(Recap of the situation for those who aren't familiar: Aja Romano, a reporter who covers fandom for a few different web-based small news organizations, is writing an article about hockey fandom that will mention slashfic. Several hockey RPF authors have locked their fic out of concern about the publicity ( Read more... )

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Between the ages of eleven and thirteen, I got most of my information about sex from two places: fandom and Savage Love. (Before eleven I got it from highly-misinformed other children and my mother, who always tried hard to make me feel comfortable asking questions. From thirteen on, I got it pretty much through trial and error.) Savage Love, if ( Read more... )

Aaaaand having just written a post about how pack feels are not my thing, I seem to have incorporated them as a plot point in my latest fic. *hands* I should probably learn to not make sweeping statements like that. It just begs the universe to make me contradict myself ( Read more... )

There's a particular kind of group-based squee that I don't think I encountered before I got into bandom. In bandom, people were always having "BAAAAAND" feelings, and writing schmoopy GSF, and rejoicing every time a band member said something about their band being a family. I thought this was a bandom-specific thing, but having now seen it in ( Read more... )

Inspired by a meandering e-mail conversation with
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[spoiler warnings: Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Buffy, The Matrix, The History Boys, dominant socially constructed narratives of self ( Read more... )

A lovely person by the moniker of PapayaTwilight has translated my Sherlock fic into Chinese! (I call it "my Sherlock fic" because the actual title is preposterously long. Clearly I've spent far too much time pickling my brain in a world where Ryan Ross gets to make decisions.) You can view it here if you so desire (username VIPGUEST, pw 221dnet). ( Read more... )

This isn't really a fandom thing, but I've got my non-fandom journal set up with a sex filter because a lot of my meatspace friends who don't want to hear about my sex life read it, and I kind of wanted this to be public. And I figure anyone who objects to sex talk showing up on their flists defriended this journal long ago. But just in case, here' ( Read more... )

I haven't written anything in weeks, mainly because my life has been crazy busy and I don't have a whole lot of time and energy left over to be creative. But man, I gotta block out some time and try to find a spark, because creative output is actually pretty crucial to my mental health ( Read more... )