•branchessays Repost: Whose Smut?: One thing I find curious, though, is that the author doesn't think there has been a debate in the West yet between straight women writing this stuff and gay men protesting the inaccurate appropriation of their sexuality

•branchessays Repost: Some Popular Styles of Writing Sex: There are three main categories of style that spring to my notice, when I read how fans write lemons, though it does extend to general style, too. One seems to derive from doujinshi.

•branchessays Repost: Forms of Intimacy: First, the hypothesis: I have the textually based impression that Japanese culture does not set sexuality apart from other kinds of relational intimacy, but rather considers it one integrated aspect or thread of intimacy as a whole.


•sparcck I WILL NOT BE YOUR GAY MONKEY: Why don't girls under the age of 20 count? Dude, if we're talking about primetime television, most shows that would deal with homosexuality focus mainly on characters that are "coming of age" or whatever. What is the age, then, at which being a lesbian is legitimate? 25? 30?

•shadowscast My Heterosexual Privilege: There is a feeling of safety that comes with social acceptance.

•butterfly Bang.: all the kerfluffling over what Joss said on the Angel season five commentaries...
Just made me start to think about this radical notion of 'gay cred' as something that Joss might be trying to claim. As if the wider world would see it as an honor.

•harriet_spy SV: "Krypto" (and other stuff): Screw that stupid girl, screw the relationships with her, no matter how strong canonically...it's the boys that are really the perfect couple and meant to be. Ugh.

•nothingbutfic On canonicity, slash and homophobia in BtVS and AtS.: So here's my rant on recent canonical kerfuffles. References through the run of BtVS, AtS; mentions of Firefly and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.



•idlerat When Authors Attack (intention): But there's something else I want to talk about, namely the range of things that authors actually intend when creating a text.

•wemblee [Authorial intent]: Dude. Television writers make it up as they go. They've always made it up as they go and they always will make it up as they go.

•musesfool I didn't mean to hurt you, baby: Been following all the discussions about authorial intent and validity of interpretations etc., and you know I would have to throw my eleven cents in somewhere, right?

•wisdomeagle reality and the metaverse: Not only our cherished interpretation of the text, but our cherished understanding of reality is in jeopardy.

•ithiliana Authorial intent, readings in fandom and the academic, links to other posts probably useful: I'd like to ask for people's definition of "intent" and I don't mean a dictionary definition.

•sistermagpie Reading vs. Reading: The delicious thing about fiction, imo, is that of course so much of it is ambiguous and that's part of its appeal. There's no reason to talk about a story where everything is nailed down for you

•branchessays Communication and Textual Ownership: What I think many people, on both ends, forget is that hearing is not a passive process. Hearing is active, as active as telling. And the story takes shape in between, the exclusive property of neither. A story is a collaboration.

•toysdream Not About Constantine: With this in mind, I propose a modest scientific experiment. (And my apologies if you've seen this done before, but hey, it's new to me.) Let's eliminate a few of these variables - the rotating stable of staff writers and directors - and consider only those Buffy episodes which were written and/or directed by Joss Whedon himself.


•permetaform disjointed thoughts on my being female: I wonder if it's the presence of a space where it's non-relevant whether one has convienient holes; because everyone is penetrating into this online arena and, in the safety-blanket-padded walls of a personal LJ, we are allowed the space to let down our balls.


•reenka ~~ style minus context = ?: Like... it seems important that there's a cultural context to the work I'm reading, in order to fully understand it, and a work imitating a style divorced from its original culture seems... purely imitative. Empty in a way, because it's just in a "style" rather than being part of a living movement. [Manga]


•fabu Audience Awareness and Ideal Readers: In the "ask me one question about my writing" meme, viva_gloria asked, "Do you ever make a writing-decision based on what your readers will want, rather than on what you want? (Obviously also influenced by what's right for the story: but assuming both options are equally valid ...) And how well do you think you know what your readers want?"

•yhlee Omniscient POV musings (excessively long) + A few webreadings.: I think of limited/omniscient as a sliding scale, a continuum. (Whether writing semantic-spaces are fundamentally discrete or continuous I will leave as an exercise to those way, way smarter than I.) I say I write in "light omniscient" by "default," following my natural inclinations.

•viva_gloria On Writing: Questions for writerly types (and anyone else with thoughts on the matter):
- do you end up exploring the same themes over and over?
- if you have a tendency to write the same story over and over, how do you stop?
- am I being unnecessarily reductionist?
- how do you plot? ("Where do you get your ideas?")

•fernwithy Writer's intuition: In general, I'm in favor of "said," avoid adverbs (though not with any particular animosity), and believe in using the vocabulary that I've mastered and am comfortable with rather than using ten dollar words that I may know but have never used in conversation before.


•dome36 Chess and Harry Potter: For a start I don't know what it is the precise knowledge of JKR when it comes to chess. And this can be an issue when we think about chess and Harry Potter. For instance, when we think about chess symbolism.


•maeglinyedi On communities and challenges: Since livejournal became popular in this fandom (which started about 2 years ago, I think), the number of communities has been growing every day. I didn't really start to realize in what enormous numbers until I started doing the daily_snitch in May last year. [HP]