August 22nd, 2007

12:33 pm

fan_eunice: Vid Rec: Women's Work - That thing we love, whatever it is will inevitably be problematic when it comes to women because our society is. We're incredibly good at repurposing text in fandom. It's what we do. -
(tags: spn dw vidding gender)
reallyreally: Love Conquers All!1!1! â“ slash, incest and taboo in fanfic. - I think that this desire for stories about love that burns despite of taboo, love that is according many people/society/laws/etc wrong, is almost as basic as the âœwow, boys are really hot together!â reason for slash being so popular. -
(tags: wngwjleo slash fanfic)
reallycorking: Art theft, or just bad etiquette? - For me, taking art from all over the place and smooshing it into a video without a single word as to who created the content, is bordering on art theft. Is that viewpoint too extreme? -
(tags: fanart hp)
cryptoxin: The meta that wo/men do.... - fan communities function as places where meanings get negotiated. At any given time, the constellation of available meanings and their currency within a fan community are subject to something like both centripetal and centrifugal forces -
(tags: fandom)
aubrem: defunct comms - pls to not be deleting them - I think it's reasonable to just leave defunct comms sitting there unattended. People have links to posts in them, they are full of content. You can lock down future posting if you're afraid someone will vandalize the place -
(tags: fandom LJ)

penknife: We are not under the radar. Look, that's us, on the radar. - It's too late to avoid mainstream attention to fan fiction...few of us are more than one or two degrees of separation from likely entry points for anyone who's seen an article in their local paper and wondered what all the fuss was about. -
(tags: fandom fanfic)

nestra: untitled - I firmly believe that you can't really control what your kinks are, and I try not to judge people for their kinks, because God knows I wouldn't want to be judged for mine. But I also believe that you can't really control what squicks you, and that no one -
(tags: spn vidding shipping)

coffeeandink: IBARW recs - I *will* be reading through IBARW posts for a while to come. So here are some posts that particularly struck me -
(tags: ibarw race)