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Wed, Jul. 11th, 2007, 05:27 pm

fairestcat: Wednesday, July 11, 2007

nostalgia_lj: I have moved beyond caring and into wank - I can't respect any subset of the fannish community that can sell "safe space to be as shippy as we want" without at least some acknowledgement of why the faction is held as anti-community. Fandom functions as a pleasant community only when people can be -
(tags: dw race fandom)

partly_bouncy in virgule: Fanlinguistics - The project will involve participants having moderated conversations on various topics related to fandom with people from other language groups or from people in their own language groups. -
(tags: fandom history)

nostalgia_lj: My thoughts on yaoi - Basically after all the wank and several fandoms later, I'm still not that sure boyslash is as liberating as is sometimes claimed. Here's a list of the negatives, as the positives don't really animate me into words that much. -
(tags: slash)

verstehen: In which I display my postmodern analytic bias. - Talking about isms within a media source gets a heck of a lot trickier. You have a dual problem facing yourself here: are we talking about isms contextually or metatextually? -
(tags: race fandom ff sga sg1)

robin_anne_reid: Open forum for how to move the race discussion in fandom(s) forward - I would like to open up this space and invite contributions by people on what they would like to see happening in fandom(s) to, as witchqueen says, move the race discussion in fandom forward, to move beyond the periodic conflicts that flare up. -
(tags: fandom race fanac)

linaerys: My icon has a gun - The Lin's rules for teh interwebs, this collection of tubes we inhabit, and specifically fandom: -
(tags: fandom)

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Thu, Jul. 12th, 2007, 06:27 am
sivullinen.livejournal.com

The Fanlinguistics link isn't working - there's one L missing from html :)

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Thu, Jul. 12th, 2007, 01:11 pm
fairestcat

thanks! It's fixed now!

Thu, Jul. 12th, 2007, 11:42 am
emily-shore.livejournal.com

A little post on the idea of fanfic-reading virtual book clubs:

http://narahttbbs.livejournal.com/143261.html