This update is both late and incomplete due to LJ issues. At the moment, we can't access our memories, where we compile all interesting posts we come across. I tried to find all the ones I remembered, but I'm certain there are important ones missing. Also, if you have or see an relevant post, please drop us a line at metafandom @ gmail.com or leave a comment here. We appreciate any help in being as comprehensive as possible. Thanks!

Fandom Meta

ptyx - underappreciated authors more on "one fan's BNF is another fan's WTF."

helenish - pathological. more on fandom and computer addiction [in part a response to makesmewannadie's Fandom and Work one shrink told me that spending more than 2 hours a week on pornographic material . . . technically constitutes addiction]

ptyx - LJ and the Ghettos LJ encourages the creation of ghettos, the rise of feudal territories

executrix - Shag, Marry, or (Not) Shoot, Or, You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Elf I don't understand the appeal of smut about people you find unattractive

janedavitt - GIP and icon deletion thoughts

Fanfic Meta

themostepotente - Fics and Character Accents

carenejeans - Steal, Schmeal originality, cliches, and repetition

xylodemon - Fandom discussion time. Let's talk about squicks for a minute.

satinvalkyrie - Procrastinatory Musing... Is it possible to write fanfic that does not superimpose one's own experiences over the blank spaces left in canon?

ptyx - on mpreg

djinanna - getting classy on fanfic classifications

minotaurs - Ranty McRantypants rants on Unowned Desire, Leakage, Foreskin followed up with a relevant poll 3rd Time's the charm [Poll boys-only]

jennyo - What is it with Good Girls and Bad Boys?

dragonscholar in fanthropology - From Mary to Gary more on Mary Sues and Gary Stus [followup to badfic elements and cultural biases]

penknife - Romantic triangles and summaries [a response to Pairings I hate it when people announce the pairing in the summary of the fic, when it completely spoils the fic.]

Specific Fandom Meta

dodyrecs - Human and not wholly human, writ by the finger of the Divine, Glossolalia Buffy's like English...Buffy's a language

sisabet - So You Want to Be a Vidder: Five Not So Easy Steps

coffee_and_ink - Reading Manga Manga versus Comic Reading

idlerat - On Television on teen shows and their appeal Teenagers are on a cusp. . . . they are works-in-progress and changeable

selenak - Flipping gender or point of views; multifandom musings (including BSG, Star Wars, DS9 and Carnivale)

Beyond Fandom

metamorphogenic - How We Think vs. Our Latent Superpowersteaching people how to access and interpret their own psychic abilities a response to tamiveldura's How Do You Think

sisabet - We All Die Alone, But Only Cause We Make It Happen if you live long enough, you will lose everything you hold dear with a side of Angel and comics...

Links, Polls, Other

superplin - FYI link to academic essay on Angel&Spike and ensuing discussion

rivkat - Dispatches from Mundania Slate suggests that CSI might be the most fanfic-generative show on TV.

cereta in ffsymposium - Catherine Rain argues that Fanfic is Hard to Write. new Symposium essay

ithiliana in virgule - Online journal dedicated to study of fanfiction

John Holbo - Scholarbloggers and kettlechoppers a stampede of accredited newbie blogscholars padding CV's with daily posts might be an unseemly spectacle [lost original link]

laurashapiro - Vid Download Poll

devildoll - More on Newbie Guide new community for intro to fandom [still looking for volunteers for multiple fandoms]