General Fandom

esorlehcar: [untitled] — "When someone warns for darkfic, that can mean anything from the characters having a fight to the characters becoming cannibal serial killers. When someone warns for noncon, it can mean anything from one character pushing and the other character saying "No, no... it feels so good I cannot resist!" to graphic torture and hardcore sexual violence."

fabu: About recs — "Recs are not awards for writers, but helpful pointers for readers, and they add value to most people's fannish experience. Given the sprawling nature of most online fandoms, recs enable readers to find stories that match their tastes, without having to read lots of stories that aren't their cup of tea."

fides in fanthropology: Describing a story — "Authors can only really control what information they attach to a story. With the increase in popularity of social bookmarking sites are we going to start having situations where readers can tag the story with descriptions / labels / warnings / pairing info / etc. It is already happening on a small scale but in the future it could possibly become a big thing."

karamarie_mckay: Misbegotten and The Topic That Refuses To Just Lay Down And Die — "I suspect that what people want is a comforting bedtime story. They want to see their heroes doing the “right” thing, and they want to see everything work out because… well, because the heroes did the right thing."

brak666: Slash Wank — "Sure, things have gotten better over the last ten years or so, but I'm still pretty much guaranteed to not find any representations of gayness on any TV show, book, or movie I happen to come across that's not explicitly appealing to me as a gay person. So, the appeal of slash for me is that it takes a source text that completely ignores the fact of my existence and makes it all about me. That's incredibly empowering."

rydra_wong: (Still) IBARW: Writing Characters of Colour (Now With 10% Less White Liberal Anxiety!) - "Admitting ignorance is one thing; jumping from “I don’t feel that as a white person I can ever fully understand the African-American experience” to “therefore I cannot ever write Aiden Ford, because I will get it wrong and the Scary Black People will hurt me" is another."

hermionesviolin: WriterCon 2006 — "...my Really Long Writeup"

Questions, Polls, Etc.

r_becca: feedback for well-known authors — "Do you ever find yourself not commenting on a fic because the author is well-known and you feel she doesn't need or want your feedback?"

lothy: [untitled] — "How do you perceive ratings in fanfiction?"

lothy: [untitled] — "Why, when an author posts the first chapter of a new story, is the first question always what the pairing is?"

sherrold: Take a poll for lunch! (or dinner and a movie) — "How many items do you have tagged in delicious?"