Fandom Meta

synecdochic - [LJ Fannish Wish List] What's the one (or few) features, changes, toys, etc, etc, that would make your fannish experience on LJ better?

deborah_judge - what to do when your OTP is canonically dead I have years of experience as a Delenn/Lennier and Winn/Dukat shipper, that have helped me develop many strategies for coping with the variety of Bad and Wrong things that canon can do to an OTP. Has half your OTP had his character destroyed by a vengeful writer? Is the other half in a relationship which is too perfect to be questioned? Is either of them dead? Or have they killed each other? Here's how to write them anyway. [possible BSG spoiler]

Specific Fandom Meta

( Cut for possible Spoilers for the Fandoms: VM )

On Reading and Writing

clotho123 - On Torture Where torture works for me is as a means to an end, and an end that couldn’t easily be reached by other means.

story645 - unrealistic, unaccepatble, or uninteresting? Love and death, two of the most universal aspects of being a human being. Happens all the time, in every culture. So of course, those are the two that come under fire the most in the HP books for being unrealistic. And then someone else speaks up and says "but that's the way I grieve/the way I fall in love" and the poster keeps on with the claim of unrealism.

barkley - [unusual pov] Have you ever read a story from the point of view of an inanimate object that really worked for you?

Links, Polls, etc

ozwich - Wow I made it on to Hollywood Elsewhere Jeff Wells on Hollywood Elsewhere wrote a column on BBM yesterday and asked for comments. Well, I emailed him back. [on whether BBM is slash] [LINK]

st_crispins - The Uses of Fantasy The Uses of Fantasy An interesting article in Slate online magazine about why children enjoy fantasy called "The Real Reason Children Love Fantasy." [LINK]

story645 - Repost: Poll Was curious about what types of meta people write/read, what are their faves, and, cause of an essay over at hp_essays (link,) if opinions on the author's writing ability factor in to why people read and write meta. [POLL - HP centered]

isiscolo - iterations Recently I've been doing a lot of both beta-editing of others' stories, and revising my own stories after beta. One writer posted a isiscolostory that I'd made some general comments on how a particular section needed revision - she'd revised it, but in the posted version I could see a few errors that made me wince, because I just knew readers would think, "Wow, Isis must suck as a beta to let those things through" [POLL - writers only]