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inalasahl: Saturday, June 9, 2007
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meowse: Pictures on LJ. - I've noticed that many[...]of my friends do not have actual pictures of themselves either in their icons, on their profiles[...]Given how fundamental facial features and face recognition are to social interactions, why do people make this choice? -- melusinahp: Writing "responsible" fan fiction - Haven't women spent enough time feel ashamed about their sexuality, feeling that they have to clean it up for public approval, make it pretty and nice, submissive to the mainstream, unthreatening? -
- saltandhoney: history of reading final paper, round one: fandom is my fandom
From my perspective, when fan studies says "derivative" instead of "transformative", it doesn't see fandom-- it doesn't even see that it doesn't see fandom. - barakb25: [in news] moving forward - We know we can learn a lot from other communities that use a combination of reputation software and human judgment to gauge community opinion, and we are now actively exploring how we can let the community "vote" on what is acceptable content in order to -
- penknife: My thoughts on Mary Sue - I think it's great to say "women should ask for whatever they want, even a telepathic pony, even six telepathic ponies," but if your story consists only of your character being given rewards without ever facing any meaningful obstacles, I'm just not interested in it as a story, whether your main character is male or female. -
- vulgarweed: On Creative Commons and Why I Want to Spread My Seed
I have seen a lot of wibbling in a lot of different fandoms about what does and does constitute plagiarism....A lot of people seem to think it's much grayer and murkier than I do. - angiepen: Ficcing and Hypocrisy - If it's acceptable for us to write fanfic based on Jane Prowriter's work -- to change her ending, . . . whatever -- without Jane's knowledge or permission, then it has to be equally acceptable to do the same thing with Mary Fanwriter's story, -
- morgandawn: Deep Thoughts On Blogging (2nd Edition) - This Is Not My Beautiful House - So when our asshats of neighbors or the casual passerby call the police (think of the children!!) we're shocked and hurt and pissed off. Because - "hey wait, this is my own home. I am not harming anyone.** And stop looking in my windows, you pervert!" -