Metafandom - Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Wed, Jan. 13th, 2010, 06:45 am

smirnoffmule: My bingo playing friends approved this message - Obviously, there are legitimate instances where it's relevant to cite an opinion or anecdote that was told to you by a gay friend, and these are usually clear in context. Where it becomes a tired and overused groan-inducing cliche is where a person starts to wheel out the fact that they have gay friends as evidence that they are either a) definitely right b) definitely qualified to speak on behalf of the queer community c) definitely very cool d) definitely not being offensive or e) definitely not homophobic. -
(tags: discussions privilege homophobia)

eumelia: Hysteria, Buggery and Other Crimes of the Body - With that, one of the outcomes of people taking offence of the way RTD wrote homophobia and of people being very very sad indeed that Ianto and Jack are no more - a disturbing trend in Torchwood fandom, but also fandom at large, has been the appropriation of very Real Life Queer Issues Homophobia and conflating it with the ship that we like being over! -
(tags: torchwood homophobia shipping)

rozk: De gustibus and all that - It is a fallacy, I think, that any of us is going to like everything that is good, or everything with good aspects that other people like. It is a fallacy that there is any moral component to this - there are very few works of art that it is immoral to like and very few that are so glorious that to be blind to them is a moral failing. -
(tags: reading fandom)

quinara: What do you call it? - what do people in non-English-speaking fandom and indeed people in English-speaking fandom for whom English isn't their first language call (what apparently is properly referred to as) "fan fiction". Do you compound or not? Is it always a loan word or do you have your own terms -
(tags: fanfic terminology)

yhlee: untitled - But the reviews aren't for me. The reviewer is not obligated to lay things out for my convenience or tell me what I need to do better. -
(tags: reccing reviewing fanfic)

mresundance: Meta, Meta, Meta: Two Links - The problem for me, is that a lot of times, the reality of - hey, there are real gay people out there - is strangely absent from too much fan fiction and fan fiction discussions. Even if fan fiction sometimes helps me to feel less alien and less alone in the world, I find it disheartening when I feel my presence - or the presence of people like me - is subtly un-acknowledged or ignored. -
(tags: fandom gender sexuality publishing)