24 November 2009 @ 12:53 am
Monday, November 23, 2009
- irana: On BDSM, Part II - Today we're going to look at some other terms - negotiation, limits, contracts - break those down, and hopefully provide those reading with a better understanding of what those terms mean. -
- irana: On BDSM, Part I - Consent is a vital element in all psychological play, and consent can be granted in many ways. -
- the_minx_17: Hi! My name is Minxie...¦ - [...] if a piece of fiction disregards the basic principles of safe, sane, and consensual they really are more trouble than they're worth. -
20 November 2009 @ 11:07 pm
Friday, November 20, 2009
19 November 2009 @ 01:15 am
Wednesday, November 19, 2009
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trobadora: All-Human AUs? - Someone explain this trope to me. You have characters who aren't human: aliens, vampires, demons, angels, gods. What they are is an important part of their character, and writing them as ordinary humans takes away something essential to that character, and I just don't get it. Why is this so popular? -
- just_katarin: But Katarin, you just posted! - I distinctly remember, when Heroes fandom started talking about the problematic aspects of the show, the racism, the sexism, how uneven storylines and deaths were, all of it, we all maintained it was unintentional....We thought they meant well but now I see that that was a lie. That was... they never intended good things for the People of Color on Heroes or the Women on Heroes. -
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hradzka: Donny Osmond RPF. By pros. - Mike Sterling has an interesting post that touches on on for-pay RPF from the 1970s. He points out that teen magazines included fictional stories about celebrities, mysteries and adventures and romances and -- yes, *exactly,* it was totally RPF. -
- melannen: Statistics! - But when I was going through all the Dear Writer posts being linked in the yuletide community over at lj, I kept noticing that there were actually quite a *lot* of people who were linking their letters from their DW accounts instead of their LJs, and I was wondering if there really were a lot, or if it was an illusion based around what I wanted, and was expecting, to see. And then it occurred to me that this might actually be a pretty good metric of how fandom actually *is* moving: yuletide participation is probably as close as we can get to a real cross-section of people who are active in the sort of fandom that is on journal sites, and it seems like the site people link in their letters would be the site they consider their primary home, regardless of whether they crosspost and how. -
17 November 2009 @ 03:27 am
Monday, November 16, 2009
14 November 2009 @ 07:40 pm
Saturday, November 14, 2009
08 November 2009 @ 10:17 pm
Sunday, November 8, 2009
05 November 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
31 October 2009 @ 06:07 pm
Saturday, October 31, 2009
26 October 2009 @ 09:05 pm
Monday, October 26, 2009
- zahrawithaz: The White Mists of Avalon: Thoughts on Morgana's Race - And lot of the dynamics that play out around Morgana, both in the show and in fandom, are not only gendered but also racial. Whiteness is a presence, not an absence or a neutral zone, and the show often contrasts Morgana and Gwen in racial terms. -
- littlehollyleaf: Opinions on fanfic/fandom - I mean, I care if a piece of writing doesn't read well and if it has GLARING errors, but for fanfic it's the IDEAS that matter most to me and there is almost nothing I won't forgive. -
- the_willow: Twilight & Other Creepy Thoughts - It's startlingly to me to contemplate that Edward / Bella is the romantic story of the century [...] because the heroine is aware of, and is allowed to feel her own desire and have her own sexual wants outside of the social act of the new female/feminine performance of pretty and the hero gives a damn about it. -
24 October 2009 @ 12:11 am
Friday, October 23, 2009
- facetofcathy: Out of Patience - Fanfic is not all sexually explicit, it's not all shippy, but shit tonnes of it are. Those kinds of fics are about taking our source characters and fully exploring the totality of their humanity in all its possibilities. Sex is human, nothing else, and it's not naughty, or dirty, or wrong, or icky or nasty or any other fucking schoolyard word. -
18 October 2009 @ 07:49 am
Saturday, October 17, 2009
- xparrot: On character hate, villains, and literary tropes - A basher who casts a female character as the evil obstacle in a slash pairing isn't necessarily doing it because they want to make people hate the character, or even because that's actually how they view the character; it's because it's how they want to view the character, what is the most emotionally satisfying way to see them, properly fulfilling their role as villainness. -
- accioslash: Poll... - I was talking with several different people about recs and have noticed that there seems to be a change in the way people rec these days. -
- twistedchick: thoughts on a common language - I think that as writers we need to be aware of the jargons we're using, when we're using them, and whether they're appropriate to the character and the situation. And it wouldn't be a bad idea if, as participants in an online community, we could be a little more aware that not everyone is working with the same jargon within a given discussion, or the same connotations of words, or the same background in understanding a topic. -
- puella_nerdii: Saying Yes: I Want Your Opinions! - I want more stories and art where being the submissive partner during sex is FUN and not demeaning. I want more stories and art where characters shout "Yes!" instead of "No!" I want more stories and art where characters get up to all kinds of kinky crazy fun, and are never made to feel shamed for their desires. -
10 October 2009 @ 08:05 pm
Saturday, October 10, 2009
- lim: comment record - Be honest: don't assume improbable mantles of impartiality, objectivity, 'professionalism' or generalised godhood--relate to your members as fellow fans and adults, ask their opinions, and then make a firm decision and take responsibility for it. -
- ion_bond: Slash on TV - Lots of us would like to see the relationships we read as slashy (House/Wilson, Arthur/Merlin, Morgana/Gwen, Sheppard/McKay or whatever) elevated to the status of canon. This, as I see it, is distinct from the desire to see queer people represented for political reasons, and we ought to try to keep the two things separate when possible. My question is, would a relationship like one of those above, which people like us might find satisfying, dissatisfy other viewers? -
03 October 2009 @ 12:10 am
Friday, October 2, 2009
- puella_nerdii: It's not FOR you. - It's the same kind of thing here. This isn't about establishing a hierarchy of talent or skill, it's about giving queer writers the tools they need to succeed in an industry that, let's face it, is not quite as friendly towards us as you'd hope. -
28 September 2009 @ 09:24 pm
Monday, September 28, 2009
- erastes: Lambda's Explanation of the New Guidelines and my comments - Instead of whining about how the world is shrinking for gay books, what we should be doing is submitting our books - en masse - to the mainstream, to Mills and Boon, to every book publisher out there. Instead of hiding behind a lavender veil and agreeing with the hype that "there's no market for it" "no-one wants to buy it" "No-one will publish it" we should be pushing - no, stabbing furiously at the heart of mainstream and forcing them to pay attention. -
- kanata: Oh, ew. - The landscape of queer fiction has changed dramatically with the rise of original slash, much of which (like slash) is written by straight women. A minority space is being taken over by a majority. It is not discriminatory to take steps to change that. -
- rm: on the Lambda Literary Awards and the art of disappearing - The idea of awards honoring queer authors is good. So is the idea of honoring queer stories. -
25 September 2009 @ 09:49 pm
Friday, September 25, 2009
20 September 2009 @ 09:29 pm
Sunday, September 20, 2009
- jazzypom: Fandom, its kicking, sparkly pony and the right of reasonable protest - The whole notion of memes, and the right to have protest. As it stands, there's no right of protest, because it doesn't fit into the fandom convention of the "free for all" and *unlimited non judgemental squee* with such memes. So, although I want to participate, to enjoy, I don't want to be inadvertently giving my consent to a meme, or a fandom squee that celebrates any form of fail. -
- glockgal: Yuletart: What is fanart? - It's just another example of how in fandom the two fanwork biggies are Fanfics and Fanart - but the fanart umbrella stretches wide and is very nebulous. In [info]yuletart a lot of discussion was needed for us to define what constitutes as acceptable fanart for the fest. -
- selenak | Best Friends For... a rather limited time-span? (Spoilers for West Wing, BtVS, AtS and DS9) - What do you do, oh flist? When characters are portrayed as good friends in canon (doesn't matter whether or not you also ship them in a romantic sense or see the relationship as platonic or the family type of bond; there just has to be an on screen closeness that awoke your interest), and then these characters cease to have scenes together, and don't reference each other in dialogue anymore, either. Do you go the denial route - "they're still friends, we just don't see a lot of scenes"/"they're still friends, I reject on screen canon" - or do you accomodate for the changed on screen circumstances in your perception of the relationship(s)? -
13 September 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Saturday, September 12, 2009
- 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? -
- 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. -
08 September 2009 @ 05:10 pm
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
- facetofcathy: Geek Feminism Link and OTW Musings - Fanlore is a fantastic resource, your one stop shopping spot to link people to when they ask fannish questions. However, I think its track record of engagement with the wider fan communities is horrible. [...] For someone less self-teaching in nature, it's got walls a mile high around it. -
04 September 2009 @ 08:21 pm
Friday, September 4, 2009
31 August 2009 @ 08:35 pm
Monday, August 31, 2009
- mecurtin: Talking about who writes fanfic - As far as I know, I'm the only person who has even tried to collect stats on the universe of fanfic, and as you can tell I pretty much gave up a few years ago, because I didn't believe there was any way of getting good numbers. -
- jonquil: Harry Winston, tell me all about me! - A couple of evolutionary "cognitive neuroscientists" -- pause to make your saving throw against incoherent rage -- are turning their not-at-all-biased gaze on fanfiction. Fanfiction and GIRLS. Fanfiction and what it says about GIRLS PSYCHOLOGY AS DETERMINED BY THE EVOLUTIONS. They modestly comment, "First, let us say state clearly that we are not psychologists, nor are we cultural critics". -
- eruthros: please don't take the fanfiction survey - They are outsiders to fandom. They are outsiders to fanfiction. They are outsiders to slash. And they haven't tried to learn, or to understand, or to think about fannish communities. Instead, they have made assumptions about who we are, about what we read, about what we find hot; they plan to use those to explain what makes women tick, what our brains make us do. -
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