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November 28th, 2007
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mecurtin: Lurkers support us in email - I've been continuing to think about the Myspace suicide hounding and reading the discussion at Making Light. Oddly, no-one at ML knows of a similar case in the Nerd World.*//This is surprising, because the Nerd World *built* the Internet -
- snacky: Poll time! - Tell me about the greatest fic, the one you'd give to people who aren't in fandom -
- thelana: [in foxriver_fic] Tales of Terror welcome - Naturally, I'm sure precisely the things that I find very appealing about those kind of exchanges might be precisely the thing that put other people off them. Which made me wonder... -
- fandebate_mod: [In fandebate]Wrapping Up 4 - This is a mirror post of the fourth wrapping up part of this series from Henry Jenkins' blog. -
- scheherezhad: I like metafandom. It often makes me have thinky thoughts. - I do not waste talent on fanfic. The only way to waste talent is to do nothing with it. I like to use mine to do something that makes me happy. And by a lovely coincidence, it makes other people happy, too. -
- cf33: get-together vs established rel. - what I don't see is how established relationship can be boring o-O Getting together is the first hurdle. It's a fun one, admittedly, but what about the second one - first huge row about a complete non-issue? What about the third one - the personality trai -
- keefaq: I've been reading Fan fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the INternet - specifically the chapter called Intimatopia by Elizabeth Woledge.//I had a strong negative reaction to the term Intimatopia at first, but I find I keep coming back to it because much as I dislike the connotation it has for me, it says something that feels -
- rachel_edidin: Maybe I Should Quit While I'm Ahead. - the timing of that decision happens to correspond perfectly with a discussion (read: bitter argument) on the comixschl listserv about what legitimate scholarship is and the distinction between it, fandom, and dilettantism -
- stonedtodeath: Rants! - There are precious few wank-free reasons to act anonymously in fandom, a place where your identity is already obscured from all but the most fanatical by an alias and a string of domain numbers -