Fandom Meta

jennyo - Fandom's Hard Questions: Why Do Academics Hate Fandom? and vice versa

dragonscholar in fanthropology - Fandom Flashpoints: BNF WTF? followup to Fandom Flashpoints Fandoms have their fallouts, flamewars, and issues.

autumnyte - Opening my big mouth, with foot poised for insertion on flocked posts and their dissemination

aelfgifu - Ephemeria and fandom on deleting fanfic from a historian's perspective

watergal - About beta readers

Specific Fandom Meta

astrogirl2 - Random B5-ish Meta Musings I found myself pondering the question of how future history would see the events of the series [on watching season 4]

butterfly - Queer as Folk (UK): The whole love thing. Sorted. authorial intent and QAFUK

projectjulie - my fandom angst So I have been obsessing about how to get to the Producers, how to *make* them see that they have no right to fuck with my fandom. [on homophobia within and outside of shows. WW and SVU. older post but relinked&revised by author]

On Reading and Writing

branchessays - Muses, Writing and Character Communication Do my characters really *talk* to me?

lotesseflower - internalizing stories on externalized versus internalized stories

guede_mazaka - Genderbend on writing men as a woman

rahirah - Hmm. I would do how stories change for us over time

bethbethbeth - Why we read [what we read] on expectations of stories and the effects on reading behavior

musesfool - you said no strings could secure you on writing personalities

Other

silveryscrape - Laundry, check. what's your favorite HOT HOT OMGhot scene from fanfic?

theferrett - The Compleat Guide To LiveJournal Stardom And Fame Part I and Part II [older and not quite fannish--unless you count LJ as a fandom--but very relevant to all our fannish interaction]