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... )

Two things. The first was seperis's mostly tongue-in-cheek (funny/true) post on "Ten true public statements we all believe..." (Not), in which one of the comments was this:
3.) You are good with everyone else's other pairings.
LIE: Other people's pairings that you don't share are stupid. Logic? What logic? They just *are*.
...and the second was a comment ( Read more... )

Do any of you have little tricks you habitually perform to get story/art/meta feedback to appear in your inbox ( Read more... )

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... )

We‛ve all seen it happen: almost every time somebody rants about bad spelling or bad grammar in fic, the rant itself is littered with misplaced modifiers, subject/verb errors, and enough spelling mistakes typos to sink the Titanic, twice over. Sometimes people are inclined to excuse these posts because it‛s clear that the poster was a bit . . . ( 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... )

My blissfully restful week-off (made even more restful by the fact that my roomie and her kids went out of town) is over. Oh, it's still early in the evening, but I have to give a writing seminar first thing tomorrow morning and have classes and student conferences for the rest of the day, so I should really be getting offline and preparing ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of spring break and have no papers to grade, so of course I'm thinking about...school. Well. Hogwarts, at any rate ( Read more... )

elynross linked to some particularly scary looking ST:TOS nesting dolls this morning, and it got me thinking about the Slashy Old Men panel at ConneXions and the way we view age in this culture. The figures in the link are, if I recall correctly, hand-painted Russian figures. They're not very accurate (not even in terms of uniform color), but the biggest ( Read more... )

Sometime way, way back in the BSV (Before Smallville) era, latxcvi was talking about setting up an archive for crossover stories featuring Gus Knickel - the character Paul Gross played in the 1992 film Buried on Sunday. I think LaT (correct me if I'm wrong) started to use the phrase "little black dress" for Gus because, honestly, he really does seem to ( Read more... )