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General Fandom
Racism in Boybands: Chizz Mbamalu (blog) - "When it comes to boy bands, race does matter. The music business is a racist institution and in the past few years, it’s either getting more racist or we’re just really realizing how racist it is."
10 things I hate about sex (scenes): Elyse (blog) - "But for every delicious Victoria Dahl or Maisey Yates bearded cowboy love-scene, there's also a sex scene out there that is either improbable, anatomically impossible or horrifically painful to think about."
We Want Different Body Types on Screen But Hollywood Has No Idea What to do with Larger women: polymic(tumblr) - "The version we get of Kimmie is always the butt — really, the boob — of the joke. She is unrelentingly nice in the face of real bullying, and orders a pizza at every turn. And her natural beauty is obviously downplayed via ill-fitting costuming and dumpy hair and makeup."
Whitewashing Defenders’ Greatest Hits: thefeministfangirl(tumblr) - ""If you have to have someone who looks like you in the media in order for you to relate then maybe you’re the one who’s racist" "
Safer sex and contraception in fanfic: naraht (DW) - "So I thought I would bring the discussion up to date by asking what my circle thinks of the topic."
Follow-up to January’s Posts on Fandom, Diversity, and More: Fangirl (blog) - "I’m going to second Club Jade’s tweet from that night; as a blogger who discusses diversity and the portrayal of female characters I would rather be doing other things, such as fangirling over things I like. And I have a long list of things I like that I’d really like to talk about."
Punktuation: The Politics of Diacritical Symbols in Band Names: Richard Rosenbaum - Overthinking It (blog) - "Rock and roll has always been about authority; mostly about subverting it. Grammar, too, is inherently political – communication is an act inherently infused with power dynamics, otherwise its freedom wouldn’t be such a fierce issue..."
Unraveling the Leopard Print Mystery of Katy Perry’s “Roar”: Mark Lee - Overthinking It (blog) - "I know that the music video for the Katy Perry song “Roar” is several months old already (which is practically a century when it comes to pop music), but we really need to talk about the significance of the leopard print outfit that features so prominently in the video."
The Hope of Just Representation in Entertainment: refresh daemon - Init_Scenes (blog) - "Even when studies show that it is actually in the best interest of Hollywood to have more equitable representation, we do not see equitable representation on screen."
Ironic Sexism Is Still Sexism: foz meadows
(blog) - "All too often, gross remarks – be they racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise abusive and vile – are excused or condoned on the grounds of irony; that because they were meant to be humorous, they can’t possibly be offensive. "
It’s Okay, He Wasn’t a Main Character. (Or White.): SL Huang (blog) - "They got LI’s contact killed—they got someone killed—and the narrative’s going to play that as an Awesomesauce Win, no second thoughts, not even a drunken toast in his name in the bar afterwards? "
On Loving Rare Fandoms: norah (DW) - "Loving rare fandoms started as a game for me, when I first found slash. What else can we slash, was my question."
The Joys Of Small Fandoms: haraht (DW) - "I think I've got a bit better at reading into texts but I still tend to do better if I have something to go on to start with."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire"Things were just like that back then.”: asoiafuniversity (tumblr) - ""Things were just like that back then.”There were not enough faces for me to palm. I just ended up yelling, “When was that again?? In the good old days of Westeros??
"
Early Evidence of Roose Bolton’s Treachery: (blog) - " I don’t think that Roose Bolton was a Lannister stooge from the get-go. I think that Roose’s turn to the Lannister side occurred around the end of A Clash of Kings."
Almost Human
Almost Human, and Writing the Future
: Dan Wells (blog) - " The worldbuilding in Almost Human is awful, and for two main reasons: it doesn’t feel like a plausible projection of the future, and it doesn’t hold together as a consistent setting."
Arrow
Arrow: Can I talk about how my heart is breaking for Laurel this season?: havocthecat(DW) - "I think that everyone expects Laurel to be the strong one for them, without understanding or seeing the toll it takes on her. So her failures become hers alone, without anyone understanding that the burdens on her have become unbearable, and have been for far too long."
Game of Thrones
Race For the Iron Throne - Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Daenerys VII: Steven Attewell (blog) - "The return of the rightful heir to the throne, a fantasy trope older than Ivanhoe and Tolkein and so often made out to be a relatively bloodless affair in which the evil usurper and some presumably evil guards dies, here brings abut the slaughter of innocent Lhazarene and raiding Dothraki alike."
BBC Sherlock
Why We Wrote ‘Sherlock Does Not Have Autism’: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - "We all feel that some of the message we have been trying to put across has been lost in translation, so this is both a reiteration of our message and a response to the online community. We hope that this will answer at least some of your questions, and give you a better idea of why we helped write the article in the first place."
Difference and the Critical Possibility of Sherlock: acafanmom (tumblr) - "While I have a love-hate relationship with Salon.com, Todd Van Der Werff’s fantastic essay on the critique of angry white masculinity in Breaking Bad was easily one of the better things I read last year. More than that, it’s given me food for thought in trying to locate John Watson, who seems to have gone a bit AWOL in series three ofSherlock."
If you've seen the Ritchie S.H. films: to me, they feel less homophobic somehow than BBC, but I can't figure out why. : professorfangirl(tumblr) - "the Ritchie movies feel less homophobic because they’re not presenting anything deeper than the norm in terms of that male-male friendship, so they don’t have to assert the no-homo so strongly. BBC is doing something different: they’re presenting a male-male relationship with depth, intensity, and intimacy. "
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes polls - what is the point?: Alistair Duncan - Doyleockian (blog) - "The point is that the name at the top (or towards the top) of any poll is highly likely to be the one on screen at the time (or the most recent past)."
Watching the Detectives: (blog) - "Dr. Watson reports in A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, that the “excessively lean” detective is “an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman,” but we have to take his word on it."
Star Wars
The Latest on the current Genre Debates: Cora Buhlert (blog) - "Indeed, Kemp’s “masculine virtues” as practiced by the Jedi order, e.g. stoicness, having one’s emotions in check, an emphasis on honour, contribute to the downfall of the Old Republic..."
Supernatural
Something I need to get off my chest re: season nine: de_nugis (LJ) - "I've seen a lot of people describe the storyline of s9 as being about keeping secrets, or lying. I've seen people suggest that Dean wasn't wrong to do what he did, only to lie about it."
Dean and Cain, with consideration of how 9.11 worked as a diptych: de_nugis (LJ) - "The alteration of the myth of Cain and Abel at the hands of the Spn writers clearly means something. This reading of what that meaning might be is partly wishful thinking, what I want it to turn out to mean. But I also think it’s a genuinely possible interpretation of the rather clumsy diptych that was the juxtaposition of Dean and Sam’s storylines in 9.11."
The Americans
"Not an anti-hero," continued: jae (DW) - "One trend in media commentary on the first season of The Americans was to lump Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in with the protagonists of various shows in the anti-hero mold … It strikes me that this only works, though, if you insist on viewing the show through an exclusively American lens. "
White Collar
White Collar and Women: sholio (DW) - "Actually, there was one thing I mentioned in the previous post that I wanted to pull out in a post of its own, which is how respectfully White Collar (usually) handles its female characters."
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Links
General Fandom
Racism in Boybands: Chizz Mbamalu (blog) - "When it comes to boy bands, race does matter. The music business is a racist institution and in the past few years, it’s either getting more racist or we’re just really realizing how racist it is."
fandom:onedirection, topic:racism
10 things I hate about sex (scenes): Elyse (blog) - "But for every delicious Victoria Dahl or Maisey Yates bearded cowboy love-scene, there's also a sex scene out there that is either improbable, anatomically impossible or horrifically painful to think about."
topic:sex, topic:romance
We Want Different Body Types on Screen But Hollywood Has No Idea What to do with Larger women: polymic(tumblr) - "The version we get of Kimmie is always the butt — really, the boob — of the joke. She is unrelentingly nice in the face of real bullying, and orders a pizza at every turn. And her natural beauty is obviously downplayed via ill-fitting costuming and dumpy hair and makeup."
topic:feminism, topic:bodyimage
Whitewashing Defenders’ Greatest Hits: thefeministfangirl(tumblr) - ""If you have to have someone who looks like you in the media in order for you to relate then maybe you’re the one who’s racist" "
topic:race
Safer sex and contraception in fanfic: naraht (DW) - "So I thought I would bring the discussion up to date by asking what my circle thinks of the topic."
topic:sex, topic:writing
Follow-up to January’s Posts on Fandom, Diversity, and More: Fangirl (blog) - "I’m going to second Club Jade’s tweet from that night; as a blogger who discusses diversity and the portrayal of female characters I would rather be doing other things, such as fangirling over things I like. And I have a long list of things I like that I’d really like to talk about."
topic:diversity
Punktuation: The Politics of Diacritical Symbols in Band Names: Richard Rosenbaum - Overthinking It (blog) - "Rock and roll has always been about authority; mostly about subverting it. Grammar, too, is inherently political – communication is an act inherently infused with power dynamics, otherwise its freedom wouldn’t be such a fierce issue..."
topic:bands, topic:grammar
Unraveling the Leopard Print Mystery of Katy Perry’s “Roar”: Mark Lee - Overthinking It (blog) - "I know that the music video for the Katy Perry song “Roar” is several months old already (which is practically a century when it comes to pop music), but we really need to talk about the significance of the leopard print outfit that features so prominently in the video."
topic:katyperry
The Hope of Just Representation in Entertainment: refresh daemon - Init_Scenes (blog) - "Even when studies show that it is actually in the best interest of Hollywood to have more equitable representation, we do not see equitable representation on screen."
topic:race
Ironic Sexism Is Still Sexism: foz meadows
(blog) - "All too often, gross remarks – be they racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise abusive and vile – are excused or condoned on the grounds of irony; that because they were meant to be humorous, they can’t possibly be offensive. "
topic:sexism
It’s Okay, He Wasn’t a Main Character. (Or White.): SL Huang (blog) - "They got LI’s contact killed—they got someone killed—and the narrative’s going to play that as an Awesomesauce Win, no second thoughts, not even a drunken toast in his name in the bar afterwards? "
topic:writing, topic:race
On Loving Rare Fandoms: norah (DW) - "Loving rare fandoms started as a game for me, when I first found slash. What else can we slash, was my question."
topic:discussion, topic:queer, topic:slash, topic:smallfandoms, topic:writing
The Joys Of Small Fandoms: haraht (DW) - "I think I've got a bit better at reading into texts but I still tend to do better if I have something to go on to start with."
topic:discussion, topic:queer, topic:slash, topic:smallfandoms, topic:writing
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire"Things were just like that back then.”: asoiafuniversity (tumblr) - ""Things were just like that back then.”There were not enough faces for me to palm. I just ended up yelling, “When was that again?? In the good old days of Westeros??
"
fandom:asoiaf, topic:race, topic:fantasygenre
Early Evidence of Roose Bolton’s Treachery: (blog) - " I don’t think that Roose Bolton was a Lannister stooge from the get-go. I think that Roose’s turn to the Lannister side occurred around the end of A Clash of Kings."
fandom:asoiaf
Almost Human
Almost Human, and Writing the Future
: Dan Wells (blog) - " The worldbuilding in Almost Human is awful, and for two main reasons: it doesn’t feel like a plausible projection of the future, and it doesn’t hold together as a consistent setting."
fandom:almosthuman, topic:sci-fi
Arrow
Arrow: Can I talk about how my heart is breaking for Laurel this season?: havocthecat(DW) - "I think that everyone expects Laurel to be the strong one for them, without understanding or seeing the toll it takes on her. So her failures become hers alone, without anyone understanding that the burdens on her have become unbearable, and have been for far too long."
fandom:arrow
Game of Thrones
Race For the Iron Throne - Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Daenerys VII: Steven Attewell (blog) - "The return of the rightful heir to the throne, a fantasy trope older than Ivanhoe and Tolkein and so often made out to be a relatively bloodless affair in which the evil usurper and some presumably evil guards dies, here brings abut the slaughter of innocent Lhazarene and raiding Dothraki alike."
fandom:gameofthrones, topic:politics
BBC Sherlock
Why We Wrote ‘Sherlock Does Not Have Autism’: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - "We all feel that some of the message we have been trying to put across has been lost in translation, so this is both a reiteration of our message and a response to the online community. We hope that this will answer at least some of your questions, and give you a better idea of why we helped write the article in the first place."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:mentalhealth
Difference and the Critical Possibility of Sherlock: acafanmom (tumblr) - "While I have a love-hate relationship with Salon.com, Todd Van Der Werff’s fantastic essay on the critique of angry white masculinity in Breaking Bad was easily one of the better things I read last year. More than that, it’s given me food for thought in trying to locate John Watson, who seems to have gone a bit AWOL in series three ofSherlock."
fandom:bbcsherlock
If you've seen the Ritchie S.H. films: to me, they feel less homophobic somehow than BBC, but I can't figure out why. : professorfangirl(tumblr) - "the Ritchie movies feel less homophobic because they’re not presenting anything deeper than the norm in terms of that male-male friendship, so they don’t have to assert the no-homo so strongly. BBC is doing something different: they’re presenting a male-male relationship with depth, intensity, and intimacy. "
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:gender
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes polls - what is the point?: Alistair Duncan - Doyleockian (blog) - "The point is that the name at the top (or towards the top) of any poll is highly likely to be the one on screen at the time (or the most recent past)."
fandom:acdsherlock, topic:polls
Watching the Detectives: (blog) - "Dr. Watson reports in A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, that the “excessively lean” detective is “an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman,” but we have to take his word on it."
fandom:acdsherlock
Star Wars
The Latest on the current Genre Debates: Cora Buhlert (blog) - "Indeed, Kemp’s “masculine virtues” as practiced by the Jedi order, e.g. stoicness, having one’s emotions in check, an emphasis on honour, contribute to the downfall of the Old Republic..."
fandom:starwars
Supernatural
Something I need to get off my chest re: season nine: de_nugis (LJ) - "I've seen a lot of people describe the storyline of s9 as being about keeping secrets, or lying. I've seen people suggest that Dean wasn't wrong to do what he did, only to lie about it."
fandom:supernatural
Dean and Cain, with consideration of how 9.11 worked as a diptych: de_nugis (LJ) - "The alteration of the myth of Cain and Abel at the hands of the Spn writers clearly means something. This reading of what that meaning might be is partly wishful thinking, what I want it to turn out to mean. But I also think it’s a genuinely possible interpretation of the rather clumsy diptych that was the juxtaposition of Dean and Sam’s storylines in 9.11."
fandom:supernatural
The Americans
"Not an anti-hero," continued: jae (DW) - "One trend in media commentary on the first season of The Americans was to lump Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in with the protagonists of various shows in the anti-hero mold … It strikes me that this only works, though, if you insist on viewing the show through an exclusively American lens. "
fandom:theamericans
White Collar
White Collar and Women: sholio (DW) - "Actually, there was one thing I mentioned in the previous post that I wanted to pull out in a post of its own, which is how respectfully White Collar (usually) handles its female characters."
fandom:whitecollar
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- fandom:starwars,
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- topic:diversity,
- topic:feminism,
- topic:gender,
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- topic:mentalhealth,
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