General
nostalgia_lj - We are a classless society. - Why doesn't fandom talk about class? Probably because our canons don't.

wickedwords - Community, Readership and Writing the Field - trinityofone has that post recently on why SGA fandom is segregated , the people who write gen from the people who write het from the people who write slash. I'm afraid I didn't actually get involved in the conversation (bad me, I know) or even read through all of the comments. As I *do* write multiple ships in multiple configuations, not to mention that whole, occasional 'gen' thing, I got...well, a little annoyed and flounced off to sit by the pond and dig up some worms.

seperis - huh - I'm wondering, from my carefully protected slope of SGA real estate, where literally, I've managed to work my flist and filters to a point where I only see exactly what I want to see on any give day--what's the difference between perception and reality in fandom really? Is there a chance--a small one, but there--that we actually can remake fandom based on how we perceive it to be?

starwatcher307 - My Semi-Annual (?) Fandom Rant - I hate, hate, HATE that some segments of fandom seem to regard authors as trained monkeys -- "Write what I want, the way I want it, and do it quicker and more often!!"

worldserpent - Death and meta - It's the readers who potentially choose to avoid the stories based on anti-recs, and it's the readers who voluntarily read reviews, even though they might influence their opinions on the story.

lunacy - [meh, authorial intent-- or, The Emperor Never Had Any Clothes In The First Place!] - Like, I don't want to be the Emperor With No Clothes, prancing around certain I'm dressed in diamonds and silk. You can definitely value people's feelings over truth in terms of phrasing the truth kindly or not bashing people over the head with unwelcome truths-- fine. But if you just don't value truth at all-- you'd have to accept you're setting yourself up to suck without knowing it. And me, I'm not willing to deal with that kind of paranoia, myself.

Fandom-Specific ( Cut for possible spoilers in Harry Potter fandoms. )

On Creating and Criticism
sageness in ds_workshop - Plot, or something like it - Stories have three elements: setting, character, and plot. Plot is purposeful action, or action undertaken with a goal. Basically, it's the simplest answer to the question: "What happened?"

Polls, Questions, Other
angstslashhope - come on everybody! - If you've read a lot of NC-17 slash, preferably in at least two different fandoms, please take the following poll.