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General Fandom

Oh, My Pop Culture Jesus: Consumerism and Geek Culture: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "However, all Catholics are called to live a life of simplicity, not to be consumed with possessions or material wealth. I realized as I tried to realign my life in order to live more simply that I had a major problem. I’m a geek."

topic:religion

Execution--A Post in 3 Acts : The G - Nerds of a Feather (blog) - "I tend to binge read fantasy. Until age 16 I couldn’t get enough of the stuff—from the gateway grub of David Eddings and Dragonlance to higher-grade fare from LeGuin, Kurtz, Leiber and Zimmer Bradley."

topic:fantasy, topic:writing, topic:publishing

The 2014 Hugos and the Battle for the Soul of SFF beatrice_otter: (DW) - "There is a divide in science fiction and fantasy fandom, dating back to Star Trek. Media fans (fans of TV shows and movies) are on one side and lit fans (fans of books and short stories and original written works of varying kinds) are on the other, and it's not hard-and-fast but things that make huge waves in one area of fandom often don't even get noticed in the other part of fandom."

topic:profic, topic:race, topic:gender

Specific Fandoms

Anchorman
Anchorman 2?s Surprising Commentary on the Journalism Industry: Vivian Obarski - The Learned Fangirl (blog) - "Anchorman 2 is one of those movies where I didn’t expect much out of it, to be honest. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing."

fandom:anchorman, topic:journalism

Comics
Dangerous Black Superheroes: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by squidinksamurai(blog) - "The easy answer is that superheroes aren’t just fantasies; they’re deities. In our modern context, where our media at least appears to be pluralistic and decentralized, our deities come in all forms, and some of them wear capes. "

topic:superheroes, fandom:comics

Community
Four Ways Community Might End: Shana Mlawski- Overthinking It (blog) - "Last week on NBC’s Community, Abed tried to impose a story structure on the goings-on of Greendale, but what kind of story is this, really?"

fandom:community

Game of Thrones
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Arya I: stevenattewell (blog) - "Following on from Arya’s last chapter in AGOT, there is the theme of the constant danger that faces anyone who falls on the less powerful side of social privilege, especially as it comes to gender, class, and in this case, age."

fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones

Game of Thrones’s Purple Wedding: Having Our Pie and Eating It Too?: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "I’m not sad that Joffrey finally died: he was a horrible little shit of a person and watching his death was glorious. At the same time, however, he was our main villain, and most of the large players from the first couple seasons are already gone."

fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones

Homestuck
Paradox Space: What Homestuck Should Have Been?: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Tsunderin (blog) - "It’s a project that’s ambitious in its attempts to bring back the Homestuck fandom back to being a large, contributing collective once more—a project that allows the fandom some say in what potentially happened in this expansive universe we’ve all helped form with the characters we’ve grown to love or hate."

fandom:homestuck

Scott Pilgrim
Sexualized Saturdays: “It Was Just A Phase. I Didn’t Think It Would Count”: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Kinsey Scale: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "I was watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World for what has to be the billionth time recently and found myself reflecting a little more on the relationship between Roxy and Ramona."

fandopm:scottpilgrim, topic:queer

Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Glen Ross: John Perich - Overthinking It (blog) - "There are few sharper contrasts than sunny Northern California, with its spacious offices and colorful companies, versus the crowded, rainy streets of Brooklyn where Glengarry Glen Ross was filmed. Yet these two stories are fundamentally the same tale: desperate, greedy men convincing themselves they’re doing the right thing."

fandom:siliconvalley,fandom:glengarryglenross

The Walking Dead
How the Walking Dead Became the Realest Show on Television: The Hooded Utilitarian by Christa Blackmon (blog) - "But, I hope, for all its achievements critics may one day remember the franchise not solely for its popular success, but rather in its ability to build empathy for real-world survivors of tragedy."

fandom:thewalkingdead

The Zombie Apocalypse and the Dangers of Empathy: The Hooded Utilitarian by Ng Suat Tong (blog) - "Having said this, for a series about death and dying, The Walking Dead does seem to have a rather optimistic and comforting attitude towards life. The creators of the TV series in particular make a point of culling only those characters of secondary interest to the viewers. "

fandom:thewalkingdead

X-Men
XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team: The Hooded Utilitarian by Osvaldo Oyola (blog) - "I thought it would be interesting to look again at the first arc of Brian Wood’s recent X-Men series, which features a much hyped team of all women and see what the result might be of a mutant superhero group in which the persecution metaphor might be peeled away due to the fact that all the team members are women...."

fandom:marvelcomics, topic:characterization, topic:gender