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kylielee1000 - My OTP! Or not. I talked with someone who will remain nameless on the phone today (she can out herself, dammit) who found several different definitions of OTP, which have been neatly divided into two piles: my definition, and hers. Probably both are right, depending on the fandom, but I articulately (articulately, I tell you!) defended my position, and I was so persuasive that I convinced myself that adding further to this debate in the blogsphere was somehow worthwhile.

lobelia321 - are paid accounts moral? Not paying for the account means that I can use that money to pay for some other charity that is perhaps more in need of money and more worthy (?) than the evening funsite for a wage-earning, TV-earning, broadband-paying, never-gone-hungry woman in one of the richest capitalist states of the world. I never used to give money to charities but now I donate to three and plan a fourth donation round.

nardasarmy - *sighs*...in the right journal this time. It boggles my mind that someone thinks they can walk in and insult an entire community, and not see how what they did was wrong or considered trolling behavior. But not only do they not see that they were wrong, but embrace this elite mantel as was reason why they should be able to act this way. As if this made-up title entitles them to act however they wish as long as they can shriek, "Free speech! I'm more talented than you!"

shadowkat67 - [Don't normally do this, rec essays.] The essay is about fathers and sons, how father's relate to sons and sons in return are taught to relate to their own sons. The inability to show intimacy, to show love, or pride, yet the desire to. The sins we commit within that relationship and the losses we fear.

crazydiamondsue - Slouching Towards Readership I'd venture to guess that most writers who post fanfic on public internet sites (including un-flocked LJ posts) do so because they wish to be read by as wide an audience as their source material, genre, pairing and/or rating allows. I realize that some people would argue that point and say that they only write for themselves and that any feedback, if received, is appreciated but unnecessary to encourage their putting fingers to keys.

worldserpent - Wikipedia vs. EB, influence of blogs 1. This article is quite interesting, especially if you skip over the mystical mumbo jumbo part and go read about the possible death of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and concerns over the quality of Wikipedia. Actually, I think Wikipedia's strength is that it has entries about things that are *not* covered in the EB, and that it provides online links to sites which have more information, and that it can be updated instantaneously.

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profshallowness - Transgressive Het. Like many other commentators to the original post, I'm side-stepping the main thesis, because I don't feel qualified to talk about it; but I do want to take up the issue of het and transgression, because I 'ship het almost exclusively, canonical and uncanonical and 'ships that fit in somewhere inbetween. I feel, of course, that they are all completely non-weird, until I mention the list to someone else and realise that they can be transgressive.

darkemptyheart - Something that irritates me about African American characters I'm African American and I write about black and white characters. It just depends on how I relate to the characters. I'm sure lots of writers are the same and just don't relate to some characters who happen to be black. But the question remains: does fandom and culture make fans prejudice against African American characters or do fans become prejudice on their own?

leadensky - And then there are the days that fandom can still surprise me. I don't like, condone, nor support posting RPF/RPS/actorfic stories. That's the short version. And then there is the longer version. The longer version is, there are a number of things in fandom I don't like. Some I tolerate, some I accept, some I go *shrug*. RPS isn't one of them.

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