Fandom Meta:

molly_o: on race in fanfiction - "I wrote this very long and rambling comment about race and fanfiction. I have like five different points I want to make, which is why I thought maybe I should post it here."

profshallowness: A question of identity - self-labelled fangirl writ - "I've been trying to go back to that time when I decided to describe myself as a fangirl then, before I realised that for some fen, fangirls are (to paraphrase) scary types"

narcissam: When Character Hate Goes Bad - "Secondly, odd as it may sound, you can dislike evil characters for the wrong reasons, just as much as the author's favourites. When I hear a person proclaim their scorn of Peter Pettigrew for being chubby in school - and I do hear it - I see red. Remember T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral'? The last, this is the greatest treason/ To do the right thing for the wrong reason."


Specific Fandom Meta:

tempe: Brief slash thought. - "There's an infantilization that takes place when somebody decides that they can't sleep with Sam, when she clearly wants to, because it'll ruin her career. Jack's justifying the decision not based on what either of them wants, but on what he decides is best for her. It's paternalistic, condescending, and I really don't like it."

mecurtin: Clark & money, with authorial intention AND spring flowers - "One of the truly disturbing things for me about the way SV has developed is Clark's attitude toward money, which is one of the most consistent aspects of Clark's (and his parents') characterization."


On Writing And Other Creative Endeavors:

elz: I want to speak to the writer - "I'm wondering if the culture of a given fandom influences the way in which people write and post."

penknife: What is it about the nicknames, anyway? - "
So I'm reading along, enjoying a story in a small fandom I like, and I'm thinking, "hey, this is funny and in-character, and I might rec this," and then all of a sudden, up pop the nicknames, like mushrooms. Why must this be? "

cjk1701: on pronoun problems and the passive voice - "firesignwriter pointed out quite rightly that writing slash we always have a pronoun problem: it's only a matter of time until you start wondering which "he" what body part is referring to, and so the adjectives and modifiers instead of the pronouns are the obvious choice"


Other:

tanacawyr: Women, advertising, and fannish support for our favorite - "After hearing what I've heard about the television industry, I remain convinced that genre producers don't actually want women watching, because the advertisers that typically buy spots in those shows don't know how to market to us. This seems weird to me since the calibration female television viewer nowdays is -- outside of genre programming -- widely recognized to be female."