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fabu - Opinions solicited re: potential minefield Would it be worthwhile, as a sort of companion to the newbieguide to PotC (which addresses canon facts, research, and lj resources, but doesn't rec any fic), to compile a list of PotC stories that are relatively accessible to readers who don't have much familiarity with the fandom?

thelastgoodname - On homoeroticism, male and female, and homoerotic romance are women in fandom providing each other with emotional and sexual sustenance (maybe just emotionally sexual) and using men (for those slashers among us in particular, but also for the het people; perhaps this is better phrased as "fictional characters") as the mechanism?

amanuensis1 - Fanfiction as Schroedinger's Cat. Fanfiction is an ode to the state of being in love--in this case, in love with a particular set of characters or fictional setting.

ziasudra_fic - An Analogical Definition of BNF To me, the fandom playground is like a huge institution with many academic departments.

erinslashslut - As songfic is to vids Remember all those discussions/rants on websites, the lists and LJ about the evils of songfic? More specifically, how it sucked as an idea because, simply put, one person's music is another person's godawful noise? I've come to the conclusion recently that the same can be applied to vids. Not that the idea sucks, because it's a great fan activity and the core idea rocks, but because most of us don't have the same taste in music.

On Reading and Writing and Vidding

thefourthvine - The Vid Feedback Project: a Belated Summary the thing is - whether you're a FF writer or not, you probably have all the tools at hand to discuss someone else's story. Or, god, I hope you do. But we don't write visual media critiques in seventh grade, and we don't memorize the vocabulary, and we also don't have a lot of experience with group discussions about visual media, so we can't learn by seeing others do it.

sockkpuppett - Thinking about vidding I've known this one thing for a long, long time. If I were vidding just for feedback, I wouldn't be vidding at all. Because sometimes? Feedback just doesn't happen.

elishavah - feedbacking and constructivenessAlso, TFV brought up the some interesting thoughts on giving/getting constructive criticism on older vids, which morphed in the comments into also doing so for older stories. There is a difference between feedback and concrit, and I know there's a difference in my own reaction to receiving them.

petronelle - Visceral and mental responses to written erotica I've been wondering about this for a while because, as an author of written material more or less designed to evoke a certain response in my readers, I often wonder exactly what kind of response I'm looking for.

hesychasm - xenophobia; writerly wittering And some thoughts about writing mechanics and how fandom has changed the process for me, occasioned by me slogging through yet another five-digit word epic.