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Entry tags:
- character:antihero,
- character:hero,
- fandom:adventuretime,
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:bbcsherlock,
- fandom:dccu,
- fandom:gameofthrones,
- fandom:highlander,
- fandom:hplovecraft,
- fandom:kpop,
- fandom:marvelcomics,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:onceuponatime,
- fandom:orphanblack,
- fandom:spiderman,
- topic:character,
- topic:characterization,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:fanfic,
- topic:feminism,
- topic:gender,
- topic:politics,
- topic:race,
- topic:racism,
- topic:relationships,
- topic:resurrection,
- topic:romance,
- topic:sexuality,
- topic:television,
- topic:worldbuilding,
- warning:non-con,
- warning:spoilers
Meta Links 2014/04/24 - 2014/04/30
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General Fandom
On The Erasure of People of Colour From Dystopian Fiction: NinjaCate (blog) - "asked about the extreme whiteness of the cast, Handel said that the "the race of the individual doesn't matter.""
Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom : Sam Keeper - Storming the Ivory Tower (blog) - "...it's work that straddles the line between truth and fiction. It's the art of truthiness--it purports to be real and accomplishes certain things by hoaxing the audience but it also depends upon the revelation of its fakeness."
Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend: Male-Female Best Friendships on Television: Raizel - The Learned Fangirl (blog) - "However, television now has several examples of friendship of male-female friendships that are actually friendships. This is important because of the usual trope that any frisson between hetero (or partially hetero) characters will lead to romance eventually and not continued friendship."
Romance as Criticism, Criticism as Romance: Noah Berlatsky - Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "The novel, then, is both a historical and a contemporary, with the two constantly commenting on each other, as Jenny distributes the characteristics of her unsatisfying maybe-soon ex Brian and her possibly potential suitor Alec to various period figments of her imagination."
Oh, My Pop Culture Resurrection: Who Gets to Come Back?: polyglotpisces - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "This happens frequently in any story world where resurrection is possible. Why does this happen? Oversight? Quota filled? Price hikes?"
Sexualized Saturdays: The Difference Between Sexy and Sexualized: pantydragon - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Somewhere in the dark, shadowy, and very wide valley between “body positivity” and “objectification”, there’s a herd of lost, confused people stumbling about blindly and shouting that feminism is some contradictory bullshit. Lest those poor souls waste away down there, I think it’s time we illustrate just how big and treacherous and sexy that valley is."
The Rest is Still Unwritten: Z McAspurren (blog) - "Even when we consider fan-fiction as just another method of expressing ourselves, there does seem to be, to be blunt, more of stigma attached to it than other form of fan media. "
Fandom As: An Answer to the Question ‘Why?’: Hannah Carter (blog) - "Why do certain things happen? What makes it so that those things work? Why do we just accept this? Why wouldn’t that work in its place? What would happen if the other were true instead?"
Fanfiction goes Korea: Kish (blog) - "Fanfiction is not alien to most people these days – many have at least heard of it. But while it is as global a phenomenon as fandoms in general, it doesn’t seem to appear entirely the same everywhere in the world."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: Steven Attewell - Tower of the Hand (blog) - "And while the Westerosi monarchy is a recent institution on that continent, it follows along the lines of previous Westerosi political institutions - which were all monarchies. This kind of political homogeneity is nowhere to be found across the narrow sea, where I count no less than five different forms of government."
A Companion Piece on *That Scene* from Season 4, Episode 3: (blog) - "The showrunners’ problems with their response to the reactions to Episode 3 started with the now-infamous interview that Alex Graves did with Vulture in which he unpacked what he thought the scene depicted..."
Untitled: danainthedogpark (tumblr) - "I’m also going to come right out and say that I HATE how they’ve made Cersei so openly disgusted by Jaime’s lack of hand."
You say Dany has a savior complex. That could be true, but isn't it because she was a slave herself? : daysanddistance(tumblr) - "Dany was never a slave, but she was sold in marriage to Khal Drogo by her brother Viserys and their benefactor Illyrio."
I asked about Ilyn Payne. He is one of my favorite non point of view characters, despite so little being written: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "Well, he is interesting because not only is her a non-POV, but he also can’t speak so obviously he’s a mystery on many levels."
Another one (of the many) things that doesn’t make sense to me about the argument that Drogo didn’t rape Dany, as well as justifications of his actions:: queenacrossthenarrowsea (tumblr) - "Beyond the general horribleness of the idea that marital rape isn’t rape because “that’s just how the culture was”, that’s not even really accurate…at least not in Drogo’s case."
I don't think Jaime raped Cersei.: jaimelannister(tumblr) - ""It’s one thing to present horrific acts in fictional media; it’s another to present a horrific act and deny that it is horrific, particularly when it happens to be disturbingly commonplace in real life and frequently denied its significance and legitimacy in that precise way."
For Arya Stark Hate: andrewscotttouchingthings(tumblr) - "As a rule, female characters are just judged way harder than male ones by everyone."
why do you love Daario (and Dany/Daario) so much: theloupgaroux (tumblr) - "He is a douchebag. And I love him for it."
Adventure Time
What time is it? Foreign Policy Time! Lemonhope and the conundrum of freedom: Overthinking It by Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Lemongrab’s catch phrase is “UNACCEPTABLE!” his delivery of which conveys an immediate understanding of his mentality: everything must go precisely his way, and there is no room for compromise."
Princess Bubblegum and Unclear Morality: brothadom - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Last month, I wrote about needing more jerk-y female characters. The Princess is an example of one way that sort of character can be used: she is usually quite nice, but has a darker side. Bubblegum is cold just as often as she is affectionate."
Captain America
Why do 'good guy' superheroes get a bad rap?: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "What we’re really talking about here isn’t Captain America as a character, but the way we react to blockbuster movie protagonists who aren’t morally ambiguous antiheroes."
Winter Soldier comics storyline versus the movie: sholio (LJ) - "I mentioned a bit earlier that I'd do a post comparing the movie and comics versions of the Winter Soldier storyline. And this is that post!"
Natasha in The Winter Soldier (spoilers): aggressivebutterfly(tumblr) - "Natasha is an interesting animal because I don’t believe that most of what we see of her, ever, is actually her. "
Why the Winter Soldier is Less an Embodiment of Soviet Russia Than I Thought, or: Bucky Barnes, American Cold War Anxieties, and You: samjohnssonvt (tumblr) - "The Winter Soldier is concerned with security and international supremacy, and the moral compromises America has made (and continues to make) in pursuit of both"
IDENTITY WITHIN THE WINTER SOLDIER: imaginebucky (tumblr) - "A ramble about the identity crisis that Bucky is subjected to and how he may recover from a more neurological standpoint."
Highlander
Flashbacks, character and worldbuilding: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "Highlander was big on flashbacks. You don't see them so much in most TV, but they were half of any episode on Highlander. They had the whole of history to play with, and used it consistently."
Lovecraft
HP Lovecraft: Also A Dick: Sam Stroyteller (blog) - "Lovecraft held active ideologies, racist and anti-immigrant, that he openly expressed and which clearly influenced his work. "
Noah
'Noah' screenwriter explains why only white people appear in his movie: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw(blog) - "it’s incredibly weird to create a supposedly “universal” apocalyptic scenario in which virtually every non-white race has been erased without explanation."
Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Was Once Upon A Time In Wonderland Worth Our Time?: Lady Saika - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Once Upon A Time In Wonderland has its origins in a cool and eminently sustainable idea: take the Once Upon A Time mythos and tell other stories that have happened in its universe that just don’t fit into the main OUAT story. To reference a similar project, it couId have been to Once Upon A Time what Paradox Space plans to be for Homestuck. "
Orphan Black
Empty Suits: Jessica Roake (blog) - "Orphan Black’s straight male characters are completely flat. That’s not an accident."
Sherlock BBC
But what does The speckled blond signify?: loudest-subtext-in-television (tumblr) - ""The Speckled Blonde" is a curious case because its implications we’ll probably have either directly confirmed or denied in the show later."
Hobgoblin of Little Minds: Why I Still Believe in Sherlock: mid0nz (tumblr) - "I think The Great Game, directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Mark Gatiss, is the consummate Sherlock."
Spiderman
The Amazing Spiderman II Film Review: selenak (DW) - "In a word: disappointing. Alas. Not in every single regard, I'll come to that. But whereas the first reboot, while unnecessary, was a charming pop corn movie, this sequel jettisoned most of what I had liked about said film and repeated all the mistakes of the third Raimi outing to boot. "
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General Fandom
On The Erasure of People of Colour From Dystopian Fiction: NinjaCate (blog) - "asked about the extreme whiteness of the cast, Handel said that the "the race of the individual doesn't matter.""
topic:race
Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom : Sam Keeper - Storming the Ivory Tower (blog) - "...it's work that straddles the line between truth and fiction. It's the art of truthiness--it purports to be real and accomplishes certain things by hoaxing the audience but it also depends upon the revelation of its fakeness."
topic:fanfic
Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend: Male-Female Best Friendships on Television: Raizel - The Learned Fangirl (blog) - "However, television now has several examples of friendship of male-female friendships that are actually friendships. This is important because of the usual trope that any frisson between hetero (or partially hetero) characters will lead to romance eventually and not continued friendship."
topic:television, topic:relationships
Romance as Criticism, Criticism as Romance: Noah Berlatsky - Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "The novel, then, is both a historical and a contemporary, with the two constantly commenting on each other, as Jenny distributes the characteristics of her unsatisfying maybe-soon ex Brian and her possibly potential suitor Alec to various period figments of her imagination."
topic:romance
Oh, My Pop Culture Resurrection: Who Gets to Come Back?: polyglotpisces - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "This happens frequently in any story world where resurrection is possible. Why does this happen? Oversight? Quota filled? Price hikes?"
topic:resurrection
Sexualized Saturdays: The Difference Between Sexy and Sexualized: pantydragon - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Somewhere in the dark, shadowy, and very wide valley between “body positivity” and “objectification”, there’s a herd of lost, confused people stumbling about blindly and shouting that feminism is some contradictory bullshit. Lest those poor souls waste away down there, I think it’s time we illustrate just how big and treacherous and sexy that valley is."
topic:sexuality, topic:feminism, topic:gender
The Rest is Still Unwritten: Z McAspurren (blog) - "Even when we consider fan-fiction as just another method of expressing ourselves, there does seem to be, to be blunt, more of stigma attached to it than other form of fan media. "
topic:fanfic
Fandom As: An Answer to the Question ‘Why?’: Hannah Carter (blog) - "Why do certain things happen? What makes it so that those things work? Why do we just accept this? Why wouldn’t that work in its place? What would happen if the other were true instead?"
topic:fandom
Fanfiction goes Korea: Kish (blog) - "Fanfiction is not alien to most people these days – many have at least heard of it. But while it is as global a phenomenon as fandoms in general, it doesn’t seem to appear entirely the same everywhere in the world."
topic:fanfic, fandom:kpop
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: Steven Attewell - Tower of the Hand (blog) - "And while the Westerosi monarchy is a recent institution on that continent, it follows along the lines of previous Westerosi political institutions - which were all monarchies. This kind of political homogeneity is nowhere to be found across the narrow sea, where I count no less than five different forms of government."
fandom:gameofthrones, fandom:asoiaf, topic:politics
A Companion Piece on *That Scene* from Season 4, Episode 3: (blog) - "The showrunners’ problems with their response to the reactions to Episode 3 started with the now-infamous interview that Alex Graves did with Vulture in which he unpacked what he thought the scene depicted..."
fandom:gameofthrones, fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: danainthedogpark (tumblr) - "I’m also going to come right out and say that I HATE how they’ve made Cersei so openly disgusted by Jaime’s lack of hand."
fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones
You say Dany has a savior complex. That could be true, but isn't it because she was a slave herself? : daysanddistance(tumblr) - "Dany was never a slave, but she was sold in marriage to Khal Drogo by her brother Viserys and their benefactor Illyrio."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:character
I asked about Ilyn Payne. He is one of my favorite non point of view characters, despite so little being written: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "Well, he is interesting because not only is her a non-POV, but he also can’t speak so obviously he’s a mystery on many levels."
fandom:asoiaf
Another one (of the many) things that doesn’t make sense to me about the argument that Drogo didn’t rape Dany, as well as justifications of his actions:: queenacrossthenarrowsea (tumblr) - "Beyond the general horribleness of the idea that marital rape isn’t rape because “that’s just how the culture was”, that’s not even really accurate…at least not in Drogo’s case."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:character, warning:non-con
I don't think Jaime raped Cersei.: jaimelannister(tumblr) - ""It’s one thing to present horrific acts in fictional media; it’s another to present a horrific act and deny that it is horrific, particularly when it happens to be disturbingly commonplace in real life and frequently denied its significance and legitimacy in that precise way."
fandom:asoiaf, warning:non-con
For Arya Stark Hate: andrewscotttouchingthings(tumblr) - "As a rule, female characters are just judged way harder than male ones by everyone."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:gender
why do you love Daario (and Dany/Daario) so much: theloupgaroux (tumblr) - "He is a douchebag. And I love him for it."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:character
Adventure Time
What time is it? Foreign Policy Time! Lemonhope and the conundrum of freedom: Overthinking It by Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Lemongrab’s catch phrase is “UNACCEPTABLE!” his delivery of which conveys an immediate understanding of his mentality: everything must go precisely his way, and there is no room for compromise."
fandom:adventuretime, topic:politics
Princess Bubblegum and Unclear Morality: brothadom - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Last month, I wrote about needing more jerk-y female characters. The Princess is an example of one way that sort of character can be used: she is usually quite nice, but has a darker side. Bubblegum is cold just as often as she is affectionate."
fandom:adventuretime, topic:characterization
Captain America
Why do 'good guy' superheroes get a bad rap?: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "What we’re really talking about here isn’t Captain America as a character, but the way we react to blockbuster movie protagonists who aren’t morally ambiguous antiheroes."
character:antihero, character:hero, fandom:mcu, fandom:dccu
Winter Soldier comics storyline versus the movie: sholio (LJ) - "I mentioned a bit earlier that I'd do a post comparing the movie and comics versions of the Winter Soldier storyline. And this is that post!"
fandom:mcu, fandom:marvelcomics
Natasha in The Winter Soldier (spoilers): aggressivebutterfly(tumblr) - "Natasha is an interesting animal because I don’t believe that most of what we see of her, ever, is actually her. "
fandom:mcu
Why the Winter Soldier is Less an Embodiment of Soviet Russia Than I Thought, or: Bucky Barnes, American Cold War Anxieties, and You: samjohnssonvt (tumblr) - "The Winter Soldier is concerned with security and international supremacy, and the moral compromises America has made (and continues to make) in pursuit of both"
fandom:mcu
IDENTITY WITHIN THE WINTER SOLDIER: imaginebucky (tumblr) - "A ramble about the identity crisis that Bucky is subjected to and how he may recover from a more neurological standpoint."
fandom:mcu
Highlander
Flashbacks, character and worldbuilding: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "Highlander was big on flashbacks. You don't see them so much in most TV, but they were half of any episode on Highlander. They had the whole of history to play with, and used it consistently."
fandom:highlander, topic:character, topic:worldbuilding
Lovecraft
HP Lovecraft: Also A Dick: Sam Stroyteller (blog) - "Lovecraft held active ideologies, racist and anti-immigrant, that he openly expressed and which clearly influenced his work. "
fandom:hplovecraft, topic:racism
Noah
'Noah' screenwriter explains why only white people appear in his movie: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw(blog) - "it’s incredibly weird to create a supposedly “universal” apocalyptic scenario in which virtually every non-white race has been erased without explanation."
topic:race
Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Was Once Upon A Time In Wonderland Worth Our Time?: Lady Saika - Lady Geek Girl and Friends (blog) - "Once Upon A Time In Wonderland has its origins in a cool and eminently sustainable idea: take the Once Upon A Time mythos and tell other stories that have happened in its universe that just don’t fit into the main OUAT story. To reference a similar project, it couId have been to Once Upon A Time what Paradox Space plans to be for Homestuck. "
fandom:onceuponatime
Orphan Black
Empty Suits: Jessica Roake (blog) - "Orphan Black’s straight male characters are completely flat. That’s not an accident."
fandom:orphanblack
Sherlock BBC
But what does The speckled blond signify?: loudest-subtext-in-television (tumblr) - ""The Speckled Blonde" is a curious case because its implications we’ll probably have either directly confirmed or denied in the show later."
fandom:bbcsherlock
Hobgoblin of Little Minds: Why I Still Believe in Sherlock: mid0nz (tumblr) - "I think The Great Game, directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Mark Gatiss, is the consummate Sherlock."
fandom:bbcsherlock
Spiderman
The Amazing Spiderman II Film Review: selenak (DW) - "In a word: disappointing. Alas. Not in every single regard, I'll come to that. But whereas the first reboot, while unnecessary, was a charming pop corn movie, this sequel jettisoned most of what I had liked about said film and repeated all the mistakes of the third Raimi outing to boot. "
fandom:Spiderman, topic:feminism, topic:gender, warning:spoilers