good lord it's a dog

Dear Yuletide Author

I am less attached to my specific details and more to you writing a story you want to write; I hope one of my requests looks like it will be fun for you, because I firmly feel the writing ought to be the best part of Yuletide. That doesn't mean I don't have preferences, but I'd rather you disregard my details if you dislike them. ( Allow me to elaborate a bit )

plebefic headers: "making sure to end the song with frank's death"

1. Summary: "Dear friend, I'm writing this to you now because I'm afraid there will come a day where you will make my boyfriend leave me"



2. [link to fic] Once McGee would have said he would give anything to feel like the strong one



3. A/N: Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in third.



4. Summary: I sat on my bed for the rest of the night. Softly, I finished my song, making sure to end the song with Frank’s death.



5. A/N: This is my first chaptered fic, and also relatively crappy. o_O

juicy couture - dino & skechers - sweepstakes

Again, don't actually like Skechers on my feet - always try on the brand before you buy! - but these are really adorable. Two shades of purple! Silver! *_*

does fannish engagement constitute endorsement?

Even though I haven't WATCHED Glee or White Collar, I have read enough of people's intelligent and highly legitimate political criticisms on race and gender lines (you can find most of these posts via metafandom, probably), and in light of them, seeing a marked proliferation of those bookmarks and recs popping up in different places makes me sad - not in the specific, but in the general, about fandom's trends and what they say about its tastes.

Do new fandom reccing trends really indicate what fandom's general watcher-response pattern was? You can't say that with 100% certainty, of course. But a clearly observable upswing in fannish enthusiasm for a source text at least means people are forgiving it, even if they are still critically observing its flaws, and choosing to write about it.

One could charitably assume a motive of textual healing.

In practice, though, my observations have been that the problematic aspects of the text are usually reflected in the body of fanon, even when a strong critical discourse is emerging in non-fiction posts on the topic (a prime example: Uhura meta after Reboot release, versus Uhura treatment in early Reboot fanon, which was so bad that it led to a second wave of critical discourse... this time aimed at the fanon).

My possibly over-cynical view is that in general, a blossoming of sudden fannish engagement does tend to amount, in the fanon meta-text that emerges, to a reinforcement if not an endorsement of the flaws in the canon.