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kiki_engScience, y'all. and More Science! by melannen
This is some really fantastic meta that was written and compiled in response to this prevailing image of slashers as heterosexual housewives.melannen went looking for all the sexuality surveys of slashers that she could find and ran the numbers and found that, actually, a lot of slashers were queer, way more than 10% (which is the queer portion of the general population statistic I hear a lot), in fact, most slashers identified as queer. Numbers are pretty cool. I really love that there's this thing out there that I can point to when people talk about slash as being this het female thing. I think this is super-interesting meta.
Podfic as transformative works--Let me count the ways bypodcath
podcath wrote some really awesome meta about podfic as creative works and in relation to fic and about fannish etiquette and some goings-on in the podfic community, which are all really interesting to me. podcath includes some really neat links that show a little bit of the history of the podficcing community. I don't identify as a podficcer, nor do I listen to a lot of podfic, but I think it's great, and this meta is incredibly interesting and does a good job of showcasing podfic as a valuable creative endeavour in its own right.
Women's Hockey Primer bypineapplechild
Hockey RPF
I went through this thing a bit ago where I started getting into Hockey RPF and then it was February which is the month in which all my fannish intake is about ladies, basically, and I swore a bit. I had a lot of trouble finding any fic about women who play hockey (not gender-swapped NHL-ers, but people who are on women's college hockey teams and women's Olympic teams) and I really wish this primer had been around then. It's great! There are pictures and videos and fun facts! ...and I want to add something here, about the CWHL. If you want to support women's hockey you can do the financial donation thing through the Friends of the CWHL. You can also buy merch, so, say, if you were really excited about the U.S.A. Olympic Women's Hockey team you might also be interested in buying a tee from them with, say, Chu's name and CWHL jersey number on it. (It is sort of hockey and Olympic season here, so I am just, you know, throwing that out there.)
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melannenThis is some really fantastic meta that was written and compiled in response to this prevailing image of slashers as heterosexual housewives.
melannen went looking for all the sexuality surveys of slashers that she could find and ran the numbers and found that, actually, a lot of slashers were queer, way more than 10% (which is the queer portion of the general population statistic I hear a lot), in fact, most slashers identified as queer. Numbers are pretty cool. I really love that there's this thing out there that I can point to when people talk about slash as being this het female thing. I think this is super-interesting meta.Podfic as transformative works--Let me count the ways by
podcathpodcath wrote some really awesome meta about podfic as creative works and in relation to fic and about fannish etiquette and some goings-on in the podfic community, which are all really interesting to me. podcath includes some really neat links that show a little bit of the history of the podficcing community. I don't identify as a podficcer, nor do I listen to a lot of podfic, but I think it's great, and this meta is incredibly interesting and does a good job of showcasing podfic as a valuable creative endeavour in its own right.Women's Hockey Primer by
pineapplechildHockey RPF
I went through this thing a bit ago where I started getting into Hockey RPF and then it was February which is the month in which all my fannish intake is about ladies, basically, and I swore a bit. I had a lot of trouble finding any fic about women who play hockey (not gender-swapped NHL-ers, but people who are on women's college hockey teams and women's Olympic teams) and I really wish this primer had been around then. It's great! There are pictures and videos and fun facts! ...and I want to add something here, about the CWHL. If you want to support women's hockey you can do the financial donation thing through the Friends of the CWHL. You can also buy merch, so, say, if you were really excited about the U.S.A. Olympic Women's Hockey team you might also be interested in buying a tee from them with, say, Chu's name and CWHL jersey number on it. (It is sort of hockey and Olympic season here, so I am just, you know, throwing that out there.)
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