Bandom has made a lot of people on my flist very happy. I'm all for the happy. I just wish that there were room to disagree without being accused of Cheerio-pissing.

At the end of the day, it comes down to this: Like whatever you like. Please, though, pause for a moment before dismissing others' offense and attacking those who are offended ( Read more... )

1. glossings is updated with all recent fics. Oz and girlslash and hauntings, oh my. and bad CSS on the second index page. *sigh*2. I'm thinking/wondering about personal canon again, particularly about interpretations stretching across different fics. I've posted before about how each fic I write refers primarily to canon, rather than to any of my ( Read more... )

So there's this large gray interzone I'm beginning to discern between 'shipfic and plain gen. Romance isn't the beall and endall, but nor is playing with lifeless action figures. People have sex and do *other* stuff, too. I've been calling it porny gen; dS fic does it pretty well, and I can see Firefly being especially suited to it, but Buffyverse ( Read more... )

Happy late birthdays to a2zmom and itsabigrock! *cake*

I might have had an epiphany. Or - *gasp!* - changed my mind. Or, like Diefenbaker, it might just be worms. And I have *no* right posting this when I still have gazillions of comments to answer from Thursday. But.

There's been a lot of talk lately about Good Characters, about prevailing fannish preferences ( Read more... )

Weekend was full of weirdness. ( scattered thoughts )

1. Miss mimesere, is Hornblower an Honorable Stoic? inlovewithnight and I need to know.
2. I have Firefly longfics to finish and...it's not happening. Part of it is exhaustion/anxiety, I think? And another part is this persistent, nagging thought of "why waste such cool ideas on fanfic?", and that way of thinking is just *so* damn wrong on many, many levels. They need ( Read more... )

*stares at su_herald, metafandom, and BBF*
Has the world gone MAD madder than normal? Dude.
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I am sad that gay romps in space go unread and unlinked by the Cabal of Fandom OverseersTM, because they are much fun. Yes. I wonder - is it the gen-itad of it all? The slash? The hetomg? The crossover? *ponders*
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I finished reading China Mieville's Iron Council last night ( Read more... )

This post is in two parts. First, I navel-gaze about meta and fangirl Delany; then I try to do the kind of stuff *I'd* like to read and review a fic I read recently. This isn't a rec -- I mean, I recommend reading it, but I'm trying to work out meta thoughts about fanfic by writing about this particular story.

Meta^2 (that is, what I think I want ( Read more... )

MMWD wants to know which fics for [not *about*] pimping you would, or do, use. I listed five that I'd use. If I met my doppelganger. I wanted to do a second set of humorous fics, but stoptocheer's stuff is still offline so I only had two. *sad*

Also, I suck but callmesandy most certainly does not: Nitty Gritty Detritus, Fred and Oz ( Read more... )

obdisclaimer:* this is about my issues and what I want from *my* writing. Your needs and goals and suchlike may vary. That's cool and I'm very happy for you. If you'd like to share your thoughts about how you negotiate the familiar/original dynamic, that'd rock; I wouldn't post this publicly otherwise. But this isn't an extended piece of crit, so ( Read more... )