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acari

12 May 2008 @ 08:27 pm

Monday, May 12, 2008

irreversibly: Romantic friendship. Romantic love in friendship. - After reading up on this, I'm now deeply bothered by the insistence of most of the fandom to change deep friendship (romantic love?) into a sexual relationship (erotic love). Hey, it's not like I've been any better about it, seeing things from this twiste -
(tags: fandom shipping sexuality)

superversive: The taste for magic - If magic is so devilishly tricky, and has to be handled with such an elaborate apparatus of kid gloves and protective goggles, why use it at all? What do we stand to gain, as readers or writers?

(tags: reading religion writing)

lovelokest

12 May 2008 @ 10:15 am

Sunday, May 11, 2008

saeva: Fighting Words - People, and fandom in particular, really, really need to stop using the word "pimp." -
(tags: fandom language)

inalasahl

11 May 2008 @ 12:06 am

Saturday, May 10, 2008

mecurtin: Why shunning doesn't work online - Shunning works as a method of social control in small *closed* groups where people can actually see each other. The internet is none of those things. -
(tags: community culture fandom)

seperis: i'm avoiding my actual work - I'd bet money if you traced metafandom over six months, you could work out a fairly good predictive model for blow up probability. Whether it goes all-fandom wide or not is trickier -
(tags: fandom fandomwank discussions)

p_zeitgeist

10 May 2008 @ 12:40 am

Friday, May 9, 2008

dodger_winslow: Not that My Week Begins and Ends on Thursday or Anything ... - feedback serves many, many, many purposes for most writers. Yes, it can be a welcome ego stroking for notoriously neurotic creatives, and it can be the kind of feel-good pat-on-the-back that makes fanficcing worthwhile for many writers who feel a need for -
(tags: reviewing feedback writing criticism)

amireal

08 May 2008 @ 09:43 pm

Thursday, May 8, 2008

miriammoules: [Public] Rehabilitation and Social Exclusion - So in the self-esteem view, criticism can become "what I have done (who I am) is being attacked", while in a self-worth view it becomes "what I have done is being critiqued, someone cares enough to say something, I care enough to listen and discern." If w -
(tags: discussions culture fandom)

coffeeandink: nice is different than good - Both actions attempt to codify behavior while treating speech content as empty; they ignore power differentials; they treat actions or speech acts as if they take place in a vacuums free of social circumstances, historical knowledge, or political influenc -
(tags: discussions privilege fandom)

geekmama: Fannish Love - Whatever you write â“ stories, authorâ™s notes, meta, comments, whatever â“ let it be written out of love. Love of the characters, the stories, and your fellow fans. Weâ™re all in this together, as diverse as we are. Letâ™s be good to each other, civ -
(tags: fandom community)

fairestcat

08 May 2008 @ 12:08 am

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

poisontaster: Why Is There Not More Shunning? - I feel - and again, personally - that sometimes (oftentimes) THE POINT is that it's important for the members of a community to stand up and say "I do not approve of this. I do not condone this. I do not support this." -
(tags: discussions community culture)

winterlive: [ bananaphone ] - shunning, dogpiling, social ostracization in whatever terminology, is the feminine weapon of choice. we all know that, right? it's used like any power is - responsibly, by those who have ethics, to show the difference between what's acceptable and unaccep -
(tags: discussions gender fandom)

idyll: No, really, some of us hear you - Whether or not I participate in them, discussions of race, and other controversial issues, in fandom have provided me with opportunities to examine my views and opinions, and revise them as needed. -
(tags: fandom discussions)

ithiliana: Spiraling off from Abyssinia's post on how history might inform our stories - this is an invitation to think about how creators can deal with histories, especially the history of oppression and genocide[...]to invite you to share information on any creators in any medium you think do a good job of telling the stories of the past -
(tags: history)

wistfuljane: In case you weren't already feeling overload with discussions on classification - Let's discuss some of the possible ways to classify a fandom - or rather, some of the ways RPF fandoms have been classified. -
(tags: indexing tags rpf delicious LJ)

oulangi

06 May 2008 @ 09:06 pm

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

amireal: Your LJ and YouSo you've woken up and your post has received 100+ comments over night or you have just spent the day arguing and arguing and arguing. WHAT NOW? Well lets go over your LJ options.
(tags: LJ)

giandujakiss: Lost in Translation - I discovered these two blog posts linking to untrue_accounts's essay discussing the Sweet Charity vid she commissioned from me[...]both bloggers[...]see the essay as the primary document, with the vid as something of an illustration. -
(tags: fandom fanart vidding blogging)

skywardprodigal: PoC in SF Carnival #9: What I Heard about You, And What That Meant For Me - "What I heard about you, and what that meant for me" became the theme for the 9th PoC in Science-Fiction and Fantasy Carnival because I figured that even when the character (never mind the actor) isn't of my ethnicity or race, if they are nonwhite/of colo -
(tags: sciencefiction fandom race)

acari

05 May 2008 @ 08:50 pm

Monday, May 5, 2008

amireal: What do we do now? We fucking remember damnit. - In order to combat what I think was one of the worst and horrific themes from yesterday, "It was so long ago" and "move on", I'm going to discuss history and why I really hate that *I* don't know enough about it, let alone everyone else. -
(tags: anti-semitism history)

therealjae: Dogpiles - When I see a dozen, fifty, a hundred outraged posts all dogpiling on the clueless/thoughtless/unpleasant interactions of one person or group, my first reaction is to not write a post about it. It doesn't matter how angry/outraged/repulsed I am--I will rea -
(tags: fandom culture community)

abyssinia4077: Meta: The role human history plays in our stories - What can we do as storytellers to deal as respectfully as possible with cultures and historical events? -
(tags: history anti-semitism culture prejudice privilege)

gemmi999: You are NOT your bookcase it's when you feel comfortable with the people surrounding you, and pretty much figure they're not going to judge you if you tell a lesbian joke, or talk about sex and bondage and threesomes. It's where you feel comfortable being you.

(tags: behavior)

chopchica: When I made my post about the Kristallna - The very idea is laughable to them, and therefore, the things they say, the things they tell people, the way they raise their children, is *dangerous*. -
(tags: anti-semitism)

lovelokest

04 May 2008 @ 09:52 pm

Sunday, May 4, 2008

thelana: go with your gut - Is it offensive to use the name Kristallnacht for an RPG? -
(tags: poll fandom anti-semitism genocide nescience)

kethylia: Are you a fan who wants to break into the manga biz? - It's widely accepted, especially among comics people, that the advent of manga has moved comics publishing closer to book publishing and that all of the issues that affect and afflict book publishing are becoming issues for comics publishing as well. This -
(tags: manga comics)

rood: Why I think the FanFictionNetBot is a Bad Idea - I have a problem with it because it appears that I actually managed to learn a bit during my studies. I study journalism, in case you don't know, and I am not very attentive most of the time, but the concept of News values still stuck somehow. I know a Wi -
(tags: wiki)

minisinoo: META: Aiding the Willing Suspension of Disbelief (why research matters) - That said -- EVERY author has to make decisions about what level of research he or she is going to invest ... even when writing autobiography (unless one has an eidetic memory). We have to check things, and have to decide how far we'll go ... and what our -
(tags: writing)

ithiliana: Antisemitism, Appropriation and Obscenity - Intent does not matter; good people can (as we see again and again) screw up in major ways, and appropriating this event for a RPG is not just "offensive" (I am getting awfully tired of that word). It's obscene. -
(tags: anti-semitism RPG)

inalasahl

04 May 2008 @ 12:06 pm

Saturday, May 3, 2008

morgandawn: Copyright: I can watch what where? (streaming websites and their patchwork of IP deals)Ever wonder which streaming video sites have inked which deals with what content providers? I'll be updating this thread as we go. Feel free to drop a link to any news item that confirms a deal with either music or video content providers.
(tags: copyright vidding music)

giandujakiss: They caught me! - I got a notice from YouTube: // UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Joy to the World.... they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page. -
(tags: music vidding copyright)

jennem: Oh, Fandom. - YAY. We're going to pretend that Jews are Muggles and Hitler is Grindelwald for the purposes of our role playing game, because that would be a TOTALLY COOL game setting! -
(tags: religion rpg)

chopchica: your repulsive ass, let me show you it - Now that the joy of miscegenation fic has been cruelly yanked away, all they want is to play their Kristallnacht RPG in peace. But no worries, it's all in good fun and so you *totally* shouldn't be offended! -
(tags: religion rpg)

acari: I hate people sometimes. - What the hell is wrong with people? That word is not just a "historical reference", it's people and humiliation and death. It's the synagoge of my hometown being destroyed, the Jewish graveyard being vandalised. -
(tags: religion rpg)

thebratqueen: Having a brain: Ur doing it wrong - You don't have to yank from real life events because the books have done the scutwork on the symbolism and allegory for you. Also? Half the frakking point of JKR's writing is the Dickensian use of names. -
(tags: religion rpg)

wneleh: When you take away the glass - slash or smarm? - [...] referencing Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Khan, he has said that [...] slash is what happens when you take away the glass. I can see the appeal of this as a slash definition, but I think it's an even better way of describing, well, smarm. -
(tags: slash terminology)

xanphibian: untitled - In case you didn't know? It's NOT OKAY to use Kristallnacht as a name or a premise for a game. [...] If you don't know why, or continue to brush it off as having nothing to do with you, do a little MORE RESEARCH and give yourself a fucking history lesson. -
(tags: religion rpg)

p_zeitgeist

03 May 2008 @ 12:32 am

Friday, May 2, 2008

dragonladyk: So. CM. - I don't ship Morgan/Garica. [...]but do I resent the shit out of Kevin? Yes, Ma'am. Because I think the message is pretty clear. If you want the gorgeous, chased-after guys you'd better slim up or settle for what the skinny girls don't want. -
(tags: size cm culture)

amireal

01 May 2008 @ 08:08 pm

Thursday, May 1, 2008

bexone: Wow, dude, okay, CRY MOAR. - Wow, dude, okay, CRY MOAR. [discussion in comments] -
(tags: bandom rockfic fandom wiki)

cryptoxin: Rhymes with NEWB - I don't think they're using "Nerd Underground" in the same way that synecdochic recently did -- the article lists six types of nerds[...] Is there even such a thing as a singular geek culture anymore, or is it really a geek diaspora? -
(tags: gender gaming feminism geek)

wistfuljane: Poll: Bandslash vs. Bandom usage - If you consumed and/or produced fan generated content of one or more bands outside the MCR/FOB/PATD collective before 2007, to which fandom did you classify these fanworks as belonging: -
(tags: bandom rockfic rpf poll)

brown_betty: I was going to say "adamantium" but wolverine doesn't do post-modernism - It is, I believe, common knowledge that Livejournal's user demographics skew female. I believe that part of Livejournal's appeal to women rises from its social-networking structure; not the linkages, but the autonomy. -
(tags: LJ gender)

hector_rashbaum: Bandom Bandom - What it really comes down to is...there are two almost entirely different bandom cultures: one which traces its roots back through decades of band fannishness and mainly exists in archives outside LJ, and one whose roots are more aligned with media fandom -
(tags: bandom rockfic)

halfshellvenus: On Writing: Narrative Point-of-View - Point-of-View (POV) is the framework from which an author tells a story. It's the narrative approach to the story, and comes in three forms: first-person ("I" or "we"), second-person ("you") and third-person ("John" or "He" or "They"). -
(tags: writing fanfic pov)

fairestcat

30 April 2008 @ 05:49 pm

Wednesday, March 30, 2008

azarsuerte: File under "never okay" - Because being plagiarized hurts. It pisses you off. And quite frankly, if I ever found out someone I knew and/or considered a friend was a plagiarist? Not just someone who remembers an idea and reuses it without realizing where it came from, but an actual -
(tags: plagiarism writing community)

bad_goth: I say I'm a bitch like I care. (Hint: I don't.) - It's just, I am so sick of every online discussion of feminism turning into "well, now this is how you can relate to women so that they will sleep with you." -
(tags: cons sexuality feminism)

therealjae: Yes, I am thinking about next year's yuletide already. Go ahead, laugh. - If you want to write about a character, you spend some time getting a feel for his or her speech patterns, right? But how on earth do you do that when you're quite literally using a different language to write the story? -
(tags: language fanfic)

giandujakiss: I've been trying to figure out how to categorize Lum's The Fifth Circle - A constructed reality vid does not have to use outside source, but I usually only associate outside source with constructed reality. -
(tags: vidding)

oulangi

29 April 2008 @ 11:45 am

Tuesday, April 29 2008

hector_rashbaum: Band + Fandom = Bandom. Wait, no. Specific, Majority-Approved Bands + Fandom = Bandom. Better![..] metafandom links a post talking about how diverse "bandom" is. The post has a point, if you read "bandom" as "FBR and associates". I write a post about how in different areas of "bandom", diversity is sorely lacking. metafandom tags it as "rockfic"
(tags: bandom rockfic labels terminology)

penknife: Auntie Penknife's Guide to Flirting for Men - you may meet someone at a con or festival or other large public event, and one of two things is true. First, you may want to explore the possibility of some no-strings sexual activity[...]Second, you may [...]want to explore the possibility of dating her -
(tags: cons gender)

joyful_molly: Writing/Meta: The Balance between Facts and Fiction and Characters Behaving Badly - Too much realism or historical accuracy can ruin my work. I write historical naval adventure with supernatural elements and male/male romance, not a history book or a naval manual. Reading about a supper the heroes enjoy is probably more enjoyable than th -
(tags: writing characterization)

emily_shore: The X-Files, the Other, and the Mutant Enemy - As a show, The X-Files is very much a product of its time. It began at a time when the Cold War was just finishing, and America was looking around for new enemies. It reflects fears not of the enemy without, but the enemy within, drawing on anti-governmen -
(tags: xf meta deconstruction)

hebrew_hernia: facer-hating (or, the episode that broke the camel's back) - But seriously, how do they air an episode like "Ghostfacers" and not notice the rampant prejudice/discrimination? I understand that there's meant to be a certain amount of humor in it, but the truth in it makes it decidedly not funny. -
(tags: spn race gender)

sidewinder: Fascinating... - I pretty much just wanted to point out a very curious sequence of events which seems to suggest that the spur behind OTW was not just FanLib and/or Strikethrough...and that the idea of working with FanHistory and the people involved in it was never going -
(tags: otw wiki)

acari

28 April 2008 @ 08:50 pm

Monday, April 28, 2008

veradee: The Narrator as a Know-It-All - Now, that I've actually tried to write a story using the omniscient narrator, I realise I instintively did a few things that were mentioned in the comments back then, but I still don't feel that I got all the answers to my question. -
(tags: writing pov)

painless_j: Let me sound ungrateful - So ... how difficult it would be to make a fest run for three months?... To let readers wait for them instead of swear when they see them posted -- 'cos you don't think I'm the only one who feels overwhelmed with word count rather than contents, do you? -
(tags: hp fests fanfic reading)

stele3: The Dreaded Meta: Fic Warnings and Literary Ambitions - In that context, I have to support labeling fics. The purpose of fanfiction is to gratify ourselves and each other [...], and interrupting that gratification with things that people DON'T find gratifying does a disservice to the community. Obviously, ever -
(tags: fanfic warnings prowriting)

sinboy: A message to men, WRT TOSBP - Guys, fellow SF fans, congoers, kinksters, perverts, straight white guys, brown guys, gay guys (yes you too) and bi guys[...]LISTEN UP//We are all theferrett. In some dark corner of ourselves, we're the same, or worse. Every day, in countless ways -
(tags: fandom gender privilege)

highway_west: Jason's Guide to Con Flirting Without Being THAT GUY - Finding a special lady friend at a convention without being the creepy stalker guy or using a button can be painless if you know the proper steps to take -
(tags: cons fandom)

p_zeitgeist

25 April 2008 @ 09:24 pm

Friday, April 25, 2008

springheel_jack: open source male assholes - Body first, sexual delectation to men first, as object first, "mind" - i.e. as a human subject - very firmly second. It's simply to intensify the condition of patriarchal gender relations that already existed - or, to put it more simply, it's a frustrated -
(tags: fandom feminism gender meta politics sexuality)

misskalloway: LOOK AT THIS POST! - You may have your own page on The Fan History Wiki and NOT KNOW IT//[...]THE SITE USES A BOT TO GLEAN YOUR FF.N INFO AND MAKE AN ENTRY FOR YOU. -
(tags: fandom wiki)

miriammoules: Sexual Violence and the OSBP [Public] - It takes courage to see our monstrousness. It's even harder being able to see why someone may think us a monster, and realising that, in humility, there's no way around behaving the way we just did. -
(tags: gender writing fandom)

tikatu: An interesting frustration... - there are over forty years to consider and I've only been in the fandom for five. How much of that lost - and it is lost - history should be dug up? Or is just the history of what's been going on here, on the internet, be considered? -
(tags: history wiki thunderbirds)

moonmip: Writing Resources (with added commentary because I can't help myself)What follows is a mixture of resources that can all be found online, peppered with my own ideas.

(tags: writing)

icarusancalion: Fanfic and the Magical Forget Ray, or Things I do when I should be doing homework. - In my view at least, the personalities behind the stories are irrelevant. The stories stand by themselves. I may not like someone. I'll still read their fic. I'll still recommend it if I think it's good. -
(tags: reading reccing prejudice community)

wicked_socks: Something else that really bothers me fr - It makes many of them assume that little toe dip has provided a full life voucher, a feminist street cred... Because after that little toe dip... any criticism is seen as attacking that feminist cred, something which he was already given for life. -
(tags: sexuality feminism)

mimesere: how to disappear completely - STOP SAYING THEY ARE WHITE. STOP IT. *breathes* In terms of diversity of race/religion/sexuality, bandom *wins forever* over any other popular fandom I've seen. -
(tags: bandom race)

ohinternets: Race Imbroglios: Still Never Funny, Even When About Comedies - It's a lot of people pretending to be indignant over the lack of Latino visibility in the media, but really, it's a lot of people blaming a Mexican for being whiter on the outside than he should be. -
(tags: race psych identity)

metafandombot

25 April 2008 @ 01:19 pm

Thursday, April 24, 2008

yhlee: Writing: Body Language - Are there writers who handle body-language-expressing-emotion particularly well? Pretty-please to show me them? (Fanfic included.) Also, are there particular body-language "tells" that you like seeing in your fiction? -
(tags: writing)

oulangi: Bad dog, no cookie - The problem with identifying yourself as an ally or a âœgood guyâ ... is the danger of developing a blind spot to your own privilege. Thatâ™s what I see happening here. theferrett sees himself as an ally; therefore it is impossible that he would/could -
(tags: sexuality safety cons)

unfunnybusiness: OH JOHN RINGO NO - The Open Source Boobs Project: Dear sir: I believe your patriarchy is showing. It spreads: (These links all have lots of good discussion in comments too.) -
(tags: sexuality cons safety)

springheel_jack: open source male assholes - the notion that all situations and contexts ought to be thoroughly penetrated (yah) by the overtly sexual is deeply creepy; it means that, at any moment, one could be proffered for someone's sexual delectation, no matter what else is going on. -
(tags: gender cons)

kate_nepveu: On asking to touch the breasts of a stranger - How am I supposed to distinguish you from the person who says he's really just whatever, but is actually going to put emotional pressure on me, or make a scene, or stalk me, or rape me?//I can't. -
(tags: gender cons)

brown_betty: Oh jesus, am I wearing my "objectify me" pin again?it is fascinating to me that apparently there is a deeply felt conviction among some subset of men that the problem with today's society is that they do not have enough access to women's bodies. -
(tags: gender fandom)

cereta: We all have ideas that we find ourselves - Most men, I believe, really don't get, either intellectually or viscerally, the degree to which the awareness of sexual assault permeates women's lives. -
(tags: gender fandom)

rivkat: The right of making available - I tell you what: when you can code and/or otherwise reproduce my breasts without touching me, I'll consider what kind of license I might use for them. -
(tags: gender law)

vito_excalibur: This is not a joke. This is not satire. This is not a test. - I would like to start the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program. -
(tags: fandom gender)

r_becca: call for advice on modding exchanges & challenges - Question for anyone who moderates (-ed) a fic exchange or ficathon or challenge community or anything of the like -- if someone asked you for advice on running such a community, what would you tell them? -
(tags: exchanges modding)

fairestcat

23 April 2008 @ 07:01 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

bwinter: Meta: Live performance fandom versus media fandom - I started out in media fandom[...]For the past two years, my primary fandoms, the defaults I scribble about in my free moments, have been live performance fandoms. Involvement in the two is a very different experience. -
(tags: fandom)

rhienelleth: Did everyone know that April is Sexual Assault Awareness month? - They were talking, and the subject that breasts are some mystifying holy grail which objectify women came up. They reasoned that if they weren't so taboo, and anyone could just touch them anytime they wanted, it would lose the mystification, and thus beco -
(tags: sexuality behavior social cons)

seperis: this would make a lot more sense if I were male, which tells me everything - Short skirt, pantyhose, tight pants, tight shirt, no bra, no underwear, high heels, lipstick ... you look sad, straighten your back, chin up ... that's what we see and what we hear and what we're asked to be--I was born wearing green and will wear it unti -
(tags: sexuality cons)

oulangi

22 April 2008 @ 11:51 am

Tuesday, April 22 2008

halfshellvenus: On Writing: Punctuation and Sentence Construction - One of the reasons for the obviousness of the problems I'm seeing now (in this book and so many others) is precisely the fact that I'm reading it out loud. You may have heard the advice to read your own writing out loud, to help find missing words and vag -
(tags: writing)

addie_logan: My Big, Fat Meta Post - Conflict is what brings a plot from point A to point B. It’s what allows the reader to feel the “pay off” when the story ends. ... Angst describes an emotional state, and is often a product of conflict. -
(tags: writing plot)

maculategiraffe: *goes all meta and feminist again* - But seriously, y'all. This is why I do see slash as potentially feminist; when you look at roles without gender, you see gender roles more clearly. Even those weird Dworkinite essays about how slash is antifeminist and women write it because they're incap -
(tags: sexuality feminism)

metametameta: [elfwreck] Celebrating Slash, Chan & Other Squicky Topics - I am sick of the implication, sometimes the outright claim, that an interest in a "dark" topic (slash, chan, incest, torture, non-con, bdsm, RP, whatever) in fic is the same as promoting it in real life. That we have a sick, nasty hobby that shouldn't be -
(tags: fanfic squicks sexuality)

branchandroot: Oddities of ownership - A character inside my head is not the same one as in someone else’s head. I might call it the same name, it might look a bit the same, but it isn’t the same character. No one can do anything to someone else’s character, because the only place someon -
(tags: copyright fanfic characterization)

gnosis: Ironic Entry About Journal Wank - Every so often there's a journal that's filled with overly verbose existentialist wank that we all seem to go through in our late teens to early 20s when some of us have an overwhelming desire to appear intelligent. I guess they feel the need to prove the -
(tags: blogging)

fandom_discuss: [on JF] Identifying with a character & shipping. - My random fandom-y pondering of the day is; why only slash? Why aren't het pairings seen in this way? I'm pretty sure het romance is not free of this "I identify with X because I like to think it's me who Y loves madly". I mean, what other premise does al -
(tags: het slash shipping)

acari

21 April 2008 @ 08:38 pm

Monday, April 21, 2008

boomshadow: Mary Sues and Gary Stus in Various Continuities - If you have read science fiction and fantasy for any length of time at all, you have no doubt run into the occasional Mary Sue or Gary Stu: a character created as a vicarious means of wish fulfillment for the author. -
(tags: writing marysue)

fluterbev: Meta: Feedback as currency - Feedback is often said to be the only payment a fanfiction writer receives for their craft, and I wonder sometimes if that commonly expressed adage is at the root of some of the misunderstandings which arise between readers and writers in fandom. -
(tags: feedback)

languisity: Don't drink the water. Don't you breathe the air. - Pete suddenly has a vag and now he can tell Madonna that yes, he does know what it feels like for a girl[...]yes, women sometimes just want to fuck. Or that we feel unsafe about X and Y and Z[..]Which got me to thinking[..]what if there was race!swap fic? -
(tags: fanfic gender race)