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How to be a good fandom report (on Fan History) [Nov. 7th, 2009|07:55 am]

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This is a crosspost from Fan History Wiki. We are crossposting it to our blog as we'd like to expose it to a wider audience because we think the information contained in it might be useful for other wiki projects and for people to better understand how to do a good job at telling the history of fandom events that are happening in the moment..  Please feel free to comment here, or on the talk page for this article to help improve it.  Please also feel free to edit the on wiki version to make those improvements. 



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Help Fan History improve, be more comprehensive and cover breaking fandom news. Covering major fandom news in the moment, as they happen, is important because articles can be used as quick reference guides for people who are curious as to what exactly happened and this information can be difficult to follow without a good, overall guide. It also helps with the preservation of material that may later disappear (via deletions or expiration of links) and allows for current events to be put into a historical context.

We need your help to cover breaking fandom news. In covering breaking news, there are three things you should keep in mind:

  1. Strive for being unbiased. Where bias is hard to avoid, present multiple perspectives. Ask for help from other editors to review and remove what might be biased language.
  2. Strive to tell a cohesive narrative. In quickly evolving events, it is crucial to understand how and when things evolved.
  3. Be organized. Compiling a link list is often the best way to begin.


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This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt [Nov. 7th, 2009|07:53 am]
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm</a></p><div style="width:168px;float:left;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"> <img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/G/c/X/2/800px-Maccari-Cicero.jpg"alt="Cicero"="width:168px;height:104px;border:none;" /><br/>Cicero Denounces Catiline: Fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919)</div> In 63 B.C., the discontented patrician Catiline and his largely equestrian followers gathered an armed force to march on Rome. Catiline was upset because he had lost his bid for the top office (consul) after a politically charged campaign, in which he had promised debt cancellation, and an election in which Cicero wore a breastplate for personal safety <a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/258536.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt">Email this</a></p>
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This Day in Ancient History - November 7 [Nov. 7th, 2009|07:53 am]
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm</a></p><div style="width:148px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/0/Y/2/Augustus_10_th.jpg" alt=""="width:148px;height:170px;border:none;" /><br/>Augustus Photo &#169; Clipart.com </div> On this day in 8 B.C., one of the great patron of poets, <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maecenas.htm">Maecenas</A>, died. His lineage was Etruscan, and it was probably from his family that he acquired great wealth. He was an advisor to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, which also made him a powerful Roman. Among the artists he helped financially were Vergil and Horace. Horace addresses Maecenas in his first Ode.<BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/horace/index.htm">Horace</A><BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aeneid/a/VergilTradition.htm">Vergil</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">This Day in Ancient History - November 7</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:03.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - November 7">Email this</a></p>
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abeyance: Dictionary.com Word of the Day [Nov. 7th, 2009|12:00 am]
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abeyance: suspension; temporary cessation.

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Ring Nebula Deep Field [Nov. 7th, 2009|01:03 am]
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A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope,


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6th November 2009 20:34 - Lost and Held [Nov. 6th, 2009|08:38 pm]

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Title: Lost and Held
Author: [info]gatewaygirl
Characters: Sirius, Peter
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Castration, sex, cross-dressing, manipulation
Themes/kinks chosen: Eunuchs/Castrati, Costumes
Word Count: 5,317
Summary: An accident gives Sirius and Peter a shared secret
Author's notes: November prompts included the theme "eunuchs/castrati". It's listed in the tags as "castration", which would have been a rather different story. I have been as accurate as I could manage with the theme, but certainly do not guarantee all details are correct. ;-) Thanks to Clauclauclaudia for very short-notice beta work.


Lost and Held )
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Who Was Agrippina the Younger? [Nov. 6th, 2009|02:40 pm]
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm</a></p><div style="width:300px;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/w/x/2/1194039449_bb04c86df6.jpg" alt="Agrippina minor"="width:300px;height:274px;border:none;" /><br/> &#169; The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.</div><br/>On November 6 in 15 (or 16) B.C. <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/agrippinayounger/g/AgrippinaYounge.htm">Agrippina the Younger</A> (Agrippina minor) was born at Ara Ubiorum, in Germany. Her name was Julia Agrippina. She was a daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the very popular Germanicus Julius Caesar. Emperor Caligula was her brother and Emperor Claudius was her uncle, as well as a husband. To an earlier husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Agrippina the Younger bore Nero, who became emperor after the death of his step-father Claudius. Agrippina was suspected of poisoning her imperial husband after he made arrangements for Nero to succeed him. She also wrote memoirs <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal the satirist</a> may have used as reference material.<P>References:<ul><LI>John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Antony J. S. Spawforth "Agrippina" The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press, 1998.<li>To Those Who Fell on Agrippina's Pen, by Jerry Clack The Classical World © 1975</ul><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Who Was Agrippina the Younger?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 14:40:31.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm&zItl=Who Was Agrippina the Younger?">Email this</a></p>
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This Week in Ancient History [Nov. 6th, 2009|09:07 am]
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Emperor Theodosius who outlawed paganismOn this week in ancient history, the Ludi Plebeii 'Plebeian Games' continued; Emperor Theodosius banned pagan worship; the future emperor Nerva was born; and two important Christians, Martin of Tours and Augustine, died.
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This Week in Ancient History originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 09:07:06.

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felicitous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day [Nov. 6th, 2009|12:00 am]
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felicitous: apt or appropriate; also, delightful.

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Halloween s Moon [Nov. 6th, 2009|12:38 am]
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Halloween s Moon Halloween s Moon


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Icon [Nov. 5th, 2009|10:29 pm]

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I have a few icons - not that I'm a great icon maker - I'm not. But if anybody wants to use 'em, they can:






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The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom. [Nov. 6th, 2009|02:55 pm]

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Title: The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom.
Artist: [info]didodikali
Media: pencil.
Characters: Albus, Gellert.
Rating: NC-17.
Warnings: Haha. No.
Themes/kinks chosen: costumes, symphorophilia

Rarrrgh! Rahhhr! Graaahr! Arrrrhahahahahaha! )
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Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy [Nov. 5th, 2009|04:13 pm]
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In his first satire, Juvenal asks if he has to sit back, listening to all the rantings going on around him. By line 30 he has covered so much of what he thinks is wrong with his society that he comments
difficile est saturam non scribere
'It's hard to not-write satire.'

This programmatic satire flashed through my mind when this morning's Today Show announced that Goldman Sachs had received 200 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. If there were adequate supplies to go around, it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow, but there aren't, yet. Immediate questions are of the type: Why does Wall Street get government-funded vaccines ahead of, say, the school-aged (statistically said to be more at risk than healthy adults) kids in my town? There are explanations for it (see Amid shortage, big NYC firms get swine vaccine), but before I read them or even thought seriously about the pros and cons, or researched whether the vaccines were actually being distributed gratis, or checked whether Goldman-Sachs routinely employs statistically-at risk individuals, a topical word for this week's Thursday's Term, Plutocracy, had lodged itself in my brain. I'm truly sorry I can't produce a Roman satire -- in dactylic hexameter or anything else.

Plutocracy comes from two Greek words, ploutos 'wealth' and kratia 'power'. Ploutos should be familiar from the name Pluto that belongs to a former-planet. It comes from Greek mythology: the Underworld god is often called Pluto. The name Pluto suggests the god is the giver of wealth, since it is from the earth that metals come. Plutocracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the wealthy -- that would be plutarchy; however, the Greek-English lexicon Liddell-Scott defines ploutokratia as an oligarchy of wealth, and cites Xenophon's use of the term.

Among other instances, plutocracy has been used to describe the late archaic and classical age Spartan system, where the elite paid high taxes in order to keep their full political rights, according to "Population Patterns in Late Archaic and Classical Sparta Population," by Thomas J. Figueira. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 116, (1986), pp. 165-213.

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maunder: Dictionary.com Word of the Day [Nov. 5th, 2009|12:00 am]
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maunder: to talk or wander aimlessly.

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Fic: Required Relief (Neville, NC-17) [Nov. 5th, 2009|12:00 am]

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Title: Required Relief
Author: [info]alisanne
Characters: Neville Longbottom/?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM.
Themes/kinks chosen: Clamps
Word Count: 1850
Summary: There are some nights the Neville just needs a break from being in command.
Author's notes: Thanks to [info]sevfan and [info]eeyore9990 for their assistance.
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

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Blue Sun Bristling [Nov. 5th, 2009|12:13 am]
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Our Sun may look like all soft and fluffy, but it's not.  Our Sun may look like all soft and fluffy, but it's not.


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Fic: Office Boy (Harry/Draco, NC-17) [Nov. 4th, 2009|08:39 pm]

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Title: Office Boy
Author: [info]snegurochka_lee
Characters: Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: EWE, probably. Also, see theme.
Theme chosen: Nipple clamps
Word Count: ~2,500
Summary: Harry watched the single bead of sweat slide down the side of Malfoy's face, slipping behind his ear and disappearing into his hair, and Harry's body gave a shiver at the thought of what was causing Malfoy's tension.
Author's notes: This is for [info]marguerite_26, who was the most insanely tireless cheerleader and beta for my [info]hd_career_fair story last month when I turned into a whinging snowflake of epic proportions and was wringing my hands over ever having been mad enough to sign up for an H/D fest. :) She suggested Harry/Teddy, actually, when I insisted on writing her a reward, but that shall have to wait for another day, because lo, now it seems my brain is all LET'S WRITE MOAR H/D OKAY. :/

Office Boy )
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Prompts W-Z, Crossovers, RPF [Nov. 4th, 2009|05:41 pm]

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Prompts W-Z, Crossovers, RPF )
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Prompts Q-V [Nov. 4th, 2009|05:38 pm]

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