I ought to make a housekeeping post w/r/t Bapton Books, and our new titles, and all that, but you can get all that here and here and elsewhereInstead, it is my duty here and now to say this. I have never agreed with La Rowling on politics (I mean, really, Gordon Bloody Brown?). I have seen, in the fandom she spawned - and that is the mot juste - ( Read more... )

Today is the Feast of Plastic Paddy. It is, evidently, celebrated with green, weak lager; inauthentic food; mockery of cherished traditions; and All That, particularly by Yanks. It is (one hears) customary that all the Fernandezes, Wangs, Goldfarbs, Tkaches, Nguyens, da Silvas, Kowalskis, Schmidts, van Doorns, Lanzas, and all sorts, declare ( Read more... )

... Is it me, or is AO3 down?

… a last bit of fandom critical analysis (I truly do loathe the term ‘meta’).

( Can we make up our minds, please? )

( But criticism is different to attempts to censor, and to mere abuse. )

( There is proper criticism.... )

( Character, canon, and the plausible. )

( Proem. )

And leading to what might seem an unfortunate coincidence (in the literal sense). I admit it to be an odd time of year for a spring cleaning, in this hemisphere, at least. Please know that my doing so (and I really ought not even to want to make this assurance) is apropos of nothing at all in this journal or any interactions within ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote about criticism. In the past, I have written about Not Doing the Research as being a form of appropriation. A wise comment from Matilda on yesterday’s post has drawn my attention; and impelled a conclusion. Whatever the excuse: ‘it’s only fanfic’; ‘the rest of us are simply trying to have fun’; ‘you, Wemyss-the-Killer-of-Joys, ( Read more... )