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• settiai: Let's talk about fanfiction squicks... - There are very few things that squick me when it comes to fandom in general, but one of the few things that does is incest. -
  
  (tags: shipping characterization)


• juxtoppozed: Lana: rodent. temptress. frigid asexual. un-All American Girl Next Door. Let's break it down. - Do you ever wonder why Lana is the only character who is likened to a rodent? -
  
  (tags: race sv fandom)


• juxtoppozed: thoughts - I don't think Said or Chomsky or Derrida or Stam&Shohat and countless others engaged such things with the goal of "Make people blind with rage!" -
  
  (tags: race fandom gender)


• angiepen: When Ignorance Is More Than Annoying - Normally I'm willing to assume that adults are adults and capable of taking responsibility for their own decisions. And likewise, I think people who depend on any "facts" they've gleaned from a piece of fiction, without double-checking them with a non-fic -
  
  (tags: writing books)


• dana: [in fandom_discuss] [on journalfen] on racism in fandom and fandom wank. - I'm just curious, why is racism becoming such a taboo topic on Fandom Wank, well, apart from the fact that people are getting burnt out by hearing about the subject. -
  
  (tags: fandom race)


• ithiliana: Identity Issues: F_W and M_F - the open statement of something I've seen before around/on fandom_wank: the comparison/contrast with meta_fandom, specifically that one problem is caused by people thinking that FW is similar to MF and using it to report any fandom disagrement.
  
  
  (tags: fandom race)


• thelastgoodname: Vast and Beautiful? Not likely. - the structure of journaling software, and the collection process of metafandom, may have something to do with a certain amount of talking past each other, of conversations that aren't, of diatribes that don't substantially address the salient points of ot -
  
  (tags: fandom)


• huzzlewhat: Watching a kerfluffle bud and bloom - We had a simple, basic rule for conducting arguments in our house[...]we had to be able to rephrase the other person's argument in terms that were acceptable to them[...]to prove that we actually understood what argument the other person was making -
  
  (tags: fandom)


• stultiloquentia: Always Already XX - I've been noticing a particular flavour of genderswap story lately: the always already variation. -
  
  (tags: fanfic gender)


• queenitsy: A quesiton for writer-y types - Some writers I've observed seem to format everything as though it's for the internet; some never do until they actually post stuff online. So how do you paragraph? -
  
  (tags: poll)