General
amonitrate - This is not a pipe, pt. 3 - My greatest difficulty in thinking about canon is with the assumption that anything "not directly expressed" in a text should always be categorized as wide open to interpretation.  This doesn't give enough credit to the craft of creating a text - whether it's written or audiovisual.  Good authors make conscious use of implication to guide their audience.

synecdochic - random pet peeves about military language - A few linguistic details, courtesy of many fine servicemembers I have known:

femmenerd - Will someone tell my brain to shut up? - So I realize that my last post was a bit strident in tone, and I didn't mean to make people feel like I was pointing fingers--"You--homophobe--there," so I hope that that didn't happen. Because that's not it at all. And no, no one has flamed me for a lack of warnings on my slash fics (because my headers are pretty F-ing informative, right?). I just had a strong reaction to some community's info (I don't remember which but it was general, not shipper, het or slash specific) where their guidelines instructed that people warn for slash but said nothing about het, which has always bugged me and I was reminded of that.

Fandom Specific ( Cut for possible spoilers in SGA, Lost, Battlestar Galactica fandoms. )

Polls, Questions, Misc.
rianax in fanficrants - Untitled - What is the expected lifespan of spoilers?