Fandom Meta

st_crispins - Moonshiners and Lil ole Winemakers Depending upon whom you talk to, fandom and fan fiction is both valorized and vilified. Which has prompted me to think of it in terms of upsides and downsides:

bethbethbeth - "Ur paiRing is teh suXXorz!" Why would anyone care if some random stranger doesn‛t like the pairing you‛re writing?

justacat - [on fannish obsession] I'm still vaguely embarrassed about the strength of my obsession. I've spent most of my life aggressively hiding the "fannish" parts of me.

annakovsky - History and memory and truth and fiction The more I do history, the less I believe in it. . . . Your past might be half fictional. You don't know.

marythefan - more opinion Because it's like beating my head against a brick wall, because these are people whose concept of intellectual property is so very different from mine that I'm not sure there's a way to even discuss it with them. [more Lee Goldberg thoughts]

dazzleberry - Continuing Studies of the Fangirl-- The Rabid Fangirl The Rabid Fangirl, however, is another matter entirely. She is not merely irritating, but venomous in her attacks, and she lashes out at everything that threatens her world. sequel to The Philosophy of the Fangirl

recommendation thoughts and policies: elke_tanzer - On fanfic recommendations and musesfool - In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. [responses to makesmewannadie - Blithering about reccing process and perspective]

Specific Fandom Meta

barkley - I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now the interactions that I'm reading which strike true to me, reveal a softer John than Jack. And so in thinking about character histories, I'm trying to come up with why softer/sweeter rings true for John and doesn't for Jack. [SG-1/SGA]

docmichelle - Thinking about characters I've been considering Shep/Ford versus Shep/McKay. I'm madly in love with the McShep, right? But is there a reason (other than when I started watching) why they ping for me, and Shep/Ford doesn't? [SGA]

makesmewannadie - Hitchhiker's Guide movie review [Spoilers]

toysdream - A Chance of a Ghost Today's subject is one of my favorites, the horror genre and what it says about the human condition. More specifically, let's talk about ghosts. [various horror movies]

Veronica Mars [various degrees of spoilers]
fox1013 - manifesto (let the fun begin) murder speculations

gaggedinacasket - epiphany so early in the am Many people have been protesting the development of a relationship between our heroine Veronica Mars and the snarky Logan Echolls.

fairy_tale_echo - Rob Thomas, Veronica Mars, and the nature of high school gossip "Good gossip travels fast, and everyone believes it." [spoiler for Thomas's book, Doing Time]

porpentine - Devil's Advocacy and Veronica Mars The following started as a comment response to an essay that cadhla wrote about themes in Veronica Mars, and ended up long enough that it's pretty much turned into a full-blown essay response in its own right. I note, right up front, that I'm not certain I think the conclusions I argue are the way the show is going to turn out, but it's the conclusions I get to with her premise and the show as I see it. response to cadhla - 'Veronica Mars': the show where all the cute names are too easy.

burntspaghetti - Veronica Mars, Laura Mulvey and Steve Neale The Mulvey stuff I'll be referring to is ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (1978) . . . because I think that the discussion of investigation and gender is especially relevant to VM.

On Reading and Writing and Vidding

matociquala - So, today I want to talk about symbols. The part of the brain that handles story doesn't deal with words, logical connections, plot, and so on. It deals with symbols, connections, layers, uncomfortable truths, paradoxes, and archetypes. It hauls this stuff out of the id, dripping, and parades it around, because this stuff satisfies it.

commodorified - Ramblings, part two on plot and story telling and role of sex in fic [sequel to this]

deborahb - Genre #1: The Cocktail And genre's dying, right, uh-huh, it's been dying since I began reading articles on it ten years ago. A slow death, then. But to my mind the guts of genre -- the awe & inspiration of it, the elements of the fantastical, the imaginative might and the taste for the surreal, the weird, the unwholesome, the irreverant, the barely-possible -- these things don't die

the_red_shoes - triumph! He set himself the limit of writing one page a day, cause he knew he could do that, and anything more would be gravy. And he wrote a little bit on the commute to work, and packed a bag lunch and sat in the park across from his job by himself and wrote a little bit more at lunch, and a bit more on the commute home, and some even while he was watching television at night with his kids/wife. . . . Damn. This is the most upbeat abt writing I've felt in some time. All I have to do to keep it up for a bit is write 100 words a day. Shoot, even I can write 100 words a day. [plus LINKS]

yahtzee63 - Vids question, plus "Alias" spoilage talk So I ask you guys: What are vids I can watch that will most teach me something about vid-making, and what will the vid teach me?

permetaform - exemplary vid feedback, first suggested here with ConCrit of Pluto, by river_boat and ConCrit of Be My Luck, by jackiekjono

Polls and Links

nikitangel - "Pseudo-sexuality" on LiveJournal [POLL]

slodwick - ["Ladies, the joy that is gay pornography."] [link] to this article, BYO Boy on Boy, which I enjoyed [LINK] not ff specific

dragonscholar - Fandom, Fanfilms, The Future Fans have access to time, talent, commitment, love their product, and are liberated by new technology. What does that (and should it) mean for fandom and commercial products? That's the question raised in this Slate Magazine article on fanfilms. [LINK]

cereta - Whoa The Fanfic Symposium got a mention in"Fan Fiction booms as modern folklore." [LINK]

cesperanza - [link to television-makes-you-smart rebuttal] StayFree talks back to that recent NYT article about how TV makes you smarter [LINK]

dragonscholar - Orson Scott Card shoots his mouth off. Rough summary: he never thought it was that great, he feels it was an entry point for those who missed a "Science Fiction revolution", and that now television and movies have caught up with the best of literary SF so there's no need for Star Trek.[LINK]