Ok, first off, check out this meta (link via sl_podcast )

What you want, what you need: fans and endings, and narrative satisfactions

From the article:
Authors are readers, and authors desire order and satisfaction as well. But the job of an author is to suspend satisfaction, that is, to sustain the reader's desire so she'll finish the story. Therefore ( Read more... )

After a short discussion with entrenous88 in comments the other day about B/G fic, I have a question/favor to ask of all of you:

What fics would you suggest to someone who is resistant to Buffy/Giles as a romantic pairing to kind of get them started?  Or, what fics do you think would convince someone that the pairing worked?  This is a slightly different ( Read more... )

In a search for the freaky cute in our fandom, I need *you*!  You're called to arms... well, really, requested to give me links to ANY pairing that has kittens in it!  Yep, that's right, the most cute of the cute fics from our fandom.  The good, the bad, the cuddly - I want 'em all ( Read more... )

Here it is.  My gigantic (for me) recs list.  Since it's got a bunch of slash on it, let's just say it's in honor of the day ( Read more... )

Actually, that should also say (IE: You know someone who writes fanfic?  You know someone who reads fanfic?  Read this.)

(linked from shehasathreeThe subject of this paper is the emerging genre of internet fan fiction, and the way in which women, the primary authors of such fiction, are using the paradox of cyberspace--personal privacy in a public forum--to ( Read more... )

Ok, I know, I'm VERY late.  But late is better than never!

FANFIC AUTHORS’ APPRECIATION WEEK

March 6 through March 13

Post to your LJ each day at least one of your favorite fanfic authors and why you love them, their work, and why they need more appreciation.
( FANFIC AUTHORS' APPRECIATION WEEK ... katekat's version )

FANFIC AUTHORS’ APPRECIATION WEEK

March 6 through March 13

Post to your LJ each day at least one of your favorite fanfic authors and why you love them, their work, and why they need more appreciation.So, I'm going to cheat, since this week is packed full of crazy reading assignments, class presentations, and all of the stuff the teachers want me ( Read more... )

Honestly, I can say that last night was everything it promised. In other words: fucking fabulous. I personally think every town in the country should take over their movie theatres and put this lovely idea into action ( Read more... )

Ok, Neil is the coolest man alive. He discovered that Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas does a Buffy Highschool Reunion where there's a sing alone to OMWF & they play HUSH.

YES!!!! WOOT!!!

I am a fangirl. I'm stoked. This is just frigging cool. We are *so* going.