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General Fandom

Great Protagonists: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "There’s a lot of stuff out there about how to make a protagonist likable, and a lot of it is good advice except that it implies that a protagonist has to be likable. Macbeth and Scarlett O’Hara would beg to differ. For “likable” substitute “fascinating” and you’re on the right track."

topic:writing

Magical Mondays: Wands and Other Tools: Lady Saika - Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "One of the great things about fantasy worlds is the multitude of ways in which magic is presented. As with any power, however, it’s only interesting as far as it is limited."

topic:magic

Specific Fandoms

American Horror Story
Oh, My Pop Culture Vodou: Loa Misrepresentation in American Horror Story: Coven, or, Will the Real Papa Legba Please Stand Up?: polyglotpisces - LadyGeek Girl (blog) - "Like I said, part of the charm of AHS is all the appallingly offensive scenes, but generally what’s offensive is some mix of gore and/or sex. However, as a pagan, there was something I found particularly offensive this season – the portrayal of the Vodou deity, Papa Legba."

fandom:americanhorrorstory, topic:religion

A Song of Ice and Fire
Why do you think Sansa keeps repressing/changing her memories of certain things?: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - " I think that Sansa’s repression and altered memories are the result of two things: the specific kind of trauma that Sansa has to deal with in court and Sansa’s own personality that allows her to selectively remember certain things in order to survive and preserve herself."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Ignorance in the asoiaf fandom → re: viserys targaryen :daysanddistance (tumblr) - "i see a lot of the same blind garbage hate tagged to the viserys targaryen tag. it’s not only obnoxious, it’s literally ignorant."

fandom:asoiaf

At its core, I think ASOIAF is about a love for humanity.: waverlyrowan(tumblr) - "Dany doesn’t just want to sit on a throne. She cares about humanity. She cares about people she doesn’t even know."

fandom:asoiaf,

I never really understood why anyone bothers to rail on monarchist characters in a faux-medieval setting for being entitled. Aren’t they all?: daysanddistance(tumblr) - "After all, it is possible to believe you deserve, by right of birth, to hold a title, and to believe that you have a duty to do right by the people you serve. (See noblisse oblige, enlightened despotism, etc.) You’d have to be reading with blinders on to think there’s a contradiction in that."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:worldbuilding

When people discuss strong female characters in ASOIAF, I don’t think enough gets said about Olenna Redwyne aka Olenna Tyrell aka the Queen of Thorns: madaboutasoiaf (tumblr) - "Olenna is one of my favourite characters after my preferred main POV characters. I"

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

When Viserys speaks about ''waking the dragon'' does he mean just making him angry or is it a more sexual type of abuse? : donewithwoodenteeth(tumblr) - "Well, the whole idea of the “waking the dragon” functions as a few things:"

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

But if any Stark girl is going to take out UnGregor I’d bet it would be Arya, Would it? Consider the following: elrewin (tumblr) - elrewin "I agree with you on the fact that the huge shadow in Bran’s dream is certainly Gregor. I’ll even add that a lot of things link him to « an armour made of stone"

fandom:asoiaf

I would like to know what you think about the saying that Arya is too wild to be a proper lady : donewithwoodenteeth(tumblr) - "Because Arya is never going to be “proper” in that her interests don’t lie in needlework and perfecting her courtesies. She also doesn’t put emphasis on a person’s stature, never has, unlike other “proper ladies” we see. She doesn’t mind getting dirty and doesn’t love dresses."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Daenerys IX: Steven Attewell (blog) - "Dany IX, despite being a penultimate chapter to the fiery climax of Daenerys’ story arc, is actually a much more interesting chapter in retrospective than it is on a first read. It becomes even more so since the under-appreciated final Daenerys chapter of A Dance With Dragons, which demonstrates that when you think George R.R Martin’s plots have jumped the rails, there is always a plan."

fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones

Comics
How Do Hypersexualized Superheroine Transformations Work?: Roy T. Cook - Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "What I am going to do is highlight an interesting sub-phenomenon – superheroines whose hypersexualization is linked to their very real (albeit fictional) power as superheroines"

fandom:comics, topic:superheroes

Hawaii 5-0
Hawaii 5-0 timeline for characters and events has been completed: catswhiskers0 (LJ) - "I read a story a while ago on AO3 and in the kudos/feedback thread at the bottom, the author asked if there was any sort of general timeline for the show or chronology"

fandom:hawaii5-0

Frozen
Frozen Heart Love in Disney's New Princess Musical: Olwyn Supeene (blog) - "There are a number of perspectives on what exactly makes Frozen so popular. The music, obviously, is a huge factor, but its themes are also major contributors to its popularity."

fandom:disney, fandom:frozen

Leverage, Person of Interest, Arrow
Plot and Subplot: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "I watched three TV episodes this week about teams of good guys battling a mastermind who communicated with minions using ear coms. Two of them aired in the past week, the other is several years old, but the basic plot was the same: bring down the mastermind. The difference was in the way the stories used their subplots, and it was a big difference. "

fandom:leverage, fandom:personofinterest, fandom:arrow, topic:plot

Malificent
Undoing Maleficent: Patrick Carland - Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - " Sure, it’s great to get character backstories, but why are we seeing all these female characters, characters that never needed an in depth explanation for who they were, being given backstories to justify their characters when justification was never necessary?"

fandom:malificent, fandom:disney

RoboCop
More Meta: Dennett Nortn : sentimental-mercenary (tumblr) - "On rewatch it struck me that his story arc is just as strong as Alex’s own. Mattox serves as a foil for Alex, what he could turn into, but we hope he doesn’t and Sellars is, in a sort, a ‘villain’, though one who certainly doesn’t see himself that way."

fandom:robocop, topic:character

Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Holmes - Done to death?: Alistair Duncan - Doylockian (blog) - "One of the earliest screen Holmes (in the talkie era) was Arthur Wontner and his five Holmes films were all set in the 1930s. On viewing they seem more Victorian than they really are purely because they are literally closer in time to the Victorian era than they are to ours."

fandom:acdsherlock

I'm so sick of people saying "John and Sherlock are friends why do you want to sexualize such a deep friendship". : loudest subtext in television(tumblr) - "I absolutely agree in every way.And also I get upset because it’s not as if male friendships don’t get any representation."

fandom:bbcsherlock

Star Wars
ForceCast #292: Dissecting Diversity: Forcecast (podcast) - "Eric and Justin talk to FANgirl Blog's Tricia Barr about racial and gender diversity in the Empire, the Rebel Alliance, and the galaxy as a whole."

fandom:starwars, topic:diversity

Blood, Honor and Matriarchs: The Hapan Women of Star Wars – Part Four: Tricia Barr, Fangirlblog (blog) - "A character with a sexist attitude in a fictional story could be used to show how that attitude can be detrimental to working with others, how it makes others feel, and provide a growth point for a character. It really depends on how that attitude is handled."

fandom:starwars, topic:sexism

Supernatural
Just to make this clear : amonitrate (tumblr) - "Sometimes it can get blurry I’ll admit, the difference between talking about context and apologism"

fandom:supernatural

I agree that fandom tends to gloss over the hurtful things Cas has done to Dean: amonitrate (tumblr) - "Just as Sam and Dean come from an abusive home environment that shaped their behaviors, Cas comes from an environment that shaped his behaviors."

fandom:supernatural, topic:character

The Vampire Chronicles
Scrutiny Samedi - Vampire Physiology, Part One: gairid (DW) - "The vampire sustains his life processes by drinking human blood."

fandom:vampirechronicles, topic:vampires

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