fabu - In the interest of equal opportunity bitching. . . In yesterday's post about fandom etiquette, I vented a little bit about writers who get ridiculously nitpicky about what sorts of feedback are "appropriate" and make readers shy about commenting on any fic. The discussion in the comments sparked some additional thoughts about the other side of the coin - the times when readers may truly be out of line with their feedback.

bantha_fodder - a rant on shipping, and on being constrained when presenting information in fandom newsletters I try really hard to be unbiased and fair towards every element of this fandom. The characters, the plot lines, the romances. And if I rec a fic, it's not because you're being repressed by a Kara/Lee shipper. It's because I read a fic, and it moved me, and I want to share it with everyone else.

altyronsmaker - The darker side of fic I'd like to be able to take my writing to a much darker place. I'd like to be the one people respond to with "ohh, that hurts so much" or "owie. So dark." So my question is this: what is the key to writing the dark stuff? Is it some psychological thing or some experience that puts a writer in that frame of mind? Does it require having some sordid or painful past? Or is it just being really in touch with the darker emotions?

soranokumo - The post that ate my fandom. this post is very much SPOILEROUS for FFVII: Advent Children. You have been warned.

m_butterfly - This Show Contains Angst. This Doesn't Mean It's An Angst Show. I joined House fandom, and at first it wasn't too bad, but bit by bit I started noticing that not only could I hardly ever find any of the kinds of discussion I was looking for, but when people did post their thoughts, a good half the time I was standing around going, "What the hell? Are we watching the same show? Does it even have the same actors?"

commodorified - A few things I think I know about love and sex and the writing thereof: A brief interlude for non-fiction, or, I need a metabreak