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We're doing it old school today because lj ate the auto-formatted bot post. Sorry about the lack of tags, there's only so much hand-coding we're willing to do ;)

teh_no - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex Scenes, But Were Afraid To Ask - And, now that you've read my essay, you realize it was all a cynical ploy to pimp a bunch of fics and get mentioned on metafandom. Guess I was lying about using my powers for good instead of evil. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

smithy161 Netiquette - If you are a writer and you post your work somewhere people can respond to it, do you feel obliged to reply to every comment you get?

maygra - Viral Marketing meets Montezuma's Revenge - We are not the fans they are looking for.//Seriously. By "we" I mean media fans, the a largely female denizens of LJ and Mail lists, the survivors of the usenet and alt.net wars, the ones running and attending cons that don't involve celebrity stars

cofax7 - Cory Doctorow rocks, and so does Ces. FanLib, not so much. - On cruising through the FanLib forums, I've learned that the fact that many of the fan writers on LJ don't find FanLib appealing isn't a bug, it's a feature. In other words, there aren't any nasty BNFs there dictating the way things are run, and imposing

synecdochic - Online Terms of Service, standard clauses, non-standard clauses, and a crash course in the CDA - I believe that FanLib's Terms of Service are, in places, detrimental to users of the service.

cesperanza - Yay, Cory. - haven't seen much reference to this up and down my flist, but I really think that Cory Doctorow's In Praise of Fanfic is one of the smartest and most understanding articulations of what fanfic is, does, and means that I've ever read.

hth_the_first - kink and canon - Part of what I understand to be deeply offensive about the Heroes for Hire cover is that it actually alters the canonical characters ... What I'm saying is that part of the pleasure, for me, of PleasureSlave!Obi-Wan is that there is a "real" Obi-Wan ...

bentley - just another brick in the wall. - So what happens when FanLib is appearing in newspaper and online articles around the global community? What happens when people who don’t know the ‘cultural norms’ of fandom and its community discover this site which caters to them and not some elit

bookshop - How Fan*lib* is anything but liberating. - both readings of fanfic assume that fanfic itself is inherently insufficient to stand on its own as a valid literary genre - that its ultimate value rests, not with the fan who produced it, but with the owner of the original canon that inspired it.

trollprincess - 1.) Get fanfic! -- 2.) ? -- 3.) Profit! - but the view that fandom has snapped back at Fanlib because they're men. What? I'm sorry, but no. Fandom smacks women upside the head just as often as it smacks men ... hell, more so, considering the high number of women in fandom.

methoschick - Fanlib and why it is a bad, bad idea. - Now to put it bluntly, lj is basically the locus for most fanfiction going round. Forget yahoo groups or other mailing lists (but ah, the memories) or even sometimes author websites and archives. Lj is where most people play nowadays.