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January 3rd, 2008

06:58 pm

[identity profile] metafandombot.livejournal.com: Thursday, January 3, 2008


  • [livejournal.com profile] celesteavonne: Fanfic legitimized! aka, I write Transformative Works - Transformative Works sounds deliciously formal and official. Instead of trying to explain or defend fanfiction, which I sometimes often have to do to family members who consider it less than legitimate, I can say I write transformative works. -
    (tags: otw)

  • [livejournal.com profile] lennoxmacbeth: Women Like Silent Men - After watching the debate on other blogs for some time, I've decided it's time for me to weigh in on the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW). Never heard of them? Don't feel bad - most people haven't, unless they run the LJ fandom comms pretty ext -
    (tags: otw)

  • [livejournal.com profile] glockgal: FANDOM POLL: please pimp! - So amidst all the holiday gluttony, I saw and heard about a lot of interesting behaviour regarding people's fanworks and feedback on LJ. Of course these topics creep up because it was holiday season and there were jillions of fic and art fests going on. -
    (tags: feedback reccing fanart fanfic poll)

  • [livejournal.com profile] lobelia321: 1001 ways to write an orgasm - So how to write the orgasm? I trawled some of my favourite (and some not-so-favourite) lotrps, HP and assorted other fics to find out how writers do it and how writers vary it, how we play variations on that most standardised trope of all: the orgasm-endi -
    (tags: fanfic writing sexuality)

  • [livejournal.com profile] schemingreader: More about writing orgasms - Just as sex scenes (with orgasm descriptions) need the same narrative structure as the stories in which they appear, so too must we consider the same kinds of mechanical issues in writing them. -
    (tags: fanfic writing sexuality)

  • [livejournal.com profile] karamarie_mckay: Greetings, I've seen the various privilege memes floating around - I think this is why this discussion doesn't arise very often in fandom, or in any of the other areas of LJ that I frequent. No one has to identify herself as lower, middle, or upper class online, and no one really wants to be the poster girl for the underprivileged -
    (tags: privilege)