Fandom?
Or is that too general? Um...Jossversers?
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Mar 15, 2003 6:30:30 pm PST #4220 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Gus - Mar 15, 2003 6:33:46 pm PST #4221 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Yeah, 'fandom' is too tight to the unifying concept. Say the ... thing ... was about politics. Ditto, 'Jossverse'. Thanks for the quick response, though.
Dana - Mar 15, 2003 6:41:36 pm PST #4222 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, I'm trying to come up with something else...I got nothing.
Elena - Mar 15, 2003 7:03:43 pm PST #4223 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Interweb? Cyber-something?
Gus - Mar 15, 2003 7:04:21 pm PST #4224 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks, Dana. There are people who can chart a picture of one (one approach :: another approach). One of them actually uses the word 'karass', but then goes on for a month explaining what it means.
Yeesh. I hate to have to stuff in a naive character or expository lump, to get this idea across. It is a real thing, in the real world. It oughta have a name.
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2003 9:06:22 pm PST #4225 of 10000
brillig
Community? Hivemind (assumes too much uniformity of opinion, sorry)? pulling out the old Roget's, which has niftier words Convergence?
Gus - Mar 16, 2003 3:38:24 am PST #4226 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks, Connie, Elena, Dana. It turned out -- when I finally got my head on straight -- that the reader probably didn't need to have all kinds of weird social notions added to things, to understand what was going on among some characters. The author was trying to jam a pet theory down the reader's throat. Bastard.
Lyra Jane - Mar 16, 2003 9:06:49 am PST #4227 of 10000
Up with the sun
But the key thing about a karass is that the people in one *don't* have anything major in common -- they just unwittingly serve the same goal. Granfaloon, which is a percieved karass based on commonalities, is probably closer, but it's a bit of an insult.
(signed, read Cat's Cradle about 15 times.)
deborah grabien - Mar 16, 2003 10:45:13 am PST #4228 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yup. If I remember this right - and there's a good possibility I don't, since I haven't reread Cat's Cradle in twenty years and need to, because I loved it - Granfaloon is sort of the updated version of Cloudcuckooland, in terms of insult value.
Fay - Mar 16, 2003 11:23:53 am PST #4229 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I've heard too many horror stories of people writing fic under their own name, and then realizing their intended career as a kindergarten teacher might be imperiled by the easily-found GVSP they posted on the net.
swallows.
Um. Um. Okay, NOT panicking. Because - career as kindergarten teacher? Check. GVSP? Check. But my name is not FayJay. (....and now I feel like a Whitney Housten song.) Nor have I ever been able to find anything by googling my realworld name. Um. But, still...