pennypaperbrain: Slash musings No matter how relentlessly blokish something is, be that a manifestation of indifference or a deliberate attempt to exclude the female pe rspective, you can undermine the hyper-masculine pose by viewing the material through the lens of slashability. In fact, the more frantically and defensively blokish something gets, the more open it is to interpretation as being at least latently homoerotic.

rotpunkt: Which types of men are "slashy"? So, my question today (a rather complicated question, I admit) is: Which qualities (besides good looks) make a man "slashy"?

executrix: A Little Slut Appreciation Day Although by and large I adore fandom, one thing I don't like is what I see as a real vein of ridicule toward those whose unbridled lust provides us with so much entertainment.

kassrachel: Thoughts on fannish threesomes. If you like threesome stories, what do you like about them? If you write them, what makes you want to write them -- and do you ever worry that you're alienating audience in so doing? Is a M/F/M threesome necessarily Mary Sue or self-insertion fic?

_lore: Characterization extremes and me.... It seems to me there are two types of characterizations that really get to me, and they are polar opposites. I tend to gravitate toward either "OMG, this could be canon" characterizations or "here's the most idealized version" characterizations.

ciaan: RPF and RPS and all that stuff Lots of people complain and worry about RPF, but it's actually much more mainstream and more legal than fanfic of fictional characters. What do you think movies like Kinsey and Monster and Velvet Goldmine and Eight Below and Alexander and Walk The Line and Dick and Munich and United 93 and Henry & June and... well, all the dozens of others are? Where do these anti-RPF people draw the line, when they draw it? Is it okay to write fictionally about dead people, but not living people? Is it okay to write fictionally about living people if you change their names? Is it okay to write fictionally about real people if it's not smut? Is it okay to write fictionally about real people if it's all artistic, or you're famous yourself, or something?

shadow_shimmer: "Our revels now have ended. These, our actors, as I I foretold you, Basketball slashers - rather than objectifying the black athlete like the mainstream fans and the media do, according to my sources - appear to go out of their way to find two white players to slash in a fandom that is 90% black.

sexonastick: On race and fandom. (Meta?) Let's talk race in fandom! Very often, when these discussions (that quickly turn to full on debate) begin, one of the points made is that people don't write black characters as frequently as white because, for the most part, fandom is white, and people like to write what they know. This is almost certain to be countered by the point that fandom is almost equally composed of white female writers, who write about men all the same. This is a good point, but it misses something. The state of the Other within fandom is not one that is discussed very often beyond talk of exoticizing and fetishizing.

iwouldbethe1: Metaish stuff? I don't think it's necessarily that the femslash side of this fandom is afraid to write minorities.

cereta: Icon chosen deliberately I'm curious if any else has ever had that experience with a specific fandom, not so much where certain types of discussion turn you off (because really, who hasn't had that experience), but where you find yourself just wanting to cling to the shiny, even if it means avoiding the kind of discussion that is the life's breath of fandom.

scribbulus_ink: Some fandom stats I keep seeing posts about fandom and references to posts about fandom - the HP fandom is dying, it's shrinking, it's in limbo, it's not dying, it's not shrinking, it's still going strong, and so on and so forth. ...What I've noticed is that the only archive that doesn't have at least one or two new stories uploaded every day is Eros and Sapphos, which I imagine is because it's a moderated archive, and the mods don't get a chance to look at the queue every day.

temaris: [irrational likes] Hmm. I have been reading isiscolo's post on unreasonable dislikes, and I came to the startling conclusion that I *have* no 'unreasonable' dislikes. No, I can rationalise and justify every single one of them. My likes are far smaller, and almost wholly irrational.

joandarck: Slash: it's not just a hobby, it's an education Is there really such a thing as partners? It's such a staple, not just in fanfic, but in F/SF, TV shows and movies - two police officers (secret agents, mercenary soldiers, swordsmen...) who work together, spend all their time together, and have each other as their primary emotional tie....I'm also curious whether these common fanfic scenarios are realistic...

ciaan: Shipping: a broader application Shipping is more than just liking. Shipping is a certain feeling I get, a certain level of emotional attachment to the relationship....But the term shipping is generally only used for romantico-sexual relationships. And I often have these sorts of feelings for relationships that aren't like that at all. What to call that?

melannen: for what prize I woot not Sometimes I sore regret that I grew up with a language which makes no distinction between formal and informal pronouns.

syredronning in vidding: A stray "girl" in a slash vid? I was wondering today how important it is that the lyrics of a song is totally "pure" when it comes to using it for slash. Many love songs are rather gender-neutral, but have a stray "girl" somewhere as interjection (for example, "You win again" and "Everlasting love").

malnpudl: Two polls about writing sex Come on: Exhortation to orgasm...Oh God, oh god: Religious names in profane context...