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dodyskin.livejournal.com: Monday August 1, 2005

theohara: 2005-07-30: On Verbs: So, since I'm a curious little creature, I ran a word count on all the love scenes in my posted fic. I decided not to put any word I'd used three times or less in this list (or the boring ones, like "the"), since there were about 1200 of those and my attention span is limited. ... So now I'm wondering about y'all. The words you use, the words you like, the words that make you puke. Whether you like your sex scenes hyper-realistic, or sort of soft-focus, or not there.

elynross: 2005-07-30: Fannish food, opinion, and taste.: It's become increasingly clear to me over time in fandom that one person's exquisitely-crafted story is another person's pretentious piece of crap ... , and another person's overdone, badly-written to mediocre piece that has unrecognizable characterization is somebody else's perfectly in-character, charming, well-done story ... .

liz_marcs: 2005-07-29: Some words about grammar from my son the nut, Allan Sherman: English grammar unites the English-speaking world in ways you can't imagine. It allows us to communicate with one another through the written word. The rules of English grammar and spelling are close to universal. Even when regional exceptions in both come into play, we're still able to understand one another because we recognize a lot of the same ground rules. // We may be separated by a common spoken language that'll have us shouting "What?" at each other for years on end, but we are united by a singular written miracle. // And that, in a nutshell, is why proper grammar and spelling is important.

justhuman: 2005-07-30: Musings: I think that there is a disconnect between creative expression and communications. Certainly the two can be done at the same time, but there are occasions where it is not appropriate to combine them. I'm an engineer and spend time writing technical reports that rely on passive voice and dry facts - creativity is not welcome in this arena. When I'm doing meditation work, I'll sometimes pull out a notebook and do a mind dump - grammar has no place there. Neither one of those is better than the other. One fails to entertain and the other fails to communicate to anyone but me - in theory a fic writer needs to do both.

londonkds: 2005-07-30: That class thing: There's been quite a bit of discussion on nostalgia_lj's journal lately about class issues in fandom and fanfic. Moving from the general to the specific, I suspect that some of the neglect of the subject in fandom is because most canons don't deal with the issue particularly effectively. Thinking about it, I can't help but feel that this is somewhere where British series do better than American.

thelastgoodname: 2005-07-29: On disability, ability, abnormalcy, normalcy, desir: However, while lots of people exploded over jennyo's comments that week, no one seemed to notice jadelennox in the same way. There are many reasons for this; social and intellectual networks, emotive issues, and timing are three. But I would argue a primary reason is that while we all accept that racial and ethnic issues are endemic in our culture, and we all have feelings and thoughts about those issues, we have sublimated disability so completely that it hasn't even registered as an issue.

alixtii: 2005-07-29: fanthropology: Academia and Fandom: What is the Role of the Ivory Tower?: They started out wondering why fandom in general and acafen in particular seem to focus on questions of sex--reading canon and fanon from feminist and queer theory perspectives--while ignoring issues of class, religion, race, etc. ... What the discussions have become, however, are discussions as to the place of academia and acafen and the rôle they do and should play in fandom. Does the use of academic terms, theories, etc. provide a greater degree of sophistication to our treatment of literature and communities (as I would argue), or does it just exclude the lower class?

yhlee: Viddery (various--working notes from a newbie).: More viddery: overlays again. ( Also tedious rundown of steps in case Ye Munificent Beta is curious. One image illustrating my Not-an-Outline. )

lierdumoa: 2005-07-30: Update: Today, yhlee made a post detailing her vidding process step-by-step. I figured I'd make a post of my own, in case anyone's curious.

linzeems: 2005-07-30: How I Vid, and This All Seems Rather Rehearsed.: Vidding, Linzee-style: or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation

vassilissa: 2005-07-31: comics and steroids: I'm reading an article about steroids and wondering which comics issues deal with them, with the vigilante hero's reaction to them. I haven't read enough, and I don't know where to start.

miriam_heddy: 2005-07-30: miriam_heddy: Incest Slash: More speculation, with a rec and crit for Dira's "Dumbstruck": If you haven't been skimming, you know that A) I am obsessed with Numb3rs, particularly Larry/Charlie and B) The whole incest thing in Numb3rs fascinates me while in no way arousing me. But because it turns other people on, I'm curious about why and how.

halegirl: 2005-07-31: fanthropology:: I am kind of baffled though because the concepts of butch and femme are so prelevant in the stuff I've read and it just never comes up in the f/d slash. I can't recall once reading either word. Is it absent in other f/f slashy fandoms? And if it is, what does that say about the participants in f/f slash communities? Are these groups thus not really part of I guess a greater lesbian, bisexual community because of the lacking or not using shared terminology and concepts?

poisontaster: 2005-07-30: While We're on the Subject: Mary Sue: Can someone give me a definitive answer on what the heck is a Mary Sue? ... But recently, I've been coming across a lot of posts that seem to infer that ANY original character inserted into a fandom is a Mary Sue

Fandom Specific

dangermousie: 2005-07-28: Musing on Mal, and Firefly, Farscape and BSG comparison: Mal is the reason I initially liked Firefly. No, it has nothing to do with looks, otherwise I'd be watching every soap in creation. What it does have to do with is that I have to have a POV character, a character I fall a little bit in love with for me truly to fall for the book/movie/show. I have certainly enjoyed plenty of entertainment without having such a character, but to go that extra step into "love" I have to have a character I can identify with, in some way, or to find fascinating. [Firefly] [Battlestar Galactica]

fernwithy: 2005-07-31: A minor bit of wolf trivia, and an actual thought: Anyway, the real thing I wanted to post about: The theme of choices, and the apparent confusion about how Tom's background pre-disposed him to evil and presumably so did Draco's, etc. People think this is a contradiction somehow. I disagree [HP]

ataniell93: 2005-07-31: Some scary thoughts about pensieves, Obliviation and memory charms: Basically, there are some shiny and some very frightening implications for the level of memory magick inherent in Rowling's Potterverse. I'm sure she hasn't thought them through, because she's very clearly been working on the fly the last three books or so, but now that they're there, fic writers have to decide what to do with them, and RPG mods even more so, since they affect game play. (Yes, I'm having LW thoughts too.) [HP]

sherrold: 2005-07-31: Things I have noticed about SGA fic so far, or putting my reading jag to work:: SGA is a strongly OTP fandom -- so far, Sheppard/McKay has more stories than all of the other possibilities put together. This is increasingly rare these days, and kind of cool to me. [SG:A]

widget285: 2005-07-30: Hornblower in Space: Upon reflection, it seems to me that there are some very striking parallels between the situation on BSG that begins in KLG2 with Adama’s coup and is continuing to play out in S2 and the scenario found in the Hornblower movies “Mutiny” and “Retribution”...[Hornblower] [Battlestar Galactica]

tiamatschild: 2005-07-29: Theology, Religion, Babylon 5, and Gee, I Should Just Swear off Meta...: Okay. So, I was reading meta entries today, and I came across one that said it wasn't going to count Babylon 5 as a show about religion because it doesn't deal with religion in any way that means anything for the world we really live in. Which is downright bizarre to me. [Bab5]

ataniell93: 2005-07-29: No, you STFU.: I'm so tired of hearing how anyone who doesn't like HBP has something wrong with them [HP]

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