WTF fandom, seriously? What's with the whole pendulum thing lately that I've been seeing in the Kirk/Spock and Spock/Uhura ship wars? I'm so sick of seeing legitimate criticism of some slash fans devolving and derailing into homophobia, biphobia, sexism, and racism ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I love the reboot version of James T. Kirk, and I love many of the ways that fanon presents him. I love him as a woman, I love him as a man, I love him as genderqueer. I love him as cis, I love him as trans. I love him as gay, straight, bi, or anything else on the sexuality spectrum. I love him as a kid, teen, and adult. I love ( Read more... )

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I was at work the other day, and I couldn't help but notice that the current issue of Writers Digest is genre-centric. Unable to help myself, I picked up the issue. As a hardcore genre-writer (to the point ( Read more... )

Is slash canon? Well, that's the question that has been prominently displayed on metafandom, and in every BNF's journal across the web. And, predictably, I've been following this debate with a lot of enthusiasm. Unfortunately, this whole mess has left me (a pansexual woman) with a headache and a vague feeling that the general slash community is turning a ( Read more... )