Re: juice817: [in audio_by_juice] Questions, I has them! I ended up in a mMy naive intuition is that podfic falls somewhere between remixing or otherwise writing fanfic of fanfic (which I most strongly maintain does not require permission) and archiving fic (which does, generally). Now while all the podfic meta I've ever read stresses the ( Read more... )

I don't have a tag for femslash meta in particular, in much the way I would presume most boyslashers don't have a tag for boyslash meta; being a femslasher is the point from which I approach all my fannish meta.

I have compiled the following list of posts, however, at the request of carolyn_claire, with metafandom-style blurbs, as posts of mine which do address ( Read more... )

So my reaction to the big m/m meta discussions going on has been basically, "Well, I'm glad I write alongside queer female writers about queer female characters for the benefit of a queer female audience." (Part of the reason for this is that I'm in the middle of a job search, so I don't have the time or the energy for a real opinion. If anyone ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm still thinking about femslash08 and related topics. One of the arguments I've made more than once in this journal is that femslash is more different than m/m slash than one might at first think, they each have their own histories (each within the greater history of media fandom, of course), tropes, conventions, and expectations. Some of these are ( Read more... )

The rules, gacked from witchqueen:

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So many of you, the ones who follow metafandom at least, will be familiar with the rough outline of the discussion: kradical--Keith R.A. DeCandido, the author of, among other things, the Serenity novelization (which I own but have yet to read)---made a post discussing the difference between fanfic and professional media tie-in fic in which he had the bad sense to ( Read more... )

[T]he fan community has also begun to generate a smaller (but growing) number of lesbian stories envision this type of reciprocal relationship between two female characters. [. . .] In lesbian slash, as with male-centered slash, sexuality involves a dispersal of traditionally masculine and feminine traits [. . .]. That the conventions of lesbian ( Read more... )

"femlash" : "slash" :: "microwave oven" : "oven"

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Some people are having "the authorial responsibility discussion." Some people are having it intelligently, some foolishly, some civilized, some wankfully--such is the way of the world.

Long-time readers will remember me struggling with these very questions myself when I asked "Do texts speak ( Read more... )

This post from metafandom is making me feel very, very young ( Read more... )