General

strigoia: relationships and fandom - So, I'm wondering - in general, how cool are the people we love with our obsession? [poll]

Yuletide

viva_gloria in yuletide: Another five recs ... - I've been thinking a lot about meta-Yuletide this year: the gift-giving model, the rare fandoms, the relative frequency of literary fandoms or sources .. am I the only person who feels that what they write for Yuletide tends not to be typical of other output?

therealjae: Yuletide thinky thoughts - I, too, have wondered about how realistic it is to talk about a "fandom" for something that has none of the fannish trappings besides a single piece of fanfiction. I very much like the thought of "creating" the fandom by naming it, but perhaps, more realistically, it's *yuletide* that's the fandom.

liviapenn: Fanfic of fanfic! - So I was reading Yuletide stories, and one of the things that struck me this year about some of the new fandoms (well, new to me, anyway) was how... fanfic-like they were. In the sense that they *are*, by certain definitions, fanfic of something else to start with.

liviapenn: Curious about canonicity / non-canonicity of Yuletide story pairings... [poll]

Reading, writing, creating, criticism

joandarck: - Another thing slash has taught me is I'm not very romantic - Some more of those things that are pretty standard in slash fic - of every fandom, and I'm not talking about *your* story, relax, just wondering why I've seen them so often – which I've always been curious about. [poll]

ciaan: On ambiguity, subtext, and authorial intent - I've been trying to write deliberate subtext lately, and I've decided that's the heart of it, that it's more than just innuendo and double entendre. Subtext isn't exactly always saying yes, because then it would be text, but it's saying no as little as possible.

penknife: Thoughts on my tastes based on my reccing habits - Looking at the recs I've done in the past year, I've been thinking a little about what makes me likely to love a story enough to rec it, and conversely what's likely to make me not rec a story, even if I read it and enjoyed it.