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paraka: [in podficmeta] Streaming Podfic - [...] I thought it might be a good idea to talk about why I think people might want to offer streams. -
(tags: podfic)

stultiloquentia: My personal fannish lifecycle - So tell me: what other steps are part of your fannish lifecycle? -
(tags: participation question)

chaila: Vids about fandom: How we interact vs. what we say - I want to look at how this dichotomy applies to several of those "vids about fandom,” which tend to show fandom as a community of women focused on stories about men in a way that has always made me feel, well, a bit alone in my conception of fandom [...] -
(tags: vidding fandom)

12_12_12: Gender Issues Meta: Part 3. - This one brings together a lot of my fandoms and previous fandoms, because I've often been disturbed by the notion on some shows (and in fandom) that if a guy likes a girl and he is a good catch (i.e. nice, smart, good-looking) then the girl is somehow obligated to like him back. But of course, you never see this with the genders reversed. -
(tags: gender bones fnl gilmore_girls bigbangtheory tvd gossipgirl)

12_12_12: Gender Issues Meta: Part 2. - The Nice vs. Good distinction is not a big deal for male characters. In fact it's the whole foundation of the "lovable bastard" trope, and more often than not the problem is that fandom goes to the other extreme for men: giving them credit and praise for even the smallest good deed and using that to excuse every bad thing they do. -
(tags: gender gossipgirl)

facetofcathy: Colin McEnroe, NPR dude, does a piece on fanfic, and I go off on a tangent (or two). - What struck me was that manbox!dude spent the entire show trying to comprehend fanfiction and fandom through a lens of hierarchical structures. He asks about permissions, taboos, rules and structure, and he seems very lost when no one will provide this expected framework. He also consistently makes a big fucking deal about all these chicks on his show, man. Like, they're not 14-year-old guys in their mom's basement and he's just boggled. I found the breadth of the ways fanfiction as discussed by his guests conflicted with his certainties about how the world functions absolutely fascinating. -
(tags: fandom media)

12_12_12: Gender Issues Meta: Part 1 - [...] these shows are often praised for their portrayal of women in the workplace, and yet I often find them annoyingly hypocritical in a way that's insidiously sexist. Because almost all the leading women in these shows, however talented, whatever their jobs, whatever their accomplishments, are still love interests/sex objects FIRST, and individuals SECOND. -
(tags: gender bones btvs ats dawson's_creek fringe gossipgirl life madmen nikita tvd goodwife)

niqaeli: girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls... - I'm now really curious what the audience/forum for femslash is. How does who's writing and reading it break down, in terms of queer women vs. straight women vs. queer men vs. straight men, etc.? -
(tags: femslash question)

kuwdora: [vid meta]: How I learned to shut up and love the cam rip… except I haven’t. - Now I’ve gone through some rather arduous ruminations about cam rips, source quality and my past with them and it turns out that I’m still torn on the subject. I love consuming new vids featuring the new squee source of my fannish heart even if it’s not perfect. But when it comes to trying to work with the material myself, I get a bitter taste in my mouth even though I want to ignore it. -
(tags: vidding)

facetofcathy: Out of the Mouths of Babes - Monetizing a private fanfic archive changes it from a place shaped by its owner and users to a place that will be shaped by the revenue stream. Keith is being extra cagey about how he plans to monetize the sites he bought. I think subscriptions and advertising are the only choices, and I don't think you can fund any single fandom archive through subscriptions. -
(tags: lotrfanfiction.com monetising)

elf: Nai hiruvalyë linkspam - The continuing saga of fandom's reaction to investment capitalist overtures. -
(tags: link lotrfanfiction.com)

silver_spotted: ok, how weird am I? - But also, I find it to be a really intriguing thought experiment. Supposing you did start a relationship with someone about whom you wrote RPF. If you are the sort of fanperson who wants to tell your partner about your fannish habits, how would you do that in this situation - without breaking the fourth wall? -
(tags: rpf)

elf: ManderFail, a.k.a. Fanlib redux - Fandom is... not happy. -
(tags: archiving link)

esteliel: LotRfanfiction.com - Googling the guy's name led to an interview with him, as well as his personal blog, where he talks about how he earns money by buying popular websites.Apparently he specifically targets fannish sites, because their owners are less aware of the worth of their sites: -
(tags: archiving lotr)

silver_spotted: [in writingthewall] Glambert by any other name: fandom naming and boundaries
(tags: rpf)

happydork: Original fic vs fanfic -- "Ooh, look, it's my navel!" - This year, I've been making an effort to focus more on my original writing. I knew this would stretch different muscles from the ones I use for fanfic, but I've been surprised by what I've found easy and what I've found hard. -
(tags: writing fanfic originalfic)

thefourthvine: [Poll] Sharing the Love - My fannish life is inextricable from my real life, is my point. My friends know! My family knows! Apparently now the preschool people do, too! So my question is: how are things in your life? Do you talk about fan fiction at the dinner table? Can you imagine no more horrible fate? -
(tags: poll)

facetofcathy: Fanfic on Film - One of the things that I found bemusing about the m/m romance is homophobic debate, especially when m/m fanfic started getting conflated into the conversation, is how often gay indie films seem just like fanfic to me. -
(tags: fanfic trope)

lotesse: lilliputian meta on manpain - Because I am, arguably, a Manpain Queen. Pain makes me happy - in fiction, that is, ahem. My problem with mainpain - and it is a problem, don't get me wrong - is that it actually minimizes the amount of pain available. What if Sha're was taken by the Goa'uld and we got three seasons of Daniel angsting over it AND of Sha're dealing with possession/strugging to hold on to her own subjectivity/becoming increasingly radicalized and badass as she saw more of the world and its cruelties? Instead, manpain structures limit us to half the tasty suffering and weemo. -
(tags: trope characters)

mistresscurvy: The Five Stages of Fic Writing - I realized there needs to be a Five Stages of Fic Writing sort of like the Five Stages of Grief, and given that I am ALL ABOUT distraction these days, I figured that was clearly what my afternoon needed to be about. -
(tags: fanfic writing)

staranise: Writing bilingual/codeswitching characters? - How would one indicate this kind of codeswitching in the narrative? [...] Is there a non-clunky way to mention it in dialogue tags or character description? -
(tags: language writing question)

podklb: [in amplificathon] Podfic Feedback Toolbox: 5 ways to give great podfic feedback - In podfic meta discussions, it periodically comes up that some people want to leave feedback on podfic but just aren't sure what to say. This post is an attempt to give some new ideas to anyone who would like to expand their repertoire for expressing their thoughts about podfic. -
(tags: podfic feedback howto)

sophinisba: [in kb_cafe] kink-bingo and podfic, perfect together - As with other kinds of kink and kinky fanworks, podfic can push people out of their comfort zones, and sometimes that can be a very good thing. -
(tags: podfic kinkbingo kink)

kaz: A brief history of asexuality in fandom, as seen by Kaz - My point is? Asexuality in fandom, asexual representation in fandom, attitudes towards asexuality in fandom, all of that - these are changing incredibly quickly. Eighteen months ago I was astounded to see more than, like, two other fannish aces around. A year ago, if you'd told me we'd be criticising particular tropes in asexual fic at this point I would have laughed in your face because what asexual fic? -
(tags: asexuality fandom history)

thingswithwings: some thoughts on manpain. um. many thoughts on manpain, actually. - My pain is greater than anyone else's pain; no one has ever felt the way that I feel, no one could possibly understand, my pain is more important than yours; my pain is more important even than the pain of the person to whom the original injustice was done. -
(tags: manpain)

tielan: thought for the day - How do your characters vote politically? -
(tags: fanfic politics characters question)

bedlamsbard: I'm pretty sure people who don't write action don't have this problem - To sum up, four different methods of writing battles:1. Short cuts between multiple POVs in the same battle. (S.M. Stirling, Bernard Cornwell, Scott Lynch, Tamora Pierce)2. Blinkered -- single POV, either directly in the battle or as an observer. (Bernard Cornwell, Mercedes Lackey, George R.R. Martin, Tamora Pierce)3. Fade to black -- single POV, build up and/or aftermath, but no actual fight sequences. (George R.R. Martin, Stephenie Meyer, Tamora Pierce)4. Exposition wagon -- description of the battle after it happens, usually from a non-POV character. (George R.R. Martin) -
(tags: writing)

v_angelique: Some Thoughts on Kink Bingo, and My Card - The principal criticism, as I understand it, is that this system rewards bad writing about underrepresented characters, privileges quantity over quality, and gives people brownie points for writing about these characters, no matter how awful the characterization. In other words, good job, you wrote about a black person, here, have a banner. -
(tags: kinkbingo characters)

wallwalker: Rants on weight, fictional characters, and perceptions/coding. - Most of the time, when you see an overweight character, you can make a safe bet that character is either going to be a villain, comic relief, ineffectual, or some combination of the above. -
(tags: characters size)

dharma_slut: my thoughts.. stemming from kink bingo's newest changes - The anger I'm seeing about the potential to write a character badly, the sense of horror over having to read a badly written character-- i don't like it. It reminds me far too much of the Mary Sue Crusade. As readers, we try to protect ourselves from reading writer's mistakes by shaming them before the fact. I'm not real good with that. -
(tags: kinkbingo characters)

magnavox_23: Manips: Drag Queens Of The Art World? - I have noticed recently a small backlash against manippers as to how realistic their work is as a favoured character's head (and this is how I see the image I am using - as a character, not the actor) is photoshopped onto the most buffed, oiled bodies one can find with Google images at their mercy. What is more important, the realness of the image you are creating, or the fantasy you are projecting? -
(tags: fanart)

onelittlesleep: MORE on the anti-underage kmm - if you're going to try to pass off an underage kink shaming policy as a "I am just covering my ass!", here are the reasons your logic fails. -
(tags: kinkmemes underage strikethrough2007)

pearl_o: both fyi and tl;dr - So, to be clear: this is a kink meme, and even in the very midst of the language of kink positivity these memes are based on, it stops to police and shame one specific kink - and, honestly, not that unusual of one. -
(tags: kink kinkmemes underage)

frantic_allonsy: > - If you open a kink meme, which is supposed to be a safe space for kink, you had goddamn better well be prepared to step outside what you personally want, and accept all kinks regardless of how offensive they are. That means that even if you believe people who prompt for underage pornography are actually pedophiles, you do not say that, or you should not be moderating a kink community. Even if it touches on you personally when someone prompts for chubby-chasing, or eating disorders, or non-con, you don't censor that, or you should not be moderating a kink community. -
(tags: kink underage kinkmemes)

facetofcathy: Links about representation - I want writers (in the general sense) to expand their character palette. But in the specific, I want writers to do it out of a drive to write that particular character as a character, not as an ambassador from planet X!Identity making a special guest appearance in fic now for the very first time. -
(tags: writing fanfic kink oppression)

facetofcathy: Links about representation - I want writers (in the general sense) to expand their character palette. But in the specific, I want writers to do it out of a drive to write that particular character as a character, not as an ambassador from planet X!Identity making a special guest appearance in fic now for the very first time. -
(tags: writing fanfic kink oppression)

bironic: [in kink_bingo] Force Me, Please: On Noncon and Noncon Play in Fanfic - This is an essay about nonconsensual sex (noncon) and noncon roleplay in fanfic, why I love them, why they may work for other people, and how approximately one zillion kinks complement them -
(tags: kink fanfic)

sailorptah: How to write Fic About Issues without it becoming Issuefic - Issuefic at its worst is didactic, boring, and with cookie-cutter characterization thanks to everything being subsumed by the goal of Making A Point, which is handled with about as much subtlety as a whack-a-mole mallet. (I could go on.)But for the most part, I don't think writers set out to lecture. They just set out to write Non Faily Fic about some srs bsns subject or another, and try too hard. -
(tags: fanfic writing)

needled_ink_1975: Mind their language! - Please, please don't go grabbing bits of foreign-to-you languages from those "Common Phrases in Language X" websites. You might be able to get away with it if you only use really common words like the translation for 'Okay/all right,' 'Yes,' 'No,' 'Please,' and 'Thank you.' Very often, you won't get away with any more than that. -
(tags: fanfic language)

elf: Cry OC, and let slip the sues of fic - I've been pondering which fandoms lend themselves to OC-heavy fic, maybe only-OC fic. I'm focusing on "normal" media fandoms, rather than things like games or works of art or songs; I'm not addressing fandoms that many fanfic archives wouldn't acknowledge as sources for fic. I want to think about (and therefore, inflict you) the fandoms that *could* have lots of OC fic, but just don't. -
(tags: characters ocs fanfic)