There was a discussion over at thesovereignty today about elite icon challenge communities. I don't really feel one way or another about them, so I was just skimming through the responses. And then I ran across this little remark:

and really, i mean, they're livejournal icons. that's probably the most trivial thing on the internet to get all worked up over

Which ( Read more... )

Whenever I fill out a friending meme, or an introduce yourself to community X or forum Y post, amongst all the other getting to know you information , there is always a question asking me to list my ships. I have difficulty with this question because I like a lot of couples. Name a show I watch, and I probably have at least one couple on it that I ( Read more... )

"Fill-in-the-Blank is the best writer in the Fill-in-the-Blank fandom."

This statement pisses me off. Seriously. It doesn't matter the author in question, or the fandom. Even on those few occasions when the comment was a compliment directed at me, I still get upset because I have a big problem with "best." See, "best" is a value judgement. It ( Read more... )

Okay Gossip Girl fans. Tonight I bring to you a poll.

Poll Fandom Consensus

Recently, a lot of people on LJ are debating about whether or not fanfics need warnings. As far as I can tell, popular opinion seems to favor warnings if a fic contains a possible trigger, especially if that trigger happens to be rape. I can understand the desire for that. I really do. Fandom, as a predominantly female sphere, is rather sensitive ( Read more... )

I was having an interesting conversation tonight with my friend yankeesam32935 about why people respond differently to certain aspects of fanfic. Basically I think that even though we are all C/B shippers, everyone naturally gravitates to one of them over the other. So when issues between Chuck and Blair arise, people interpret them differently according to ( Read more... )

I have a few friends in real life who read my fanfic not because they are fans of the show, but simply because I wrote it. They don't watch Gossip Girl, and they don't want to. However, they do follow along with the story I've created. It is all they know about these characters in the world of the Upper East Side. One of these friends mentioned to ( Read more... )

I've been rewatching Smallville. Lex Luthor is one of my favorite male TV characters ever, and was the primary reason I watched the show in the first place. The second reason is Lionel Luthor. The very LAST reason was Clark Kent. Sorry, Superman fans, but he bores me. He is too perfect and self-righteous for me to relate to him at all. I wanted to ( Read more... )

( The Finale of Battlestar Galactica )

With the end of Battlestar Galactica on the horizon, many shippers are concerned over the fate of Lee and Kara. After reading several people's takes on what may or may not happen in the final episode, and various speculations concerning quotes from the actors themselves, I began to really think about what I hoped would happen, and my conclusion  ( Read more... )