This post may be a bit more personal than most, not only because I seem to link an awful lot to myself *g*, but also because in 4 days our combined memories only yielded 8 posts, so I went through my flist this morning to see what might be of interest... So, more than normally, readers beware :-)

Fandom Meta

bethbethbeth - Shared Fandom Culture Poll and Discussion: A drabble - and a pre-poll poll on shared culture... & Shared (Online) Fandom Culture Poll & 10 Random Thoughts about the Poll I'm still interested in whether online media fandom shares any cultural knowledge . . . So . . . do we have a shared fandom culture? Um. The jury's still out. :) [includes links to pre-poll and post-poll post because of the discussions]

sistermagpie - Chan Yeah, I'm gonna write about the whole chan thing, my own perspective on it. [on children's literature, perceptions, and Lolita]

executrix - Ya Want Fryes With That? Northrop Frye's* classification of genres--that in tragedy we look up to a character above us, in comedy we look down--helped me clarify something I'd been thinking about the relationship between fanwriter and fanreader. . . . Using the terms in this specialized sense, then, I think the fanwriter/fanreader relationship (symbiosis?) works better when it's tragic.

thelastgoodname - On blogs, metanarratives, and theft, outright and inwrong So, disregarding the legal implications of fanfiction (see below), and also the moral implications (as long as we aren't talking about intentionality and suggested action), we are left with the social implications. We must really be on to something if people are this disturbed by it.

halegirl - Sampling fan fiction communities How would one go about sampling in the fan fiction community? Can you draw conclusions about the whole of fan fiction based on responses from one community? What is a big enough sample to have any sort of credibility?

lilysunshine1 - So, I am working my way through the comments response to starrysummer's on cliques, elitism, and other accusations

alixtii - definitions in fandom How often do we assume that the meaningfulness of our terms rest on our ability to define them? . . . My first reaction to all this is to notice how often the lj community's reaction to these issues is to have a poll--sort of a more democratic version of l'academie francaise.

dovil - Wackiness Ensues Chicks in Slash

Specific Fandom Meta

merryish - Why I love NUMB3RS, by Merry. With spoilers up through last night. [NUMBB3RS]

deannie - Oh dear God, she's meta-ing again! The Apologia of Rodney McKay [SGA]

natlyn - Reimaging Rodney McKay after rewatching his appearances on SG1, I have thoughts. I think Rodney was reimaged, but perhaps not in the way that Deannie originally meant. [SGA]

cathexys - sheppard - the little black dress of SGA? This is so obvious, I'm almost embarrassed to say it, but it suddenly dawned on me that we need to extrapolate characters differently depending on whom we're pairing them with. [SGA]

shadowkat67 - Shopping, DVDS and The L Word... on Jenny In the L Word, Wales and I are in wholehearted agreement - the show is gripping, except for one subplot we could do without [The L-Word]

On Reading and Writing and Reccing

fabu - The beta window I think I've figured something out about the way I work with betas - there's a window in which I can get fb from a beta and incorporate it into the story, and if I miss that window, I don't really take advantage of having a beta reader.

kylielee1000 - Beta, concrit, feedback I rarely leave feedback because all day, every day, I stare at my computer screen, and I read. . . . Now, I realize that merely because I can create FB shockingly detailed in its scope does not mean that I am obliged to do so. Nor does it mean that the author would appreciate it.

makesmewannadie - Blithering about reccing process and perspective And I'm wondering, does my taste seem consistent? Have there ever been any stories I've recced that you felt were not at all like my summary? Do you see quality variations in my recs across fandoms or as I move in and out of fannish enthusiasms? Have I ever let through a story you thought was (obectively) a total stinker?*. Are there fandoms where my recs are better than others? What aspects of my descriptions (plot, genre, feeling, warnings, etc.) that I provide are most/least helpful to you?

permetaform - on feedback, ethics, and spongeness As a reader I noticed that the more I gave feedback, and the longer the feedback, the more the chance that the writer will write more and will write more what I like best to read.

lobelia321 - fabula vs syuzhet In my last post, I mentioned fabula and syuzhet, so now I'm going off on a tangent on this subject. These things are also called story vs plot; I prefer the Russian words because they sound so wonderful and exotic, and also because the English words can be confused with more everyday usages of the word 'story' but here are my problems regarding these.

God vs god [grammar discussion]: elynross - Peeves of the day & Another peevish update! & God v. god & lanning - grammatical ideology and ideological grammar

Links & Polls

wickedwords - Now for a blast from the past You Big Bully [and] Three point characterization [are] now up on the symposium. [LINK]

tzikeh - Why Watching TV Makes You Smarter (NY Times headline - I swear) This is the basis of many of my theories for how fandom has changed because how stories are told on television has changed, not because of the types or numbers of people in fandom [LINK]

laurashapiro - i knew it Watching TV may make you smarter, but email makes you stupider. [LINK]

sailormac - Excellent Yaoi Article The Boston Globe has a surprisingly well-written article about the growing popularity of yaoi manga among American women. I'm *very* impressed with the fact that the writer doesn't even seem to have a smidgen of a condescending tone -- a rarity in mainstream articles about *any* kind of fandom. [LINK]

melannen - Muses and Friends So, yeah. Now that I've realized that muses are what I call imaginary friends, it all makes perfect sense. Muses aren't a vaguely pathological, overdramatic attempt to act out, they're a perfectly normal, perfectly common, perfectly healthy psychological phenomenon. [POLL]

freethegayboys - [general fannish query] I would like you to, please, give me a long and detailed account of why you are part of a fandom, any fandom.

Other

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