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• wistfuljane: A Rant In Non-Linear Form - I think for many people who scoffs at fans for being angry at translators and publishers for not keeping cultural conventions such as names and honorifics, they do not understand the personal issue rooted here.//It's an issue of cultural appropriation, yes.//But for me, it's more a matter of losing an identity and being redefined. -
  
  (tags: manga anime translation race)


• neo_prodigy: [in noscans_daily] Your Recommendations: LGBT Edition - What excellent comic book series/graphic novel featuring LGBTs would you recommend? Which series and/or storytellers are doing it right? -
  
  (tags: comics glbt)


• twistedchick: a question re warnings in AO3 - If a character death is onscreen, the question is obvious. If it's not? If the rape scene is merely alluded to and discussed, not shown in graphic and upsetting detail, does it deserve a warning? -
  
  (tags: ao3 warnings)


• happydork: Comment to hit count ratio on stories - I've been thinking recently about hit counts on a story vs the number of the comments the story gets. -
  
  (tags: reading comments hits)


• rheasilvia: Story titles and I: A dysfunctional love story. - I myself am chronically title-impaired. It's exceedingly rare for me to know what a story will be called — almost always, when I finish a story, I am completely clueless as to what it should be called. I currently have two big writing projects, over half a dozen small ones, and no titles whatsoever. How about you? What are your favorite titles — not just of your own stories, but in general? How and where do you find titles? Do they come easily to you, or do you seek them out actively in some way? -
  
  (tags: writing titles)


• phoebe_zeitgeist: Some reasons why I didn't link a post to metafandom, by me, Phoebe - As a compiler, and more specifically as a compiler who from time to time uses her discretion to not link something that's been submitted, I thought it might be useful to try to explain a little of what I'm looking for when I evaluate something for metafandom. What follows, I want to emphasize, is in no way an official statement -- I'm not speaking here for [community profile] metafandom as a whole, nor for any of the other individual compilers. It's just my own approach, although of course that approach is informed by the comm's rules and goals. -
  
  (tags: meta discussions)


• clarelondon: MAKING SHIT UP - I think all the self-justification should stop. In fact, I think it never should have started. Screw it. If people don't like the shit we make up, they can read shit other people make up or else read nonfiction. The only way to deal with the nay-sayers is to ignore them. God knows reviewers keep us busy reaching for the ego salve. Why acknowledge gender bashers? -
  
  (tags: writing gender)


• sparkindarkness: It's only fiction! - I repeat again that, no, I don't think straight people should stop writing with GBLT fiction. They should write it - just as I think white people should write about POC. I will never ever say that people should only write about people like them. But there is a huge world of difference between writing the other well (or trying to) and using, appropriating and stereotyping the other. -
  
  (tags: writing fanfic sexuality appropriation)


• kill_claudio: 1952 called. They want their clichés back. - there's still a bit of a battle in my mind between the authorial instincts that worry about making the characters consistent with their backgrounds and personalities, and the feminist instincts that don't want to let these attitudes go unchallenged. -
  
  (tags: writing fanfic genre feminism sexism)


• rockeandroll: RPF and keeping boundaries - So there has been some discussion about this compartmentalising thing, and how you keep your distance, and from the writing point of view, what counts as 'canon', and when 'researching canon for your fic' just becomes being nosy and overinquisitive about someone's private life. -
  
  (tags: writing rpf 4thwall)


• puella_nerdii: porn/meta is my OTP, or: why there are so many queer people in my head - On the other hand, a lot of these fics place sexuality at the center of the story in a way that makes me a little uncomfortable, because even if the story ultimately decides that it's okay to be gay (or if the characters conclude that they love each other and that gender doesn't matter -- or invoke some version of the "we're not gay, we just love each other" clause), it others queerness within the context of the story in a way that often feels a little like a slap in the face to me. -
  
  (tags: writing fanfic trope sexuality wngwjleo)


• furiosity: the freeway's heading south - I think it's important to remind ourselves every once in a while that our experience of fandom does not in fact equal that of every other fan out there, and just because we feel our corner of fandom is the bestest doesn't mean it's cool to disregard fen from other corners, especially not if we belittle them for not being fannish in the same way as we are. -
  
  (tags: culture fandom)

• ithiliana: Fandom: The Academic Kiss of Death, OR My Ongoing Meta on OTW - I'm interested in the ongoing surfacing of the anti-academic rants to smear the Organization of Transformative Works. -
  
  (tags: otw acafen aca)


• thedeadparrot: Oh, boy, here we go again. - I believe that we should not be ashamed of writing fanfic. Yeah, I write romance. Yeah, I even write porn. Yeah, I did this as a teenage girl. And yeah, I sometimes daydream about characters. None of this should mean that my writing -- our writing -- is automatically worth less than that of some fanboy who daydreams about being Paul Atreides and about things blowing up -
  
  (tags: fanfic fandom)


• executrix: Fandom Meta: In this Fight, We Are Dogless - If they said "Print out your story and leave it in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho," I would consider it legitimate to say "I don't want to go to Idaho in this weather" but I wouldn't consider it legitimate to complain about the mods' choice. -
  
  (tags: archiving ao3 yuletide modding community)


• executrix: Fandom Meta: Opening the Books on This Thing of Ours - When I have my lawyer hat on, I find it incredibly frustrating to try to reach *any* conclusions about the legal status of derivative works, under US law because of the paucity of case law. -
  
  (tags: copyright fanac)


• frolicndetour: "Creative" "Process" - So here's a weird question for you, sort of spinning off of concrit debate 100,011 going on right now but not really having much to do with concrit: do you find that certain views of characters or canon bother you more when they're implicit in creative works (ie fic and vids) than they would if they were directly stated in a meta post? -
  
  (tags: shipping fanon characterization fanfic vidding reading)


• rositamia: canon - I loooove seeing someone be in love. It's not enough to just tell me so-and-so is in love, they have to show me to make me believe it. -
  
  (tags: canon shipping bones fs)


• damned_colonial: Why I slash, by D. Colonial aged 34 3/4. - I like seeing gay movies, they are awesome... but it's the "straight" movies with gay characters (overt or otherwise) that excite me. The moment of "Is s/he... oh yes! s/he is! YAY!" Going through the process of spotting a gay character, figuring out what the tells are, etc. Especially if I can figure it out ahead of the other characters in the movie/whatever.//...So here's why I like slash: slash gives me more of those moments. When I wear the slash goggles, I get a more regular hit of my "is s/he? YAY!" drug. -
  
  (tags: slash sexuality)


• branchandroot: The difference between manga and comicsI agree that fuzzy Orientalism is the most regrettably common way Western fans of similar media from different national/ethnic groups (eg comics and manga) express their differentiation. That particular expression is generally a lot of hot air, yes.
  
  But I also think there are real fan-culture differences, touching on though not always rising directly from the mother-culture differences of the sources. This is my attempt to articulate the ones that I've seen.
  
  (tags: comics manga culture)

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• zvi: That discussion about discussing fanwork - In the fandom of my dreams, critical discussion is for readers. In the same way that I tl;dr about Glee or Smallville or The X Files, I want to tl;dr about fan stories. I want to compare mpreg stories and tell you which is better and why. I want to deeply examine why I like some stories in the Ladies Choice collection and why some of them leave me cold. -
  
  (tags: reviewing criticism fanworks comments)


• toft: long necks, deep holes - It seems that a lot of all this is lumped together - people who are anti-Archive seem to also be anti-OTW and/or anti-Transformative Works and Cultures (the academic Fan Studies journal) and/or anti-acafan in general, often lumping those things together without any real sense of how they are distinguished from each other, or what they are really against. -
  
  (tags: ao3 otw twc acafen)


• morgandawn: What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate - Part 2 - What social contract do fans owe each other? Some fans feel that there should be laws or at the very least honorable agreements among fans on copying and storing fan fic, linking to websites, talking about fandom and fan fiction in public, and when to honor requests to remove fan fic and vids from public view. Others stare at you blankly when talking about "rules" and then flip you off. -
  
  (tags: fandom community culture)


• cruiscin_lan: What makes YOU squick? - So basically, right now I'm looking for someone who can relate. What squicks you? Have you ever been squicked by a squick you didn't know you had? Have you gotten over squicks? Do you stop reading after hitting a squick, or do you try to skip it and keep going? Will you make exceptions based on author or other factors? -
  
  (tags: squicks)


• thelastgoodname: It occurs to me that an argument could be made.... - What if a person didn't want a future in which fannish activities were recognized as legal? What if said person liked doing things that are morally and legally dubious--what if that were part of the draw? What if the illegitimacy of the act were part of why a person participated? -
  
  (tags: otw fandom culture)

• cereta: 307th verse, same as the first - if you're only excuse for not putting your internet identity next to something is that it's "just" an internet identity, you are so full of shit that said shit is coming out of your ears and staining the carpet. Names matter. In fact, they matter more online precisely because all we have to know each other by is a accumulation of words, behavior, and creations. -
  
  (tags: pseudonymity)


• astolat: About the AO3 and the yuletide move - IMO, the only way to persuade people who are still leery of the org is not by lecturing or yelling at them, but with a few more years of the OTW just hanging out in a corner of fandom, building awesome stuff and not doing anything awful. -
  
  (tags: ao3 otw yuletide archiving)


• kahtyasofia: Why I Love AO3 - I read about people whining and I have to wonder if they're on the same archive I am -
  
  (tags: ao3 archiving)


• r_becca: comment stats - Compared to last year's comment statistics, it's interesting to note that the numbers in the first two weeks are up slightly -- about 2 or 3 comments per entry -- but that comment fatigue this year did not seem to kick in until the fourth week this year. Average comments on all posts are up by 3 comments per entry, but the biggest difference is on the art posts -- an increase of over 12 comments per piece! -
  
  (tags: comments fanworks fests feedback hp statistics)


• dark_administrator: [in dark_agenda] Post-reveal discussion - now that authors are revealed, how did your participation in the Dark Agenda Challenge go?
  What thoughts do you have about it?
  How did it change your yuletide experience?
  
  (tags: yuletide race)


• schemingreader: not bad enough - In general I think the place of critical comment is in beta-reading email. I don't want criticism from random readers. I want to pick people who write well, or whose opinion I trust for other reasons. -
  
  (tags: fests feedback criticism)

• giandujakiss | I hesitated to post this because I fear the wrath that may rain on my head, but.... - ...I gotta say, every time I read a dispute about AO3 or OTW or the Yuletide move, my head explodes from the sheer irrationality of the critics. And what I literally can't get over is the absolutely implacable and unwavering resistance to facts expressed by every single person I've ever seen voice an objection. -
  
  (tags: ao3 otw yuletide)


• tzikeh: It's past time to cut through this fucking buillshit. - I have no problem with people who don't like/don't want to participate in the OTW if their philosophies are in direct conflict, but I am so done with people who are against the OTW with absolutely no facts to back up their opposition. -
  
  (tags: ao3 otw fandom)


• sarken: Queer Character Tags on AO3, Current and Future - here is a list of some possible tags compiled largely from the earlier discussion about queer character tags. It's not even close to being exhaustive, and, like I said, I'm not advocating for or against any particular tag, so if you have any suggestions, I'm more than happy to add them. -
  
  (tags: sexuality ao3 tags)


• thuviaptarth: Vidding: Background reading (1/2) - "I dislike this piecemeal learning!" I told her. "It is haphazard and uncomprehensive. I want courses! I want background reading! I want a series of set texts that cover the basics from a variety of different perspectives. Why are there no books on vidding to make things easy for me?" "There are books on vidding," Laura said in surprise. "Just read books on film editing." -
  
  (tags: vidding editing meta)


• thingswithwings: Having just participated in two gift exc - Having just participated in two gift exchanges[...] and having combed through many many Dear Writer and Dear Vidder letters and seen quite the gamut of approaches to prompt-writing, and having written my own near-epic prompts for both of those exchanges [...], I wonder where other people fall along this continuum. -
  
  (tags: exchanges poll)


• jadelennox: Why talking about these things is awesome - I can't prove it and I'm too lazy to run numbers, but I feel like I saw many more stories featuring characters of color in this year's Yuletide than in previous years. -
  
  (tags: yuletide race)


• alias_sqbr: [in fan_comics] Places to post multi-page fancomics - I post my single page comics to DeviantArt first but if they actually have a bit of a story I also post them to AO3, working on the assumption that the presumably-fanfic-oriented readers there probably aren't looking for out and out fanart but might enjoy a story-in-pictures. I also posted some fanart that was linked to a fic but generally don't see the point. -
  
  (tags: comics archiving)