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POPSPreserving Fandom The Organization for Transformative Works has created some really quality solutions for dealing with the October closing of Geocities. Even if you don't own any content on Geocities, you can help document it.
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POPSViacom Abuses DMCA to Silence Criticism Someone criticizing your shitty racially cleansed movie? Well the DMCA can help you! Send that hosting site a DMCA take-down notice over something clearly fair use, I'm sure no one will notice! Sure, it's unethical and probably illegal, but hey, give it a shot! -- Assholes.
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POPSFannish Preservation The Organization for Transformative Works is offering shelter (hosting space) in their Open Doors project for fanworks that are losing their homes with the closing of GeoCities.
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POPSR-E-S-P-E-C-T on the Net and Elsewhere RaceFail '09 is fandom's latest round of "No, white people aren't the only people in the world" now with bonus pro-scifi author fail. Because it started and is mostly located on LiveJournal, some non-LJ bloggers have written it off as "hysterical crap". This is one LJ writer's response to that behavior but it has wider applications.
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POPSHP Lexicon Ruling Will Not Kill Fandom The Lexicon book did too much verbatim copying and paraphrasing, so it’s not excused under fair use and it’s an infringement of JKR/WB’s rights as copyright holders. Tranformative works are cool; this transformative work isn't so cool.
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POPSRingers Vs. Trekkies had to leave out a massive amount to make this fit the clipping limit T...T Intro: Hard core Lord of the Rings fans have been given a name in the past several years, since the movies premiered and gained a bigger fan base: Ringers. I guess. In an interview a few years ago on the Tonight Show, Elijah Wood described Ringers as kind of like Trekkies. And at first I thought that was kind of unfair…I mean, it’s fantasy versus sci-fi, a show versus a movie: dangit, that wasn’t just an unfair comparison, it was a…a…and then I thought, wait. Maybe…maybe…he had a point. I mean, when I thought about it:
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POPSAnother Fannish Meta-tale Seriously, being part of slash fandom (and media fandom in general) is one of the best things that's happened to me. I've met the best people and it's things like this essay that reaffirm that.
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POPSwhores or lovers It's an interesting take on the idea of groupies and I think it's wonderful how objectively he's able to look at it.
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POPSExplosions fandom Looked up the phrase "Explosions Magazine" after reading today's DInosaur Comic; looks like a case of great minds thinking alike, rather than Ryan North stealing from this guy
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POPSScrew Normal! Part of a wide-ranging discussion in fandom on livejournal about not freaking the mundanes with our kinky shit. Notable, to me, for the last quoted section in particular.
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POPSQueer Female Space Gender and sexuality are a frequent topic in the realm of Slash Fandom. This essay covers a broad swath of discussions on the subject.
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POPSOrange County mujaheddin? Both John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", and Adam Gadahn, now a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, were white kids growing up in California not all that long ago. Julia Rabig looks at their past and the press coverage. From 2004.
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