The best meta I've read about about Captain America: The Winter Soldier in regards to Steve/Bucky so far.

Hello, Tailer: CAP: The Winter Soldier - The Tragedy of Bucky Barnes, from April 11, 2014.

Bucky's role in this movie is the point where Marvel nerd and non-nerd audiences part ways. Going by the reactions I've seen from film critics and my ( Read more... )

Some time ago I was asked by my friend caraloup to do a presentation on the magic in the Harry Potter books for her seminar about the Magical Universe in the Middle-Ages. It was a fascinating seminar session. Those students know their Harry Potter ( Read more... )

pauraque has a great post up about Writing in a new fandom. It's three succinct paragraphs of meta that goes way beyond what writing in a new fandom entails, but for all of us who dip their toes in new fandoms, it's gold.

==> pauraque, Writing in a new fandom

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Originally posted by capitu at Commenting

A lot has been said about commenting, specially that people are doing it less these days, which makes me sad because it's not only fun, but I think it's important, too; to let someone know, who took time and effort to share something with the fandom, that you enjoyed their work ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon this interview of Barry Eisler - who has opened one of his universes for Kindle Worlds - with Philipp Patrick, head of Kindle Worlds: The Heart of the MatterIt's clearly a promotional interview but with - I find - some interesting insights into how Kindle Worlds will deal with slash, pornographic content and why they want copyright ( Read more... )