I recently saw someone on tumblr upset about a pairing because they didn't think they could be happy together, and they interpreted 'shipping' as a statement that a pairing would do well together. (And, obviously, if you believe this, you might be v. troubled by the beliefs of someone who shipped some pairings ( Read more... )

I assume most of us go through cycles of "UGH FANDOM IS THE WORST" and "Okay, this justifies everything you've put me through. You live another day."

So, anyway, Our Skin, Our Bones, Our Silent Poems is a Teen Wolf story, and a Stiles/Peter story, so I assume I've already caused most of you to stop reading, but it's also a story where Peter is ( Read more... )

Do people really write coffee shop AUs where no one is a psychopath and no one eats people? Because I guess this is really less of a departure than a Buffy High School AU where no one is a vampire, but it still blows my mind.

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You may or may not know that there's been problems with the pilot episode of Leverage leaking onto the internet. A copy of it fell off a truck near me, and obviously I had to watch it to make sure it wasn't a ransom demand for the safe return of a little puppy, gone tragically astray. I know some people are hoping 'The Middleman' gets a fandom, I ( Read more... )

thefourthvine: Poll: Crossovers, Oh My, got me thinking about fannish little-black-dresses, who are an interesting category in and of themselves: they tend to be not quite core-cast, loners, and it's helpful if they have a history of traveling, but I'm not sure what else goes into a little-black-dress.  Tentatively, I think they have to come from a ( Read more... )

Recently, and not so recently, I've come across a couple of stories, or had them pointed out to me, within greater fandom, where the history or culture of marginalized groups was employed to make a story more exotic or interesting, with the result the story was offensive ( Read more... )

Many fans have lamented the decline of the practice of archiving fanfic centrally. This practice appears to have fallen into disuse due to the rise of simpler methods of publishing fiction, and the comparatively labour intensive process of archiving it. For an archival method to gain currency, it should be no more difficult than posting to LJ. My ( Read more... )

Riches from the internet!

( By riches I mean... uh. )