[unfic] in place of thought, questions

[glossing]

Some random questions that have been sloshing around in my brainpan lately:
1. Does the proliferation of fandom-specific newsletters mean there's less need for fic-communities? (I'm thinking of comms as fic-posting platforms here, rather than niche outlets for 'ship cliques and the like.)

2. If an ensemble has a canon queer character - or a couple

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[cathexys]

Oh, thank you!!! *g*

genre and writing makes so much more sense (though i'd actually added the prickly vs fuzzy as an addendum)

i've had a couple of moments where I thought about transferring metabib to delicious where the tagging would allow multiple tabs, but the task seemed way too daunting! plus, now, metafandom has it all (though with a bit of excess :)

btw...totally OT but I'm not ure you saw my question a couple of days ago: do you know where i could find the joss comment that he wasn't sure whether xander or willow would be gay?

[glossing]

I've been looking for the Joss quotation, as a matter of fact. I *know* I've read it, or at least references to it, and I suspect it was probably on the Bronze board. Would it help if I posted the question? The Herald might pick it up, or an old-schooler like dolores & katemonkey might know...

[cathexys]

Oh, that'd be wonderful. Thank you!!! (If nothing else, even if I don't end up using it as an example of subtext potentials, we can fix the Wikipedia entry that mentions it yet has no source :)

Btw, I was talking with friend yesterday and realized that Joss did theexact opposite to JKR...whereas he opened up possibilities, she told people what pairings were "the right ones" even before it became text. My friend thought it was a function of the meium, but I thought it was clearly a mod/pomo issue...

[executrix]

I'm pretty sure I've seen the quote on whedonesque.

I think the simple explanation is that Joss is a fangirl and JKR SOOOO isn't.

[glossing]

I'll post, no problem. I'm not sure how much of my friend-of list is Jossverse any more, but it's worth a shot.

whereas he opened up possibilities, she told people what pairings were "the right ones" even before it became text.
Mod/pomo makes sense - and I agree with Exec, too, that Joss is coming *from* a fannish place, so he knows the lingo and can say BYO subtext, while JKR is very much the modernist single-author type.

[dorrie6]

and I agree with Exec, too, that Joss is coming *from* a fannish place, so he knows the lingo and can say BYO subtext, while JKR is very much the modernist single-author type.

I just came over to say I agree with this as well.

Also, I used to have a lot of the Bronze archived to my own computer. If I can find those (they could be lost forever, but who knows?), I'll take a look too. There was a time when I saved *everything*.