General
hotspur18 - I am a cranky swine. - I do not give a good goddamn how much anyone loves their favourite characters from any given TV show, film, play or book - and I'm including myself and my own preferences here - real people in the real world are infinitely more important, and a good number of them are being made miserable as hell right now by all the divisions going on.

lottelita - Take those old books off the shelf - I'm thinking tonight about fandom as a textual community -- a living, breathing, vibrant window into the way ordinary people interact with literature.

musesfool - you're dirty sweet and you're my girl - You (generic) like m/m slash better, regardless of fandom or pairing? More power to you. There's no disputing taste. I'm personally very fond of various slash pairings (both m/m and f/f) myself. But please, for the love of all that's holy, stop acting like your personal preference for it makes boyslash inherently better from a quality standpoint. It doesn't.

ingrid_m - untitled - The old unanswered question: Why is slash - by that we mean BOYSLASH ONLY - fic always better in quality than everything else?". This is very simple. The reason slash is always better is the same reason smooth peanut butter is always better. Because that's all I eat.

ithiliana - "Form" vs. "Content" - A lot of the strength of the discussion lies in the range of individual accounts explaining how and why individual fans make choices about what is told to whom, in terms of family, friends, school, work, other social groups, narrating all the complex variables that go into communication choices. What didn't come up much (understandably, and maybe I missed it if it was there) was discussion of form (rather than just content). By "form," I mean how the telling is done.

On Creating and Criticism
furiosity - i'm breaking free this is the night - Let's have a tiny refresher course in dialogue punctuation and speaker attribution, shall we?

khriskin - Come dream again… - I have realized that I love writing for the same reason I love reading, it's escapism in its truest form. I lay aside the day-to-day troubles of the real world and delve into the more interesting machinations of worlds built from dreams.

penknife - Two tangents - I think it's hard to talk about how to do characterization well, both the sense of writing characters who are believable people and in terms of writing characters who are not OOC

china_shop - Thoughts about writing and visualisation - I don't store things in my head. I makes notes all the time. I'm bewildered by people who mentally construct a whole story before they put pen to paper or finger to keyboard; I usually start to write before I know much at all.

Polls, Questions, Other
hederahelix - Sexual Orientation, Slash Fandom, and the Problem of Sample Selection - I'm going to bet that just as I found a whole hell of a lot more queer women in fandom where I looked than the scholarship led me to believe that there would be, I might get interesting results if I post a poll in my journal about the question of sexual orientation, identification, and fandom too.