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August 28th, 2007
10:56 pm
auctasinistra: From a letter 6A sent to a "violator" ( - So a bunch of 20-something interns, middle-aged office managers, and IT nerds - always the cream of the crop of professional literary critics - are going to judge the artistic quality of any story that has two 16-year-olds engaging in consensual sex -
accioslash: Poll Results...... - I posted a poll here about older fen and fan works and was happily overwhelmed by the the response it generated. Briefly, the poll was created in response to an article Some Women (and Men) Who Obsess on an Underage Harry Potter Border on Pedophilia. -
accioslash: Poll Results, Part 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...... - The position that fantasizing about imaginary children is harmless is not universally shared by the scientific community or the world at large. Even other people in fandom don't necessarily share this view. -
alixtii: Adapted from a Conversation with wisdomeagle - The concept of canon whoredom requires, if not a single privileged meaning (which the authorial intent people of course have, or at least claim to have), than a set of priveleged meanings which exclude a set of other meanings. -