heresluck - processing vids: complexity, density, accessibility - Some vids work very well for viewers at a variety of reading levels; sockkpuppett's "Bricks," for example, is intelligible to me despite my very low reading level in Supernatural, but I could see from the comments that the vid also clearly rewarded a lot of viewers who were reading at much higher levels than I aspire to. Other vids seem to require a much higher reading level in the viewer in order to be intelligible, and still others may offer up a few little extras for folks at higher reading levels but most of what's going on is accessible to pretty much everybody.

penknife - Question about names in narrative - How do you guys handle names in narrative when the point of view character has been thinking of a character by one name but then later in the same scene or the same story starts calling that character by a different name?

musesfool - one and one and one is three - I read quite a bit, and I feedback a good amount of that, and I do it because I enjoy it. But also because I would feel like a shitty person if I kept posting fic and asking people to read it and give feedback without in some way reciprocating.

mofic in writing_sex - Why Do Our Characters Have Sex? - A lot of people seem to divide sex into two categories: fucking and making love. The former is just being done to meet the biological urge, the latter as an expression of love. I don't think it works that way in real life, and I don't represent sex that way in my fiction.

sdwolfpup - How I watch vids - I was reading through some posts yesterday about people saying that it's hard for them to connect to vids because they don't 'get' them, and the other day, heresluck talked about processing vids and reading levels and I thought it might be an interesting exercise if I tried to articulate the way that I watch videos.

princessofg - One True Pairing: The Romance of Porn and the Porn of Romance by Catherine Driscoll and OTP: Porn and Romance, by Driscoll, part II - Being a chapter of Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, by Hellekson and Busse, 2006, McFarland, reviewed/commented on by me.