dragonscholar in fanthropology: Hey You Kids - Get off of my lawn and start a con! - A subject that came up was that we had met some young people (well, young to us), who were getting into running cons, and we began asking the question - if you meet a young person wanting to get involved with running a con, what resources do you give them?

corinna_5: Lunchtime poll! - [poll on single page vs multipage website index organization]

cereta: Why do you love fandom? - I'm feeling the need to share a little love - not, actually, because I'm down, but because I am full of love for fandom right now. So, give me one reason (more if you want, but one will suffice) why you love fandom?

lilysaid: circles again - Basically he said that as writers, when we submit stories for journals and novels to be published, we are asking for an audience, and it's pretty crappy to expect everyone to be our audience when we won't be theirs. It's about support: if you want support when you write, then support other writers, and that will make you an ethical writer. If you don't, then it's selfish, and it's not right. Now, those are his words, and even though I resisted the idea at first because I don't like being told what to do, I can see his point, especially when applied to fandom.

princessofg: Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History & Several Theories of Fan Fiction by Abigail Derecho - Derecho agrees that fanfic is a species of derivative literature, and then proposes the term "archontic" instead....// It's drawn from Derrida, and means that fanfic plus canon is a kind of writing that has the properties of an archive: A body of work always open to new entries, never complete, never closed, and giving no primacy to what was put in the archive first. She is uncomfortable with labeling fanfic either "appropriative" or "derivative," because the words imply that fanfic is lesser, and the original work, the first work, is greater or more valuable, and also they imply that fanfic is somehow theft (textual poaching, anyone? :) )

stultiloquentia: She's My Man - I have used the term "queer het" a fair amount. I like it for the double takes it makes people do, and the way it pushes into the open the possibility of being straight but not heteronormative.

giandujakiss: In for a penny.... - One of the things that makes the Buffyverse...so fantastic is that despite the operatic proportions of the various tragedies that befall the protagonists, the protagonists always carry with them a current of self-awareness. You can always count on at least one character to stand outside the given crisis and offer almost MST3K-like snark, particularly just when another character has completed a grand speech....But Highlander doesn't have this.

kyuuketsukirui: Search and replace - Some basic types might be interchangeable. Take Snape and Rodney. They're both prickly smart guys who aren't terribly attractive, right? But Snape doesn't whine like Rodney, and he certainly doesn't talk like Rodney (aside from the inherent British/Canadian English differences), and Rodney doesn't have Snape's massive grudges against everyone. I find it really hard to imagine that putting Rodney's name on Snape would feel very Rodney-ish.

danceswithgary: META: Movie Rewrites/Remixes/Adaptions and use of dialogue - I'm putting this out there and I'm willing to discuss as I may have tread on sensitive toes. Am I doing something wrong? Am I using too much of the original dialogue and should every sentence be rewritten? I consider the dialogue an intrinsic part of the movie, and I am trying to lead the reader to see/hear the same words in a different context or slant due to character change or additional motivation.

wistful_fever: various and sundry - I tend to take a different approach to RPS vidding than I do with FPS vidding. There narrative thread which I'm so fond of, though still there, becomes very thin. Instead, it's more about style and mood and capturing elusive things like 'vibes'.