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General Fandom
Fan Fiction: A World of What If’s (Boston Globe repost) : silkwritersguild (LJ) - "Fan fiction is the place to get your what-ifs out, to write up your very own version of any of the TV shows, books, and movies you love. It’s an online playground for fans who like to write and who are so steeped in a particular world — in J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter”-verse, or George Orwell’s “1984” dystopia, or the LA of “The L Word,” or the New York of “Rent” — that they want to add their own story lines to it."
Hollywood Movies With Strong Female Roles Make More Money: (blog) - "The biggest blockbusters of 2013 scored pretty well on the Bechdel Test, a measure of quality onscreen time for women—but even better at the box office ."
The difference between big and small fandoms: naraht(DW) - "Last year I wrote and posted over 110k of fic and got over 5000 hits in total.
Nearly half of those hits were for a 1k fic that I wrote and posted in an evening."
Specific Fandoms
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy isn’t invalid just because she’s pretty: io9 (blog) - "I think some of the worst anti-Joss Whedon comments on the MP Neil Gaiman thread are from people claiming that Whedon didn't write proper female characters because sometimes the actresses who played them were really attractive."
The Legacy of Buffy: Fighting for the Team: Fangirl (blog) - "The Year of the Fangirl – 2013 – featured some remarkable shifts in the entertainment industry. But as Alderman notes, for the most part women are not portrayed as part of a team, which was a core reason the decade-old show worked."
Marvel Comics
First Look at the New Ms. Marvel, a 16-Year-Old Muslim Superhero: Laura Hudson - Wired (blog) - "Although the most popular superheroes tend to be white guys created decades ago, legacy heroes who pass their familiar names to new characters are one way publishers like Marvel and DC Comics have brought greater diversity to their fictional worlds."
Sherlock
Why the latest episode of 'Sherlock' was a gift meant for fans: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "Remember last week, when we said that Sherlock’s strength was its ability abandon the crime TV formula and consistently turn out a series of feature-length thrillers? Well, forget that whole “crime TV” bit. And maybe the “thriller” thing as well. "
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Links
General Fandom
Fan Fiction: A World of What If’s (Boston Globe repost) : silkwritersguild (LJ) - "Fan fiction is the place to get your what-ifs out, to write up your very own version of any of the TV shows, books, and movies you love. It’s an online playground for fans who like to write and who are so steeped in a particular world — in J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter”-verse, or George Orwell’s “1984” dystopia, or the LA of “The L Word,” or the New York of “Rent” — that they want to add their own story lines to it."
topic:fanfic
Hollywood Movies With Strong Female Roles Make More Money: (blog) - "The biggest blockbusters of 2013 scored pretty well on the Bechdel Test, a measure of quality onscreen time for women—but even better at the box office ."
topic:movies,topic:bechdeltest
The difference between big and small fandoms: naraht(DW) - "Last year I wrote and posted over 110k of fic and got over 5000 hits in total.
Nearly half of those hits were for a 1k fic that I wrote and posted in an evening."
topic:fandom, topic:feedback
Specific Fandoms
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy isn’t invalid just because she’s pretty: io9 (blog) - "I think some of the worst anti-Joss Whedon comments on the MP Neil Gaiman thread are from people claiming that Whedon didn't write proper female characters because sometimes the actresses who played them were really attractive."
fandom:btvs
The Legacy of Buffy: Fighting for the Team: Fangirl (blog) - "The Year of the Fangirl – 2013 – featured some remarkable shifts in the entertainment industry. But as Alderman notes, for the most part women are not portrayed as part of a team, which was a core reason the decade-old show worked."
fandom:btvs
Marvel Comics
First Look at the New Ms. Marvel, a 16-Year-Old Muslim Superhero: Laura Hudson - Wired (blog) - "Although the most popular superheroes tend to be white guys created decades ago, legacy heroes who pass their familiar names to new characters are one way publishers like Marvel and DC Comics have brought greater diversity to their fictional worlds."
fandom:mcu,topic:superheroes
Sherlock
Why the latest episode of 'Sherlock' was a gift meant for fans: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "Remember last week, when we said that Sherlock’s strength was its ability abandon the crime TV formula and consistently turn out a series of feature-length thrillers? Well, forget that whole “crime TV” bit. And maybe the “thriller” thing as well. "
fandom:bbcsherlock
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