Metafandom

Sun, Sep. 13th, 2009, 12:37 pm

logovo: That word might not mean what we think it means. - I'm starting to wonder if they mean the same thing I'm thinking when I hear acafans, as in actual people in academia, writing, publishing, teaching or fanlore's entry. Are people now using that word interchangeably with fans who are just into meta? Anyone else getting that impression? -
(tags: acafen terminology)

attackfish: I Hate 'Teachable Moments': Disability and Fanfiction, or How Not to Fail at Disability in Comments - When I was a kid, books about people with disabilities seemed to end one of two ways. Either the pure, good, tragic cripple died, or the pure, good, tragic cripple was cured. Okay, there were also villains whose disabilities were a symbolic sign of their inner corruption, but I'm not even going to touch that one. [...] I had to carve out a happy ending of my own that included my disability. -
(tags: fandom disability writing)