willshe_nillshe: Open for Discussion: What Makes Slash Slashy? I've been mislabeling myself. I don't write gay erotica, I write male/male slash for erotica publishers....So here's the question: in your opinion, what is slash? Does it focus more on relationships and romance rather than sex? But then again, we can't take sex out of the equation, can we?

cbpotts: A cynical portrait Today at the comic shop picked up Tony Consiglio's 110 Per% -- a short graphic novel put out by Top Shelf. The back blurb: In much the same way that Alan Moore's Watchmen is the final word on the modern superhero, Tony Consiglio's 110 Per% closes the book on the entire middle-aged-housewives-obsessed with boy bands genre. Intriguing, yes? Well, yes, until you actually read the damn thing.

fairestcat: The Slash Closet On back to back weekends I went to DC Gay Pride and a slash con and the juxtaposition of attitudes between the two events really brought it home to me how closeted slash fandom is. And more to the point, it really struck me how normal we seem to think that is.

penknife: Does defining "canonical relationship" really matter? I mean, as long as fanfic makes sense given the canonical events we see in the books, what's the point in arguing about whether a relationship is canon or near-canon or totally-not-canon or implied-to-maybe-be-canon-in-the-future? If I write a story that interprets canonical events as happening in the context of a particular relationship between two characters, and the story makes sense, does it really matter whether we're "supposed to" read these characters as having a romantic relationship in canon or not?

caras_galadhon: X+Y+Z!=XYZ What interests me right now, however, are the dynamics between stated OT3s (and by extension, OT4+), and how they sometimes clash with my own sense of OT3s. For me, an OT3 needs to not only contain some combination of X/Y/Z, but some sense, be it emotional and/or physical, of X/Y, Y/Z, and X/Z.

talitha78: Why Do We Like Vids? The problem is, a lot of my reaction to vids is visceral and instinctive. It's going to be a challenge to put it into words. Therefore, I turn to the vidders and vid-fans out there for inspiration and discussion. Why do you like vids?

daegaer: Poll: word count in a chapter As I have a few very long fics, I got to wondering what people consider a good average length for a chapter.

snegurochka_lee: Some musings about chapter lengths As a reader, I want a meaty chapter. The general lack of meaty chapters I see around is, I think, why I avoid WIPs. If I'm going to sit down and read a chapter of a story, I want something to happen. No, I want more than that: I want several things to happen. If only one thing happens, it's still just a scene, not a chapter. [poll]