General

gothfirefaerie: Squicks: absolute or circumstantial? How many of you find that a sqick is not absolute, is one fandoms squick, another fandoms treasure?

lothy: [untitled] But disliking slash is not homophobic. Oh, some people may make comments that are, but the basic act of disliking it is not. After all, does anyone call people who only read slash heterophobic?

kimberlyfdr: Women in Love with Gay Men And do you think we, as a slash population, carry over that attraction to real-life? Are we more drawn to gay men (either for friendship or sexual attraction)? And did this attraction carry over to our interest in the slash genre? The pursuit of the unattainable, is that what it boils down to? Or is it an attraction to a personality type that we couldn’t find in straight men?

emelerin: [untitled] Lust is a bond in fandom. As much as we bond over nerdy sci-fi inclinations, the absolute rightness of Clark/Lex, the right to play with other people's characters, we bond through shared lust. It's not a shared lust for a particular object (although that strengthens the bond, I would argue) but a basic shared evidence of the capacity to feel lust and enjoy that feeling.

suzycat: Miss Manners presents: I see the playing field this way. 1) People take their online relationships quite seriously, and as a result, can be very generous. 2) Everybody knows this, and knows that a request for money - fandom's dirty little secret, since what we do is supposed to be gratis at all times, right? - is probably going to net you some dosh somewhere along the line. 3) This puts us in difficult positions.

fandomme in fanthropology: Fanonymity Basically, I was thinking about the Wall Street Journal article, and wondering how important it is for fans to keep their "real life" friends and family out of their fandom lives.

Reading, Writing, Vidding, Criticism

expositionary: meta | fic: writing multiple, varying "takes" on the same characters and events One of the things that I don't understand and, at the same time, love about fic is how we can write different stories for the same characters, over and over and over.

corvid: Random stuff on criticism Constructive criticism really tends to break down into three important classes in my mind. One is the setting (virtual or actual) of the criticism, another is the expected amount / types of discussion, and the last is the audience in question. Sometimes, it seems like people are blind to how these classes work.

skuf: My name is skuf, I like to define my world. (Waiting for the emo-porn-meta beta) I love talking about vids, but I really don't have much of a vocabulary to do so. The following is a draft, and I'm hoping you will help me putting some words and definitions on what I [think I] see, by confirming and correcting my assumptions, terms, etc.!

Questions, Polls, Other

synecdochic: now it's my turn to ask you all questions (questions about LJ features)

morgandawn: Top 3 Slash Fandoms Poll - What Are You Actively Into Today?

scarah2: BUTT SEX POLL