carmarthen - On the two types of Yuletide writers - So, I think there are essentially two types of people who participate in Yuletide: // (1) People who normally only write in established, medium-to-large fandoms. Yuletide is the one time of year they write anything obscure. // (2) People who normally write only or primarily in tiny-to-nonexistant fandoms. For them, Yuletide is the one time of year all of fandom gets in on their passion for the rare.

hth_the_first - 2006 year in fic review, or: Did I really do *that*? - Well, for me that was always the most important thing about writing fanfiction, even before popslash made me conscious of it: if the narrative of the show is what someone wanted us to see and hear and think about, I want to know what's under it.

shati - Buffy and Utena - Last night I found myself babbling to genarti and chaos_pockets about how Buffy the Vampire Slayer is structured like Shoujo Kakumei Utena.

etrangere - sex as metaphor - So I was reading today a great many posts and essays about writing sex and the nature of slash, and that was reminding me of something I wanted to say about what I liked in fanfics (slashy or not, though always of the transgressive kind) which was non-romantic sex, or sex as metaphor, and which is, in great part, why I love the kind of fanfics and pairings that I love.

amonitrate - OMG... thoughts on Leoben, Kara, and the Occupation - The Possibility of Unconditional Love in a Cage : thoughts on Leoben, Kara Thrace, and the Cylon Occupation [BSG]

hth_the_first - my idiotic little warning-label rant - As much as you, gentle reader, may hate accidentally reading a story that upsets or disturbs you in some way -- and I get that you hate it, I hear that -- that is exactly how much I hate being told before I even start the damn story that everything turns out all right in the end.

vinnie_tesla in writing_sex - Morality and Fiction - What, if any, are the moral restrictions on writing fiction?

meyerlemon - I feel very capslocky today. Sorry. - HERE IS SOMETHING I FIND BOTH HILARIOUS AND BAFFLING ABOUT FANDOM: // The ludicrously overstated nature of all praise!