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January 26th, 2008
12:35 am
isiscolo: just don't call me late for dinner - There's a bit of an unwritten rule in fanfiction that one should pick one form of the name and stick with it. If your POV character is "Sheppard," he shouldn't become "John" halfway through, and for God's sake, don't alternate. This "rule" is broken all the -
10:09 pm
inalasahl: Saturday, January 26, 2008
kindkit: on slash and canonicity - As you can see, the claim that people should only write same-sex fanfic about canonically LGBT characters is, in its effect, a kind of silencing. Very few fandoms have enough canonically queer characters to sustain much fic. -
thelana: "Turning gay" in canon - Namely, I have the utmost sympathy for people who don't like non-canonical relationships or who don't like it when characters are turned into a sexual orientation they are not [...] My issue is that canon is frequently as bad as fanfiction in that regard. -
imadra_blue: Male/male slashers and their views on women. - In short, most slashers do not hate women. Nor do they bash women. Some slashers are also hetshippers, and some slashers are also genficcers. Some slashers write women into the story, some don't. Some write them as main characters, some don't. Some write -