General
moriath - Femmeslash Meta... - However, very little scholarly work seems to have been done on femmeslash.

darkrosetiger - A Proportional Response - Fandom may be coming together, but back in 2003 when we all thought msscribe was being attacked, we came together too--and look how well that turned out.

lexin - The msscribegate affair - And as I lay there in the dark, I began to ponder, as one does, what I can learn from this and what is important about it.

krytella - On Wank - But honestly, guys... I don't see how it's so shocking, or even so bad. I often hear how "pathetic" people who get caught up in wankery are, for putting so much time and emotional investment into the fandom. But the fact that people do invest their time, their energy, their heart -- that's what makes it work.

mikkeneko - Msscribe, the Fandom Mary Sue - She's a mind-dazzling, brain-numbing, reality-warping Mary Sue. The woman created a fictional version of herself, a Sue-self insert, into the world of Harry Potter fandom.

shusu - LJ: weighing in on Internet trust - To me it's a wonderful freedom to be anonymous, the same way I feel when I'm anonymous in a crowd of people yet partaking in the same thing. But do I hand them my wallet? My social security number? The keys to my car?

mercurtin in fanthropology - Now we are 10, almost - What boggles me about the fannish dynamics Aja describes is that it doesn't really match what I've seen in quite a number of closely-observed fandoms. Yes, there were BNFs, but I've never known a large, growing fandom to have a One BNF To Rule Them All the way Cassandra Claire seems to have been in 2001-2002 for HP fandom.

ethrosdemon - kicking the dead hippogryph - Fandom was not new then, folks. I don't even mean that in the BOFH way of "you aren't old school if you weren't at a SF con in the 70's," but that even ONLINE fandom wasn't new then. What was new was lj. Lj changed fandom completely, but fandom itself had been chugging a long for a while online.

kyuuketsukirui - *headdesk* - Using a pseudonym is not lying.

jediowl - A thought on the state of the fanfic - People have moved from fanfic to published work before, but HP is very high-profile and so is CC. It's almost bound to have an effect either on fanfic in general or on people making the transition.

partly_bouncy - My take on/issues with the Msscribe thing - It seems like everyone and their neighbor is writing something about the Charlottelennox exposition regarding Msscribe. A number of them are really well written.

sistermagpie - The Definition of Fan - Reading about the recent…episode…is reminding me that people have very strong feelings about BNFs--some feelings even border on disturbing. It started me thinking about the question of definitions, specifically BNF and Fan. These two words are absolutely central to the fandom experience, yet they’re both argued over all the time. I think part of what makes them both so difficult is that they’re very much "I know it when I see it" words, and when someone tries to define them more clearly they start to drift away from the way they’re really used.

( Cut for possible spoilers in Spiderman fandom. )

On Creating and Criticism
executrix - ThinkyThoughts, ConTxtual and Otherwise - The kind of sex that happens in stories doesn't necessarily reflect our preferences for what makes good sex, so much as our preferences for what makes good *story* sex.

Polls, Questions, Other
menomegirl - A question for the fanfic writers out there - Have you ever read a fic that resembled one of your own so closely, that it sent chills down your spine and made you ill to see it?

alchemia - Fic Search (fandom or cyber events, any fandom) - Ok, another fic search request. I'm looking for stories that address an event in fandom or in cyber-space.