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April 14th, 2009
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doomcanary: On the finer points of English swearing - But I see a lot of the same swearwords getting used over and over again in Merlin fic, and I bleed for my mother tongue, Merlin fans. I bleed. So here's a glossary of some common British insults and slang, all their rich contextual glory. -
- sartorias: Women in Fantasy - Why does wish fulfillment work? It's obvious why it works for kids, but what about those of us who haven't been carded for several decades--what makes us enjoy a book that is basically wish fulfillment? -
- the_rck: There is a downside to my tendency to en - There is a downside to my tendency to enter fandoms through the fic without knowing the canon. [...] The downside is that, if I decide to take a look at the canon to find more of something I loved in a fic, I can end up horribly disappointed or, at the very least, confused. -
- elfwreck: I forgot to post yesterday. - I do understand that Fanlore was put together by people who are mostly media fen, mostly fic-fen, and therefore it mostly relates to media & fic history and lore. [...] And that it's open to all the rest of fandom... but the patterns are defined by media/fic terms, and it's sometimes hard to figure out how to categorize something else. -
09:52 am
- doomcanary: On the finer points of English swearing - But I see a lot of the same swearwords getting used over and over again in Merlin fic, and I bleed for my mother tongue, Merlin fans. I bleed. So here's a glossary of some common British insults and slang, all their rich contextual glory. -
- sartorias: Women in Fantasy - Why does wish fulfillment work? It's obvious why it works for kids, but what about those of us who haven't been carded for several decades--what makes us enjoy a book that is basically wish fulfillment? -
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the_rck: There is a downside to my tendency - There is a downside to my tendency to enter fandoms through the fic without knowing the canon. [...] The downside is that, if I decide to take a look at the canon to find more of something I loved in a fic, I can end up horribly disappointed or, at the very least, confused. -
- elfwreck: elfwreck: I forgot to post yesterday. - I do understand that Fanlore was put together by people who are mostly media fen, mostly fic-fen, and therefore it mostly relates to media & fic history and lore. [...] And that it's open to all the rest of fandom... but the patterns are defined by media/fic terms, and it's sometimes hard to figure out how to categorize something else. -
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