This overdue post of musings is finally brought to you by the three-hour wait for my flight to California (DISNEYLAND OMG YAY ( Read more... )

(Subject line in reference to myself, of course, not anyone else. ;P)

The Good and Bad of NaNoWriMo

These are some things that have occurred to me over the course of this thing called NaNoWriMo. It's likely these are things that are incredibly obvious to everyone else, and I'm just the idiot who clued in last, but too bad, I'm writing about them ( Read more... )

My first intentional meta... what am I getting myself into? xD This was sparked by a conversation with nephthysmoon. We were talking about fandomsecrets and some of the more disturbing stuff that shows up there, and I was reminded of some thoughts I've been mulling over for a while ( Read more... )

First, some follow-up to this post.

It's become evident that FanHistory on the whole is far more about generating revenue for its owner than being a resource for the fandom it's supposed to serve. Some pretty damning evidence was provided in the comments on my initial post, but liviapenn has a far more comprehensive writeup about it: [ link] I would hazard ( Read more... )

Overall note: It's been brought to my attention that FanHistory is probably making money off the extra hits generated by this drama. I have rerouted all FH links through an anonymizer to avoid contributing to such revenue. If you'd prefer not to visit FanHistory at all, screencaps of the linked pages are also provided. In the interest of protecting ( Read more... )