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General Fandom
Guest Post: A History of Western Media Fandom: Clare (DW) - "But fandom—the organization of fans into a specific community—is a phenomenon of the twentieth century, especially the Western media fandom that characterizes fandom to many people both in and outside fandom."
Adaptation and transformation vs. extension and addition: chordatesrock (DW) - "What this post is actually about is the difference in ways of looking at and using the source text(s) that appear to be in play here."
Why I’ve Never Gotten into Fanfiction: Sara K (blog) - "When I first learned about online fanfiction, I imagined being able to explore many different aspects of stories I loved. When I discovered how the vast majority of fanfiction revolves around romance and sex, so much so that identifying the ‘ship is a standard part of categorization … I felt really disappointed."
Thoughts on the Amount of Female Characters in Games: gamingfeminism(tumblr) - "So shouldn't we rather prefer a lack of female characters than have terribly written (and maybe only contributing more to the rage) ones? And shouldn't we instead be getting angry at the sexism towards women working in the industry?"
Tumblr explains why everything you know about mermaids is wrong: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "Mermaids used to be powerful and frightening (even if that power was partly tied into their sex appeal), and it seems unfair that one of the few well-known female monsters is no longer allowed to be, well, monstrous."
"yes, agnieszka, but how does the femme stuff make you feel", or: I just have a lot of feelings about femme stuff and femmeity and rule 63 fanworks. : amorremanet - AO3 (blog) - "But the thing is: I don't actually hate the idea of cisswapped characters suddenly being more visibly femme? "
A Modest Proposal for Hugo Reform : The G - nerds of a feather (blog) - "...it came to my attention that very few people intuitively understand a large portion of Hugo award categories, myself included. So as part of on-going conversations on how to reform the Hugos, I'd like to suggest some sensible (and in some cases long-overdue) changes to the award categories."
Post-Binary Gender in SF: Introduction: Alex Dally MacFarlane (blog) - "Post-binary gender in SF is the acknowledgement that gender is more complex than the Western cultural norm of two genders (female and male): that there are more genders than two, that gender can be fluid, that gender exists in many forms."
A Ending Binary Gender in Fiction, or How to Murder Your Writing Career: Larry Correia (blog) - "My response is really directed toward the aspiring writers in the crowd who want to make a living as writers, but really it works for anybody who likes to read, or who is just tired of angsty emo bullshit."
Fiskception: Dissecting Correia’s Critique of MacFarlane: Jim C. Hines (blog) - "There’s no way I’m going to change Correia’s mind about this stuff, any more than his post changed my thinking. But of course, there are a lot of other people lurking and participating in the conversation, and while I know this is going to do bad things to my blood pressure, I think it’s a conversation worth having."
An A to Z of Non-Binary Genders: Foz Meadows (blog) - "And as such persons are apparently incapable of performing a basic Google search before spouting bigoted nonsense all over the internet, I’ve decided to make things easy for them, and compile a handy A to Z of non-binary gender identities in the modern world and throughout history."
A Call to Stop Politicizing People’s Existence:(blog) - "But there’s one thing I do want to speak up about: I’m downright sick of people labeling the inclusion of PoC, women, genderqueer, or other QUILTBAG people as a political agenda."
Specific Fandoms
Bend It Like Beckham
Femslash Friday: Bend It Like Beckham: E.M. Freeburg - the Toast (blog) - "This set-up is so perfectly primed for a queer reading that, ever since the movie’s release, there have been persistent but unconfirmed rumors that the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, originally intended Jules and Jess to be a love story, but scrapped the storyline out of fear that mainstream audiences would reject it."
Comics
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/01/what-is-an-african-american-comic/: Qiana Whitted - the Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "But exactly what kinds of comics would fall under this designation? Would it only include publications that follow the All-Negro Comics model where black writers, artists, and editors can claim “every brush stroke and pen line” of the final product, or should the term be expanded to any comic about African Americans?"
Branding in Fandom: The Distinguished Competition: Red Hamilton (blog) - "Given that they both cover such a diverse range of talent, ideas and mediums, it would be impossible for either Marvel or DC to have one overall branding strategy which could cover every eventuality."
Captain America
Untitled : loving-that-officey-feel (tumblr) - "I think, and this is just how I’ve interpreted what I’ve read so far, that Steve does want that little white house dream, not literally, but symbolically."
Frozen
The problem with false feminism: Dani Colman (tumblr) - "I have made absolutely no secret of how much I disliked Disney’s Frozen. I hated it."
Frozen: bookgazing (DW) - ""Frozen", much like "Brave," is an animated tale that kicks out at the traditional narratives of female animated characters. And like "Brave," it is probably going to find itself criticised for not going far enough."
How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Gets Its Bad Prince Charming Right: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "I’d like to sketch out a third option. Rather than declaring Prince Charming fantasies good or bad, I think Frozen is part of a tradition of adding heft to Prince Charming himself. And that’s a good thing."
Game of Thrones
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Tyrion VIII: (blog) - "Needless to say, the difference between BookShae and ShowShae is staggering. The book version is introduced in a way that is meant to remind the reader and reflect on Tyrion’s relationship with Tysha (and women in general)."
Hannibal
Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal: Shana Mlawski - Overthinking It (blog) - "Is there a figure in today’s pop culture landscape that personifies conspicuous consumption like Hannibal Lecter? The Kardashians, possibly, or any of the Real Housewives, but to my knowledge none of them eat human flesh or look as good in three-piece suits, so point Lecter."
Harry Potter
What J.K. Rowling’s Ron And Hermione Bombshell Tells Us About True Love And ‘Harry Potter’: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "For a series of young adult novels, the most childish idea in the series is that everyone ends up with their first love, or ends up alone."
Jane Eyre
Reader, I Buried Him: Jane Eyre’s Battles with Monsters: (blog) - " In the style of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Android Karenina, Sherri Browning Erwin’s Jane Slayre rewrites Charlotte Brontë’s novel to make the heroine into a badass monster fighter. Monsters, though, have always been a part of Jane Eyre’s story."
Marvel Comics - Black Panther
Christopher Priest’s Black Panther, Jack Kirby’s Black Panther, and the Question of “Black Comics”: Brannon Costello - the Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "I have a real affection for those comics, which I consider to be among the smartest superhero serials of their day. It’s also partly because I think Priest’s run is very much engaged with some of the questions of what makes a comic an “African American comic” in ways that haven’t always been appreciated."
ACD Sherlock
Is Sherlock Holmes sexy?: Doyleockian (blog) - "But it is important to draw the distinction between the actor, the screen characterisation (which is down to both screen writer and actor) and the original written Holmes."
BBC Sherlock
A Waltz for Sherlock: On Things Gained and Lost in The Sign of Three: taikova (tumblr) - "This is the second in a series of pieces on the humanization of Sherlock in Series 3."
The Cost of Allowing Someone to Write Your Story: Major Sholto, Sherlock, and The Reichenbach Fall: stephisanerd (tumblr) - "This is my interpretation not only of Sherlock’s interactions with Major Sholto, but of his actions at the end of The Reichenbach Fall, and throughout The Empty Hearse."
Sources for Sherlock's Mind Palace: mid0nz (tumblr) - "Sherlock’s mind palace is a kind of amalgam of Sherlock Holmes’s mind attic from ACD canon, Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s memory palace, as well as a kind of basic representation of Sherlock’s psyche."
What John Watson Likes or How to Ship Johnlock: mid0nz (tumblr) - "It’s linked sonically to John’s theme. It represents Irene, yes, but also Sherlock’s eternal yearning and what there is of his sadness."
Supernatural
Thoughts on Supernatural: bookdal (tumblr) - "The episode condenses into 44 short minutes what I believe is the underlying problems of the season, of the past two seasons in fact, and perhaps longer."
Thor
loki and the black widow: damalur (DW) - "So I've fallen down into the black pit of movieverse Sif/Loki, but I've sort of been thinking lately that Loki's most interesting foil isn't Sif or even Thor; in a lot of ways, it's really how he interacts with Natasha that reveals the most about him."
If you have meta to submit or rec, please comment to this post or to the screened Submissions Post. If you'd like to give us blanket permission to link your meta please comment to the Blanket Permissions Post. If you have feedback or questions, check out our FAQ, Contact the Mods, or PM/email. If you'd like to volunteer to link-find or mod, please comment to the Volunteers Post.
Links
General Fandom
Guest Post: A History of Western Media Fandom: Clare (DW) - "But fandom—the organization of fans into a specific community—is a phenomenon of the twentieth century, especially the Western media fandom that characterizes fandom to many people both in and outside fandom."
topic:fandom
Adaptation and transformation vs. extension and addition: chordatesrock (DW) - "What this post is actually about is the difference in ways of looking at and using the source text(s) that appear to be in play here."
topic:fanfic, topic:writing
Why I’ve Never Gotten into Fanfiction: Sara K (blog) - "When I first learned about online fanfiction, I imagined being able to explore many different aspects of stories I loved. When I discovered how the vast majority of fanfiction revolves around romance and sex, so much so that identifying the ‘ship is a standard part of categorization … I felt really disappointed."
topic:fandom, topic:fanfic, topic:asexuality
Thoughts on the Amount of Female Characters in Games: gamingfeminism(tumblr) - "So shouldn't we rather prefer a lack of female characters than have terribly written (and maybe only contributing more to the rage) ones? And shouldn't we instead be getting angry at the sexism towards women working in the industry?"
topic:feminism, topic:videogames
Tumblr explains why everything you know about mermaids is wrong: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "Mermaids used to be powerful and frightening (even if that power was partly tied into their sex appeal), and it seems unfair that one of the few well-known female monsters is no longer allowed to be, well, monstrous."
topic:mermaids
"yes, agnieszka, but how does the femme stuff make you feel", or: I just have a lot of feelings about femme stuff and femmeity and rule 63 fanworks. : amorremanet - AO3 (blog) - "But the thing is: I don't actually hate the idea of cisswapped characters suddenly being more visibly femme? "
topic:gender, topic:queer, topic:characterization
A Modest Proposal for Hugo Reform : The G - nerds of a feather (blog) - "...it came to my attention that very few people intuitively understand a large portion of Hugo award categories, myself included. So as part of on-going conversations on how to reform the Hugos, I'd like to suggest some sensible (and in some cases long-overdue) changes to the award categories."
topic:hugoawards
Post-Binary Gender in SF: Introduction: Alex Dally MacFarlane (blog) - "Post-binary gender in SF is the acknowledgement that gender is more complex than the Western cultural norm of two genders (female and male): that there are more genders than two, that gender can be fluid, that gender exists in many forms."
topic:gender
A Ending Binary Gender in Fiction, or How to Murder Your Writing Career: Larry Correia (blog) - "My response is really directed toward the aspiring writers in the crowd who want to make a living as writers, but really it works for anybody who likes to read, or who is just tired of angsty emo bullshit."
topic:gender
Fiskception: Dissecting Correia’s Critique of MacFarlane: Jim C. Hines (blog) - "There’s no way I’m going to change Correia’s mind about this stuff, any more than his post changed my thinking. But of course, there are a lot of other people lurking and participating in the conversation, and while I know this is going to do bad things to my blood pressure, I think it’s a conversation worth having."
topic:gender
An A to Z of Non-Binary Genders: Foz Meadows (blog) - "And as such persons are apparently incapable of performing a basic Google search before spouting bigoted nonsense all over the internet, I’ve decided to make things easy for them, and compile a handy A to Z of non-binary gender identities in the modern world and throughout history."
topic:gender
A Call to Stop Politicizing People’s Existence:(blog) - "But there’s one thing I do want to speak up about: I’m downright sick of people labeling the inclusion of PoC, women, genderqueer, or other QUILTBAG people as a political agenda."
topic:gender
Specific Fandoms
Bend It Like Beckham
Femslash Friday: Bend It Like Beckham: E.M. Freeburg - the Toast (blog) - "This set-up is so perfectly primed for a queer reading that, ever since the movie’s release, there have been persistent but unconfirmed rumors that the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, originally intended Jules and Jess to be a love story, but scrapped the storyline out of fear that mainstream audiences would reject it."
fandom:benditlikebeckham, topic:femslash
Comics
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/01/what-is-an-african-american-comic/: Qiana Whitted - the Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "But exactly what kinds of comics would fall under this designation? Would it only include publications that follow the All-Negro Comics model where black writers, artists, and editors can claim “every brush stroke and pen line” of the final product, or should the term be expanded to any comic about African Americans?"
fandom:comics, topic:race
Branding in Fandom: The Distinguished Competition: Red Hamilton (blog) - "Given that they both cover such a diverse range of talent, ideas and mediums, it would be impossible for either Marvel or DC to have one overall branding strategy which could cover every eventuality."
fandom:comics
Captain America
Untitled : loving-that-officey-feel (tumblr) - "I think, and this is just how I’ve interpreted what I’ve read so far, that Steve does want that little white house dream, not literally, but symbolically."
fandom:marvelcomics
Frozen
The problem with false feminism: Dani Colman (tumblr) - "I have made absolutely no secret of how much I disliked Disney’s Frozen. I hated it."
fandom:disney, fandom:frozen, topic:feminism
Frozen: bookgazing (DW) - ""Frozen", much like "Brave," is an animated tale that kicks out at the traditional narratives of female animated characters. And like "Brave," it is probably going to find itself criticised for not going far enough."
fandom:disney, fandom:frozen
How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Gets Its Bad Prince Charming Right: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "I’d like to sketch out a third option. Rather than declaring Prince Charming fantasies good or bad, I think Frozen is part of a tradition of adding heft to Prince Charming himself. And that’s a good thing."
fandom:disney, fandom:frozen, topic:relationships
Game of Thrones
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Tyrion VIII: (blog) - "Needless to say, the difference between BookShae and ShowShae is staggering. The book version is introduced in a way that is meant to remind the reader and reflect on Tyrion’s relationship with Tysha (and women in general)."
fandom:gameofthrones, fandom:asoiaf
Hannibal
Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal: Shana Mlawski - Overthinking It (blog) - "Is there a figure in today’s pop culture landscape that personifies conspicuous consumption like Hannibal Lecter? The Kardashians, possibly, or any of the Real Housewives, but to my knowledge none of them eat human flesh or look as good in three-piece suits, so point Lecter."
fandom:hannibal, topic:economics
Harry Potter
What J.K. Rowling’s Ron And Hermione Bombshell Tells Us About True Love And ‘Harry Potter’: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "For a series of young adult novels, the most childish idea in the series is that everyone ends up with their first love, or ends up alone."
fandom:harrypotter, topic:relationships
Jane Eyre
Reader, I Buried Him: Jane Eyre’s Battles with Monsters: (blog) - " In the style of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Android Karenina, Sherri Browning Erwin’s Jane Slayre rewrites Charlotte Brontë’s novel to make the heroine into a badass monster fighter. Monsters, though, have always been a part of Jane Eyre’s story."
fandom:janeeyre
Marvel Comics - Black Panther
Christopher Priest’s Black Panther, Jack Kirby’s Black Panther, and the Question of “Black Comics”: Brannon Costello - the Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "I have a real affection for those comics, which I consider to be among the smartest superhero serials of their day. It’s also partly because I think Priest’s run is very much engaged with some of the questions of what makes a comic an “African American comic” in ways that haven’t always been appreciated."
fandom:marvelcomics, topic:race
ACD Sherlock
Is Sherlock Holmes sexy?: Doyleockian (blog) - "But it is important to draw the distinction between the actor, the screen characterisation (which is down to both screen writer and actor) and the original written Holmes."
fandom:acdsherlock
BBC Sherlock
A Waltz for Sherlock: On Things Gained and Lost in The Sign of Three: taikova (tumblr) - "This is the second in a series of pieces on the humanization of Sherlock in Series 3."
fandom:bbcsherlock
The Cost of Allowing Someone to Write Your Story: Major Sholto, Sherlock, and The Reichenbach Fall: stephisanerd (tumblr) - "This is my interpretation not only of Sherlock’s interactions with Major Sholto, but of his actions at the end of The Reichenbach Fall, and throughout The Empty Hearse."
fandom:bbcsherlock, warning:suicide
Sources for Sherlock's Mind Palace: mid0nz (tumblr) - "Sherlock’s mind palace is a kind of amalgam of Sherlock Holmes’s mind attic from ACD canon, Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s memory palace, as well as a kind of basic representation of Sherlock’s psyche."
fandom:bbcsherlock
What John Watson Likes or How to Ship Johnlock: mid0nz (tumblr) - "It’s linked sonically to John’s theme. It represents Irene, yes, but also Sherlock’s eternal yearning and what there is of his sadness."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:music
Supernatural
Thoughts on Supernatural: bookdal (tumblr) - "The episode condenses into 44 short minutes what I believe is the underlying problems of the season, of the past two seasons in fact, and perhaps longer."
fandom:supernatural
Thor
loki and the black widow: damalur (DW) - "So I've fallen down into the black pit of movieverse Sif/Loki, but I've sort of been thinking lately that Loki's most interesting foil isn't Sif or even Thor; in a lot of ways, it's really how he interacts with Natasha that reveals the most about him."
fandom:MCU
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Date: 2014-02-07 04:48 am (UTC)