There are still lots of open days if you want to ask me anything!

For today,
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Inevitably, given the recent controversies, I have been thinking about the issue of podfic and permissions. (For the record, before I go any further, I would like to note that I have given blanket-ish permission for people to podfic my stories.) In particular, I'm thinking about the analogy sometimes made between podfic of a fanfic and fanfic of a ( Read more... )

1) I've been thinking about this poem since
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Here are my responses to the mini-commentary meme.

likeadeuce asked for commentary on a bit of ( Mexico City )

Er, it's been a while since I've made a fannish post, hasn't it? My job and other things have kept me pretty busy for a while ( Read more... )

My mood is a lot better now after taking a nice walk in the sunshine. I can tell I'm readjusting to Minnesota weather--I saw that the temperature was 41 degrees (that's 5 degrees Celsius) and thought "I'd better go out; it would be a shame to waste this lovely warm afternoon."

So, in the spirit of being less grumpy: today's fannish5 asked what 5 fannish ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been thinking about guns. Not in the real world, where I tend to believe that guns are Bad Things (although I'm not an absolutist on this--I don't think there's anything wrong with using guns to hunt [for food, not for sport]). No, I'm thinking about guns in films and television.

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Okay, this is a supplement to my previous post. My list created some confusion, because people started listing every fandom they could think of that has LGBT characters, and virtually nobody was mentioning all the fandoms without them.

So, this post is for the fandoms with no significant, canonically LGBT characters ( Read more... )

Dear anyone here from metafandom: Hello! Please join in the discussion. However, please read the whole post before adding to the list of LGBT characters. I'm not including characters based on subtext or ambiguous remarks, nor am I including one-shot or extremely minor characters. The post explains why.

During a recent discussion of slash here on penknife's journal ( Read more... )

I'm having a very interesting discussion here with executrix about whether a particular character should be described as "camp." (The post is friendslocked because it has details in it about a course I'm teaching, and I don't want any students somehow stumbling across it. Also, it contains some spoilers for Blake's 7--vandonovan, you shouldn't click ( Read more... )