General

titti: [on court rulings and laws re child pornography in Australia and Canada] Remember when many Aussies in fandom started closing archives, modifying the rules, deleted anything containing sex between underage characters? Remember how fandom decided they were overreacting, and nothing could possibly happen?

cereta: Now that I am not quite so cranky I have this vague idea that a great deal of unnecessary strife in fandom happens as a result of our seeming inability to wrap our minds around the idea of preferences.

elynross: Sometimes I like things you don't like, and that's okay. They aren't writing for me, or maybe I'm just not into it! No reasons, no excuses, no justifications. I'm into what I'm into, I'm not into what I'm not into, and not enough people are writing for me.

raedbard: [Fannish and RL aesthetics] I'm sure that the majority of slash fans, and indeed het-writing fans and girl-slash-writing fans, do like the characters (and the actors who play them) to be, you know, *pretty*. But am I alone in feeling that people's mileage for what defines 'pretty' varies?

Specific fandom meta

telesilla: On dealing with half a canon I really can't count the number of times, when faced with the latest Harmonain wank or the Slytherin apologists, that I've yelled "it's a kid's book, for God's sake!" And yet, when you think about it, that's the adult HP fanfic writer's greatest gift and biggest burden. As we work on this insane thing we're writing, we've had to deal with any number of things that JKR simply handwaves and refuses to discuss because they're not important to her story.

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Writing, reading, vidding, creating

cleolinda: [Ten things I have learned about writing] A meme I'd been meaning to do that was making the rounds of writers' blogs: Ten Things I Have Learned About Writing.

icarusancalion: [Kids in fanfiction] It's not that I don't like kids. We get along just fine, kids and I. It's just that there's a certain -- certain... people write the kids like they're extensions of their parents....There is no way that the fanfic kid's experiences are the same as their parents, so their personalities are going to be radically different.

fabu: Warnings, Twists, and Reversals On the one hand, I don't want to ruin the twist by putting in the header, "I know this looks like a character death story, but it isn't, I promise." On the other, I don't want people to start reading, decide that the story is about character death (and that I didn't give them the information they needed to prepare themselves) and stop reading.