Fandom Meta

glossing - meta: visuality, genre, fanfic, and on and on... The text-only conditions of mailing lists predominate in our fic. . . . What kind of stories could we tell if we really *used* the capabilities of the web? . . . I don't expect forking hypertexts and multiple-media sagas to replace the 14K 'ship vignette -- nor would I, honestly, really enjoy that at all. I do think, however, that there's lots of room to explore, and it'd be cool if we did that

cordelia_v - Drive-By Random Kindness: Fandom and Altruism But it's a marvelous supplement to RL, I've discovered. Online fandom exposes you to the lives of people from outside your little demographic/regional niche, and gives you new chances for small acts of random kindness.

fuschia - la grande horizontale So, the question is: can kinks or genres be considered fandoms?

thetreacletart - When feedback goes bad. I’ve been wondering when constructive criticism crosses the line

dragonscholar in fanthropology - RPS: The Issue Fanthropology takes up the latest round on RPS: So, where do you folks stand - is RPS/RPF wrong/right, or not even an issue? Does it deserve all the attention it's gotten, does it deserve more - or less? What reactions are you seeing. What for that matter *IS* RPS/RPF in a world of fictionalized history and character/actor line blurring like wrestling? What about the legal implications?

hederahelix in fanthropology - RPS: Another Perspective no one else from the RPS world has stepped in to say anything (or they hadn’t when I started writing this), so I’m going to go ahead and rehash the basics *again*.

idlerat - informed consent, IRBs, and RPF the RPS "debate" is a little like the IRB debate . . . In each case, there's a debate about whether you need to obtain consent before writing about people

qe2 - randomness more on RPS: it's my considered opinion that a great deal of the power behind that desire arises from those same folks' equally strong desire to read that scarynasty stuff themselves, and their bone-deep fear of what that says about them.

penknife - What do we mean by "squick," anyway? I've seen people saying that "squick" means "icky, disgusting, horrible, like [an improbable sex act that I would rather not describe]." And this throws me a little, because it seems to me that when I first got into fandom, the whole point of using "squick" was that it was value-neutral.

sisabet - Me, Myself And Our Explanation To the World on fannishness, fandom, and creativity: To find out that there are other people like me - that do this exact same thing - well it is very exciting

ingrid_m - With only a teeny bit of sarcasm ... How is that someone who is so comfortable in the status of their pairing choice gets so antsy and, dare I say it, angry, as if suffering a crisis of confidence, when other pairings starring one half of an OTP are discussed/written about?

Specific Fandom Meta

themostepotente - Fandom Discussion: The Time Turner and Quantum Physics and a Post-Apocalyptic Hogwarts? there has to be some correlation between magic and quantum physics

marinarusalka - Meta: Individual morality in the Potterverse on winning and being morally right

sisabet - Buffy Fan... No Mention of Apologies Anywhere In this Post on Buffy and those who criticize it I realize now that I don't think I will ever be able to have a rational conversation with someone that does not like Buffy, possibly because my love for her is not rational. . . . So I give up. Not on Buffy. On being rational.

On Reading and Writing

sistermagpie - Know your characters--but not someone else's! I've been reading several different threads that got me thinking about how wow, as fans we really seem to walk this odd line between wanting to be able to be creative and interact with the a canon on our own, and also needing that canon to be. . ."clear and authoritative."

musesfool - if I were a sculptor, but then again, no... (on remixing) response to kattahj - It looks like a ficathon; it feels like a competition... and emrinalexander - I'm Confused, As Is Usual

fictualities - Up to no good? Challenges The whole concept of fic challenges raises an interesting question for me, though: where the hell do people get their ideas, and do the more social kinds of interactions in fandom -- challenges, prompts, RPGs, remixes, ficathons, etc. -- help or hurt this creativity?

Links, Humor, Debate

executrix - Or a Very Good Lady about the TV semiotics of "bitch," as increasingly used of male characters

flambeau - the fannish review lacan, deconstruct, reconstruct, ibuprofen.

cereta - Hot Spots what are your...not so much hot buttons as accuracy sticking points?