Fandom Meta

sistermagpie - People like us I feel like fandom can't talk about certain issues because of the way different people think they're supposed to be talked about.

vamplover84 - A bit of rec'ing meta: what exactly is a gen story?

jennyo - Fandom's Hard Questions: Where's Your Health At? All things considered, how healthy of a pursuit is fandom?

dustandroses - Ship versus Slash - WTF? I'm going to ask a question of my flist, and see what you guys say about ship vs slash, 'cause basically, I'm a bit confused

nikitangel - Vids and Songfics Are vids another incarnation of the songfic? I

fabu - Confessions of a narrative junkie What makes you not want to read a story?

sallymn - Anyone Can Whistle... ummm, No Maybe They Can't, but They're Allowed to Anyway... Were it not for the invention of fanfic, I have this lowering image of all those millions of aspiring writers (including me) still flooding the internet. Only instead of with their deathless prose, with their millions and millions of deathless poetries

dtissagirl - Copycatters-R-Us I know the fanfic world has been fighting plagiarism with teeth and nails . . . but the sad truth is that things get blurry when it's fanart that's being copied. Because there is a very fine line between inspiration and copycatting.

twinkledru - Missed the kerfuffle by a bit, but meh. See. Here's the deal. Slash itself? Not inherently misogynistic. Not inherently empowering, either, to women or to gays. Slash itself? Not inherently much of anything, really. But the fact is... this is something that does lend itself to misogyny.

Specific Fandom Meta

schwester655 - More KLG1 spam

leadensky - Utility of podcasts, etc A question about podcasts and deleted scenes

On Reading and Writing

sartorias - Writing note the privileged status of the first person narrator is different enough from the omni narrator (and again from the varieties of third) that one has to be extra careful in character presentation

Humor, PSA, ...

pearl_o - fic and logic! um, kind of. Combinatorics Meets Fandom

aeglinyedi - When in doubt...ask lj! So lj changed its wording on the FAQ concerning 'adult communities'

ataniell93 - Dear Fandom: Please stop freaking out about the whole 'adult-oriented communities' business in the new TOS. They're not talking about us.