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• So there was this panel at Gallifrey - "Fan Reactions to Character Deaths." And it was intense and difficult and fantastic all wrapped up in a bundle of making me feel awkward and touched all at once. by betnoir on March 1, 2010
• So, I've been following the various discussions, on LJ and at Dreamwidth, regarding LJ's business practices. by merryish on March 12, 2010
• What the Chinese Are Making of Avatar by Henry Jenkins on March 12, 2010

Culture!Fail

• Why I Think Norman Spinrad is COOL by The Crotchety Old Fan on March 12, 2010
• Can a gabacho understand non-gabacho writings? by Larry on March 13, 2010

Fandom feedback issues

• There's something about comments -- a comedy of manners by cupidsbow on March 12, 2010
• Feedback? Again? by trobadora on March 12, 2010
• Thoughts on Feedback by lizvogel on March 12, 2010
• Oh my God I can't believe the entitled whinging of fanfic authors has become a fandom-wide meta discussion. by thoracopagus on March 13, 2010
• Ah, comment meta, that familiar fandom chestnut. Every year or so this makes the rounds in fandom, and the effigy of a lurker is dragged out into the fandom streets and flogged. by bauble on March 13, 2010
• Cultures of commenting? by perdiccas on March 13, 2010
• Wibbling about Comments by lsellersfic on March 13, 2010

Fandom legal issues

• Steal This Blog by Newman on March 12, 2010

Plagiarism issues

• Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion by Ursula K. Le Guin on March 11, 2010

Award news

• Hugo Awards: Tonight/Tomorrow Is HUGO Award Nomination Deadline by The Crotchety Old Fan on March 12, 2010
• Hugo Awards: Remember to Nominate by kevin-standlee on March 12, 2010

Call for submissions

• LionHeart: Looking for Pros Slash Writers by Media Fen on March 11, 2010
• Call for papers for CEREBUS book by Eric Hoffman on March 12, 2010

Writing/Publishing news and advice

• Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Writers Block by Brenda Clough on March 12, 2010

Convention reports

• Furry Fiesta: Furry Fiesta 2010! by jtigerclaw on furryfiesta on March 11, 2010

Convention news

• Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy Retiring from Conventions After 2010 by The Convention Fans Blog on March 12, 2010

Fansite news

• LiveJournal: That affiliate thing? by rydra-wong on March 12, 2010

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Meta discussion

• Stories that Ally vs Stories that Appropriate: a Yardstick by Thea Lim on February 25, 2010
• Do you think there's a difference between writing a story about a show and its characters, and taking the characters and putting them in a story about 'X' whilst still keeping enough of the show to get away with it nominally being fic about that show? by janedavitt on March 2, 2010
• Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie by Evan Narcisse on March 5, 2010
• I ran across a very interesting post at Aliette de Bodard’s blog, titled, Writing cultures: insider vs. outsider, about the various advantages and pitfalls faced by authors writing about a specific culture either as an insider, or as an outsider, for a Western audience (as in the dominant SF-reading audience, for example). by Gord Sellar on March 6, 2010
• Interview With A Croatian Feminist, Anarchist, Speculative Fiction Writer, and Avid Genre Fiction Reader by Jessica on March 7, 2010
• Thoughts after Textual Echoes, part 2: Kristina Busse's keynote, gendered science, money in fandom by fanficforensics on March 7, 2010
• Modern Mythology: What is Mythology? by Anime Anthropologist on March 7, 2010
• Meta: Deja vu all over again by fluterbev on March 7, 2010

Fandom meta discussion

• Anime: Interview with a Yaoi Fan by Art on March 7, 2010
• Basketball: While the big news in women's basketball appears to be the suspension of Baylor's Brittney Griner for two games after she threw a punch at Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle and broke her nose, Eurobasket reports a more interesting story - at least in my opinion. by Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog on March 7, 2010
• Heroes: Reasons to love Pemma by daphne_m428 on peter_emma on March 5, 2010
• Lost: I talk about the point of Sundown, Dogen's magic knife, the rings of ash, Kate, Sayid's flash sideways, and compare the Man in Black and Lucifer. by holydread on March 7, 2010
• NASCAR: For the first time in EVER, I see genuine Southeastern American disenchantment over the product on the track. We actually have a REAL split between the blue-collar south (lest we say the DixieCrats/Tea Party rising) and the white-collar north (anyone want to pull out my least favorite title EVER ... the Yankee nation?). by JR Geraldson on March 7, 2010
• Sports: Why I love sports by JENNIFER GISH in the Albany Times Union on March 7, 2010

Fandom legal issues

• Christopher Handley’s Attorney Comments On His Case by The Comics Journal on March 2, 2010
• Cuckoo for Copyright: Read This And I Own Your Brain by Noah Berlatsky on March 7, 2010

Writing/Publishing news and advice

• Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Ignore Deadlines by Phyllis Irene Radford on March 5, 2010
• For writers: Manage your digital assets! by Jonathan Strahan on March 5, 2010
• Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel by rachelaaron on March 6, 2010
• Writing and Young Adult Books by Sherwood Smith on March 7, 2010

Fandom news

• Fandom News & World Report - 3/7 by kmarier on nwsfs on March 7, 2010

Fandomnews

• fandomnews's link list by Laura on March 7, 2010

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