General
musesfool - once they've pegged you, they've pegged you for life - You wouldn't know it to look at my desk or apartment, but I like organization*. Or, I should say, I like knowing where stuff is, and if I don't know where it is exactly, I like knowing how to find it.

loligo - some people... - How I use the term "crackfic": if I as the author ever giggled and thought "It's so crazy it just might work!!" while writing, then there was crack involved in the genesis of that story. And as a reader, I use the term the same way -- when the story gives me the feeling that the author was experiencing that.

marythefan - omg, the RED TAPE - I call shenanigans on the definitions that imply a get-out-of-jail-free card as regards technique or storytelling ability or characterization work. "Crackfic" is not a measure of skill or tone or even of execution. There's bad crackfic. There's good crackfic. There's more bad than good - that's because Sturgeon's Law applies just as it does in any case of fanfic. And good crackfic doesn't become not-crackfic.

saya415 - Observation: Follow the Leader - I'm not sure how other folks become active in a fandom but my understanding of the more "traditional" way into a fandom would be to watch a show/movie/etc and then search the net for like minded folks.

thassalia - Slightly Less Than Keen Eyes - And I run smack into the problem of the genre fan upon reading this, the umpteenth article that declares a love for BSG and a disdain for other scifi, by whatever moniker.

damned_colonial - PSA: Internet standards and your new LJ url - One of these standards documents, RFC 1035 , specifies what you're allowed to include in an internet domain name. And, in short, you aren't allowed underscores in domain names.

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

On Creating and Criticism
entrenous88 - first to third person switch, POV changes, writing decisions - Am I weird that when someone starts a story in a particular person (first-person, second-person, third-person), I want them to use that mode all the way through the story ? It drives be a little batty when there's one section in first-person, then all of a sudden we're back in third (god help us all if there's a switch to second, though thankfully I've only ever seen second-person stories that stick to that mode throughout).

justacat - Thoughts about fic preferences ..... - There's this "how to tell a story I wrote" meme going around, and since I don't write stories I figured I'd modify it to suit me: how to tell a story I'll love!