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General Fandom
Tips 'N Stuff For Better Character Design: springhole.net (blog) - "Some advice and pointers that will hopefully help you make more eye-pleasing and well-designed characters."
The Ragamuffin Speaks: Fandom’s Insidious Desire For Utopianism In Fiction: Ian D Sharman (blog) - "I feel that it sometimes results in something which leads to works of fiction being judged by criteria that they really shouldn’t be judged by"
Free is Never Free: The Economic Politics of Free-to-Play Games, and Why I Hate Them: Kristin - The Learned Fangirl (blog) - "The catch with free-to-play games is that they require you to make a decision about your time and your desire to progress in the game in terms of the age-old time-versus-money equation. If you want to progress faster, you have to cough up some small micro-payment between $0.99 and $2.99. "
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: JON VIII: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "In Jon VIII, we check in with the aftermath of the wights’ attack on Castle Black. "
ARYA STARK ON BEAUTY, ROMANCE, AND ALL THOSE THINGS WE DON’T FOCUS ON: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - " There seems to be some notion that should Arya’s narrative deal with romance at all (at least, more obviously,) it will take over her story and make it less important in some way."
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "Anonymous asked: You are getting a lot of questions lately trying to get you to admit that Dany ~might~ not be the hero of the story. It's like they like the books, respect your opinions, and yet hate that Dany is not a man."
Anatomy of the valonqar; cersei and jaime lannister, or “funny you’re the broken one, but i’m the only one who needed saving”: queencersei (tumblr) - "reaching the end, you are a champion and I salute you.I have honestly lost count of all the messages I receive on the matter of Jaime and Cersei’s arc following Jaime’s return mid-ASOS"
ARYA’S LIST: A CRY FOR REVENGE OR A CRY FOR CONTROL?: doneiwthwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "People seem to just write it off as Arya wanting to go on a revenge spree, being obsessed with vengeance, or whatever and completely miss what it really represents in Arya’s arc.
You only have to look at the conception and use of the list to see it’s implications and status as a coping mechanism. "
Archer, How I Met Your Mother
Archer, How I Met Your Mother, and Comedic Reinvention: Ben Adams - Overthinking It (blog) - "Then, in its ninth and final season, How I Met Your Mother made a bold choice – instead of the standard week-to-week format, we learned that an entire 20+ episode season will take place over a single weekend – the wedding of Barney and Robin, where (we are promised) the titular Mother will finally be Met."
Comics: Black Widow
comics read: Black Widow: snickfic (LJ) - "Yesterday I started on a Black Widow binge,"
Freaks and Geeks
Femslash Friday: Kim/Lindsay on Freaks and Geeks and “Lesbian Jawline”: (blog) - "I have attempted many times to categorize the ineffable gay appeal of Busy Phillips — particularly Busy Phillips as Kim Kelly on the short-lived Freaks and Geeks – and the closest thing I have been able to come up with is this: “Lesbian jawline.”"
Disney
Untitled: starberry_cupcake (tumblr) - " I started analyzing the chronology in female representation of the Disney Princess lineup so far (including the yet to be crowned Anna and Elsa)."
Frozen
LGBTQ reading of 'Frozen' prompts fiery debate on Tumblr: Aja Romano - Daily Dot (blog) - "Is the most successful Disney film in history the latest entry into Hollywood’s Celluloid Closet? The Frozen fandom on Tumblr has exploded in debate after one fan presented a queer reading of the main character, Elsa."
Thoughts on ‘Frozen’: selchieproductions (tumblr) - "critical discussions about representations are always needed, especially when we’re talking about members of indigenous peoples and other minorities and everything I have said about the film with regards to its false claims to Saami-ness stands"
Frozen/My Little Mermaid
How Ariel Became Disney’s Bad Woman: A Look at Disney’s Frozen and The Little Mermaid: Sarah Shoker(blog) - "Restraining ourselves and making characters that shy away from controversy can actually reaffirm the gendered expectations that we’re trying to avoid. "
Person Of Interest
December Meme POI Finch/Reese: arduinna (DW) - "I think they made the right call, shaking things up this season. Too many series get stuck in their formulas and don't dare to change them, and that's great -- for three, maybe four seasons, and then it starts to get frustrating because no one ever moves forward."
Sherlock BBC
His Last Vow – Sherlock, Drugs and Urine Tests: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - "Analysing Sherlock’s drug use, what drugs he was taking and whether he is an addict."
'Sherlock' wrote a female character out of a classic story, and fans aren't happy: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "What has some fans angry is that Sherlock’s interpretation of Milverton’s death completely removes the agency and power of the female character in the original story."
What is going on here? A view from a psychologist perspecti: traumachu (tumblr) - "John likes danger, yes, the excitement, the adrenaline rush but not just from the cases; he relishes the fact that Sherlock brings this to their relationship in their emotional dynamics. "
Untitled: prettyarbitrary (tumblr) - "Anonymous asked: do you consider john and Mary's relationship as well as john and Sherlock's relationship abusive ones when considering his addiction to dangerous situations, how he keeps running back to it, and how they treated him in HLV? "
Mary And Sherlock: I have no Idea Whatsoever What Just Happened There: ivyblossom (tumblr) - "I understand what John’s doing in series three, for the most part. I don’t really understand what Mary’s doing at all. And I sort of don’t understand what Sherlock is doing, either. When it’s Mary and Sherlock together, I really don’t understand. "
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow: Katrina Crane is necessary because family is necessary.: havocthecat (DW) - "If the story has, so far, demanded that Abbie and Jenny connect with each other again, and Irving and Cynthia (and Macey) connect with each other again, then the story's continuation would be yanked off course if Ichabod and Katrina didn't connect with each other again,"
Star Wars
What Star Wars Doesn’t Need Right Now: V - Fangirl (blog) - "If Kemp were just a random former Star Wars author publicly embarrassing himself on the internet, there would be little reason to add anything further here at FANgirl Blog. Unfortunately, the situation is not that simple."
Supernatural
The Problem with Divine!Dean: A Secular Humanist Perspective: stornproofmatchgirl (tumblr) - "So this idea of Divine!Dean keeps popping up, and it seems to be fairly popular. At first, I felt seduced by it as well— it seemed to imbue him with something beautiful and poetic that as a Dean stan, is hard to say no to. But upon deeper reflection, I simply can’t support it."
more working things out: amonitrate (tumblr) - "the basis of what I’m trying to break down here is that i feel like fandom took a useful but flawed concept like codependency and has used it to explain EVERYTHING EVER"
Tolkien
Gondolin is Not Sustainable: ncfan_1 (tumblr) - "You know, I look at Gondolin and wonder what on God’s green Earth they were thinking when they came up with the idea. "
Regarding and Revisiting the death of Thingol and the subsequent ambush of the dwarven army: squirrelwrangler (tumblr) - "So why do we have the published version in the Silmarillion which is so radically different from what is in the later notes? I"
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General Fandom
Tips 'N Stuff For Better Character Design: springhole.net (blog) - "Some advice and pointers that will hopefully help you make more eye-pleasing and well-designed characters."
topic:roleplaying, topic:writing
The Ragamuffin Speaks: Fandom’s Insidious Desire For Utopianism In Fiction: Ian D Sharman (blog) - "I feel that it sometimes results in something which leads to works of fiction being judged by criteria that they really shouldn’t be judged by"
topic:fandom
Free is Never Free: The Economic Politics of Free-to-Play Games, and Why I Hate Them: Kristin - The Learned Fangirl (blog) - "The catch with free-to-play games is that they require you to make a decision about your time and your desire to progress in the game in terms of the age-old time-versus-money equation. If you want to progress faster, you have to cough up some small micro-payment between $0.99 and $2.99. "
fandom:gaming, topic:economics
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: JON VIII: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "In Jon VIII, we check in with the aftermath of the wights’ attack on Castle Black. "
fandom:asoiaf
ARYA STARK ON BEAUTY, ROMANCE, AND ALL THOSE THINGS WE DON’T FOCUS ON: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - " There seems to be some notion that should Arya’s narrative deal with romance at all (at least, more obviously,) it will take over her story and make it less important in some way."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "Anonymous asked: You are getting a lot of questions lately trying to get you to admit that Dany ~might~ not be the hero of the story. It's like they like the books, respect your opinions, and yet hate that Dany is not a man."
fandom:asoiaf
Anatomy of the valonqar; cersei and jaime lannister, or “funny you’re the broken one, but i’m the only one who needed saving”: queencersei (tumblr) - "reaching the end, you are a champion and I salute you.I have honestly lost count of all the messages I receive on the matter of Jaime and Cersei’s arc following Jaime’s return mid-ASOS"
fandom:asoiaf
ARYA’S LIST: A CRY FOR REVENGE OR A CRY FOR CONTROL?: doneiwthwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "People seem to just write it off as Arya wanting to go on a revenge spree, being obsessed with vengeance, or whatever and completely miss what it really represents in Arya’s arc.
You only have to look at the conception and use of the list to see it’s implications and status as a coping mechanism. "
fandom:asoiaf
Archer, How I Met Your Mother
Archer, How I Met Your Mother, and Comedic Reinvention: Ben Adams - Overthinking It (blog) - "Then, in its ninth and final season, How I Met Your Mother made a bold choice – instead of the standard week-to-week format, we learned that an entire 20+ episode season will take place over a single weekend – the wedding of Barney and Robin, where (we are promised) the titular Mother will finally be Met."
fandom:himym, fandom:archer
Comics: Black Widow
comics read: Black Widow: snickfic (LJ) - "Yesterday I started on a Black Widow binge,"
fandom:marvelcomics
Freaks and Geeks
Femslash Friday: Kim/Lindsay on Freaks and Geeks and “Lesbian Jawline”: (blog) - "I have attempted many times to categorize the ineffable gay appeal of Busy Phillips — particularly Busy Phillips as Kim Kelly on the short-lived Freaks and Geeks – and the closest thing I have been able to come up with is this: “Lesbian jawline.”"
fandom:freaksandgeeks, topic:femslash
Disney
Untitled: starberry_cupcake (tumblr) - " I started analyzing the chronology in female representation of the Disney Princess lineup so far (including the yet to be crowned Anna and Elsa)."
fandom:disney
Frozen
LGBTQ reading of 'Frozen' prompts fiery debate on Tumblr: Aja Romano - Daily Dot (blog) - "Is the most successful Disney film in history the latest entry into Hollywood’s Celluloid Closet? The Frozen fandom on Tumblr has exploded in debate after one fan presented a queer reading of the main character, Elsa."
fandom:frozen, topic:queer
Thoughts on ‘Frozen’: selchieproductions (tumblr) - "critical discussions about representations are always needed, especially when we’re talking about members of indigenous peoples and other minorities and everything I have said about the film with regards to its false claims to Saami-ness stands"
fandom:frozen
Frozen/My Little Mermaid
How Ariel Became Disney’s Bad Woman: A Look at Disney’s Frozen and The Little Mermaid: Sarah Shoker(blog) - "Restraining ourselves and making characters that shy away from controversy can actually reaffirm the gendered expectations that we’re trying to avoid. "
fandom:frozen, fandom:mylittlemermaid
Person Of Interest
December Meme POI Finch/Reese: arduinna (DW) - "I think they made the right call, shaking things up this season. Too many series get stuck in their formulas and don't dare to change them, and that's great -- for three, maybe four seasons, and then it starts to get frustrating because no one ever moves forward."
fandom:personofinterest, topic:canon, topic:characterdevelopment
Sherlock BBC
His Last Vow – Sherlock, Drugs and Urine Tests: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - "Analysing Sherlock’s drug use, what drugs he was taking and whether he is an addict."
fandom:bbcsherlock
'Sherlock' wrote a female character out of a classic story, and fans aren't happy: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "What has some fans angry is that Sherlock’s interpretation of Milverton’s death completely removes the agency and power of the female character in the original story."
fandom:bbcsherlock
What is going on here? A view from a psychologist perspecti: traumachu (tumblr) - "John likes danger, yes, the excitement, the adrenaline rush but not just from the cases; he relishes the fact that Sherlock brings this to their relationship in their emotional dynamics. "
fandom:bbcsherlock
Untitled: prettyarbitrary (tumblr) - "Anonymous asked: do you consider john and Mary's relationship as well as john and Sherlock's relationship abusive ones when considering his addiction to dangerous situations, how he keeps running back to it, and how they treated him in HLV? "
fandom:bbcsherlock
Mary And Sherlock: I have no Idea Whatsoever What Just Happened There: ivyblossom (tumblr) - "I understand what John’s doing in series three, for the most part. I don’t really understand what Mary’s doing at all. And I sort of don’t understand what Sherlock is doing, either. When it’s Mary and Sherlock together, I really don’t understand. "
fandom:bbcsherlock
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow: Katrina Crane is necessary because family is necessary.: havocthecat (DW) - "If the story has, so far, demanded that Abbie and Jenny connect with each other again, and Irving and Cynthia (and Macey) connect with each other again, then the story's continuation would be yanked off course if Ichabod and Katrina didn't connect with each other again,"
fandom:sleepyhollow, topic:relationships
Star Wars
What Star Wars Doesn’t Need Right Now: V - Fangirl (blog) - "If Kemp were just a random former Star Wars author publicly embarrassing himself on the internet, there would be little reason to add anything further here at FANgirl Blog. Unfortunately, the situation is not that simple."
fandom:starwars, topic:gender
Supernatural
The Problem with Divine!Dean: A Secular Humanist Perspective: stornproofmatchgirl (tumblr) - "So this idea of Divine!Dean keeps popping up, and it seems to be fairly popular. At first, I felt seduced by it as well— it seemed to imbue him with something beautiful and poetic that as a Dean stan, is hard to say no to. But upon deeper reflection, I simply can’t support it."
fandom:supernatural
more working things out: amonitrate (tumblr) - "the basis of what I’m trying to break down here is that i feel like fandom took a useful but flawed concept like codependency and has used it to explain EVERYTHING EVER"
fandom:supernatural
Tolkien
Gondolin is Not Sustainable: ncfan_1 (tumblr) - "You know, I look at Gondolin and wonder what on God’s green Earth they were thinking when they came up with the idea. "
fandom:jrrtolkien
Regarding and Revisiting the death of Thingol and the subsequent ambush of the dwarven army: squirrelwrangler (tumblr) - "So why do we have the published version in the Silmarillion which is so radically different from what is in the later notes? I"
fandom:jrrtolkien
Tags:
- fandom:archer,
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:bbcsherlock,
- fandom:disney,
- fandom:freaksandgeeks,
- fandom:frozen,
- fandom:gaming,
- fandom:himym,
- fandom:jrrtolkien,
- fandom:marvelcomics,
- fandom:mylittlemermaid,
- fandom:personofinterest,
- fandom:sleepyhollow,
- fandom:starwars,
- fandom:supernatural,
- topic:canon,
- topic:characterdevelopment,
- topic:economics,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:femslash,
- topic:gender,
- topic:queer,
- topic:relationships,
- topic:roleplaying,
- topic:writing
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Date: 2014-01-25 08:31 pm (UTC)http://jae.dreamwidth.org/1395931.html
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