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In my opinion, IMO, IMGLO, IMHO, and in my practice, vidding successfully requires (ongoing attempts at)(familiarity with) (efforts toward)(learning) mastery of several disparate things.

If you feel like people are \"crying,\" screaming, hooting, and hollering racism all over the place? Maybe that's not because they want to or lack an understanding of what racism \"really\" means, but because there is racism all over the place.

giandujakiss: Sex scenes across fandoms

Who are \"we\"? The ones paying for TBD, and what do we want from our television? Come talk to me, about who you are, what you watch, what your ideal network would show, which shows got canceled that shouldn't have.

Dude. Fandom. Stop telling people you can't write CoCs just because they're CoCs. You write fic about people you're not all the *time*. That's kinda the point.

Fiction inhabits the zone between real and impossible [...] Tethering too tightly to produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float far from that anchor stories are arbitrary unpersuasive

These are miscellaneous notes, broadly applicable to life on the margins. I'll post about criminality separately, because of course criminality and poverty are both socially marginal, but they're not at all the same thing. [car, home, schooling]

Still, there are many, many levels on which being a non-Anglo in general, and a non-American in particular, can be a tad frustrating. Not necessarily because fans are mean to me, on purpose or unintentionally. Sometimes it's things that... just happen.

... are there rules of fanfic convention that have changed your opinion of how things should be written, particularly if you write original fic? Are there things that you won't tolerate.. because of what's OK, or not, in fanfic?