Meta Month of March - Signups
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Before signing up, please read the rules. If you're looking for meta ideas (or some general pointers on what we mean by "meta") take a look at the meta plotbunny exchange: on LJ / on DW. (Note: this post contains different comments on LJ and DW, so you may wish to look at both.) There is also a list of meta resources here: on LJ / on DW.
Posting dates and topics are not "first come, first serve" - more than one person can sign up for the same date, or for the same (or similar) topics. This is a low-pressure fest. You can sign up all the way until posting begins at the start of March, and there is no penalty for dropping out or being late.
March 1: sholio (Watching a series in realtime vs. marathoning); pirateveronica (Struggle with Race and Gender in JJ Abram's Star Trek relaunch)
March 2: mecurtin (Reality TV and good story-telling); snowynight (How the women of Marvel comics are written); lunabee34 (Fannish Trajectories: Isolation, a Sense of Disconnection from Fandom, and How We Deal)
March 3: snowynight (Rare Marvel femslash pairing: a ship manifesto); cranberryloops (Diagnosing Sherlock)
March 4: ar (The song "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" and its use in Boardwalk Empire)
March 5: executrix ("Do Give Up the Ship": why I don't believe in shipping)
March 6: elf (Fanfiction, ebooks, & self-publishing)
March 7: melayneseahawk (Alternate universe versus alternate reality: a terms manifesto)
March 8: afterandalasia/ficofandalasia (History, Time and Disney)
March 9: somnolentblue (Fannish infrastructure and reccing)
March 10: maekala (Megaupload and piracy in fandom); leesa_perrie (Rodney McKay character exploration); terajk (Disability in A:tLA)
March 11: carenejeans (M/M slash does not "erase" women's sexuality)
March 12: dagas_isa (Being a small fandom fan)
March 13: afterandalasia/ficofandalasia (Disney and Magic); Fel (Representing video game mechanics in fic, focused to RPGs and MMOs)
March 14: china_shop (Comparing the writing and vidding processes, in a creative fannish context)
March 15: veleda_k (How the women of White Collar are written); trobadora (The rewritten childhood in Doctor Who and Legend of the Seeker); jordan_frog (Why is fic dealing with transgenderism so common in the Sherlock fandom?)
March 16: yourlibrarian (The ultimate squicks in fan fiction versus canon)
March 17: seekingferret (Undermining fannish assumptions about "Written by the Victors"); morganlucas41 (Open vs. closed canon, and how viewing a show all at once vs. as it airs alters fans’ perceptions of the show)
March 18: ambyr (Gender representation in A:tLA); ar (Why I wish people would stop ragging on legacy newspaper strips)
March 19: executrix (The two most terrifying High School Horror shows: Freaks and Geeks and My So-Called Life); anotherslashfan (Some trends of writing threesomes/moresomes)
March 20: amaresu (Remixing); solesakuma (Do You Trust Your Friends?: On Remixing)
March 21: sistermagpie (Remakes: Why we hate them, why we fear them, why they're not always so bad); xenoamorist (Representation of Asians in Supernatural)
March 22: kimboosan (The Presumed Social Contract: the effect of fandom size and personality on community continuity); terabient (The different ways video games build narrative); daigranon (Katekyo Hitman Reborn: lack of strong female characters, why this may be, and how fans compensate)
March 23: coneyislandbaby (Falling for minor characters in large fandoms); sophia_sol (Getting into a fandom when you know nothing of the canon)
March 24: mithen (Multi-Canon Fandoms); teambenevolence (The Women of Final Fantasy X)
March 25: hollow_echos (Methods of interaction in fandom); dagas_isa (Thoughts on writing humor in fanfic)
March 26: bandykullan (Keeping to the canon - navigating the fan world without any interest in AU or non-canon ships); skogsraa_v (Different categories of things to like in canon)
March 27: kriadydragon (Neal Caffrey meta); umbrella_half (Queer Dynamics/Dynamic Queers: Gender and Sexuality in Fandom)
March 28: frith-in-thorns (either female characters in h/c, or mental illness as portrayed in crime fandoms); ninety6tears (The hypothetical asexuality of Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde)
March 29: thatyourefuse (Harry/Ros ship manifesto (Spooks)); inner_v0ice (Tradition, modernity and the self in Rurouni Kenshin and Kaze Hikaru); prozacpark (Women and sexuality in media); thatyourefuse (The Mirror, The Cage, And The Invisible Stick: Female Narratives in Boardwalk Empire, Or Why Gillian-Margaret Is My Endgame Partnership.)
March 30: kriadydragon (A beginner's guide to fanfiction: definitions, advice and what to expect)
March 31: terajk (Disability in the anime Soul Eater)
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