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fairestcat: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
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minisinoo: "A good author can convince the reader of virtually anything ..." - I'd like to create a multifandom 'rec' thread for those stories that have convinced us of something we'd have found unbelievable[...]something we'd have called "OOC,"[...]something that's handled badly 99% of the time, but this time ... oh, this time, it' -- dunmurderin: Why does badfic happen? - Why do writers feel the need to create stories that are, by the standards of most fans, bad? Why do people feel the need to bend canon like Beckham in order to justify pairings or characterizations or scenarios that are for lack of a more polite term, stu -
- mskatej: Sexism in fandom
You know what? Female characters are not your enemy. - luciademedici: From Angst to Darkfic (Or, Screw Morality, Screw Hope, Kill 'em All.) - thereâs a certain expectation given to stories bearing the label âangstâ, both good and bad: in worst-case scenarios, angst becomes melodrama, or the writing pastiche. It becomes removed from the very emotions the writer is intending to capture -