August 14th, 2005

10:19 pm

revdorothyl 2005-07-25: FANDOM PARTICIPATION QUESTIONNAIRE: (Your Assistance is greatly appreciated! Please write your answers in Comments, since I haven't been able to put this in actual "Poll" form.)

netweight 2005-08-13: Heh, I had nothing better to do: Any considerations I might have on her person based on her fic or any considerations I might have on you because you like her fic... well, people, is not like I think any of you kills kittens so, christ on a cracker, get a grip. Ah cult of nice, you suck and not in a nice way. A fandom that’s not able to criticize and mock itself is doomed and that blows.

jadelennox 2005-08-13: metaphors eat spicy braaaiiiins: Sometimes, Zombies exist to eat brains. That's what they're for. Not to be metaphors, and nor to let us play with Zombie Rules. But to put government cheese in their little zombie heads until finally they track you down to good-goddamn eat your brain.

shadowkat67 2005-08-13: That fan thing: To be honest, I've always been a little leery of identifying myself as a "fan" of anything. Not sure why. I think it's the fanatic aspect of the word that unnerves me. For you see - the obsessive aspect of myself is not one I like to stroke or endorse, so much as discourage. When I reacte obsessively to something, I start wondering why.

thedivinegoat 2005-08-14: I really AM going to bed now...: Should Ricky Gervaise's Extras be considered Celebrity endorsed RPF? // He takes the celebrity's public persona, and several widely known "facts" and runs with them.

girlofprey 2005-08-13: The long vs. short fic debate, for ME: I don't entirely know what this is - a justification or a confession, or just some self-indulgent, self-examing ramblings. All I know is that it does annoy me, sometimes, when I find a damn good idea for a pairing/fandom I love, and it exists only in drabble form, and the author doesn't seem intent on continuing it - it frustrates me. And I know that I WANT to write longer fics - actual stories rather than one-shots.

kielle 2005-08-13: I've got a theory-- DON'T START SINGING, YOU LOT: Seriously, I've been thinking. I know it's a natural human tendency to say "back in my day, etc and so forth" -- it's called "euchronia," the belief that there was once a "golden age" of sorts, or at very least that it was better when you were younger. // So I'll be fair and state clearly, for starters, that fandom has always been batshit crazy at heart. Gamers, writers, artists...we're inherently all just a little bit insane, really. As far back as you'll find media fandom you'll find tales of flamewars and freaks, of malcontents and the maladjusted.

dragonscholar in fanthropology 2005-08-13: Fallout from Half-Blood Prince: It's not ending.: I see the following question asked more and more: how long can this go on? Even people who I'd expect to be unshockable are getting weary. // How long? My take? Probably quite awhile. // In this post I'm going to discuss a subset of Harry/Hermionie shippers. I'd like to note that this essay is only about that specific subpopulation as detailed below.

gaycrow 2005-08-13: Gen, Pre-slash or Slash?: We've been having some interesting discussions about what exactly constitutes Gen, Pre-slash and Slash stories. A good resource for fanfiction terms is The Fanfiction Glossary. But others may have completely different interpretations, so we'd love to see your answers to these questions.

kita0610 2005-08-13: sad sad fangirl moment: Why I Love Angel (the Man) By RosFod // I love Angel on several different levels. My love for Angel is three dimensional, and so he is three dimensional for me. [AtS]

widget285 2005-08-13: BSG 205: The Farm: Let's start with the characters back on Galactica first. [BSG] [SPOILERS]

cyclotron in stargate_talker 2005-08-13:: Is anyone else disturbed that SG1 is taking a strong position this season that all gods are fake? [SG1]

tafkarfanfic 2005-08-13: Thinkier thoughts on SG-1: I was also interested to hear people saying that Daniel was being stridently anti-religion, and that they felt personally hurt and insulted by that. I didn't think Daniel was being stridently anti-religion. I thought he was being stridently anti-forcibly-evangelizing-people-via-threat-of-death, and me? I can get behind that. I know several Christians feel like this particular element is picking on their religion in particular, perhaps because they've read a lot about forced Christianization in history. But Christianity isn't the only religion that evangelized by force. Islam has (sometimes), Zoroastrianism did in a big way, Hinduism has, and IIRC, there are some Buddhist elements that have been violently determined that others should follow Buddha, which seems kind of amusingly ironic, in a grim way. And that's just the tip of the iceberg [SG1]

thete1 2005-08-09: Meta-lite: Bat Romance, Bat/Cat, Batman/Robin, Robin Robin R:
The *point* is that, while Jason was being an asshole *and* oversimplifying things besides, there *is* a difference -- an objective one, even -- between Bat/Cat and Batman-Robin. And... yeah. It *does* actually play a role in why I find reading about the one kind of tiresome (personally, *personally*), and why I'm absolutely addicted to the other. // It's just that it's not about the gender lines, at all. // Let's talk 'shipper-style. [DC]