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lonelywalker.livejournal.com: Tuesday, 12th June, 2007
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st_crispins: The Continuing Dialogue over on Henry's Blog
So, now the guys finally have the tools to tell stories. Well, good for them. But don't cast those tools as superior to *our* tools (ie ---words) because the underlying motivations and processes are, to my mind, pretty much the same.- smuffster: Livejournal to Wordpress - this weekend I decided to work out how to move my Livejournal account to Wordpress and retain all the features I love. -
- ithiliana: More on the current topic engrossing my flist... - I think I know of a woman who would have sued me once, for a poem, if she could have because she certainly held me/my work responsible for an affair she had that ended badly. -
- seperis: lj news and a new idea - we self-police ourselves within our own diverse communities by fellow members[...]It is flawed, but I do find it preferable to worrying not if my lj breaks TOS, but whether or not it will be voted off the island. -
- hederahelix: Fandom, Responsibility, and The Ongoing Discussion - those of us who write material that is questionable, controversial, and problematic have to realistically expect that there may be additional strictures that we're going to face as a result of choosing to do so -
- technosage: writing the revolution: transgressive romance as acts of hope - Readers and writers who appreciate incest fantasy (for example) about Sam and Dean, Nathan and Peter, Kevin and Tommy (pick your incest pairing of choice), aren't eroticizing incest. They're eroticizing characters -
- linaerys: Responsible Fanfic - There are many questions here, but it comes down to the purpose of art in society. Yes, I'm going to call fanfiction art, deal with it. Do you think art needs to make a moral point? Do you think it needs to portray the real-world consequences of every act -
- queenzulu: Wankbait On My Flist At One In The Morning: An Existential Exploration - communities like this are looking to quantify exactly how different we all are from each other, and just who lands on the quality side of the fence, and who sticks it out in my-name-is-mudsville. -
- robin_anne_reid: [in virgule] Mentoring, Academia, and Aca-Fen - One thing that I find important, because the way that the few women in my academic departments when I was an undergrad and beginning grad student mentored me, is mentoring. The other is networking, which we're all doing anyway. -
- ithiliana: Porn, Fandom and the Internet - The issue is complex one, but it's hard to have complex discussions about it because (as people on a variety of sides in hesychasm's post points out, we--and I include myself--all tend to condescend to the other side. -
- jedirita: I'm reading some of the recent discussion - I want people to judge that story on its own merits or demerits, and not to prejudge it by some label or warning. It's not that I'm opposed to labels and warnings. But I see them as an optional courtesy, not as an obligation, and not at all as so-called r -
- hederahelix: The On Going Fandom and Responsibility Discussion (Take 2) - That prospect of being misread, of having our work be put to purposes that we don't approve of, however--is a risk all writers and artists run.//I, for one, don't think that we ought to scrap the whole project because of a few statistical outliers. -
- penknife: It's not just Persons A and B, it's Persons J, Q, and Z - I think a lot of the recent discussions about responsibility in writing assume that people fall on two sides -- "people should be careful what they write" and "people should write whatever they want" -- and I actually think there are more points of disagr -
- mskatej: Poll on Friending - Friending! -
- fabu: Author's notes, again - if you want me to read your fic, please stop editorializing in the author's notes! Do you *want* to limit your audience to people who share your exact views on character X (who you hate) or canon (which you think should have gone a totally different way) -
- schemingreader: Responsible fan fiction--oh that's so 3 days ago - the warning system we have in place is the best way to preserve safe space--a safe space for exploring as writers and as sexual beings, a safe space for catharsis and recovery from negative experiences in the wider culture... -
- darkrosetiger: It's just a fantasy (it's not the real thing) - it's not as simple as "read a; believe a". It's more a case of "read a, then b and c; decide that a and c said some interesting things that merit more thought, while b was total crap and goes into the resale box. -
- delle: On Validation - We can gentrify fandom all we want, we can banish the 'cestfic and the RPS and the underage into the shadows - we are still writing fiction (again, often graphic) about media characters. -
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fandebate: Gender and Fan Studies Round One (Karen Hellekson and Jason Mittell) - It seems that every discussion about fan studies somehow has something to do with authority - not only with establishing who has it (apparently not the fans, unless they appropriate it), but indicating the closeness of the relationship with the subject m -
- fandebate: Gender and Fan Studies Round Two (Robert Jones and Louisa Stein) - Robert wrote an essay on machinima (film authorship through video game engines) and Louisa wrote an essay which discussed the use of video game interfaces in media fan authorship; the two essays appeared side by side in the recent book -
- alixtii: A Christian Perspective on Authorial Responsibility - Christians believe, however, that with the grace of God received through the Holy Spirit, we can become responsible readers with the wisdom to be able to use these stories to inspire us to good rather than evil works in his name. -