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trickofthedark - Feedback - The idea that feedback responses are a necessary obligation... that idea makes me not want to post things. Or I guess I could wait to post until I'm sure I'll have the energy and the mindset needed to actually respond properly? Yeah, that'd be never. I look at this fandom requirement and I just see myself failing at this social obligation over and over and over.

silverspar - feedback neurosis - Apparently, when someone leaves you feedback, you’re supposed to respond. If you don’t, it’s rude. // Okay, see - I didn't know that. I don't respond to lj comments from my real-life!friends when I feel like I have nothing to add, either. It's not an intentional dis, I just feel like - why waste people's time?

leelee_cakes - If Britney Spears adopted a baby from Malawi and ran for office, then we'd have a winner! - I'm watching the debate over the Time 'Person of the Year' on CNN and I'm finding it really interesting, from a fandom perspective....perspective. [...] It's so interesting to watch these people talk about this year as the rise of the blog, the facebook, the myspace, people using the internet for entertainment, generating their own content, personalizing the internet. And for me, I'm watching this going "...I got an LJ in 2003".

truepenny - Let's talk about sex. - More specifically, let's talk about slash and why it is offensive and heteronormatizing to equate it with homosexual relationships.

svilleficrecs - attention seeking behavior - I know that rec lists are for readers, are reader to reader communication but...as a writer, I sometimes wish there was some sort of anonymous service where you could be pinged when someone recs you.

losyark in fanthropology - Once upon a time, there was a long ago land that had never heard of LJ - Has the LJ Comm killed Websites and Mailing Lists?

silver_spotted - hugging and brotherly love - Why the Winchesters don't hug (and why this is a good thing): a comparative study of brotherlove on Supernatural, Prison Break, and Heroes.

missapocalyptic - Slash question - Would those of you, who define themselves as "slashers" ever consider to ship a het pairing, if a show came up in which you "see" it and think it's interesting? Or are shows (books/movies/comics/etc.pp.) without an m/m pairing to slash generally unintersting or at least uninteresting in the fannish sense?

joandarck - Not here... Staring at WIP file, convincing self to open... send coffee - you know that trope of 'I can't make a move because if the answer's no it would ruin our friendship'? In a lot of cases that just feels like an excuse to me, either of the writer's or the character's - after all, people take that chance all the time, and some of these pairs just aren't as good friends as all that. [...] But in the cases where it feels true to me, it feels *so* true that I'm... I'm worried now.

alazysod - Why I Lurk - I don't really know what the general fandom consensus is about lurkers. I've read a few posts, but my memory is wiped clean after about, oh, three to five minutes. My guess is that the feeling towards lurkers is mild annoyance - you know, "Why don't they crawl out of their holes?" type thoughts. // But I'm an occasional lurker. Here's why.

teh_no - Serialistic storytelling, viral marketing for the new millenium, and YuleTide woe - The problem with serialistic storytelling is that it's very hard to do it halfway. Either you're in the 24 mode where if the audience misses one episode, they're fucked, [...] or you're in the episodic mode of "people wander around and do stuff until the season finale, where they all get into a big cliffhanger for next season.

germaine_pet - Thanks and thoughts - Why the hell do people feel this never-ending urge to "explain" why women like slash? What is it about slash that needs explaining, exactly?

mskatej - Mariaville: The Lipgloss Years - There’s no better way to learn about our associates in fandom than by their reaction to a really big wank.

On Writing/Creating

smittywing - Stories Yet Unwritten -In the words of Mr. Rogers, "I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start. I could just feel how good it could be."

bimo - Christmas Wish of a Non-Native Writer ( who travels a lot between fandoms) - What I'd really like instead is a good, trusty beta-reader. One who shares all the fandoms I write in. Who is a native speaker of English and has a good feeling for punctuation and language. Who instinctly gets how I write.

lunacy - [silly writing rambles] - ...So, do you guys have a type of fic you write when you're in a certain phase? Not like a mood ('cause I guess most people are more likely to write angst when they're angsty... unless you want to self-medicate), more like a... well, phase. I didn't realize I had those till I realized I was writing my longfic in a pathetic attempt at productivity :))

oxoniensis - Offshoot fandoms - How much do you like to be familiar with the original fandom when you're writing an offshoot?