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June 22nd, 2007

07:01 pm

p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com: Friday, June 22, 2007

worldserpent: Amazingly, there is wank on LJ. - Amazingly, there is much controversy about the permanent account sale and the continual lack of clarification of what is acceptable on LJ, which is interesting as in the past there never was any clarification of what was allowed or not anyhow. -
(tags: LJ)

birene: Denial: Only a river in Egypt, or is it? - So this is mostly a rant about The Dead Zone season opener, but my totally violent reaction to it made me think a bit about some of my former/other fandom experiences too. [SPOILERS] -
(tags: fandom ts dz hl sv)

tikatu: [In fanthropology] When is a fandom dead? - But is a fandom ever really dead? How is the life of a particular fandom measured? Is it, as Ms. MacDonald says, the lack of internet presence, the discovery of multiple dead links and dead sites when someone goes searching? -
(tags: fandom)

author_by_night: Why so little genfic? - So what is it about romance and smutfics that gains so much more popularity, and why do people see the need to put canon friends and siblings in romantic and/or smutty situations? -
(tags: fanfic gen)

blueraccoon: a pet peeve of mine - This was triggered by a post I saw on one of the communities I watch, in which the author's notes said "I have only seen one ep, everything I know I learned from fanfic."//And...that just pisses me off. -
(tags: fanfic writing)

mecurtin: Current size of Fanfiction.net: data - Here are the total number of stories in each major category at fanfiction.net, as of June 21, 2007: -
(tags: fanfic)

snowgrouse: Writing About Women Can Be A Feminist Excercise, Damn It - Het Can Be Good If We Can Be Arsed To Make It So. Really.[...] everyone rants and raves about slash being so subversive and queering and revolutionary, etc... why the hell not do it for het as well? -
(tags: het fanfic)

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