March 12, 2010: Meta discussion, Norman Spinrad, Fandom feedback, Religion in fan fiction

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Meta discussion This music is sponsored by ... With the music industry in free fall, musicians turn to corporate advertising and product placement to promote their work. by Chris Lee in the Los Angeles Times on March 7, 2010 Vidding, the creative process by colls on vidding on March 9, 2010 2). In general, I have a huge problem with how fiction sometimes gives us awesome women, and then the fandom feels that they know the character better than the character knows herself, and I...honestly don't know if this is the case with male characters, but I have seen this a lot with female characters. by prozacpark on March 9, 2010 The Next Frontier: Female Gaming Demographics by Wanda Meloni on March 10, 2010 What color Is my avatar? by Jeff Yang in SFGate on March 10, 2010 Ableism in RPG gameplay by Jonathan Lavallee on Geek Feminism on March 10, 2010 There's an interesting column by Jeff Yang on SFGate today discussing representations of race in video games: by frausorge on racebending on March 11, 2010 Strong Women Characters by jimhines on March 11, 2010 ‘Slash Production’: Re-imagining the serial killer in Euro-Cult Cinema fan production by Oliver Carter on March 11, 2010 Concerts, crushes, and fandom soundtracks. by attaccabottoni on March 12, 2010

Norman Spinrad international science fiction kerfluffle On Books: THIRD WORLD WORLDS by Norman Spinrad on March 9, 2010 I promised myself I wouldn't rant, but then... by Jason Sanford on March 9, 2010 World SF, Worth Reading BEFORE developing an opinion by nickmamatas on March 10, 2010 Brazil on International SF - still some thoughts, with a little help from Norman Spinrad by Fábio Fernandes on March 10, 2010 Thanks Nick by Cheryl Morgan on March 10, 2010 What especially pisses me off about Spinrad's article... by nojojojo on March 10, 2010 A Whiff of Colonialism by Rose Fox on March 11, 2010 The Infamous Spinrad Article by wendigomountain on March 11, 2010 Norman Spinrad and the latest kerfluffle about international SF, with positive remedies by Larry on March 11, 2010 The Myth of the Native Speaker by Juliette Wade on March 11, 2010 The Failure of Spinrad's "Third World Worlds" from a Technical Perspective by Charles Tan on March 12, 2010 (mirror)

Fandom feedback issues Commenting: It's freaking HARD. by lian on March 10, 2010 Y'know, this comment etiquette discussion is interesting to me for a variety of reasons. And so, I meta! by wintercreek on March 11, 2010 feedback: make it fun and easy by schmevil on March 11, 2010 Two things about comments and hits by ignaz on March 11, 2010 As some of you may or may not recall, I've been experimenting with putting feedback polls at the end of my stories. by bauble on March 11, 2010 I'm reading a post about commenting etiquette because job hunting sucks... by jest on March 11, 2010

Religion in fan fiction What, if anything, do you find interesting about the Christian worldview? What would be interesting in the context of fic? by dharma-slut on March 8, 2010 And the idea in those comments that having Christian characters (of whatever denomination, but there's a lot of assumptions that this means American Protestant evangelical fundamentalism going around, which would actually be my last assumption-- how many APEF characters do we have in popular media, relative to other faiths?) is only acceptable if it's a loss-of-faith narrative, which, I don't know, I find that about as preachy as Hildegard of Bingen on a speaking tour. by coppertone on March 11, 2010 Meta: Rest Cures, Religion, and PILLS by executrix on March 11, 2010   Submission help: You can (1) submit the link in the comments of a recent post on fandomnews, (2) by e-mailing fandomnews@fanhistory.com or (3) by editing today's link list.