A while back, I got a great comment on my 'Bless Your Heart' author's notes that went like this:
I liked the story. The issue you raised of lesbian performance and the male gaze, got me wondering about this whole genre of BL with its principally female audience (understand that I quite enjoy said genre and am not trying to criticize it). I feel ( Read more... )

Last night, after drmoonpants and I sat raininariver down and showed her the first episode of Sherlock (our second, third, and first viewings, respectively), we were talking about fandom and fan responses, and I finally verbalized something I've had rattling around in my brain about how what I love and what I write/read fic for often do not overlap.

I will generally ( Read more... )

Written for lexy_opal, as a part of atla_ladyfest. I'll be the first to admit that it isn't quite what she asked for, but ... well, I hope she likes it anyway? (Plus, there's less than a week from getting a prompt to the prompt's being due, which means nobody's getting another Blue Skies Over Bad Lands or anything ( Read more... )

Nice people read and leave comments!

...Seriously, I'm very tired and not too coherent, but there's really a discussion to be had about how and why participation in things like bb_shousetsu works, especially as it relates to audience feedback. The lj format, with its easy commenting tools, not only gives readers the chance to make their opinions heard, it ( Read more... )

Well, metanomaly was inspirational, like she so often is, and thus I updated my webpage!

She was also inspirational linkingly, and now I have the world's saddest site banner (if you're a banner-linking person), which matches my world's saddest site design. If you're not on my links page and want to be, let's link ( Read more... )

I should absolutely 100% spend this evening reading school books, doing homework, and preparing for my adjunct teaching position interview tomorrow.

Instead, I'm stealing memes from lynadyndyn:The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in (or think I should), and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, ( Read more... )

Via petronia, Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.

Ficbits don't count, I said, and neither do bb_shousetsu stories, no matter how fanon-y they may be -- but short fics posted not as part of a ficbit challenge are fair game.

( in approximate reverse chronological order )

Making a consolidated yet very slapdash list of must-read fanstuff stuff written by people I love, making it for hunterandhunted like I said I would, making it half-assedly and very sleepily, la di dum~

( collektions )

mrmoonpants 's post here and amei's responses put me to mind of something I've actually been meaning to lj about for a while. So let me take my user-end seat at the fandom meta table, and start babbling incoherently!

From where I'm sitting, it looks like fanartists get a lot more respect than fanfic writers. However, I'm fairly certain that my perspective on this ( Read more... )

I sent in my last two grad school applications today! I have to make sure that all my recommendations get in moderately close to (i.e., not too far after) the deadline, but other than that, I've basically done all I can. Now's just the time to sit back and wait. I'm really gunning for Temple's Department of Religion now, because I've had a lovely ( Read more... )