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January 17th, 2008
05:20 pm
egretplume: help! I'm being oppressed! - The discourse of oppression because some people might overanalyze something -- it annoys me. Granted, that's likely my pro-academic bias. But once you write something and put it out there, you're not really in charge of it anymore. -
casapazzo: Religion: it's like Brit-picking, in a way - Please, I beg you, get someone who is actually Catholic (and under 70) to Catholic-pick your story if you're writing Catholic characters. Especially if you're writing about priests or have several scenes at Mass. -
morgandawn: Copyright: What Fans (And Citizens) Really Should Be Focusing On - AT&T (a large DSL provider and the owner of the bulk of the Internet infrastructure in the US) is aggressively pursing ways is which to automatically filter your Internet traffic for pirated content. Not just torrented content. But all content that is pas -
izhilzha: Quick question (for both the slashers and genficcers on my flist) - So when one of the responses chosen for participants to vote on reads: "Why should I let your homophobia define what I do with my free time?" it's a little hard for me to just bite my tongue and say nothing. -
ladypeyton: In which I rant about fandom a little.... - These proprietary statements over something that is owned by someone else is exactly the type of thinking that is going to make the copyright owners feel threatened. It's one thing when a fangirl sits down to write an homage to an original work (an homage -
beckyh2112: Why I Don't Care for OTW - Yet, I've noticed this continuing idea, from OTW and their supporters, that to be a fan of the sort they care about, you have to be female or part of the 'female' side of fandom. -
minisinoo: When is self-promotion arrogance? [poll] - When does self-promotion cross over from savvy salesmanship into arrogance, or is simply annoying? -
trascendenza: [Poll] Searching bookmarks/recs/discussions/etc., hitcounts & indirect feedback vs. direct feedback.