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Jan. 7th, 2013 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ziparumpazooFiled under "I think I saw that in an animated movied once": Cat caught smuggling saws and drills into Brazil prison - The cat has not divulged which of the prison's 263 inmates it was attempting to break out.
With the death of free website hosting and mailing lists, there's been a noticeable shift in the way people consume fic. There's also been a change in the way people comment and feedback said fic, as well as in understanding what concrit actually means. My Thoughts on Concrit by anonypants sums up some of the issues with leaving constructive criticism, and why a lot of people just don't do it much anymore. I wonder too, if using beta readers has become more of a fandom standard over the years? Fewer hard feelings hashing a piece out with somebody you trust before letting it loose.
Most imortantly, a rec!
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fringe_exchange samjohnsson wrote me this fantastic Season 1 Astrid what-if piece that hints at a larger puzzle:
Written in Sand (1399 words) by samjohnsson
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fringe
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Astrid Farnsworth
Summary: Zip gave me open season on hir fill for this, with suggestions of AUs, and timeline tweaks, and five things, and found families.
As with all things s01 Fringe, I love when stories ask more questions than they answer. I got this little idea, this little seed of "what if". I may end up running with it farther, eventually.
With the death of free website hosting and mailing lists, there's been a noticeable shift in the way people consume fic. There's also been a change in the way people comment and feedback said fic, as well as in understanding what concrit actually means. My Thoughts on Concrit by anonypants sums up some of the issues with leaving constructive criticism, and why a lot of people just don't do it much anymore. I wonder too, if using beta readers has become more of a fandom standard over the years? Fewer hard feelings hashing a piece out with somebody you trust before letting it loose.
Most imortantly, a rec!
For the
fringe_exchange samjohnsson wrote me this fantastic Season 1 Astrid what-if piece that hints at a larger puzzle:Written in Sand (1399 words) by samjohnsson
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fringe
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Astrid Farnsworth
Summary: Zip gave me open season on hir fill for this, with suggestions of AUs, and timeline tweaks, and five things, and found families.
As with all things s01 Fringe, I love when stories ask more questions than they answer. I got this little idea, this little seed of "what if". I may end up running with it farther, eventually.
