First of all, thanks to dodyskin, who took the idea that we're missing a neutral community that simply collects links of interest, and ran with it. Hopefully, metafandom will prove to fill the gap between the sublime and the abject . . .

Fannish Meta

themostepotente - Fandom Discussion: Rarepairs and Response: So if you are a rarepairs writer, does the lack of feedback influence your writing them?

maeglinyedi - Fandom Evolution...: In order to understand the dynamic process of fandom, we have to look at its history. on fandom evolution

astrogirl2 - Warning: Opinions of the Story are Not Necessarily the Opinons of the Author.: do any of you out there ever find yourselves writing stories that don't actually reflect your personal worldview?

dragonscholar in fanthropology - Other Web Services Assisting Fandom: the relationship between medium and message

idlerat - LJ, or, "This week on The OT": on the various ways we use LJ and why that's a great thing

angharad_gov - private thought, public space and fannish activities : democratizing "celebrity" and fannish LJs

mayoihumbert - Anatomy of the fannish butterfly (and troll): I feel like this is what unquestioned, all-enveloping positive feedback is: a bunch of little tiny fish that negate or at the very least distort the meaning of fishing. another view on the positive feedback only debate

musesfool - now lover, don't regress to shame: if you ship, is your path source->pairing->fic or source->fic->pairing or fic->pairing->source or what?

jennyo - *sigh-snerk*: a critique of a critique of Veronica Mars [ETA: more responses here and here]

rosesanguina - Music Theory and the Fandom: music is a series of notes on a page is equivalent to saying that a story is just a bunch of words text - performance - interpretation

heres_luck - vid structure and the process of vidding: thinking about structure in the abstract, and then also how those thoughts about structure play out in what we actually do while vidding

karentraviss - Thinking like your character; a bit of iconoclasm on writing, characterization, and point of view

scarah2 - The great slash v. het debate

tapedeck - a response to The great slash v. het debate


And some of the more metaish results of the recent rant meme:

penknife - Rant about Wankiness in Fandom

musesfool - four rants: forth one on the issue of vague critique

reenka - why does fanfic have to be so complicated: IC, OOC, and good storytelling

lovelyzelda - Let's get ready to rumble! : a rant on crappy fanfiction and a rant on flames and the people who send them

makesmewannadie - a rant on ranting

Links, Polls, and Memes

geoviki - You broke my heart, you tore it apart, so ...: Poll on Infidelity in Fanfic

lisew - omg. best thing ever: collective storytelling in the guise of anecdotes, footnotes, and organic narrative.

fabu - I just can't get enough of. . .: We're all familiar with those infamous "things I never want to see in a fanfic story again" lists. . . . But what about the opposite? What are the things you want to see more of?

damned_colonial - Men who read Slash: request for help

Other

fannishly - In a way, my openness is a double bluff: on being too open on LJ as a way of hiding one's self