A few years ago, I was talking with one of my buddies about slash, and she said that she goes through stages: when she first falls in love with a fandom, she craves first-time fics, and then after a while, she wants established relationship fics. I gave her the googly eyes upon hearing this, because I've always wanted first-time fics, and I couldn' ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and went food shopping today, as there was nothing left to eat in the house. While I was down the street I had the crazy notion that I might like to read a book. So I went into the mainstream bookshop and looked at stuff ( Read more... )

Ages ago lauredhel asked what some of the slash classics were. It's an impossible question, of course, as there are so many. But I've been picking away at the task and have come up with this list, which is by no means definitive, but gives a taste of what's out there and how the slash genre has changed over time ( Read more... )

The remixredux08 archive is now open, and I even though I've barely read anything yet I can already tell there's going to be lots of great stories.

My assigned remixer chose the SGA genderfuck story Sheppard's Choice, which I'd been secretly hoping for. The result is Sheppard's Choice (Theory of the Male Gaze remix), and it's awesome. All the themes are there ( Read more... )

Today, in between marking and picking away at missing scenes, I have been reading journal articles on genius. The topic turns out to be a much more fascinating -- and even more fraught -- than I had realised ( Read more... )

I've been signing up for Christmas story exchanges for several years now, and for the most part I love them. I don't do the commercial Christmas thing anymore, so these exchanges have extra significance for me. They always bring me a lot of pleasure ( Read more... )

I'm reccing small fandom songvids on crack_van this month. For my own use, I've just made a list of all my reccing stints on the van ( Read more... )

Why are so many books on How To Write so unhelpful? Please tell me I'm not the only person to think this ( Read more... )

I've been reading the SGA Big Bang stories, and loving them a lot. Every one I've read so far has had a strong central premise and readable line-by-line writing; it's such a joy to read them! I've recommended more than half of the ones I've read, which is a good, solid hit rate ( Read more... )

That Classic Combination: Sex and Violence
an essay by cupidsbow

I wasn't planning on the second essay in this series to focus, once again, on Joanna Russ's feminist writing. However, in response to the events of Strikethrough07, there's been a discussion about fanfiction texts which explore the dark sides of sexuality, particularly through the themes of ( Read more... )