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fairestcat: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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vinnie_tesla in : Real life but not fiction - It's very common for sex writers to have themes that show up a lot in their stories that aren't a part of their actual sex lives. There are many good reasons for something that you find hot to think about to not be something you necessarily want to do. - - arionhunter: - A questionnaire involving comics fandom - For an essay/article (I haven't set down the structure I'd like this to take yet, but I'm thinking Wall Street Journal) concerning demographic changes at scans_daily, part of the data I need involves why people chose to leave scans_daily at various points -
- mecurtin: A Radical FanGirlLand Manifesto - Fanboys and fangirls tend to do different things, and the things the fangirls do are *better*. I don't just mean "I like them better", I mean they are *objectively* better. -
- wesleysgirl: So, what's better? (About fanfic writing)
Pick a fanfic author that you like. Any author will do.
Assuming you can't have both, would you rather they post almost-perfect/beta'd fic once or twice a year, or slightly imperfect fic much more often? - dodger_winslow: Fandom Meta: Why I Write Fanfic - here's my response to a post by fantasyenabler off something posted to metafandom called Why Do I Write Fanfic Poll detailing why I couldn't click-it in any of the options provided, but rather felt a need to go on and on and on about why I, personally, write fanfic -
- darkrosetiger: "[FANLIB] is a great marketing idea." - That quote is printed on page 5 of FanLib's 6-page marketing brochure. This is the face that they're showing to the entertainment industry. -
- petronelle: My kink is not your kink - I am not arguing that any panfannish archive would perforce have to include all types of fiction in its purview, but rather that any exclusions are made on a legal basis, rather than the assertion that some kinds of stories are simply too distasteful to b -
- inalasahl: Day 1511: Getting through the door and putting our hands on the Lassiter, it's easy. - Imagine a world with no professional tie-in novelists, nobody who has to be paid for all the movie novelizations or the 478th Star Wars or Star Trek novel, just contest winners and free buzz. Can you imagine it? I suspect Fanlib is. -
- caras_galadhon: FanLib vs. The Fanfic Economy, Round #640-- - One more mark in the "FanLib Doesn't Understand the Fanfic Economy" column, please. I was just browsing in the forum thread entitled "Problems," and found that there is no easy way to thank a reviewer for their comments on your story. -
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life_wo_fanlib: Chump Change from My2Centences - Here's how they're pitching FanLib to industry: -- fairestcat: An Archive of One's Own, Or: Why Shouldn't We Ask For Everything We Want? - I think we CAN do this, we CAN make this amazing, complicated idea happen. But in order to do so we're going to have to be careful about those little voices inside our heads saying "well, it's a nice idea, but" -
- kitesareevil: Fanlib - Fanlib is trying to sell something to other people, not to fanfic writers. Fanlib has been trying to take advantage of fandom since at least 2003, probably since 2001, and I have a hard time believing the fanfic authors interests are anywhere on the agend -
- abby_i: Musings on the Heroes Fandom - Should the people involved in producing our shows be aware of what's strong in fandom? [SPOILERS] -
- dunmurderin: Action-Adventure Poll - This is an attempt to get a feel for what people are and aren't comfortable with when it comes to writing action-adventure/conflict based stories. The idea being that I'd like to see about making resources available to people to help bridge that comfort g -
- ruuger: Ruuger and the Tao Tao of Critique - Because my view of criticism, be it constructive or otherwise, is that when someone criticises you, the correct answer is not "You're wrong!", it's "Why do you think that?". -
- hmpf: Something that's been confusing me about 'recent' changes in fandom: - fandom seems to have moved to livejournal almost completely, even for those things that aren't necessarily best served by LJ. -
- rahirah: I'm a posting fool tonight, baby - It's the writer's job to convince the reader that the action they chose is the most plausible in that situation, under that set of circumstances.//After a certain point, though, the matter is out of the writer's hands. -
- bookshop: Fanlib.com: sexism, misogyny, ignorance, oh my! - the implication is that in order to pacify an audience of mostly women, CW, speaking for himself and his all-white-male board of directors, has to appeal to their emotional instincts in order to get them to just settle down. -
- etrangere: Gendered fandoms - I'm not a fangirl. I'm certainly not a fanboy either. I'm a fan. Period. -
- phaballa: Meta: On FanFiction, FanLib, blah blah - Let's[...]just focus on the idea that this group of guys and corporations actually think it's somehow possible to control and take over fandom. -
- fools_game: Holy shit.So, you all know about the Fan - They're claiming to be fans, even old school fans from the 'zine era, but the content they are putting out there, both in fics and in their interaction with the fans they're trying to attract, shows an almost laughable lack of understanding of the fan com -
- bethbethbeth: Henry Jenkins and FanLib - From my perspective, Henry Jenkins is as much a fan as any of us[...]However, for me, this is just one more way in which Chris Williams and FanLib show how very little respect they have for anything that doesn't look like male-centric authority. -
- silveryscrape: As we count down to the Popslash Remix a - I confess I totally fall back on two bits from the WITR Faq when I approach my remixes: If I had written it, I would have..., and what are and aren't essential plot points is purely subjective. -
- telesilla: "you come in here with your guns and your brush cuts...." (some personal thoughts on FanLib) - Anyway, that's why this isn't "Why You Should Care About The FanLib Debate." Of course I think all of fandom should care about it[...]But what you care about isn't up to me, so instead you get why I care about it and why I think it's important. -
- atti_br: FanLib - ein echtes Déjà vu - Sorry people, but I can't help thinking that this 'new' Business model just is quite idenitcal to the one of fanfiktion.de, a German multifandom fanfiction archive, practises since 2004. -