Metafandom - Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Tue, Jan. 26th, 2010, 11:40 pm

melannen: Hi! I am still lacking energy to do anything - If, like me, you recently got weird malware on your system that tried to get you to install anti-virus software, and couldn't figure out where from because you'd only been on trustworthy sites, you probably got it from an ad running on Livejournal. -
(tags: lj malware psa)

51stcenturyfox: Huh. - Uh... you do... realise that in fanfiction you can write female characters better and write them into healthy, hot, sex-positive relationships even if those don't exist in the source material, right? This is not really more farfetched than a story about two canonically straight guys falling in love with each other and running through a field of daisies and fucking all over desks and spaceships and getting m-pregnant? -
(tags: slash het gender sexism fandom)

china_shop: it's not a miracle, but it feels like one - Some differences I've noticed between my writing and vidding processes -
(tags: writing vidding)

lyssie: The more things change.... ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. - Step 7. Explain to your friends list how you like this one movie/show and the woman (possibly plural) in it because it subverts gender types and tropes, and how AWESOME it is, but how sad you are that you can never talk about it (or women) because everyone you know is a boyslasher. And you wouldn't want to dare harsh their squee by talking about vaginas. -
(tags: gender fandom)

le_mru: metafandom - Lubię het, ale kiedy jest to het - z braku słów - subwersywny, nie heteronormatywne pici polo, które nas otacza i które spływa z ekranów kin i telewizorów. Bo chyba też po to jest fandom, żeby tworzyć alternatywę, coś nowego, coś innego. -
(tags: slash het misogyny gender language:polish)

hl: about: warnings - A warning is not a judgement on the people who made the content. It can also be accompanied with a private or public judgement (to say anything else would be disingenuous), but a warning in itself has nothing to do with the author of that content. It's a call made by the one putting up the warning (i.e. it's a call made by a person or a group, and thus, invariably subjective and flawed) done for the benefit of the people who don't, yet, know the content. -
(tags: warnings)

mistresscurvy: On Privilege and Responsibility - There is a huge difference between saying that there are instances of problematic characterizations or plot points or objectification that should be addressed and saying that women aren't allowed to write about gay men's experiences fullstop. The fact that there are examples of fail within a genre doesn't mean that the entirety of the genre is rotten. -
(tags: gender fandom sexuality slash)