Fandom Meta

kalpurna - Power dynamics and anal sex, whee! I guess what really squicks me is when characterization *is* the fantasy, instead of supporting a story about two real people *playing* with fantasy, or thrust into a fantasy situation By Means Of Plot.

pearl_o - In conclusion, I like slash. Because if we mostly agree that being the receiving partner in anal sex doesn't make you the "woman" or the "sub" or the weaker person, then doesn't it follow that it's still true even if you always prefer to be the receiving partner? It's totally possible to write a relationship where one guy is always pitching and one is always catching without that becoming the false power issues Kalpurna talks about in her entry.

fireball_says - Blah Blah Blah Why Are You Still Talking? Is you, or someone you love, suffering from an addiction in which they constantly crave the approval, acceptable, and, above all, the attention of others? Sufferers from such an addiction are known as attention whores.

alixtii - Thoughts he problem with lumping both femslash and m/m slash under the same "slash" label isn't only that somehow femslash always seems to end up dropping out of the discussion altogether (no matter how much some might protest that they really do mean both brands of slash), but that the grouping just plain doesn't make much sense.

teaphile - Criticism vs. Negativity I do my share of critical thinking when it comes to any show or movie, and I do see the bad and I do point it out without getting my back up about it. // However, there's a big, big difference between being critical and being hateful.

Specific Fandom Meta

( Cut for possible Spoilers for the Fandoms: FF, comics, various )

On Reading and Writing and Vidding

laurashapiro - DIY Video Fest: The Planning Begins in Earnest I have signed on to help curate the DIY Video Festival, hosted by the USC Annenberg Center for Media Studies, which will be a lot of fun and OMG a lot of work

esorlehcar - Five Simple Ways Writers Can Make Readers' (and Reccers') Lives Drastically Easier Internally link multi-part stories ...

mofic - Where Does Humor Come From? hat I'm trying to do here is come up with a kind of taxonomy of humor, and then apply a few humorous moments from my fiction to that taxonomy.

partly_bouncy - CSI: The Review Factor While we had various meta discussion regarding the social implications of feedback, one question came up was what were some of the reasons people gave reviews? What were contributing factors? My meta analysis of late trends towards statistical analysis so I went that route. What relationships exist between the number of reviews a story recieves and other measurable factors? The best place to conduct such an analysis is on FanFiction.Net where basic data is readily available. The fandom that I chose to examine was the CSI fandom because that is where I am fannishly.

sistermagpie - My "in character" is your "wtf?" It just struck me yet again how "in character" is almost meaningless description in fandom.

Links, Polls, Questions, etc

morgandawn - My First Vid (Master List Of First Vids) Please feel free to drop a link to the first vid you made. Any fandom, any date is welcome. Even if your first vid has been online for while you can participate. Ditto if your first vid was made only days ago - or last year. Or last decade. Or whenever. All first vids in all fandoms are welcome.

yhlee - Question for fanficcers Are you allowed to write fic having only watched part of what's available?

beren_writes - I have a random question :) To all the writers out there: How do you write the perfect sex scene?