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General Fandom

Thinking About Talking: Values and Proxies quinn - Thoughtcrimes: (blog) - " I just want to poke around and see how I can stimulate in my games great conversations. Can I encourage great dialogues to emerge without tight scripting or pre-planning?"

fandom:gaming

Ambiguous Diversity in Art Isn’t quinn - Thoughtcrimes: (blog) - "Why then, do we have to make people of color always appeal to something “universal”? If you leave me guessing, it makes me feel that what you really want is credit for “diversity” without marring your pages with someone who is unequivocally non-white."

fandom:gaming, topic:race

Hard Scifi: I Do Not Think That Means What You Think It Means. SL Huang: (blog) - "In preparing to write this entry, I was actually shocked that the definitions I found for “hard science fiction” completely agreed with me on what it should mean: namely, that the fictional science included is made as realistic, as explicable, as possible."

topic:sci-fi

Why I like regency romances even though I apparently dislike everything they stand for: alias_sqbr (DW) - "I've been pondering this topic for a while, but then came across 5 Reasons why Regency is the Best Romance Sub-Genre and decided it was TIME."

topic:romance

A Brief History of Slash: Morgan Davies (blog) - "Slash, then, is not merely women expending their literary energy on romantic stories: it is also the site of enormous anxiety,"

topic:slash, topic:fandom

Untitled: iokheaira (tumblr) - "I'd like to know your thoughts on male criticism of fanfic and slashfic on the grounds that "this is totally unrealistic + objectifying, real people don't act like that"."

topic:slash, topic:homosexuunclality

Specific Fandoms

A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: rrevolutionaries (tumblr) - " I'm curious why you think sansa is the most like ned?"

fandom:asoiaf

Breaking Bad
Is ‘Breaking Bad’s Walter White A Mastermind? Or Foolhardy And Impulsive? Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - "I find the idea that Walt is some sort of mastermind whose control is admirable fascinating because the text of the show suggests something more interesting and complicated."

fandom:breakingbad

Doctor Who
You think knowing the answers would make you feel better?: solitary_summer(AO3) - "Death, life, and what it means to be human in Russell T Davies's Doctor Who and Torchwood."

fandom:doctorwho, topic:death

Fight Club
I Am Jack’s Tacky Red Leather Jacket: Fight Club Fashion: WORN fashion journal (blog) - "Nobody loves their stuff as much as people who hate their stuff. "

topic:fashion

Futurama
Futurama’s arguments neither particularly in favour of nor against television, Or: how everybody learned to stop worrying and love the Hypnotoad Richard Rosenbaum - Overthinking It: (blog) - "In honour of the recently-redeparted, multi-beloved animated sci-fi sitcom Futurama, I thought we could take a look at the show’s complicated and gleefully paradoxical take on the technology and culture of television itself..."

fandom:futurama

Game of Thrones
Meta Monday: Armor and Weapons: justadram (tumblr) - " GRRM’s descriptions of the armor worn in Westeros are detailed enough that we can fairly accurately place the style in the late medieval to early modern era. We’re also well appraised of the weaponry of Westeros. "

fandom:gameofthrones

Legend of Korra, Star Wars
The Unreluctant Hero Korra Fangirl: (blog) - "The unreluctant hero isn’t new to storytelling, but it’s not as common and it’s rarely a female character."

fandom:legendofkorra, fandom:starwars

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel Ponders A Peggy Carter Series. Why Can’t We Have A Story About A Woman With Powers? Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - "To a certain extent, I appreciate that there are women in the Marvel franchise at all... But it’s not actually enough to have a world where men are from Asgard or the lab, and women are merely mundane homo sapiens."

fandom:mcu, topic:gender

Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Is Sherlock Holmes A Character? Or An Archetype? A New Copyright Fight Raises An Important Question Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - "But the estate’s argument raises another interesting question: at what point does a character have such an impact on popular culture, and become the basis for so many other creations, that the character is an archetype, rather than a singular person with a coherent self and personality?"

fandom:acdsherlock

Sherlock BBC
Holmesosexuality: On Mark Gatiss's Camp: mid0nz (tumblr) - "Mark Gatiss’s gay Sherlock characters and scenarios in The Great Game (in particular) are an emotional homage to Billy Wilder’s film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. "

topic:homosexuality, fandom:bbcsherlock