General
kattahj - the fandom sanity bell curve - That is to say, a lot of newbies are flaming insane-o-bitches with an entitlement complex, and then the number of sane fans go higher and higher the more fandom experience we're talking about, until we reach BNF territory where suddenly there's a whole lot of flaming insane-o-bitches with an entitlement complex again.

svilleficrecs - THANK YOU CAREFUL NON SPOILERS!!! - I can rewatch a hundred times knowing the storyline, but there's just one chance at an unspoiled viewing. There's nothing like a first time.

branchessays - You use that word a lot... - Terms like "nice", "mean", "polite", "honest", "courteous", etc... they get thrown around very freely, but no one seems to take much time to actually define what they mean by those catch-all terms, and so wind up having circular conversations with other people who think they are in disagreement when, in fact, they agree quite firmly.

ajhalluk - The Uses of Language - A number of recent essays and comments and kerfuffles and what-have-yous which have been flying around have, in the enforced leisure caused by flu, finally solidified some thoughts I've been having about language, and how unspoken assumptions about language tend to affect how on-line arguments develop, because particular words are being used by one person in a way which carries a meaning or freight to the reader which is not intended by the author.

heidi8 - The Mainstreaming of Fannish Behaviour - If someone told you they wrote a story about her family being the inspiration for The Graduate, and that in the movie version she'd be played by Jennifer Aniston, would you say "self-insertion, Mary-Sue"? Would you say "meta"? Would you say "Hey, that's in a theater near me right now!"

Fandom-Specific
( Cut for possible spoilers in Angel, Brokeback Mountain, Star Wars and Harry Potter fandoms. )

On Creating and Criticism
ausmac - feeback and such - It was while feedbacking a story recently that I wondered how other people felt about fb and length (hmm, long and thick...*slaps self*).

regan_v - Essay: Magic and Ritual in Canon and Fanfiction - And I was also forced to work through my ideas about how magic is invoked, and functions, in hp fanfiction. By the end of it, I had come to see magic in much more ritualized terms than I had before, or than it is often presented in fanfiction.