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slytherincess I should be writing my Smutmas fic, but instead I shall rant . . . God, I am just so fucking sick of the over intellectualization of slash. Characterization is about people, not who's fucking who. And while our sexuality certainly shapes us as individuals, it's not the goddamned be-all and end-all of good entertainment. Sheesh. I think the original poster's last sentence pretty much sums up the actual agenda -- and there's nothing -- NOTHING! -- wrong with just wanting something to turn you on.

catwalksalone Mary-Sueing Danny subtext can be read any which way, so let’s assume, because this is my argument (!), that all relationships can be considered valid and in character IF the protagonists can get there whilst still retaining their ‘themness’.

linaerys The Female Thing And then she was saying that she finds certain brands of badfic fascinating, because they take a slash couple we love, who are on more equal footing than many male-female relationships, and wedge them into a stereotypical male-female, dominant-submissive, secure-insecure, stoic-emotional mold.

cressida0201 MiSTing debate on Metafandom Mostly, I'm saddened that this is what MiSTing has become. At the risk of sounding like a cranky old geezer, I miss the days when it was a respectable fic format.

pennswoods Hufflepuff Power! All too often in fanfic, I come across Hufflepuff as being depicted as something lesser than the other three houses - the catchall for the unwanted.

aewyn7 Disliking characters and fandom discussions What interests me about all these explanations is that I get the impression that some people feel not liking Ginny is something so unacceptable that there just has to be some mysterious reason, some hidden motivation to their dislike, and frankly, that notion just baffles me. Why is it so hard for some people to accept that not everybody likes Ginny the way she was written?

vshendria Fandom equals love Those academics who write about slash (the few of them), who argue that its progressive nature is in its transgression of heteronormative models of sex and gender...well, you might not be far wrong, but you are missing the most important bit of it: It is empowering

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thefourthvine Consensus, Part One I'm going to try to establish my relative fannish sanity by consensus. To do so, I need to take you on a brief tour of my brain, focusing on two particular fannish things it does that I'm starting to suspect are - well, weird. (And keep in mine I'm judging myself compared to other fans; we'd already be considered insane by many of Them Folks Out There.)

kindkit And then they had sex. The end. So, dear LJ folks, what are your thoughts on sex scenes? I'm not looking for advice, as I do in fact know what I want to accomplish in this scene, and the rest is just a matter of plugging away at it. I'm just curious about what other writers try to do with sex scenes and how they do it

thecaelum Discussion on Fandom-building I'd like to hear from people who have had these types of experiences in at least one fandom, preferably more. I'm not entirely sure yet if this will be a question and answer session, or if this will be the participants writing up their experiences.

furiosity Breaching of friends-lock Let's imagine a pair of LJ users, Mary Sue and Sue Ellen. They are on each other's friends lists but their friends lists do not overlap significantly (i.e. there are people reading Sue Ellen's journal who have access to Mary Sue's locked posts, but there are not many such people). Let's say there is also Lee-Ann, a friend of Sue Ellen's who is not on Mary Sue's flist.