Safe space has always been meaningless once you get past small groups with very specific purposes. Top-down safe spaces are a joke.

That may be overly-cynical.

But I went to a lovey-dovey liberal arts school which was all about such things, and they didn't seem to work.

My sister just sent me

'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet Joseph Brennan
International Journal of Cultural Studies 2014 17: 363 originally published online 7 August 2013

Abstract

This article examines cultures of anonymity (or ‘nonnies’) and secrecy in online slash fandom through textual analysis of fannish reaction to gay magazine DNA publishing slash content. I use the experiences of infamous slash manip artist mythagowood from the Supernatural fandom community to read this critical moment of online discourse creation. Specific cases on LiveJournal communities spnanonhaven and fandomsecrets are examined to reveal pockets of conservatism, or ‘pearl clutching’, online. Within the context of male slash production, I examine the implications of nonnies and their efforts to keep slash secret, which is the enactment of an online ‘slash closet’; and conclude by considering what cultures of anonymity and secrecy mean for male slashers, many whose slash practice is inextricably linked to direct identity construction.

I can't wait until my eyes are good enough for reading it.

Interesting, ita.

I am still pretty much incapacitated by vertigo after my surgery, and can't really read. So I spent 12+ hours yesterday listening to the full audiobook recording of Martha Wilson's Retrograde series, an SGA/SG-1 crossover with great action sequences and characterization bits.

Then I listened to her SGA/Firefly crossover Raiders of the Seven Systems, in which John Sheppard is a space pirate with Teyla and Zoe Washburne.

And then I got tired of John Sheppard as the Pegasus Galaxy's biggest woobie. But the stories are really good, and translate well to audio form, even if the readers vary in quality/pronunciation.

I should have an opinion on it by the end of the weekend. I tried getting my Mac to read it, and it was just too spooky and distracting. Chose a male voice, though. It's not very good at pronouncing "nonnie", "spnanonhaven", and "livejournal" unfortunately.

I was on spnanonhaven when this particular pearl clutching happened. Image google mythagowood if you have a strong stomach for porn featuring dripping prolapsed anuses but when he got his Jared manips printed in an Australian gay mag, JEEZ.

Of all people, of all subjects, but...it's authentic gay male participation in slash, so why should any of the female slash artists expect their experience to be displayed there?

Speaking of artists, not necessarily slash, what fanartists would you recommend? I always start with petite madame and AliceXZ, although she's properly pro now.

I just got a small flurry of favorites on my big Narnia novel, over on FFN. And since that thing was finalized back in 2012 2011, I naturally figured someone must have recced it somewhere.

Turns out, it was the guy who is writing Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Huh.

(Of course, I'm not getting any comments, just hits. It's something, I guess...)

Yudkowsky recced Carpetbaggers? That's.....interesting. Y'know, I bet it was one of those, "This is a fic that thinks through the implications of it's world better than the source," deals.

Anybody who wants to give me non-AU Winter Soldier fic (such as what happens after the movie ends, etc.) would be awesome.

That's.....interesting. Y'know, I bet it was one of those, "This is a fic that thinks through the implications of it's world better than the source," deals.

Possibly? He doesn't say, and I'm damned if I know where he got the rec, since the hits on that thing have been in dribbles for the last year.

It is nice to get hits, but damn, 800+ hits in the last 48 hours, and no comments at all. t sulks

I am confused by that man and that website. But I tend to be confused by rationality because I think that not considering emotions is actually irrational because people have emotions. But I did not read too far.

Yeah, I think I tried to read that story once, and gave up shortly into it. It's not that I think that story can't be told, but it's not doing what I usually want when I read HP fic, so I put it down.