Fandom Meta

thamiris - LJ and the Performance of Self In particular, I'm curious how many LJers lock entries because of anxiety about repercussions within fandom, notably negative responses both in others' journals and their own, or even creating a potentially negative impression (as opposed to a desire to keep out employers, family members, etc.)

lobelia321 - Fragmented musings on the differences from fandom to fandom This post is trying to come to grips with some of the differences among fandoms at the level of fanfic prose style. . . . RPS, I suppose, lends itself less to plots because the ready-made plot universe and action characteristic of the kinds of canon appropriated for fandom is absent.

fairestcat - The attraction of fandoms I've been thinking a lot lately about how different people are drawn to different fandoms for different reasons, and conversely how different people can be drawn to the same fandom for completely different reasons.

starstealingirl - My first ever slash manifesto. (Also titled: A Comment Gone Horribly Awry) Does m/m slash empower women? I think it's a complicated question. a comment to halegirl - Does m/m slash empower women?

ataniell93 - Another rant about authorial intent and the sense of fannish entitlement :) One of the reasons I am always speaking out against the necessity of privileging of authorial intent when interpreting fiction is because I write fanfic, and because I write fanfic the express purpose of which is to make the fiction I’m writing fanfiction about make sense to me.

profshallowness - Sharing the joys of Little Whinging Today I had a literal headdesk! moment at reading yet another variation of the comment:John/Aeryn = slashy, because yeah, but no. My response to the same claim being made about Buffy/Spike and Mulder/Scully, (the other main examples of this argument) is much the same except today, my forehead literally met the desk.

insidian - Things To Know and Think On So now I'm thinking about same sex friendships in media, and how they relate to slash. Aside from the hawtsex omgerotica aspect, I have to wonder if slash isn't also about forcing those relationships into something more understandable

Specific Fandom Meta

shadowkat67 - Still Mulling The Star Wars Thing... I've been mulling over Lucas' Star Wars films in my mind. Rolling them over in my head. Mulling over what worked in the prequels and what didn't. And thinking about the postings on my flist, in area newspapers, and the New Yorker regarding them.

On Reading and Writing

amanuensis1 - On Story Titles There are a million "What Shall We Name the Baby?" books out there, but why, oh, why isn't there a specialized text for writers called, "What Shall We Name the Story?"

fairestcat - Queer-friendly het. In the het I like the most, both that written by writers who write both slash and het and that written by authors who only write het, there's always this feel that it's a slash-friendly universe, that there could be slash lurking just around the corner and the author and the characters are fine with that.

alittlewhisper - His ass is soooo fertile MPreg and Assbabies: Slash's Slutty Cousin [mpreg rant]

musesfool - you can't say we never tried I've said it before that I don't do much plotting and planning when I write, that I often just start with a first sentence or a vague idea or image or bit of dialogue, and go without knowing where I'm going to end up, but that doesn't mean I don't pay attention to the words and images I'm using as I write

ajhalluk - Final words on the Topic du Jour It was when I was thinking once more over that part of minisinoo's essay with which no reasonable person could possibly complain (and look at the smooth way I got the hidden moral value judgment in there: I've been learning, you know), namely: "Don't yank emotional chains as a short-cut to eliciting emotional responses in readers" and then I thought "Hang on a moment, has this woman ever watched a daytime soap?"

naominovik - Write what you know and other myths I read minisinoo's essay on Compassion in Fiction this morning, and I wanted to respond in detail to one part, the old write-what-you-know adage. Quoting from her essay:

ranalore - and then there are the days when fandom reminds you why you don't like people one of my biggest pet peeves is people who state their opinions as facts, who put forward their own favored aesthetic as somehow inherently superior to an aesthetic they don't personally enjoy

ataniell93 - On the subject of writing certain subjects "responsibly"... Invariably, when the topic of incest, torture, rape or chan (which can mean anything from two 17 year olds getting it on after prom to adults doing horrible things to toddlers, depending on who you talk to) in fanfic comes up, there's a person who says: I'm not saying you shouldn't write it, I'm not saying it should be censored, but I wish you'd all write it 'responsibly'. Or 'compassionately'. Or 'realistically'.