April 22nd, 2010

01:00 am

silver_spotted: [in writingthewall] canon: what? where? how? - What counts as sources of canon? pictures (photo shoots or candids), interviews, blogs, twitters, diaries, letters, published biographies (official or unofficial), concert reports, creative outputs, fan accounts, etc – where and how do we find these sources? To what extent does each become part of “official” canon? -
(tags: rpf canon)

acrimonyastraea: You can't do fandom wrong (but you can be an asshole) - Because it just boggles my mind for people to say that writing fanfic is doing fandom wrong just because we don't have enough canon, or character development is too shallow or because the fanfic is obviously wish-fulfilment. To me, that is what fandom is for! -
(tags: fanfic dr.who)

potatoe1988: [in the_slash_pile] Discussion: Slash cliches - What cliches do you HATE? What cliche will make you stop reading the moment you see it come up? Conversely, what cliches do you love, even if perhaps you shouldn't? -
(tags: slash trope)

ritaxis: [in the_slash_pile] vent - It does bug me that you keep coming up with these worlds that make no sense anyhow -- really, slavery is an economic institution, and to have a system that eats up many more resources than it produces is problematic at best, but I can overlook that when I like the characters. But this one thing? The thing where you somehow feel the need to justify slavery? It's a deal breaker. I'd rather you didn't bother justifying it. Why should you? If your characters are brought together by being involved in a horrible epidemic, crushing war, or famine, do you try to say that those events are actually good things? Not if you're sane. -
(tags: writing slavefic)

potatoe1988: [in the_slash_pile] Discussion: Apparently there are men here, too - So. Guys. How does it feel to be in the minority when it comes to reading and writing stories about your own sexuality? Does it creep you out? Are you just happy it means more fic? Are women really, really confused about what being a gay man is actually like? -
(tags: slash gender)

albumsontheside: a tentative meta on mary sue and the inimical effects of misunderstanding feminism - What strikes me most about the Mary Sue debate is the fact that, from what I gather, the expectations of fandom seem to demand that any female protagonist should be a Mary Sue -- if only a well-written one. And we express this not only through what we believe a female character can be (gorgeous, talented, with supreme potential), but also what she can't. -
(tags: marysue feminism)

silver_spotted: [in writingthewall] canon: what? where? how? - What counts as sources of canon? pictures (photo shoots or candids), interviews, blogs, twitters, diaries, letters, published biographies (official or unofficial), concert reports, creative outputs, fan accounts, etc – where and how do we find these sources? To what extent does each become part of “official” canon? -
(tags: rpf canon)

acrimonyastraea: You can't do fandom wrong (but you can be an asshole) - Because it just boggles my mind for people to say that writing fanfic is doing fandom wrong just because we don't have enough canon, or character development is too shallow or because the fanfic is obviously wish-fulfilment. To me, that is what fandom is for! -
(tags: fanfic dr.who)

potatoe1988: [in the_slash_pile] Discussion: Slash cliches - What cliches do you HATE? What cliche will make you stop reading the moment you see it come up? Conversely, what cliches do you love, even if perhaps you shouldn't? -
(tags: slash trope)

ritaxis: [in the_slash_pile] vent - It does bug me that you keep coming up with these worlds that make no sense anyhow -- really, slavery is an economic institution, and to have a system that eats up many more resources than it produces is problematic at best, but I can overlook that when I like the characters. But this one thing? The thing where you somehow feel the need to justify slavery? It's a deal breaker. I'd rather you didn't bother justifying it. Why should you? If your characters are brought together by being involved in a horrible epidemic, crushing war, or famine, do you try to say that those events are actually good things? Not if you're sane. -
(tags: writing slavefic)

potatoe1988: [in the_slash_pile] Discussion: Apparently there are men here, too - So. Guys. How does it feel to be in the minority when it comes to reading and writing stories about your own sexuality? Does it creep you out? Are you just happy it means more fic? Are women really, really confused about what being a gay man is actually like? -
(tags: slash gender)

albumsontheside: a tentative meta on mary sue and the inimical effects of misunderstanding feminism - What strikes me most about the Mary Sue debate is the fact that, from what I gather, the expectations of fandom seem to demand that any female protagonist should be a Mary Sue -- if only a well-written one. And we express this not only through what we believe a female character can be (gorgeous, talented, with supreme potential), but also what she can't. -
(tags: marysue feminism)