Fandom Meta

sistermagpie - Just fandom friends I was thinking today about fandom and friendship...

violetsmiles - Crickets, WTF? fandom, writing, and pretty! They might not be your kind of fan, you might not want to add them to your f-list, and they might not be the first person you invite over for movie night, but they're still fans.

miriam_heddy - Unpopular Boy-Toys, and Incest slash and Emo Boys It was one thing to be the unpopular kid at school, but now I feel as if my boys are unpopular in bed

faramir_boromir - Thinking Man's Slash This is one of those muddle-headed posts I occasionally make about fic and theory, with questions attached. Ignore if you wish.

wikdsushi - Ignoring Barbie and Madge for Ken and... um, Ken? Most of us are slashers. Not so many, however, are femmeslashers. Which is odd, because the staggering majority of us are women, and a large number of us are two or higher on the Kinsey scale. However, again and again, we ignore Barbie and Madge, in favour of Ken and... hell, I dunno, G.I. Joe. (Crossovers, baby.) Why is this?

a_t_rain - The Mary Sue Rant Readers are warned in advance that this is really long, and my feminist stripes will be showing in No Uncertain Terms toward the

fadingembers - Interactive Fandom? do you think we have reached a point of interactivity with certain shows? That creators choose to look in on the fen for ideas on where to take their storylines, or to see how the audience feels about certain characters?

Specific Fandom Meta

dramaphile - Because the word 'beater' still makes me giggle a little bit... What does your quidditch position say about you? [HP]

Poll, Link, and Other

cereta - Food Scale of Opinion I have occasionally mentioned that I have a Food Scale of Opinion. It's actually more like a Food Extended Metaphor of Opinion, but that really doesn't flow trippingly off the tongue, does it?

halegirl - I am curious... Mary Sue Poll

kitzen_kat - Looking at Films from the Couch - Star Wars and Genre Films I suspect that simple reduction to "big-picture psychologies" is enough to sustain one movie, but it is no compliment to an audience's intelligence to suggest that Star Wars fans are happy to see these two themes play out again and again in an enormous arc without any other deeply-resonating, engaging and involving themes. [Link to Shadows behind the screen]