help me flisters!

One of the things the mods are working, as part of our ongoing efforts to make Scans Daily 2.0 and No Scans better communities, is a resource list. We're trying to cover a number of different subjects relevant to the community: anti-racism, feminism, anti-ableism, LGBT issues, and so on. The idea is for the resource list to be constantly updated, with new contributions from members, and our own reading. This way, in times of community stress and conflict, the mods and the members will have a list of links on hand, and too, members who are newly interested in these subjects, can read up on them. We want to have a handful of links for every subject when we go live.

Some areas we could use some help in:

Accessibility (html and css): how to write better code
Fair use: a good, clear intro to the subject
Copyright: a good, clear intro to the subject that doesn't rely on legal jargon
Anonymity, pseudonymity and the law: a good, clear intro to the subject that doesn't rely on legal jargon

Do you guys have any links saved on these topics that might be of use to us? (We'll also take your favourite links relating to anti-ism activism).

Warn Out, by Caito

In response to the ongoing Warnings War, caito has written well, a filk of a remix, of an actor's freakout. (To the tune of "Bale Out"). The warnings discussion has gotten so incredibly nasty in some corners of fandom. Perchance some painful lulz will help:

"Warn Out"
You want me to put warnings on my fics?
You want me to fucking warn them?

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more on warnings

Yes, I know you're all tired of it, but swanswan has an good post on the subject. I've already said that I do warn, and that it isn't a hardship for me, but there are other perspectives. Probably the best presentation I've seen of the 'artistic integrity' argument.

We're a community of adults. The idea of community has been invoked in a particular way in this debate; primarily, by the pro-warning side, as a way to evoke empathy: we are a community of (mostly) women, some of whom are survivors of horrific events, and we should take care of each other. I think that's laudable, but I think it's only part of what community should really mean. My fear is that "community" becomes shorthand for a group of like-minded, enlightened individuals determined to stamp out injustice. I believe that the "we" of fandom is a whole lot more complicated, fractured, and complex than that.

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The blanket-warning argument is predicated on the suppression of the high artistic impulse in fandom, because art is not moral. I know that sounds WILDLY pretentious, but I believe it. There are valid artistic creations within fandom, and there are people who care a lot about the presentation and delivery of their work in ways which may not always fit in with a warnings culture. I do not think that they should be asked to give up the right to make what they want to make and present their work how they want to present it.