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General Fandom

[Rant] In Defense of Bad Writing: thefourthvine (DW) - "What I should have been saying was, "People! Write more! (Even if it's really bad!)""

topic:fandom, topic:writing

Wombs on Legs? Science Fiction and the Control of Reproduction: Sarah Dillon (Radio podcast) - "From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and tv series have long used birth control as a metaphor for the limits on individual freedom."

topic:sexism, topic:sci-fi

Fandom As a Subculture: Hannah Carter (blog) - "the role of fandom in creating an entirely universal sub-culture spanning nations and decades."

topic:fandom

Permission and Privacy: A Fan’s Guide: Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "I want to explore the ideas of permission and privacy – not just with regards to the people at the centre of our fandoms, but also our fellow fans themselves."

topic:fandom

How to Know Where to Draw the Line: Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "it’s easy to get carried away in your fandom-related activities and forget that what you’re doing still needs to be bound by some societal conventions"

topic:fandom

Writing Meta: Oh Dear I Think It’ll Have To Have One Of Those Plot Things: executrix (DW) - "I offered those fandoms, so, although I didn't get the fandom and character I already had ideas for, I can't really disavow responsibility. "

topic:writing, topic:fanfic, topic:crossovers

Writing Meta: Symbolic: executrix (DW) - "Usually, one of the first things I have in a story is the title, but sometimes I have to open up the file as [Fandom] Untitled and then rename."

topic:writing, topic:titles

Dear Joss Whedon: STFU: Foz Meadows (blog) - "When you posit that two of the main problems with the word feminist are the offputting phonetics and unnatural implications of its final syllable, then promptly suggest a replacement word that uses the exact same fucking syllable in the exact same fucking placement while changing the part you claimed was great [...] it’s probably time to sit all the way down and shut the fuck up about feminism."

topic:feminism, topic:josswhedon

Connotations When Genderswapping Characters: SL Huang (blog) - "And now there’s a line that’s bugging me. A line that I thought was funny, when the character was a guy, but now seems . . . a bit skeevy, perhaps, now that I’m talking about a gal."

topic:writing, topic:gender

Specific Fandoms

A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: elrewin (tumblr) - "I just noticed something interesting about Arya and Sansa, and how their stories are intrinsically connected."

fandom:asoiaf

SO, I’VE BEEN SEEING THIS A LOT LATELY, AND I FEEL LIKE BRINGING IT UP: waverlyrowan (tumblr) - "LOL THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CLOSE TO RULE OF LAW IN WESTEROS. LIKE ZILCH. NOPE. NONE. ZERO. NOTHING. NOT EVEN A LITTLE."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:law

CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: SANSA IV: racefortheironthrone (tumblr) - "If Sansa I through Sansa III are a deconstruction of romantic medievalism, then Sansa IV is right at the boundary between the romantic illusion and the awakening to the horrific realities behind the fairy tale world of brave knights, beautiful maidens, and just kings and queens. "

fandom:asoiaf

American Horror Story
American Horror Story: Wounds as weapons: Letters From Titan (blog) - "At its heart, of course, all of Murphy’s work is, arguably, about trauma survivors. It is as clear in Gabourey Sibide’s Queenie on AHS as it is in Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel on Glee. "

fandom:americanhorrorstory

Arrow
Why ‘Arrow’ Is The Best Superhero Show On Television: Zack Beauchamp - ThinkProgress (blog) - "Arrow‘s deep understanding of the genre it’s working in has brought the show from its procedural-y beginnings to a place where it’s one of the most fun, tightly plotted series I watch weekly."

fandom:arrow

Cabin In The Woods
Toward a Zombie Epistemology: What it Means to Live and Die in Cabin in the Woods: (blog) - "What is it about us, Whedon asks, that makes us so drawn to the voyeuristic slaughter of the young? Cabin makes us reckon with the violence that feminist and queer theorists have argued is at the foundation of our social world. "

fandom:cabininthewoods

DC Cimematic Universe - Man of Steel
Man of Steel, Man of Will: (blog) - "This got Ben and I thinking, though, about what constitutes a Superman movie (or a “Superman story”), compared to other action movies."

fandom:dccu

Doctor Who, Night Vale
Why the Doctor can’t visit Night Vale: Nightsky - Doctor Her (blog) - "The central conceit of the show is that, in Night Vale, “normal” and “strange” have been inverted: the eerie is ordinary, and the commonplace is suspect. The central joke is that this turns out not to matter very much."

fandom:welcometonightvale, fandom:doctorwho

Marvel Comics
Race + Comics: On Ms. Marvel And Protecting Young Superheroes: Arturo - Racialicious (blog) - "The problem is that Marvel has protected and promoted its existing Muslim superheroines so well that some media outlets believed the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is the company’s first. Remember Dust? Or Monet St. Croix? Or Faiza Hussain? The Mirror sure didn’t, and it’s not as simple a matter as a journalist skimping on the research."

topic:race, topic:superheroes

Thor: The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World Has No Place For Hogun: Arturo - Racialicious (blog) - "Which makes it particularly sad when this expansive view of the Thunder God’s world can’t find any time at all for one of his series’ more stalwart characters, Tadanobu Asano’s Hogun the Grim. Again."

fandom:mccu, topic:race, topic:superheroes

Thor and Loki are Probably Naked Most of the Time: On Godly Manifestations of Power: EMILY ASHER-PERRIN (blog) - "One fascinating aspect of their power is that image and attire seem heavily tied to it"

fandom:mccu, topic:costumes

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Myth And Deconstruction in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: ladybusiness (DW) - "On a purely descriptive level, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles sounds a lot like a standard part of a sci-fi action movie franchise: Sarah Connor, her son John, and their allies attempt to prevent Skynet, a computer network that destroys the world in the future, from being created."

fandom:ttscc, topic:feminism, topic:characterdevelopment

Tolkien
The Problem with Lúthien (part 1 of 2)
: houseofhaleth (tumblr) - "So Lúthien is a powerful female character who is probably the most active person in her story. Anything cool that happens, she probably did it. She rescues her boyfriend, dammit, that’s cool. And yet sometimes I feel a bit unsatisfied with her."

fandom:jrrtolkien

Untitled: boromirs (tumblr) - "One of the most instantly recognized moments in the trilogy, Eowyn’s besting of the Witch-king is pivotal to not only the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but the battle for Middle-earth, as well. "

fandom:jrrtolkien

The Locations of Narrative Support in Aldarion and Erendis — Part 1 and Part 2: paradife_loft (tumblr) - " I had a vague sense of some gendered component … and I had a vague sense of some condemnation of flouting “natural” behaviour laws as prescribed by the Valar and Eldar."

fandom:jrrtolkien

The Ring Of Doom: mildred_of_midgard (DW) - "Thus the moral of LOTR is that if you have something that has all 5 of those components, the only option is to destroy it as quickly as possible, whatever the risks. "

fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:characterstudy

Character Flaws and Flawed Characters: mildred_of_midgard(DW) - "Tolkien's handling of his three-dimensional flawed characters is more subtle, complex, and even-handed than is often realized by casual readers. "

fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:characterstudy, topic:characterdevelopment

Veronica Mars
‘Veronica Mars,’ Logan Echolls, And The Appeal Of The Bad Boy: Harris O'Malley - ThinkProgress (blog) - "It was generally agreed that Piz and Veronica were pathetically mismatched — a case of Pitbull Dates Puppy if ever there were one. The fans overwhelmingly assumed that a break-up was inevitable."

fandom:veronicamars

Vorkosigan Saga
A Curious Doubled Existence: Birth Here and in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga: Lucy Baker - ada (blog) - "Varied levels of technological advancement and associated societal changes across the myriad planets within her SF universe allow Bujold to structure this tension as an emotional and social process as much as a medical or obstetrical one, while maintaining a respect for the choices, risks, and vulnerabilities involved in becoming pregnant. "

fandom:vokosigansaga, topic:pregnancy, topic:feminism

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