lotesse: a note on the ongoing metafandom conversation - But I do think that - maybe since the big fails last winter/spring - the elision between fannish meta and oppositional work has become more complete than I'd like. I'd rather have something like [community profile] linkspam to give me thoughts about Russophobia, and keep metafandom for fic theorization. - (tags: meta) skye: Archive of Our Own Vs. Fanfiction.net - I'm doing a comparison post between both sites and how they function right at this moment. Keep in mind that despite critique, I still like both sites. - (tags: fanfic ao3) farad: An interesting article- metafandom meets pro-publishing - The biggest reason I'm subjecting you guys to it is that the first half of it is about why the writers - and reading/paying market for this exploding new literary field - are straight women. You know, in case you want to be over-analyzed by academia about why we like to read hot m/m sex. - (tags: slash writing reading link media) cluegirl: Thoughts Contingent on Reader Entitlement; the fandom edition - For Cod's sake, could we please put a little effort into remembering that the writer does not OWE us, the readers, anything more than A Story? And that if we get A Story, there is no contractual obligation under which it will have been written to our tastes, to our preferences, or even to our level of skill or comprehension? - (tags: fanfic) silentauror: Thoughts on fic exchange feedback - On the same hand, it's the holidays and regardless of how well it came off, someone spent a lot of time and hard work on a story for someone, and is it really my place to come raining all over their parade? One the other hand, it was still posted in public, not emailed directly to the recipient, and obviously getting comments from readers other than the recipient is also a big part of an exchange like this. - (tags: poll exchanges feedback) fakeplasticsnow: [in idolmeta] SURVEY: Inspiration vs. Perspiration - 1. Look back to the fic that garnered you the most reviews. How long did it take you to write that fic? How does that compare with the average amount of time you take writing a fic?2. Does the trend apply to you too, then? Is the amount of time you take writing something inversely proportional to the number of reviews you get?3. If yes, do you agree that inspiration tends to eclipse effort exerted, in terms of what fic readers respond to? - (tags: americanidol feedback fanfic)
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1246 hours - Providing inclusive HIV prevention

blacklooks

http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/providing_inclusive_hiv_prevention.html ‘How do you convince me to come out and say I am a homosexual yet the same government that is asking me to do this criminalizes what I am engaged in? I would rather they offered the services without going into the business of knowing who we are and trying to count us.’ Kenya’s HIV prevention [...]
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1327 hours - Unshelved strip for Tuesday, December 22, 2009

unshelved

http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20091222 archive \| primer \| blog \| purchase print \| send to a friend
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2009-12-21:

1233 hours - Gender Sentencing

blacklooks

http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/struggles_with_religions.html

http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=5922

On gender sentencing…..
‘Nagging’ is seen as acceptable provocation; years of abuse is not …. A huge shift in thinking is needed, but the court room in particular needs to become more aware of the biases and gendered thinking that occur around cases of violence. Continue
Via the F-Word
Photo from Reclaim the Night Rome

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2009-12-22:

1246 hours - Providing inclusive HIV prevention

blacklooks

http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/providing_inclusive_hiv_prevention.html ‘How do you convince me to come out and say I am a homosexual yet the same government that is asking me to do this criminalizes what I am engaged in? I would rather they offered the services without going into the business of knowing who we are and trying to count us.’ Kenya’s HIV prevention [...]
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1246 hours - Providing inclusive HIV prevention

blacklooks

http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/providing_inclusive_hiv_prevention.html

http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=5937

‘How do you convince me to come out and say I am a homosexual yet the same government that is asking me to do this criminalizes what I am engaged in? I would rather they offered the services without going into the business of knowing who we are and trying to count us.’
Kenya’s HIV prevention [...]

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1010 hours - Episode 352: Disappointing Denouement of Initial Combat Encounter Sequence

darthsanddroids

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0352.html

Episode 352: Disappointing Denouement of Initial Combat Encounter Sequence

If the dice say you can't kill one of the player's characters, there's nothing to say you can't destroy some of their vital equipment instead.

It's not petty. It's realistic.

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0911 hours - House/Wilson: First Shot

yonmei

A cannon is a large gun, usually on wheels, which used to be used in battles; a heavy automatic gun, especially one that is fired from an aircraft; if someone is a loose cannon, they do whatever they want and nobody can predict what they are going to do. A canon of texts is a list of them that is accepted as genuine or important: in fannish usage, "canon" is that which defines the universe, and is usually taken to be the episodes of that show as aired, not unaired pilots, or original scripts, or information from interviews, or novelizations or novel spinoffs - though sometimes it simply means "definitely not fan fiction". (Fannish Definitions) So. House/Wilson: Canoning into each other with great force! Or possibly being fired at each other in battle. You choose. Emotional state: amusedOn audio: amused
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0630 hours - Doc “Skylark” Smith

frederikpohl

http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/

http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749

When I first began obsessively reading science fiction, at about the age of ten, all sf writers were as gods to me. Some, however, were bigger gods than others, my holiest trinity being Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells and Edward Elmer Smith, Ph. D. — with Doc Smith at the top of the [...]

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0007 hours - Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out

apod

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091221.html

In the center of star-forming region

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2009-12-21:

1924 hours - Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1312

hobotopia

http://apelad.blogspot.com/2009/12/laugh-out-loud-cats-1312.html

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1312, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

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2009-12-22:

0007 hours - Issue #123

mero_update in meta_roundup

Fandom-specific [DCU] shadowvalkyrie: DCU musings: "Specifically, porn. [...] Even more specifically, kinky porn. And the discrepancy of why the Bruce/Tim variety tends to be a great deal more popular than the Bruce/Jason one." [Torchwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer] firefly124: Okay, so everybody else has probably already read this AfterElton article (the article compared Torchwood and BtVS in regards to character death, and the post builds on that. I'm not being more specific because I'm unsure whether details about Torchwood's third season are still considered spoilers.) General thete1: "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!": "This has been on my mind -- harshing my squee -- since that first Transformers movie came out and so many of you were full of excuses about why you were going to see it anyway. Despite the racism." In a post titled Saying Goodbye, yourlibrarian talks about important changes in TV, reality shows, the demise of the WB, and that the cause for the popularity decline in music games could be "a stranglehold on copyright". cluegirl: Thoughts Contingent on Reader Entitlement; the fandom edition: "So what is it that makes us as readers so much more ready to be spiteful about work we DID NOT have to pay for? Other than the fact that we can, and the writer in question is unlikely to have highly paid lawyers who might give us a telling-off for acting like arseholes, I mean?" skuf: Where's all the meta?: "Remember back in the day - e.g. 2006 - when [metafandom] issues were posted about every other day and had shitloads of links? What happened? Brainstorming: ..." (Cross-posted to DW, where the big discussion obviously seems to happen, but I decided to link the IJ version on principle.) xie_xie_xie: metafandom and its discontents: "But the last three or four times I submitted a link, either mine or someone else's, either QAF-specific or "big picture" fandom meta, it was just ignored. I never knew if they just didn't like it, or didn't get it, or what the problem was."
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2009-12-21:

2146 hours - More snow!

shadowvalkyrie

It's more than ankle deep by now, and more's on the way! (Which, for the area, is amazing.) Predictably, my metabolism has kicked into its winter feeding frenzy. (Which is bad, because I can't currently do my jogging routine -- with the current state of the streets that would be suicidal. But the fact that I miss it, shows that I'll likely keep the habit. It's grown on me.) I'm currently in bed with my laptop and a tin of oil sardines, which probably means I've reached a new level on the official weirdness scale. (Pffft, like I care.) What can I say, I've had so much chocolate I kind of don't want any more (which is an O_o occurrence for me). The fish was originally intended as a basis for horse-friend's stag night (how do you say that for women? Doe night?) last Saturday, but I forgot. I had volunteered to stay home (since I'm not too much involved with most of her friends) and do the dog sitting, but of course I was included in the several hours worth of warm-up drinking. (Which ended with me not only taking care of the dogs, but also making sure that the girl who collapsed halfway through (during her own drinking game, with her own home-mixed liquor, no less) and subsequently also didn't go to the city with the others, slept on her side, not her back, and to occasionally check if she was still breathing. Yay. ":-/) Otherwise, the evening was fun, though. Horse-friend got dressed up in a skimpy "female santa" costume, and managed to look stunning rather than silly in it. (She's one of those lucky few people who can wear absolutely anything and be smoking hot. envies) Her boyfriend was pretty miffed he only got to see the photos afterwards, heh. (His own stag night was pretty traumatic, seeing as his own bastard friends made him run round the city centre in nothing but underpants (not even boxer shorts). -- Just as a reminder: we had -10 to -15°C and heavy snow here. Brrr.) The next morning, or, well, around noon, horse-friend was already bouncy again (I have no idea how she manages that -- I had a lot less to drink, six hours more sleep, and was still more hung over) and we took the dogs for a good long hike over the snowy hills, which was awesome. Somehow, I'd take moments like that with my friends over all the parties in the world. ETA: Oh, and Happy Midwinter's Night, everybody! I wish every night of the year could be that long and snowy -- don't you? ":-D Emotional state: amusedOn audio: amused
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1351 hours - [SP] Why Just Before Curtain

someposifeed

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12142009.shtml

If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.

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1825 hours - Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse - Book I: The Invisible Chains (M/M Slash)

dennysmore in slashy_hotness

Title: Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse - Book I: The Invisible Chains Author: Eurypon Format: Original - Novel Length: 190 000 (November 14, 2009) Status: WIP Rating: M - NC-17 Warnings: Violence, incest, rape, non-con, domination may all occur in varying degrees Link: aarinfantasy and fictionpress Summary: (by the author) A long and brooding chronicle with bitterness, savage tribes, bloody battles and crowns lost and gained. About friendship in arms, love in bonds, devotion against all odds and undeserved tenderness. M/M Slash Review: The story is set in a kind of Middle Ages. Although very recognizable, there are some differences with our actual Middle Ages. Some regions in this world have more a feel of ancient Greece. The kingdom of Ximerion is under threat of an attack on both its southern and northern border. The danger coming from the north is far less serious and the high king sends his youngest sons to the Northern Marches, under the guidance of an old and trusted friend, both to handle the situation and to safeguard them from the far more serious situation in the south. Almost immediately strife breaks out between the half brothers, although they also feel attracted to each other... though this attraction takes some strange forms. Like the author states in the summary it is a long and brooding tale. It requires some investment of the reader, especially in the beginning. Those who get past the first three or four chapters are well rewarded however. Out of the Introduction-Warning by the author: This will be a long and brooding chronicle with bitterness and savage tribes and bloody battles and crowns lost and gained. It will tell about foul betrayal and fighting in desperate situations. About friendship in arms and love in bonds. About devotion against all odds and undeserved tenderness. About reversal of fortunes and growth in adversity. Be warned: there will be scenes of domination and rape, but never random or unexplained. Of course there will be smut. There will also be incest. The graphic description of armed conflict and the sacking of villages and cities may not be to everybody's taste. Characters you might have grown to love will die and their death will not always be an easy one. It is doubtful that at the end of the story there will be anybody left who is totally innocent.
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1220 hours - [SP] Why Bother?

someposifeed

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12132009.shtml

If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.

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1631 hours - Happy solstice

yonmei

It's dark now. It's the shortest day/longest night. Tomorrow, the year's reborn. Emotional state: thankfulOn audio: thankful
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