( This was not the icon I wanted to use... )

I've been working on things for next Saturday's panel at Prophecy on the Future of Fandom, which led to emmagrant01 and I talking about a Spring, 2003 thread on FA about "everything becoming AU after OotP" and she has started a nifty discussion about the issue over hereAnd I just asked this of someone else on my flist who says that "staying canon-based" (to ( Read more... )

Watch this video (is it also up here?), then return here and take the poll...

Poll Nerdy? Moi?

And yes, I know that the song is vaguely US-centric, but that's what the last option is for, right?

Well, that discussion is back again.

You know, the one which asks whether a fic should be rated-up if it involves discussion of a subject that is Bad or Negative or involves Evil, like Discrimination or Smoking or Nazis.

To paraphrase, a relative newbie-to-FA asked whether it would be "a bad influence on readers" and thus merit a high rating if a ( Read more... )

Excerpts from a dialogue I've been having with someone on HPfGU ( Read more... )