For those who are interested in attending the 2012 Due South convention, see
announcement from the organisers below [apologies for cross-posting].

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Hey all,

As a relative newbie to the fandom, I’m been gorging myself on F/V stories for the past few months and have even written a couple myself. I’ve noticed a trend in F/V fan fic that I would love your opinions on. It’s a bit explicit in nature, hence the lj-cut.

( NC-17 Fan Fic Meta? )

So I was watching 'Mask' last night and as usual some new things came to mind ( Read more... )

Things have been a little quiet around here recently. I've been trying to think of some new discussion or maybe a new challenge and have drawn a blank for the moment. If anyone has any ideas about something; fic, discussions, challenges please feel free to ocmment or even make the post ( Read more... )

I was watching Manhunt last night and a couple of things about it have been bothering me for awhile so I thought I'd see what other people think.

Firstly we have Julie, Buck's daughter. ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm a ( new fan )

This episode is a *great* follow-on to the absolutely exquisite pilot. This episode has several scenes that absolutely make me laugh out loud! And we get introduced to Elaine Besbris, Huey and Gardino, Beau Starr as Welsh. All so awesome ( Read more... )

I posted links to these comments over on ds_slash and ds_noticeboard at the beginning of the week, so if you saw them there, this is the same thing. But aingeal8c suggested that folks here might be interested as well and might not have found them. These are my notes on watching the pilot episode, as fine a two hours of television as one is likely ever to find ( Read more... )

I read an interesting post by a Livejournal academic the other day who said that het relationships in fan fiction were almost always shown as conflict-ridden and turbulent, but that slash relationships were often depicted as calm and mutually affectionate. The essay argued that people tend to write het about characters who have the promise of a ( Read more... )

Well April is here (apparently it's April Fools Day but this post has no bearing on that) and so I thought now would be a good time for a retrospective ( Read more... )