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A reminder and an announcement.

My first help_japan fic offer is still open to bids here.

But I have also decided to offer a SECOND fic here. Only just put this up at the last minute, currently has no bids - bidding closes on the 26th so get in quick ( Read more... )

Partly this is for my own record and needs, but I figured I'd share also. The following is CoE meta.

It is, so far, meta on the negatives of CoE.

My overall message is this: CoE brought up things that need to be talked about. This isn't anti-fandom, it is pro-future fandoms. There are things we are entitled to get from our television shows ( Read more... )

So i'm re-writing my chapter about the basics of fandom. And some things are striking me as, well, off ( Read more... )

Okay so this is what I get for going to bed after posting something without thinking it through.. :(

I don't meant to imply that Jack is not sexual, and that all his actions can be interpreted through the lens of soldierly intimacy. Not at all what my point was. It's unquestionable that a lot of Jack's actions are sexual and overtly sexual at ( Read more... )

I've just read an article called '"Kiss me, Hardy,": Intimacy, Gender and Gesture in World War I Trench Literature' by Santanu Das that examines the act of the kiss between soldiers - dying and otherwise. It's rather complex, but one of the lines of thought is that it isn't erotic (though we may view it as such) but comfort. Soldiers kissed their ( Read more... )

POLL NOW CLOSED - THANK YOU FOR VOTINGAs some of you may know, I am currently doing my PhD thesis at Monash University in the field of Communications. I am looking at why some online communities last and why some don't. I plan to look at the fandom community in order to examine the ways in which it has lasted. Within this, I will be looking at: ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of articles on the existence of online community the last few days. Because my stupid thesis is stupid ( Read more... )

After some very interesting conversations in various comments I think i've realised why such a non-issue the whole barrowman radio 'thing' actually IS an issue for me. But it isn't what you think ( Read more... )

I've come to the realisation that I kind of hate what they did to Jack in Exit Wounds.

( cut for spoilers, just in case )