is so much harry potter fanfiction out there is because the world jkr has created is filled with holes, inconsistencies and dangling pieces.

[livejournal.com profile] queenettefallon - Fandom is serious business! - Actually, I'm just left puzzled and wondering why is HP a fandom of such extremes?

On Creating and Criticism
[livejournal.com profile] icarusancalion - How Shave Off Those Serial Numbers: De-fanficcing Fanfic - The process of "de-fanficcing" a story, i.e., sawing off the serial numbers and turning fanfiction into original fiction, is much more than simply changing names and developing some backstory.

Polls, Questions, Other
[livejournal.com profile] prillalar - Does fanfic turn into a pumpkin at midnight? - I can see not bothering to read somebody's post about their aspidistra or how they really hate that new barrista at Starbucks because you have too many posts to go through in the morning and not enough time. But do people really do that with fic? Do you do that with fic?

[livejournal.com profile] rachel_martin64 in [livejournal.com profile] fanthropology - Feedback - Do fan authors even want privately emailed feedback anymore? Do they prefer reader comments posted publicly to LJ or ff.net because of the advertisement value?

[livejournal.com profile] norwich36 - Icons and individuality - I was thinking of doing that meme that's been going around, where you ask people on your f-list to post pictures of people to represent their mental image of you, but then I thought that since something like 70% of the icons I use on a regular basis (including my default) are of Chloe Sullivan, that's probably the mental picture most people have of me.

Sat, Sep. 9th, 2006, 09:29 pm
[identity profile] mofic.livejournal.com

Not sure if you're doing a 9/11 edition. I did an entry at http://mofic.livejournal.com/41530.html that does talk about 9/11 and fanfic in part, although it might be too much personal stuff and not enough meta for the community...