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Thu, Mar. 4th, 2010, 01:40 am

[personal profile] fairestcat: Wednesday, March 3, 2010


  • lian: more meta light. - I deliberately chose the lingua franca for the wider audience it affords me, so I know where you're coming from. And yet, I've slowly come around to the realization that there is immense value in writing in your mother tongue. I deliberately don't want to look at it from the identity angle, but -- I find a sure-footedness in my native language, and an intimacy that is sometimes shocking. -
    (tags: language participation sexuality)

  • phoebe_zeitgeist: some poll results - The takeaway, then, is that if responses here are indicative of the feelings and actions of the broader community, a strikingly large part of the community has drawn back from public participation in reaction to these discussions, how they've been conducted, and the implicit rules of discourse that have grown up around them. -
    (tags: discussions meta)

  • zvi: [in podficmeta] Go! Tell it on the mountain! - Why do you like listening to it, why do you like making it, why do you like manipulating it (if you make covers or podbooks or work on one of the archives), why do you like teaching other people to do it, why do you like discussing it here? -
    (tags: podfic fanac)

Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 05:35 pm
[identity profile] redstapler.livejournal.com

[livejournal.com profile] hkath wrote an excellent post (http://hkath.livejournal.com/628747.html) about derogatory feminizing language.
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    • Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 07:14 pm
    [personal profile] fairestcat

    Thanks for the link!

    Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 06:04 pm
    [identity profile] thefrogg.livejournal.com

    I took several recent metafandom-linked posts a step further here (http://thefrogg.livejournal.com/72026.html) in analyzing the reasons why reading graphic sex in fanfiction is (possibly) cyclical in nature.
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      • Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 07:16 pm
      [personal profile] fairestcat

      Thanks for the link!

      Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 06:15 pm
      [identity profile] cynatnite.livejournal.com

      Why does [livejournal.com profile] metafandom link to Dreamwidth? This is an LJ community and if a person is not a DW user they can't contribute to discussions on DW unless they become a DW user.

      I don't get why a DW meta would need to be on LJ if all LJ users can't contribute.
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        • Fri, Mar. 5th, 2010, 06:56 pm
        [personal profile] fairestcat

        Metafandom is not an lj-only community. We also have communities on dreamwidth, insanejournal and journalfen, and all posts are crossposted to all four sites.

        Metafandom looks for and links to meta posts on LJ, Dreamwidth, Insanejournal, Journalfen and other LJ-like journaling platforms. This has been our policy for several years now. You can read about it in FAQ 4.0, posted in January of 2008 and linked from the community profile. So we have, in fact, been linking to off-LJ content for longer than Dreamwidth has existed (which is why DW isn't specifically mentioned in that FAQ, and the now-defunct GreatestJournal still is)

        The same list of links is posted on each site, we do not only post livejournal links on the livejournal comm or only post dreamwidth links on the dreamwidth comm.

        You are certainly welcome not to follow links to Dreamwidth posts or comment on them, but as long as people are writing meta on lj and we are seeing it, we will continue to link to it.

        LJ users are absolutely able to contribute to most conversations on Dreamwidth, even without having an account there. Dreamwidth has great support for the OpenID system which allows blog users to leave authenticated comments on sites where they don't have accounts. There are detailed instructions on how to set up an OpenID account that links back to your lj on Dreamwidth here.