Fandom meta:

lemon_lyman: A glimpse into my messed up thought process... - "In the past, I have always gotten tired with a show before it went off the air.  ER, Friends, Will & Grace and all the shows I mentioned above.  This is the first time a show will go off the air that I watch on a regular basis and I have no idea how I'm going to react.  I tend to get emotionally invested in the characters of a TV show that I follow."

nostalgia_lj: On academic views of slash - "I've learned that fandom contains two theories of slash, which are diametrically opposed. (Or are they? Is there an overlap? Mutual ground?) So, here's what I have so far in terms of what they contain. I think I put more effort into the second one because it's newer to me and needed more thinkage."

ithiliana: Fan as Stalker? - "I am well aware of the U.S. cultural stereotypes regarding fans, and the attempts fans make (Geek Hierarchy anyone) to distance "us" (normal fans) from "those others" (crazy fans). These efforts mostly don't work because to outsiders, we're all mostly crazy fans. Only those inside fandom can see all the fine distinctions, so when fans start attacking other fans in the name of preserving the "good name" of fandom, well, after a lot of years, I just roll my eyes and go play elsewhere."

sisabet: Me, Myself And Our Explanation To the World - "I also keep needing to explain that this - fandom - is an outlet. I *am* a very interior person. I connect deeply with stories that are told in a serial format. This is just how I am and this is how I have always been. So - the fact that I connect deeply with these stories and have this constant internal monologue and an extremely rich fantasy life - this is not something that I just happened upon one day."

astrogirl2: Long, Random Ramblings About Slash and the Evolution of - "What I do find interesting and am going to talk about, though, is the reaction a lot of people seemed to have to the "no slash" rule, which is that it seemed strangely limiting and/or hard to define and/or indicative of homophobia. And I find that interesting, because it seems to me there was a time not so long ago when it wouldn't have seemed like an odd restriction in the least."

eliade: Alias, a rec, and slash meta. - "The deal is, to me, slash isn't always about the porniness of putting pretty men together. The erotic is one fundamental element, but another just as important one is an idea that any two human beings can interact in new and surprising ways."

soupytwist: ... in which your hair never falls in quite the same way - "See, the thing is, both 'original fic' and 'fanfic' have elements of the other within them....Even the most boring and unoriginal fanfic has something within it that no other has, even if it's only the specific placement of the words. Good fanfic regularly has new characters, plots, or uses the story it's based on in a way nobody else ever has."

Specific fandom meta:

marinarusalka: Meta Individual morality in the Potterverse - "'There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.' Quirrel states this in the final chapter of *Philosopher's Stone*, either quoting or paraphrasing what Voldemort has taught him.  I haven't seen much discussion of this statement, yet I think it must be important, given that it's presented to us as the personal philosophy of the series' central villain.  In fact, I think it sums up the moral conflict around which the whole series is built..."

sistermagpie: RPRPS - "Anyway, the reason I started thinking of the show was because…this is RPF. Alley’s writing it herself, but other celebrities show up to play themselves, sometimes referencing their real lives. Does Kirstie Alley actually ask John Travolta, "C’mon, let’s make Look Who’s Talking IV?" Did John Travolta really go out with a weight-loss specialist? ... Aren’t the stars on this show essentially encouraging us to think of their public personas as characters we know?"

mortifyd: Why does my fandom suck? - RANT. "We're all waiting for the next book, but dead-Jew-on-a-stick, people - what the FUCK is up with all the half-arsed lame essays lately? And the crap fic?"

sistermagpie: The Office. Only not. - "I was going to ask why they did this, but obviously the answer to that would be money. It's just so strange. If you were going to have a chance of it being at all worthwhile, I think you'd have to build it from the ground up. Instead it's literally the first episode of The Office, acted out by people who aren't very good at it, and with some of the jokes sometimes replaced with jokes that are the same idea only less funny."

peasant_: Not the Sharpest Pencil in the Box - "There is a fan convention that William, and hence Spike, was a thoroughly educated man, adept at languages and especially the classics. It is rare to find a fic in which the subject comes up where William was not just able but a scholar, one of the best and brightest of his generation, the sort of chap who lapped up schooling as if it were cocoa. So I want to consider the facts that support or oppose this case, just what William's schooling might have been like and what effects it would have had on him, and why Spike should have become credited so often with being a brilliant scholar."

On writing, vidding, reccing, etc.:

emmagrant01: ANAL SEX!!! - "If you ask around straight and gay people alike will all tell you different things about what they like when it comes to their butts. There is no "right" way to do it; there are just things that work for YOU. The old "1 finger - 2 fingers - 3 fingers - cock" routine that you almost always see in slash is not a hard and fast (pardon the pun) rule for anal sex. Some people like it, and some people don't."

redplasticglass: art, love, art - "
I've recently been thinking about emotionalism within art/writing."

Other:

musesfool: Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph - "I want to preface this by saying that 1. obviously, I'm not a historian, I don't play one on television, I have vague recollections of learning some of this in high school social studies a long long time ago, but that's it. and 2. I'm obviously a fan of the fictional Alexander, but I also get irritated at the attempts to judge someone who lived 2300 years ago by our current/modern standards of behavior and morality rather than trying to understand what was done in the context of the society in which he lived."

zaneetas: HUMOR: an RPS slash survey. - "Anyway, [this post by idlerat] brought up the issue of actually getting consent from actors to write fic about them and since reading it, I've been amusing myself by idly pondering exactly how you'd go tactfully about doing that. Getting permission from celebs to RPF them, I mean."