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April 28th, 2007
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inalasahl: Saturday, April 28, 2007
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china_shop: Is meta contagious? I guess fanfic writers are particularly prone to memetic infection. - So in the meantime I play safe, I keep the cat tied up in its bag, yowling, and I wonder how I should feel about pouring so much of my life into a world and a community that is ignored, misunderstood, despised, glanced at askance, invisible to, or patroni -
- cupidsbow: Women/Writing 1: The Response So Far - This post isn't a formal continuation of my essay, "How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor." It's more in the nature of a debrief. The discussion in response has been so vigorous that some of the threads are starting to become hard to follow -
- inalasahl: Still Day 1485: What's the math on that? - There is an absolutely fascinating discussion going on in cupidsbow's journal right now about the suppression of women's writing and fanfiction. The post is great. The comments are distressing me, though. -
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anti_feminism: Long time, first time. - The non-capitalistic aspect of fanfiction is not so that you womyn can be opressed, rather is it because fanfiction infringes on intellectual property rights, and thus trying to make money off it is illegal. -
- starwatcher307: Thinky-thoughts about writing... - A couple of months ago, I admitted to an English teacher that I like to write fanfic. The very next words out of her mouth were, "When are you going to publish?" When I said I wasn't interested, she argued with me -
- sahiya: Response to "How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor" by cupidsbow - I have often wondered if fanfiction would be nearly as "shameful" a hobby (or a habit, as I refer to it myself) if there were more men involved. -
- agilebrit: Rantidy rant rant rant... - It ain't the fanfiction ghetto keeping us poor, it's the lack of desire--or maybe guts--to go out and create our own worlds and send them out to be "judged" (heavens, such a harsh word) by others. -
- amireal: TV shows, humiliation squick and breaking my contract. - I have a humiliation squick and I'm fairly sure it's kind of specific,[...]television shows are only allowed to break their contract with me so many times before I start not trusting them. [SPOILERS] -
- executrix: Meta: The Philosophy of Poverty - Look, even if there weren't terrific writers doing fanworks, the precipitous departure of "Drive" points out why there always has been and always will be a need for samizdat forms that are under the radar and don't have official permission. -
- antennapedia: Oh, look, meta - In a world with a sane copyright law, Trek fanfic would be Trek pastiches. Men would be writing them.[...]And women would be creating some other community for doing something uninteresting to the economic and artistic mainstream. -
- swan_tower: thorny thoughts - But for the love of little fishes, people -- not everybody encouraging you to write non-derivative fiction is doing so because they think fanfic sucks. In fact, sometimes they're noticing that it doesn't suck, and encouraging you to bring the cool things -
- executrix: Meta: A Rum-Pa-Pa-Pum. On My Drum. - And, swear to God, I really think that it's us lined up on one side, and the words lined up on the other. Shooting at each other. If our natural allies, the readers, aren't going to have our backs, how are we *ever* going to have the strength to write any -
- rivkat: Alive, and in Cambridge - His title refers to two different conceptions of what may be the same activities — users/audiences (1) exercising power that can be creative and even political or (2) buying into a system that sells their own creativity back to them in an exploitative r -
- malnpudl: Writing and posting: What's your emotional journey? - What's your pattern? What's your emotional relationship with writing and editing and posting and feedback? Does it go through a predictable cycle? -