January 6th, 2009

02:40 pm

uluviel: Portfollies.com surveyI'm working on a website, Portfollies.com
It will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication.
(tags: poll)

telesilla: What have you done for me lately, Brad Wright? - Maybe they think that true fans don’t question The Almighty Powers That Be.//What they don’t get is that we love the damn show. We complain because we have an emotional stake in the characters and because we care about the universe some of us first saw all the way back in November of 1994. If we complain, it’s because we see something we think is good but could be better. -
(tags: fandom sga)

flourish: Social Network? SUP, what are you telling people? - One of the most curious things about the huge layoffs at SUP that I’ve been reading about is the way they’re being covered. Valleywag seems to think that LiveJournal is a social network.//Well, I guess that I can see where people would think that: it’s online, you have user accounts, and danah boyd’s on the advisory board, so it must be categorizable with MySpace and Facebook, mustn’t it? -
(tags: LJ)

twistedchick: I did wonder why they moved the servers away from the engineers - In the meantime, if you have a journal on LJ, best start looking for somewhere to jump if it disappears without notice. It may not happen overnight, but I wouldn’t doubt that somewhere along this economic downturn the Russian overlords are going to get tired of running a server farm and cut off the electricity. This is your notice: figure out what you’re doing now, and start doing it. -
(tags: LJ)

cofax7: Happy 2009! - So here’s what I’m thinking about AUs and the relationship with canon: it’s a spectrum. Here’s my spectrum: -
(tags: writing fanfic au)

idonotlikepeas: sup, LJ, layoffs, and such - That said, LJ did lay off about half of its U.S. staff (and apparently some number of Russians earlier as well, although I don’t know much about that). With, yes, no severance and basically zero notice. The main cuts seem to be in the areas of design, marketing, and management, although they also got rid of probably the last programmer they should have gotten rid of. And they definitely got rid of the worst possible designer they could have gotten rid of. -
(tags: LJ)

fanficrants: the art of writing? - my question is: Are writers born or made? -
(tags: writing)

stultiloquentia: Figwit Lives - I want to know your Figwit moments. When did you know you were doomed? -
(tags: archiving history fandom)

linaerys: I probably shouldn’t post about this, but . . . - Everything created in a sexist or racist environment will be imperfect on those issues. There are places where I draw a line--for instance, I find most TV news so horribly racist, sexist, sizeist that I don’t watch it unless I absolutely have to. But even though I find those shows offensive, if you are consumer of it, I don’t think that you are racist, sexist or sizeist beyond the societal baseline unless you do or say something that pings me that way -
(tags: fandom gender race merlin)

linaerys: How do you write long? - I think that many shorter fics, including plenty of my own, read as summaries for the story that could have been. When I make the decision to "write long" I try to vignette less, show scenes more. I include sensory detail [...]. I try not to give my characters easy outs, but make them work for their happy ending. -
(tags: fanfic writing)

wistfuljane: Fandom & Source Texts - The idea that one should be more socially conscious about what one consumes and supports is a noble one, but forcing fandom to move in one flow, asking them to fall in love with some smarter source texts and to operate on the same moral and qualitative compass, is rather an insult to fandom. It assumes that there is one right or wrong way to have a fandom, one right or wrong way to be a fan. That there is one fandom that is better than the other. -
(tags: fandom)

penknife: Eight ways to break your ficathon writer’s brain - I keep meaning to do this before holiday ficathon season, but I never remember, and I figure the advice is applicable to the round of spring ficathon sign-ups that’s already starting. So here are eight tips on how to avoid making your assigned ficathon writer want to head-desk herself into oblivion before she even starts writing. -
(tags: fests)

sartorias: Omni POV - Is it possible the resistance to omni is because relatively few people have read 19th C stuff, when omni was the standard, except within the context of upper school assignments? Tight third of various flavors has been the mode for about eighty years now, and was almost exclusively the voice of choice in genre, anyway, for the past forty. -
(tags: pov writing)