So emmagrant01 has a poll about how 'out' you are about being in fandom and (for those of you to whom this applies) about being a slasher: go answer hereBut one of the questions was about whether you've brought other people into fandom and, more to the point, whether you were brought into fandom by a real life friend, and I started to wonder how many of you ( Read more... )

I‛ve been seeing a lot of rants recently about "those stories ( Read more... )

So there I was on Superbowl Sunday, whinging about not having any t.v. shows to squee over. (I watch House and Stargate: Atlantis every week and read the fic and all, but despite liking the casts and the concepts, I have slightly ambivalent feelings about both shows), and then quite by accident I watched Grey's Anatomy at its 'special post- ( Read more... )

Skimming through LJ this morning, I went back skip=100 on my f'list to see what people were talking about (apart from my main fandom of HP), and came up with fourteen separate fandoms, and...wow...I had such an anti-squee reaction, I was worried I was going to be drummed out of Fandom ( Read more... )

It's interesting to see the ways author-response-to-feedback cultures differ amongst the various Secret Santa fic/art communities. yuletide has, as part of its FAQ, a very strong suggestion that authors not respond to comments until their names are revealed (which makes perfect sense, since they'd be responding to comments by email, which would sort of ( Read more... )

Okay, so this poll? Should only be taken by people who've seen GoF already.

( this way to the poll - plus spoilers for the movie! )

I'm home sick today, and thinking about fic challenges (which, now that I think about it, is probably what made me sick ( Read more... )

Okay, first of all, I have to do a "who I saw" list for my own memories. There are (::counts::) 51 52 people I remember spending time with, although my definition of "spending time with" ranges from "waved name tags at each other in a doorway" (furiosity) to "shared a hotel suite with" (bowdlerized, idlerat, lolaraincoat, and mulberry_fields)

( The People )

Over the past few days in the LJ-verse, there seem to have been a higher-than-average number of fraught discussions on a variety of subjects. The topics have ranged from disputes over the worth of an individual story to the morality of a particular genre of fanfic to debates over completely non-fannish political issues, and somewhere in each of ( Read more... )

Little did gaeta and I know as we set off Friday afternoon to meet cordelia_v in person for the first time what fannish horrors were waiting just around the corner!

No, not Cordelia, you mean people! She's lovely! I meant the [temporary] system failure of LJ ( Read more... )