Meta-Salon
| Journal Community | |
|---|---|
| Name: | meta-salon |
| Date(s): | Dec 6 2002-Aug 2006 |
| Moderator: | djinanna |
| Founder: | djinanna |
| Type: | LiveJournal community, noticeboard |
| Fandom: | multifandom, Pan-fandom, meta |
| URL: | http://meta-salon.livejournal.com/profile; coffee, tea or meta: The Meta Salon, Archived version |
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Meta Salon, the "coffee house of meta", was designed as a place for people to discuss fandom meta issues on Livejournal.
I really like discussion. Serious conversation about topics large and small. Which doesn't mean "no humor allowed", by the way.I've belonged to a Socrates Cafe group for almost a year now. We get together once a month and discuss a previously agreed-upon topic together. We don't try to solve all the problems in the world. We don't try to find final definitive answers. We try to raise and examine the worthwhile questions.
And *that's* what I want this community to be. A place where we raise and examine the worthwhile questions of fandom. Yeah, maybe that's a little self-important sounding. But if we're here in the first place, we probably spend a significant portion of our lives (an hour a day is a lot of time by most standards, btw) doing fannish things. So it's important to us, we're invested in the activity of fandom, and we should be allowed to consider it seriously.
I mean, who doesn't know the whole "an unexamined life is not worth living" spiel. (Though, of course, I can't remember who said that, now that I need to know....)
So, let's examine our fannish lives, okay?[1]
Unlike Metafandom and Metablog, Metasalon was moderated and only had 5 posts over its four years of activity.
Topics:
- What is meta?
- Can fanfiction be considered a form of commentary* on the source material?
- How far have we come w/r/t gay people in entertainment? Can a young actor still be a star if he's out, or would it damage his career irreparably? Does America's huge fawning celebrity-worship industry make it impossible for an actor to escape his public persona? Is there any way for gay-positive fans to send the message that it's okay for public figures to come out?
- Sexualization of comics as a feminist statement
- Queerness in Fandom: Those of you who identify yourselves as bi/gay/transgender: do you feel your fandom has provided a welcoming and supporting environment for you as a writer? Or do you feel it insists or assumes that you are a heterosexual author writing slash pairings for a largely het audience?