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General Fandom

I Want More Terrible Female Characters: brothadom - Lady Geek Girl & Friends (blog) - "The men that act this way are “badass”, but the women that do are referred to by much more derogatory terms. This attitude, unfortunately, seems to stem from reality."

topic:characterization, topic:gender

There Should Be More Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia on TV–Wait, Let Me Explain!: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "...on a daily basis, most people are more likely to encounter casual racism, sexism, or homophobia (aka microaggressions) from others, rather than undiluted hatred. What’s even worse is we can encounter these behaviors in people we admire and even respect."

topic:racism, topic:sexism

Secret Lives of Female Characters: Suzette Chan (blog) - "What The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, About Time, and Fringe have in common"

topic:character, topic:feminism

Specific Fandoms

A Song of Ice and Fire

it’s so ironic to think of Cersei and Jaime and how different their relationships with power are: queencersei (tumblr) - " i was thinking about how ridiculous Lord Commander Jaime is (and with ridiculous i don’t mean bad, because he does have some good moments, but he is overall hot-headed and impulsive and vindictive still, a far cry from barristan selmy) and it hit me.
Just as ridiculous as Cersei is as a queen most of the time."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

i think my favorite is when they try to say that elia would have been okay with it cause she was Dornish: agoodandgraciouslady (tumblr) - "Oh you mean the very racist assumption that Elia would have been okay with it because she was Dornish? “Oh their culture is more open.” Yeah their culture is but that doesn’t mean we know Elia is."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Do you have any Balon Greyjoy feels or headcanons?: theonegreyjoy(tumblr) - "I in fact, do have Balon Greyjoy feelings, which can feel a bit silly sometimes because I am not that fond of him, but I have a lot of feelings?"

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

what do you think the Martell family dynamic was like?:cordeliacassandra (tumblr) - " First of all, they have the best house words “unbowed, unbent, unbroken.”"

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Arya Stark and the death of the Tickler: ladysmallwood(tumblr) - "Arya has neither purposefully nor with a sense of premeditation acted out against the people on her list- and the Tickler is no exception to this fact."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

The reason societies have things like “guest right” and “declaring war” is because without them, society can’t function. : troius(tumblr) - "That’s due to a strategic misconception on the Freys’ and Lannisters’ part, thinking that the end of hostilities between the Iron Throne and the North would end the bloodshed, and that the Brotherhood would crumble with the destruction of the Iron Throne’s most successful adversary."

fandom:asoiaf

“I don’t see what else people think Lord Frey should have done. Not wreak a horrible revenge?”: fuchsiaisgroaning (tumblr) - "If you mean that Tywin would decimate House Frey because they threw in support with their liege house (Tully) and by extension house Stark, I disagree."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Becoming Hodor : forgirlsraisedbywolves (tumblr) - "I think we need to take a moment to remember that children are children."

fandom:asoiaf, topic:character

Arrow
Things Fall Apart: Why I’m No Longer An Arrow Fangirl: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "And then everything shifted, and the hero changed, and there were all these people crowding up the Arrow cave, and I got bitchy about it, and then the next week, the story repeated things I already knew and I got bitchier, which helps nobody. "

fandom:arrow

Disney
Sameface Syndrome and other stories:turbomun (tumblr) - "I seriously believed that someone with too much time on their hands had photomanipulated some screenshots of Rapunzel and tried to pass them off as the official Frozen designs. After all, there was no way that a major animation studio like Disney would knowingly, willfully produce three princesses with the Exact Same Face."

fandom:disney, topic:character,

Divergent
Oh, My Pop Culture Jesus: Protestant Theology in the Divergent Trilogy: syngraphea - Lady Geek Girl & Friends (blog) - "Specifically, while reading the second book Insurgent, I found a lot of references that sounded Protestant to me. Let’s take a look at how the whole trilogy holds up against a specific Protestant framework, the Five Points of Calvinism."

topic:religion, fandom:divergent

The “Divergent” Rape Scene: Here’s Why It Matters: Beth Lalonde (blog) - "Rewriting the script on sexual assault — and giving power back to girls."

fandom:divergent, warning:abuse

Harry Potter
Why did Charlie Weasley get a new wand?: harrypottermeta(tumblr) - "Ron Weasley: "You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I’ve got Bill’s old robes, Charlie’s old wand and Percy’s old rat.""

fandom:harrypotter

His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials: Rusakov-particle worldbuilding: sailorptah (DW) - "But what longer term implications would discovery of Dust / invention of devices to see Dust have on 'modern' soceity "

fandom:hisdarkmaterials

Leverage
Leverage Sunday: The Two Live Crew Job: Foils and Dopplegangers: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "The difference, then, between the foil and the doppelgänger is that the foil provides a contrast (the foil’s presence in the narrative actively does something for the story), but the doppelgänger is just a psychological double, a character attribute."

topic:writing, fandom:leverage

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tips For Making Asgardian OCs (And OCs From Other Realms, Too) For Earth-199999: Springhole.net (blog) - "First, the Asgardians do not refer to themselves as gods"

fandom:mcu

Marvel Comics - Hawkeye
Hawkeye 15: Spencer and Drew (blog) - "Why do we love Clint Barton so much? I could probably devote my entire word count to the reasons, but the one that sticks in my head is that he’s heroic, but still endearingly flawed. "

fandom:marvelcomics

Miyazaki
Iconic Girls in Pop Culture: Miyazaki’s Female Characters: Raizel Liebler (blog) - "But one of the elements I most appreciate is the focus on girls in that frequently awkward age between eight and twelve – too old to be little and cute, but too young to be a teen – with the freedoms and heartbreak of teenagehood."

fandom:miyazaki

Norse Mythology
Myth, Religion, Story: Not At All Alike: chordatesrock (DW) - "There’s an enormous difference between conceiving of Norse (or any other) myth as a set of stories and conceiving of it as a religious statement about How Things Are."

fandom:norsemyths, topic:myth, topic:religion, topic:stories

Robocop
RoboCop (2014) - meta - What Kind of Life: hellkitty (DW) - "Viewing revision as 're-seeing', I've been thinking a lot about Clara Murphy, mostly about how, well, underutilized she was in the film. "

fandom:robocop, warning:spoilers

Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars in purgatory: How we keep punishing our favorite characters: Todd VanDerWerff (blog) - "Let our TV people go!"

fandom:veronicamars, warning:spoilers