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May 8th, 2009
10:24 pm
- helens78: reason #672 I heart Dreamwidth: if this were a comment here, I wouldn't have to do this - I think people who are concerned about the moral reasoning behind importing comments should stop trying to argue under the grounds that it isn't common or couldn't be done before, because both those claims are patently, and provably, untrue. -
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megyal: Writing Fanfic and Pervasive Community Culture - Do you find that your 'speech'-mannerisms (how you post) changes with where you might be posting them, and what you might be posting (not just the fandom, genre or characters, but the style)? Elaborate or not. This is a pop-quiz. Okay, no it isn't. -
- gabrielleabelle: Anybody else actually *prefer* to watch women over men? Anybody? - I seriously have difficulties relating/getting invested in/enjoying a show that doesn't have many/any female characters. Watching guys is boring. -
- cryptoxin: Comment ecologies - Outside of LiveJournal, there was an extended blog debate last year about comments being fragmented across different places, rather than concentrated on a single post, and who owns comments. But the issues and dynamics differ from the recent discussions around the etiquette of directing all comments to Dreamwidth in crossposts to LJ, and the solution emerged through comment aggregation services that pull in comments left on other sites to the primary blog post, rather than shutting down comments in one location. -
- alyburns: Don't be afraid to disagree, to move or to stay put! - Who the hell in RL has time to cover all aspects of the internet just to keep up with their fandom/s? Don't we have enough difficulty with email, mailing lists and journals? Aren't we already running out of time during the day to check what we do have? -
- damned_colonial: Age of Sail fandom and antipodean racefail - So yeah, I guess this whole colonial-convict thing turned out OK for me, and that's how I can manage to romanticise it and be an Age of Sail fan and identify with the colonists without my brain completely imploding. -
- cupidsbow: 'Cliches and the id: a map to fictional seduction' by cupidsbow - Something I've been mulling over for many years now, is how the lizard brain influences writing. Over the last few months several things have fallen into place, and I can finally express my ideas about the power of cliches and the importance of the id.//The short version is that tapping into primal story patterns (cliches) and emotions (satisfying the id) makes fiction more powerful. -
- melannen: On Age of Sail, American fantasy, RaceFail, and history. - I do think that it is impossible to write the American fantasy I want if it pre-dates European contact - it might be a great story, and it might be a story that needs to be written, but the story of America that lives in me - and most Americans, I think - is the story in which the White people killed everybody else in the service of equality and justice for all. So the farthest you can really go, back into a dreamy mythical American past to build a fantasy archetype on, is the age of sail. The age of piracy. The age of slavery and conquistadors. -
- catechism: feeding the dragon - I've seen a lot of confused whispers lately about what the hell it means to make a feed, and read a feed, and do other feedly things, so I thought I'd write up what I did and add some background information. -
- damned_colonial: Intellectual property, fanfic, and imported comments - I think it's important for us to distinguish between copyright proper, the broader cloud of intellectual property rights that exist both for creators and consumers, and the even more chaotic mess of interpretation of those rights. -
- branchandroot: Ah, here we go - Personally, I think DW has struck about the best balance that can be struck in this push-pull, by ensuring there is no content alteration, retaining all original access and terms and providing (currently in the works) a mechanism for mass screening by the comment author. -
cleo: Thoughts on Interpretation and Textual Appropriation - Interpretation is, has always been, and will always be a sticky subject. How can we point to authorial intent when an author can't be completely in control of his or her intent? A lot more immediate for some fandoms (really, not even just fandoms) is: how can we point to authorial intent when our author(s) can be pretty inconsistent? -
naraht: Thoughts on slash, special bonus edition - I tend to identify so strongly with female characters that when I write about heterosexual pairings the stories are really about the women, whether from their own point of view or from the point of view of the male observer. (Maybe there's something to be said here about the male gaze being standard? I don't know.) As I see it the only real chance that I have to write about men is, with occasional exceptions, simply not to have any women around. -
damned_colonial: Dreamwidth, creativity, and the commons - Proposal: That Dreamwidth members be given an option to license their journal content and user pics under Creative Commons. -
prozacpark: Thoughts on women's fiction/narratives, horror, and romance. Also, on Dollhouse. - "Briar Rose" has some meta commentary on the Dollhouse and the dolls, which was interesting in that it was clearly the show's attempt to explain why their narrative isn't a sexist one, but for me? It highlighted exactly why this show fails at gender issues. -
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