General Fandom

reallyreally: Meta rec and discussion — "I don’t think it would be strange if a slasher, as someone who spends a lot of time getting into the mindset of a gay man, reading fic, writing fic, drawing fanart or rping, can see sexual tension in certain situations where it is not their own sexuality that is talking but the sexuality or desire of the gay man who’s personality they have had to sort of “get into” in order to write/read him. The gay mans gaze, basically."

black_eyedgirl: Torchwood POV-character ponderings — "The structure of starting a new show interests me, and Torchwood is more interesting than most given that SFX thinks it's "the most controversial show they've covered." So I was wondering what other people might think. What would have changed about the show without a audience-POV character? Would you have gone off the show if that had happened?" [spoilers for Torchwood]

cupidsbow: What Real Person Fiction can be... — "We touched on when it's okay (if ever) to write about "real" people; when it crosses the line of taste/legality/morality; whether the RPF characters are actually "real" people at all (I said "no", she said "yes"); and how being a reader/writer, as opposed to a reader, may affect the interpretation of character and characterisation. It's hard to discuss these issues, though, without a shared experience of RPF, so here are a handful of stories and songvids that I think do interesting things. Some of them are my own experiments, most of them are by others."

crimsonclad: dirty confession time! — "My confession is that I do, in fact, secretly translate fics into new fandoms for my own illicit pleasure. // I mean, I confess-- there should be enough John and Rodney fic out there to satisfy me, but that is not the case. And everytime I remember a cool popslash AU or find some random other fandom story that might be happily updated by doing a find and replace, I just go ahead and make it about JOHN the hooker who falls in love with RODNEY the client or whatever."

Polls, Questions, Etc.

nightchik: This poll is for everyone — "Impressions of superhero comics."

mofic: What Does It Mean to Say that Slash is (or isn't) Subversive? — "(Poll)."

mofic: What I Learned in My First Poll — "I did a poll for the first time, on Subversion in Slash and what it means. Here are some post-poll thoughts."