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metafandombot.livejournal.com: Thursday, May 10, 2007
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seperis: the return of the hummus - I always read it as an essay on the value of diversity in general in fandom[...]But it also can be a call to break from a mental lock on what you think a character is or could be and expand to think of all the other things he or she is. -- wickedwords: Lifecycle of a Fandom
Year 1: the Building Year
This is the year that people are first drawn to the fandom and start chatting it up. Friendships form, communities and archives are started, fanon begins to form. - seperis: hummus, take two - Does anyone remember the context of Slash Fiction Is Like a Banquet?[...]I always read it as less a 'stop writing x' or even a 'you should be writing y', but instead as a kind of challenge to writers, and readers, to expand their reading and writing -
- bop_radar: Self-reflection and poll on archetypes - I'm sure most people have particular archetypes or relationship dynamics that they're continually intrigued by, but in fandom we spend more time than most analysing them and obsessing over them. -
- mskatej: Eroticism in film and television - The actors need to appear to get turned on and to stay turned on. We should feel the arousal the characters are feeling, not just be aroused by them because weâ™re attracted to them. -
- zortified: Fic LJs and more - Having an LJ for posting fiction is becoming more common, in my experience, and yet sometimes I have thinky thoughts about how confusing it is to have a single person using up to three names to identify themselves and their work with. -