General Fandom Meta:
melannen - Help! My slash goggles are stuck! It seems like the more obvious, numerous, and fundamental those pathways in are, the faster and larger the slash fandom grows - whereas you have shows which by any rights (emo-porn, setting, gaygaygay male friendships, quality of writing, hot guys in leather, whatever) ought to have massive slash fandoms but never really quite made it over the threshhold - and in many cases, I think, it's because the het male perspective is simply so entrenched, and pervasive, in the wordview of those canon that there's no friendly way in for a slasher's gaze.

fabu - It's all relative. . . Do these notions (which seem to be human nature) affect how people perceive things like fannish status, how much work they put into fandom vs. how much they get out of it, how much feedback they get relative to others, and how much of their favorite types of fic is available relative to other types? Is it possible that when we rely on our feelings about what seems obvious or true about our fannish experiences, we're being influenced by psychological factors that don't necessarily fit the objective facts?

sarah_frost - Who Deserves Another Person? Does a person deserve another person? No. But should a fictional character be written into a romantic relationship with another fictional character, because some other arrangement would take away their prominence in the story and downgrade them as a character? Yes, depending on circumstance.

kyuuketsukirui - Meta! and Pearl Jam ...on the one hand, I don't want to make stereotypes of people, but on the other hand, if people want to read about women, is that the sort of female character they want to read about? Why write John and Rodney as girls if all that's going to be different is their bodies? Yet what about their personalities or interests would change if they were female?

On Reading and Writing:
vee_fic - Untitled I wrestled with the same scene three times over the weekend, and in the process wrestled with the two problems that strike me as basic to my experience of fanfic: (1) the temptation to short narrative coherence in favor of hasty pathos and (2) where we end up after we've exhausted canonicity.

Questions, Polls, Etc:
rydra_wong - Notcapade: I'm probably going to regret this ... If you've written both het and slash (or m/m slash and f/f slash, or any other combination of orientations - threesome and OT4 writers welcome too) - do you find that it's different? If so, how?

trobadora - Poll: Genderswitch, take two - What takes precedence, the character's brain or their genderswitched body? the character's body and gender identity within the story, or their canonical body and gender identity?

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