Meta Links (28/01/13 - 03/02/13)

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General Fandom

OTW Fannews: Technology and Legal Matters": otw_news (DW)

topic: fandom, topic: copyright

The indispensable beta: wasureneba (LJ) - "Where do you turn for betas? Do you have friends who beta for you? Are you a member of a beta community? Do you have any advice for the care and feeding of betas? "

topic: writing, topic: beta reading

A Guide to Fantasy - Part 2: espanolbot (DW) - Guide to common fantasy subgenres, with pictures.

topic: genre, topic: comics

Why I play violent video games: Maddy Myers (blog) - "So, this question still troubles me: why do I enjoy Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Power Rangers, and even Fight Club? All of these games and movies and TV shows indoctrinate us all with the idea of what "masculine" means, by showing men (and a token "special" woman, or two) on the battlefield. Shouldn't I hate these reinforcements of those gender demarcations, as a liberal/progressive feminist/gender egalitarian/bleeding heart/whatever? Shouldn't I hate violence anyway, even just depictions of violence, since — gender-role indoctrination aside — violent media keeps enforcing the narrative that hurting other people is okay, and maybe even cool and fun?"

fandom: gaming, character: female, topic: sexism, warning: violence

A world accidentally full of triggers: mippy (blog) - Discussion on use of trigger warnings, includes discussion of triggers using examples from personal experience of posters.

topic: warnings, topic: discussion, warning: abuse, warning: violence, warning: rape/non-con

Why Unbreakable is the secret meta sequel to Die Hard: Brian Salisbury (blog): - "scratch the surface of the career of each of the biggest, beefheadiest action stars and you will find, in addition to giant foreheads and a shocking dearth of necks, at least one self-aware introspection masquerading as a movie."

topic: fourth wall, topic: meta, topic: action

Diversity in media and Fandom: fandomspotting (tumblr) - "Join us as we scream in rage over the dearth of diversity in media, and rhapsodize over the ones we love that are getting it right."

topic: diversity, topic: fandom, topic: representation, topic: identification, topic: characters

Shut Up Ladies: Sarah Rees Brennan (blog) - "Having a semi-public job means a certain amount of scrutiny. Creators are always going to get critiqued, because that’s what people should do with art, and if people don’t care about your fiction you’ve gone wrong somewhere! That’s all fine. But I wish, wish, wish there wasn’t that obstacle for women, that kneejerk ‘SHUT UP!’"

topic: writing, topic: feminism, topic: equality

It's a scary world out there: how to interact as a fanfiction writer: Roxanne Williams (blog) - Tips on writing fanfiction

topic: writing, topic: fanfic, topic: tips

Fandom as something important: Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "Why does fandom, and understanding fandom, matter?"

topic: fandom, topic: fourth wall,

Anything Off Limits in your fanfic?: spikesgirl58 (LJ) - " Is there any topic still verbotten in fan fic or is it a case of anything goes when it comes to subject matter? Is there something you'd like to be seeing less of in fanfic these days?"

topic: discussion, topic: writing

Specific Fandoms

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Hypothetical Question about Vampires in the Buffyverse : kikimay (LJ) - "The vampires in Buffyverse are an expression of fears and doubts. Whedon wanted to make adolescence problems almost real, physical and give the hero a chance to fight and destroy them."

fandom: btvs, topic: vampires

Supernatural

Bitten and Baudrillard : astarloa (LJ) - " That there’s a tendency to read certain aspects of the episode as artificial raises questions about the reality we’re supposedly defining them against. And I’d suggest that what makes us uncomfortable about the episode isn’t its presentation of an unsatisfactory or flawed illusion, but rather the reminder that the reality we define illusion against may no longer exist."

fandom: supernatural, warning: spoilers, topic: philosophy

Fringe

The paradox of season four and season five: rainer76 (AO3) - "This is meta - or rather a discussion regarding the ending of Fringe - which I hope people will participate in."

fandom: fringe, warning: spoilers

X-Men

Reblog of some X-men meta I wrote on tumblr: salinea (DW) - "I think one of the most interesting thing about the way Xavier and Magneto contrast is how you can root their difference of attitude from their background."

fandom: x-men, fandom: x-men: professor x, fandom: x-men: magneto, topic: characters, warning: abuse

RPF

Narrative in RPF: mistresscurvy (DW) - "I do think that RPF has the potential for those broader swings, and that they're a function of how the narratives are created in the first place."

fandom: rpf, topic: narrative,

Stargate: SG-1

Jack/Daniel Meta and Open Discussion: Yes, they were both married: princessofgeeks (DW) - "Having outgrown the in some ways anti-gay trope of "We're Not Gay, We Just Love Each Other," slash writers have many options for how they see this type of canonical fact."

fandom: sg-1, fandom: sg-1: daniel, fandom: sg-1: jack, relationship: slash, relationship: het, topic: canon, topic: fanon, topic: sexuality

Django Unchained

Django Unchained Controversy: A Look at the Conundrum Tarantino's Latest Created in Progressive Black America: Jermaine Spradley (article) - "...you officially have a mind-numbing array of equally awesome and offensive circumstances coalescing #AtTheSameDamnTime around a single film and director. It's easy to understand why the "black intelligentsia" (as one friend of a friend put it on facebook) came out in full force across the blogosphere attacking or championing the flick."

fandom: django unchained, topic: race, topic: slaves

Sherlock

Bipolar Sherlock: wellingtongoose (LJ) - "Does Sherlock have a bipolar affective disorder? Is he a manic depressive? If so, how is he treated? How does it affect his life and his relationships?"

fandom: sherlock holmes, fandom: bbc, discussion: mental illness

Star Trek

"Officially, Kirk and Spock are not ‘gay for each other.’ But -": thylaa (tumblr) - "When people ship something, it’s usually not just for the sake of it. It’s usually because, based on evidence of canon, they either 1. would like a romantic relationship to develop in canon. 2. like the romantic relationship developed in canon"

fandom: star trek, fandom: star trek: spock, fandom: star trek: kirk, relationship: slash,

Star Wars

Chick Flix: women as heroes : kmc1138 - "There have been some divine heroines on the small screen, but how does the silver stack up to its little sister? Not well, I fear."

fandom: star wars, topic: feminism

Twilight

How Twilight is Allowing Women to Fulfill Fantasies of Sexual and Supernatural Empowerment… and Everyone Hates Them for it: Emma Vossen (blog) - "Twilight allowed for a entire movement of young women to revel in not only a fantasy world and fandom without fear of exclusion (like say worlds in comic and video game subcultures) and it also allowed them to revel in their sexuality, openly, by fantasizing about the imaginary Edward and Jacob."

fandom: twilight, characters: female, topic: female sexuality,

The O.C.

What made the O.C. great, bitch.: Jia Tolentino and Mallory Ortberg (blog) - "A decade after its first season originally aired, "The O.C." seems both prescient and profoundly of its era."

fandom: the O.C., topic: fandom, topic: soundtrack

The Vampire Diaries

Carol(ine): nrgburst (LJ) - A look at the relationship between Carol and Caroline throughout TVD.

fandom: the vampire diaries, fandom: the vampire diaries: caroline, fandom: the vampire diaries: carol

Comments

[calvinahobbes]

Love the new lay-out! I find it way more readable!

[metanewsmods]

Awesome, thanks!

[salinea]

agreed!

[sapphoatsunset]

Ditto!

[isis]

http://accioslash.livejournal.com/197781.html fic length preferences poll

[metanewsmods]

Thanks.

[masu_trout]

This new layout looks fantastic! I'm really enjoying this comm. :)

[metanewsmods]

Thanks!

[erinptah]

Adding to the love for the new style!

[metanewsmods]

Thank you!

[ciaan]

sv_ledger is the Smallville fandom newsletter; we link to meta when we find it.

[metanewsmods]

Cool, thanks.

[tree]

i'm not sure if this would be the sort of thing you'd link to. i wrote a sort of primer for the new series 'cracked' that talks a little about how its treatment of people with mental illness differs from pretty much every other show out there.

[metanewsmods]

Awesome, thank you. Sorry for the late reply.