p_zeitgeist: Feelings about indexing, visibility to Google, and LJ: a quick poll — "It's a matter of degree of exposure, really: I tend to think that some is inevitable, and the internet would lose much of its value if we curtailed casual and nonsystematic linking enough to have any impact."

schemingreader: Talent is a Red Herring — "I think a lot about the role of praise and criticism in creativity also because I am the mom of a fabulous little four-year-old kid. He seems to me to have special artistic talent. I hang out on the internet and in the public library, reading about how to raise him without ruining that."

lord_dingsi: Neil!news, fannish news, and two DCU-related entries I'd like to point out to you — "Fannishness never happens in a vacuum. You are sending out signals, and there's a receiver (or many), and if it works exceptionally well, you get a signal back and notice that your tiny message of "I liked this" or "This was a refreshing take on the subject" or "I've recced this to my friends" has an impact on people. Always."

dkwilliams in ds_workshop: Discussion topic: The End of it All — "The climax of the story finally comes, and it’s perfect and you’re shaking from the intensity, laughing aloud from the joy of it – and then the writer just ends the story, rolls over and goes to sleep, leaving you lying there in the virtual wet spot, feeling vaguely unsatisfied about the whole thing but not exactly sure why."

alixtii: WNG Femslash — "It's been much noted, although no one is quite sure what to make of it, that while the WNG trope doesn't seem to as common as it was (depending on how one defines) the characters in same-sex relationships don't exactly seem to be identifying as gay (or even bi, in most cases), either. Is fandom a post-gay space? No one seems to know for sure."

tea_and_snark: [untitled] — "I think a lot of fan fiction and fanvids spring from the desire to see sexual tension that is not resolved in the original work get its screen/page time."