Metafandom

June 30th, 2005

12:15 pm

[identity profile] cathexys.livejournal.com: Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Fandom Meta

[livejournal.com profile] minisinoo - RECLAIMING PHILIA: or the mis-sexualizing of relationships The real tendency is to sexualize ANY emotionally intense relationship -- opposite sex as well as same sex -- as if there could be no other kind of "real love" than the sexual/romantic kind (or maybe familial). Friendship is "lesser," and assumed to be less interesting, I fear. . . .And it's really philia that I'm interested in here, and which I think sometimes gets short-shafted in our society. Modern Western culture isn't too sure what to do with that kind of passionate love when it falls outside family or romantic relationships. Sure, we can feel philia for our lover. In the best of circumstances, we DO, and we can write a philia story that is also an eros story.

[livejournal.com profile] kraken_wakes - Supply and Demand in Fanfiction - A Rant Right, sometimes fans can make a difference and sometimes not but always, fans have power and can put considerable pressure on producers. Let's downsize this then. Let's apply the same idea to fandom and fanfiction writers. If fanfiction is born out of a desire to see more, to go beyond the text, can the same pressure to have another series of Angel/Firefly/The Sentinel/Doctor Who be put on a fanfiction writer? More importantly, is it fair to do so?

[livejournal.com profile] netweight - Attempts at meta-y smartness. (Or "Wow. I'm really inarticulate these days.") my head is all awhirl with things like fanfic as a genre of literature onto itself that is emerging as a function of democracy and the appropriation of collective mythos fuelled by widespread media access both as source and medium.

[livejournal.com profile] kattahj - Does things get better without fanfic? It's really quite tragic, in a way. Authors that are popular among their fans and can hold an interest usually don't have much of a problem with fanfic. (Or if they do, they don't say so.) These are authors who have for one reason or another fallen out of favour with their fans – Anne Rice is another example. They're getting more criticism than applause, and the fanfic is becoming increasingly "fix it"-oriented, changing plotlines and character motivations to fit the reader's ideals.

[livejournal.com profile] eumenides1 - In Defense of Fan Fiction - answering Robin Hobb For the record, Robin, yes, you can become a better singer through Karaoke, because it builds confidence. Writing fanfiction has the same effect. Improvement in anything comes through practice and repetition. Writing becomes a habit, and for a lot of people, sooner or later, fanfiction fails to satisfy and you do take that 'first wavering step' into original writing. I'd done that years ago, but it took fanfiction to help me take the second and third step. It was feedback and crit and support from the fandom that made me trust in my writing enough to finish anything.


Specific Fandom Meta

[livejournal.com profile] shadowkat67 - Idealization or Mere Romantizing of Spike? do we idealize or romanticize characters? And when does this become dangerous to our psyches? When does the idealization/romanticization turn into something unnerving such as idolatory?


On Reading and Writing

[livejournal.com profile] fabu - In which I have not entirely rational prejudices. . . Lately I've seen several story headers in which the virgule (aka the slash sign - / ) was used to indicate something other than a romantic or sexual relationship

[livejournal.com profile] jassanja - RPS and RL wives How far can one go with mentioning wives in slash fic, and not disrespect them. In my experience slashers are good when it comes to just ignore wives and make the boys all single and free to enjoy all the gayness that will come up.

[livejournal.com profile] pinkdormouse - Meta Post: Sex in Fiction I'm not that bothered about sex scenes. Yes, there are times when sex is integral to what's going on in the story. . . . I want to see more on how friendships develop, because I suspect that there are more potential starting points there than most writers seem to think of when writing sexual relationships.

[livejournal.com profile] shayheyred - Ah, kerfuffle, thy name is Yahoo Lists So. Let me ask you. If a challenge says "write a drabble" and you write a story that is longer -- do you post it? Are you offended when others ignore the "rules" of drabbledom? Or do you not give a rat's ass as long as it's a good story?

[livejournal.com profile] cereta - I'm Lucy Gillam, and there's nothing so simple I can't meta it up So, those writing updates. Spreading like wildfire. This pleases me. . . . Still, every time I post one, I ponder whether I ought to be filtering them.


Links, Polls,...

[livejournal.com profile] anonymous_sibyl - RPS and RL Spouses [POLL]

[livejournal.com profile] nakeisha - Putting zine fiction on the web - a poll [POLL]