thete1: 2006-09-20: My *Other* Problem With Recent DC Events: "Race, Genre Fiction, Fandom, and the Confluence of Self-Destructive Behaviors with Self-*Protective* Behaviors. " [SPOILERS FOR MULTIPLE (AIRED) SHOWS AND (ISSUED) COMICS]

sageness: 2006-09-20: Race & SGA: "thete1 wrote this amazing post on characters of color in Comics, Angel, House, SG-1, etc. And I commented. And she replied. ... // And that's kind of my point here. It feels to me like the show spends a lot of time disrespecting ALL the characters who aren't John or Rodney, but especially the women and ethnic minorities." [SGA]

akire_yta: 2006-09-20: meta that turned into ramble.:"SGA: Brains are good when we need brains, but when we don't, we'll snark and bitch and belittle the brains. Or the brains will hide behind snark and other defense mechanisms to avoid the battering the overt brainy types take. // Eureka: Brains are good. All sorts, not just the ones with Doctorates and nobel prizes. The end." [SGA] [EUREKA]

powerofthebook: 2006-09-19: Legitimate Fanfiction: "When someone acquires the rights to a fandom and changes or continues it, it's always going to hurt a little inside.... // The reason it hurts a little inside? The reason people see it and go "this was wrong, that was wrong...?" // It's because these works, "Scarlett," "Dragon's Blood," "Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings,'" and others were all given a sort of legitimacy. ... With fanfic, if we don't agree, we generally respect the other person's opinion of the character, may offer some tips or hints as to our ideas about the character or plot, but we can just click the "back" button and forget about it." [LOTR] [PERN]

lunacy: 2006-09-19: [the yuppies are coming! the yuppies are coming! :P heh]: "Partly, of course, I tend to feel uncomfortable sharing immediate blogspace with public figures (well, professional writers/artists) I know of [let alone fangirl] in general... // Reading their lj at all makes me feel like I've crossed the line from fangirl to groupie; because while you can all be 'fellow fangirls', creators and readers merging into one group (which is what's so great!), you cannot have any basis for unity or a common language as long as you -are- 'a groupie'."

penknife: 2006-09-20: What I'd like non-fans to know about fanfic: "1) A lot of the time, the impulse to write fanfic is fueled by the desire to explore things that aren't explored in the source text. ... // Those are the main things for me, besides "No, slash does not necessarily mean porn." What about you folks? What would you tell people who have clicked open those links from the Wall Street Journal article on fanfic and are looking all confusedly at the results?"

iamsab: 2006-09-19: first they came for the hackers: "And I don't want fandom to be another Harriet Jones, shooting down everyone who finds us, rather than trying to find ways to integrate ourselves with the new and changing world we live in -- because it's not going to go back to how it was. Not ever. The days of hiding out in brown paper zines and usenet are behind us, and we have to move forward or die."

lozenger8: 2006-09-20: Fandom as capitalist society...: "I see fandom in hierarchical terms. The currency of the capitalist fandom is not money. It is attention. ... // What do you think?"

minim_calibre: 2006-09-19: [Meta/Writing] Inside Minim's Head: "This isn't a cry for hairpats or reassurance. This me wanting to know, if you're one of the people who suffers from the same sort of revision-induced blues that I do, what you do to cope. How do you get beyond the little voice whispering, "Scrap it. It's crap, you can't fix it, and people will just laugh at it anyway, so why bother?" How do you tell Iago to go stuff it? // What techniques do you use to get it done?"

misspamela: 2006-09-20: Writing length, flashfic, the end of the world: "So...yeah. Welcome to my writing process. I stared at that sentence, no lie, for a week. So I'm amazed when people say they can bang out 1000 words/hour. What about you, flist? How do you get past that problem? And how long does it take you to write? I was going to do a poll, but I think I'd depress myself."

justbreathe80: 2006-09-16: in which I talk about writing and process and other non-porny things: "All of this got me thinking about how I write. The process is good. It's important to me, as someone who still very much feels like I'm developing, to have that process on most of what I write, to have the opportunity for feedback and give and take with someone else. I enjoy the process. But what about this sort of other part of my writing, which is on the spot and spontaneous and fun, where I push myself to just WRITE?"

brooklinegirl: 2006-09-20: On Writing and Fandom and P O R N: But the thing is, I keep seeing references to porn and plot as an either/or thing. And maybe it's just a shorthand - maybe it's that people are looking for longer fics, where it's not just the build-up to a blowjob. Which I get! Longer fics generally equal more sex, and more sex is good in my book! But I think that dismissing fics out of hand because they are from stop_drop_porn or getfraserlaid, and therefore are "just porn" is sort of - odd. I don't quite understand it."

wnleh: 2006-09-21: Why we write:"But then, there's fanfic - or, as I sometimes think of it, recreational fiction. We can't sell it, most of us don't even show it to our non-fannish friends. Why do it? And if we have to do it, why share it with strangers? If we were really good, shouldn't we be writing original stuff that would could, potentially, sell? // Although analogies don't generally work on the net, I've been doing some comparisons to recreational singing and I figured I'd go ahead and share them."

bangonfic: 2006-09-19: Self-reccing?: "When people ask me to recommend fic, I'm always more than happy to do it. Unless the fic in question was written by me. From talking to others, I don't think I'm the only one."

ralst: 2006-09-18: Communities Question:"Does anyone know if there is a comm especially for the less active or minor femslash fandoms? I know most of the big fandoms have their own communities, and sometimes a lot more than just one, but what about the fandoms that have begun to wane or never quite flourished?"

kaiz: 2006-09-19: Poking at the (Fannish) Woodwork: "Come on, step up and share! Tell me why you like ERs [established relationships], in any/every fandom you read or write in. Which pairings do you prefer to see in long term relationships? What challenges do you like to see the characters and their relationships face? Link me to your favorite ER stories!"

angiepen: 2006-09-19: Poll About Headers and What Makes You Click Through to a Story [POLL]

emmagrant01: 2006-09-19: ITLAPD and a poll about non-con: [POLL]
emmagrant01: 2006-09-20: A post-script on the non-con issue: "In my last post, I asked people to give their opinions on non-con in fanfic, and the results surprised me. I knew that the label meant different things to different people, but some of the perspectives that were expressed in comments really caught me off guard."

littera_abactor: 2006-09-20: Not-Fandoms and Me: A Sad Tale of Slash Corneas: "But now that I do know what slash is, and why it fascinates me, and I have Best Beloved as my partner in crime for the slash hunt (kind of like a treasure hunt, but at the end there's glorious, glorious porn), I see slash everywhere - so much so that I really couldn't answer cereta's question without copying down most of the contents of my library and DVD collection. "

iseult_variante: 2006-09-20: summercon: Meta Session: Attribution Theory and Shipping : "A little while back, hth_the_first were discussing what sorts of character behaviour made them sit up and think “slashy!” (or shippy; here and here, respectively.) Livia’s post in particular made me sit up and think “social psychology!” (yes, my brain is just that fun.), more specifically, “attribution theory”. I thought it would be interesting to expand on those thoughts, in terms of what attribution can tell us about shipping."

bovil: 2006-09-20: fanthropology: International fan culture...: "There's a clash of definitions. // "Yaoi" (the Japanese definition) is... // "Yaoi" (the American definition) is anything that's boy-on-boy that makes the fangirls go "SQUEEEEEE!" "

isiscolo 2006-09-20: lies, damn lies, and website statistics (3): "The moral of the story, I guess, is that even for relatively popular stories, once they are "older" they rarely garner feedback. So it's nice to have some kind of indication like website statistics that show you that people are at least reading them, and hopefully enjoying them."

burr86 2006-09-20: feedback: friends and friending policies: "Is your Friends list more "the journals you read" or "the people who can see your Friends-only entries"? How do you use your Friends list?"

star_dancer54: 2006-09-19: star_dancer54: *takes a deep breath* I know this is long, but bear with me: "But I'm tired. Tired of dealing with the bullshit wank, the cliques, the flames that go to people who don't deserve it... I'm not talking about anyone in particular, or of any group of people. I just feel like these past few months have aged me ten years, and fandom isn't supposed to do that, people. Fandom is supposed to be fun, a place to make friends, make connections with people who share a common passion. Yeah, it's sometimes dysfunctional, but..."