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Title: Not Alone
Fandom: MCU (Captain America: The First Avenger)
Rating: G
Wordcount: 950
Characters: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Spoilers: Yes, set toward the end of the movie
Notes: As a hopeful antidote to writing doldrums, I gave myself permission to write shameless OTP makeouts, canon be damned. It worked, in that I wrote most of the first ( Read more... )

I posted earlier today about the Women of Dragon Age Challenge. Over on Tumblr, there's been a little bit of a discussion about the choice of the Bechdel Test as a criteria for submissions. I have some thoughts -- of course I have thoughts; any discussion of the Bechdel Test is like catnip to me -- but I didn't want to hijack the post advertising ( Read more... )

Not ganked from anyone this year, because I wasn't crazy about any of the variations making the rounds, so this is last year's variation, adapted slightly.

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When I first became active in fandom, back in 2005, I was the very definition of "monofannish". I only wrote in one universe -- Final Fantasy X/X-2 -- and had very little interest in branching out. I would happily read fic in other canons, FF and otherwise, and I would write and talk meta for all kinds of sources, but when it came to creating ( Read more... )

Author Lev Grossman wrote an article on fanfiction for Time Magazine, notable largely because he asked for the input of fandom, and it shows -- it's one of the better entries to the genre, despite a few weird things like an implication that hurt/comfort is by necessity AU, and a little too much attention paid to fic-hating authors of the "but the ( Read more... )

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Same disclaimers as yesterday, only more so because it was a longer day and I am tired. Still fun, though. Mostly did panels today, plus one writing exercise.

( My impressions, not all in complete sentences. )

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