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musesfool - and fire in the sky I don't necessarily see *characters* as slashy. I see certain characters as Little Black Dresses, yeah, in that they go with nearly anyone (Faith is kind of a universal LBD - most people feel that way about her), but mostly I see *relationships* as, well, I don't want to say slashy, exactly, because it's not specific to slash for me. I see the sparkage in a relationship - whether it's m/m, m/f, or f/f - and that's what gets me writing. It's chemistry, character dynamics, not necessarily the character by his or her own self.

executrix - Between These Mean Sheets I daresay that many of the oddities of fandom can be explained by reverse-engineering (or, for you House fans, biopsying) it and discovering thatit's a romance chassis bolted to a sci-fi frame. But considering the number of fen who like detective stories, it hasn't been a genre that is very influential on fanfic.

isiscolo - respectable rpf Although I am not a lawyer, it seems to me that the difference between RPF and libel is that the former is presented as fiction, and the latter as truth. And people (famous people) have always had "RPF" written about them, whether it be unauthorized biography or film adaptation or some fangirl's fantasy.

cluegirl - Thoughts Contingent on Encouragement Fandom claps. Fandom gives standing ovations, and throws roses, and shouts "BRAVA" from the balcony. I mean yes, we have our trolls, and we have our wanks, and we have our ship-wars, but overall? The courage of posting your fic or art at all is deemed worthy of recognition, at very least. Quality and courage is VALUED here, not just slick, marketable product. Fans value a story that challenges them. They love artwork that pushes the boundaries. They love things that make them THINK, and remember a turn of phrase for weeks, and in Fandom? The writer actually gets to KNOW about it.

lunacy - [trying to get some... get some... satisFACtion] The only thing is... they say one of the main reasons people read fic is to 'get more of the show', right? Okay. Well. I've read a lot of fic in a (modest, but significant) number of fandoms, and I've never felt I was getting more of the same thing. It may even be better, but it's always different. Although sometimes it comes close... if I'm looking for series-continuation fic after the end, it's been a blinding, horrible disappointment, mostly.

morgan32 - POLL: Hurt/Comfort in Fanfic So here I'm begging for your help. If you're a fan of hurt/comfort in fanfic, please take a moment to answer a few questions. The poll questions are about preferences and definitions (the slash question is just so I can see numbers). Then at the end I have three open-ended questions; if you've got the time please answer these in the comments. And if you'd really like to help me out, feel free to point others here, too!

Specific Fandom Meta

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On Reading and Writing

lobelia321 - [Roland Barthes, excerpts from 'Writing and the Novel', 1953]

lozenger8 - This is a wordy rappinghood... I was wondering if this is a bone of contention amongst writers. As a Britonozzie writing about American characters, should I adapt my spelling as well as my phrasing? How about the other way? Pretending I were American and writing about English characters, should I write 'colour' with a u, and 'realise' with an s against my natural spelling instinct?

misspamela - Writing and the way it looks in your head In my mind, fanfic works if you can imagine camera angles and commercial breaks and quick-cuts. It works if you can hear David Hewlett or CKR or Vince Ventresca actually speaking the lines in your head. It works if, until the moment you get their clothes off, you could see it filmed as an epsiode.

Other

mina_de_malfois - The DeMina Code Most of you, on the other hand, have figured out that the mina_de_malfois stories exist to poke gentle fun at the foibles of fandom. You may, in fact, be floating theories as to which bits refer to whom, or to which events, or which fandoms.

kitzen_kat - [Diane Marchant] Diane Marchant, well-known in Star Trek fandom, passed away on 5 April 2006 in Melbourne. She had pancreatic cancer. She founded Austrek, helped numerous Australian and overseas Star Trek fans, and she wrote the first published K/S story in GRUP. She was particularly active in fandom in the 1970s and 1980s.