July 17th, 2007

11:13 am

vescoiya: Damned if you do, Damned if you don't - So, basically, part of my reluctance of writing girls is that they are damn hard to write properly. -
(tags: gender writing)

vescoiya: Disability and Fanfiction - I guess i'm asking where are the what if X was always blind fic? How about what if W was deaf? -
(tags: fanfic)

undomielregina: Dr. Who and Race - Just because one set of racial stereotypes have currency in the US doesn't necesarily mean they hold true for the show's writers or its intended audience, not because they're racist but because they're British -
(tags: race dw)

brynnmck: [in ds_workshop] Benton Fraser Is (Probably) Not a Puppy Kicker - So there are some basic objective characteristics that make these characters who they are, and sometimes it's easy to lose those in the ebb and flow of the writing process, so here are a few things I use to keep myself honest when it comes to characterization. -
(tags: ds fanfic writing)

madsciencechick: tl;dr on invite-only comms and the forces of fannish evolution - Here's the problem: when an invite-only community becomes prominently known as the place to go for goodfic... what is inevitably going to happen is that readers ... are going to start reading that community to the exclusion of others. -
(tags: fanfic band age archiving)
rydra_wong: The UK: a country, not a "get out of discussions of racism free" card - No, we do not live in magical happy fairy-land where no-one needs to think about this strange unfamiliar "racism" concept. -
(tags: race fandom)
mawaridi: What's wrong with romance? - What's wrong with romance or lust, even if it's unrequited, being a large part of a character's plotline in a text?[...]And why is it okay for male characters to have love/lust/jealousy storylines when female characters are expected to be above all that? -
(tags: fandom hp)