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General Fandom
Romance Is a Feminist Genre: Suzette Chan (blog) - "Last October, at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, I was invited to moderate a panel called Romance Is a Feminist Genre."
Telling Story Canon From Personal Bias, Erroneous Memories, & Fanwank: Springhole.net (blog) - "Trying to sort out what's canon and what isn't can be tricky work sometimes."
Company's response to outrage over its sexist T-shirt only makes things worse: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "“I like fangirls how I like my coffee. I hate coffee.” Three days after beingspotted on a T-shrt for sale at WonderCon, this idiotic slogan is still making waves in the geek community."
Collaborative Storytelling: From Marvel to Disney Animation and Looking Beyond to Star Wars: Fangirl (blog) - "The most important message I have taken away is that good storytelling is about taking risks and subverting expectations. I have seen the same sentiments expressed from storytellers outside Star Wars, including fan favorites Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, and Gail Simone."
Oh My Pop Culture Jesus: Catholic Ethics & Sex Between Humans and Non-Humans: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Here is a question that you’ve probably never thought about (and probably don’t want to know the answer to): What would the Catholic Church say about sex between humans and sentient non-humans? "
Aggression is the New Pink: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "You’d think Marvel and Warner never heard of Jennifer Lawrence or the profits Lionsgate is earning from Hunger Games. Not that Lawrence is the leader of a new trend. Her cartoon counterparts changed gender barriers a decade ago."
Vampire in the Mirror: The Hooded Utilitarian by Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "The child, therefore, is precisely a fiction; it is a character in a novel, with a made up background to go with the made up narrative. It shouldn’t be surprising, therefore, that a number of novels that are especially interested in reader identification or mirroring deliberately thematize the mirror stage (or at least an imagined version thereof.) "
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Is Margaery Tyrell another Anne Boleyn? : troius (tumblr) - "This is a great meta comparing a character in asoiaf to a historical figure, but it’s important to remember that while GRRM’s characters certainly draw from historical persons, they are in no way parallels or representations of those people."
Cersei has suffered because of the social roles imposed on her. But why should we use fallacious information to do so? Why should we blame the Tully sisters when we can openly point the finger at, well, Littlefinger?: dromedarypenguin (tumblr) - "Yes, Catelyn did not know that Lysa had problems until she got to the Vale.
"
Book!Cersei is isolated. No one understands her, maybe not even Jaime.
: twoquickdeaths(tumblr) - "GOT!Cersei is slowly becoming isolated. She has important fleeting moments with Margaery, with Olenna, with Oberyn, with Tywin, SO MANY with Tyrion, with Brienne, with Joffrey, and earlier, all the way to the beginning, with Catelyn, and it’s giving us a dynamic Cersei, one who is seeing glimpses of the harsh realities within herself."
Dany as AAR: Is Lightbringer the Giveaway?: queen-of-thorns (tumblr) - "Lightbringer is going to be a sword of “living fire” that will be drawn from the flames.
"
What do you think Arya thinks of Sandor about his confession?
: theellieedoll (tumblr) - "Not going really in depth, because I don’t have enough info to do that - I’d say that no, Arya isn’t meant to understand Sandor’s death-bed confession in the same way that we do because, obviously, Arya doesn’t know anything about Sandor’s feelings for Sansa.
"
Link for NY Times article “Game of Thrones Rising Unease over Rape’s Recurring Role” : boiledleather (tumblr) - "In the past, I wrote at length about similar critiques of ASoIaF (specifically one by one of Itzkoff’s interview sources, the writer Sady Doyle) and recorded a podcast with Alyssa Rosenberg and Stefan Sasse about how fundamental Martin’s anti-misogyny is to the entire project."
Magical Mondays: Magic and Stunted Technologies: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "The combination of these two elements can make a pretty fascinating setting—because of the existence of magic, sometimes a world that is less scientific than ours will occasionally end up with inventions that are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years more advanced than their current level of technology. On the other end of the spectrum, sometimes magic has the exact opposite effect and its use stunts a people’s technological growth."
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Tyrion I: Race for the Iron Throne by stevenattewell (blog) - "In this section, I want to cover four main themes – first, the Small Council, its (dys)functioning, and Tyrion’s relationship to it; second, Tyrion’s meeting with Cersei; third, Tyrion’s first impressions of King’s Landing; and fourth, Tyrion’s meeting with Varys and Shae and what that holds for the future."
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Sansa I: Race for the Iron Throne by stevenattewell (blog) - "...I can understand why people feel irritated by Sansa’s character in the first book, although I would argue that this would be a misreading of the text. But I really do have to question people who contend that the Sansa of the first book is this Sansa – and question the empathy of people who are reading the POV of a victim of sustained domestic violence and who still react to her like an annoying child."
8,000 Years of Stagnation?: (blog) - "Sometimes the history of Westeros seems a bit staggering. House Stark is 8,000 years old. The Andals came 6,000 years ago. "Only" 300 years lay between now and the conquest of the Targaryen kings. Many houses can trace their history back thirty, forty generations, a few ones even over a hundred. Is this realistic?"
Agents of SHIELD
Sexualized Saturdays: Sirens and the Men Who (Are Forced To) Love Them: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Saika (blog) - "A story involving this trope usually goes something like this: evil woman with otherworldly powers seduces good man (or men); man does her evil bidding against his will; good women are betrayed and jealous but have to save the day anyway."
Captain America
”Stephanie” Rogers? I think not: beatrice_otter (DW) - "
But the thing is, when people name babies, they don't have one name and then choose the female form or male form when they find out if it's a boy or a girl."
Hannibal
This Is My Intelligent Design: Hannibal’s Evolutionary Theory: Overthinking It by Shana Mlawski (blog) - "Our poor Randall isn’t completely to blame. He thought he was in a show about his own glorious transformation. How was he to know this season of Hannibal is really about the evolution of Will Graham?"
Harry Potter
Tips For Making Better Harry Potter OCs: springhole.net (blog) - "First, keep in mind what timeframe your story is supposed to be set in."
The Hunger Games
On the naming in The Hunger Games: sailorptah (DW) - "The names work. They make complete sense for a future where the language is a slightly futuristic English and the culture has changed in the way Panem's has."
Sherlock BBC
Shooting int the Moonlight: mid0nz(tumblr) - " The music and the spoken text tell us to listen, they are seeking our attention. Sherlock saysSo… and makes a really long pause, while the strings play only one long note with a accentuating crescendo. Thus text and music keep us waiting by functioning as an up-beat and then we jump (a tempo) in the new scene of Sherlock’s story."
Star Wars
Where are the women in the new 'Star Wars' cast?: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "So the new Star Wars cast has just been announced, and it’s a total sausagefest"
THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE: April Daniels (blog) - "So Disney has decided that they’re going to nuke most of the previously established Star Warscanon. I think this is as good a reason as any to finally bury the destructive concept of canon in fictional works."
Supernatural
This is What You’re Gonna Become: season 9 as the culmination of Dean Winchester’s thematic roles of identity in SPN: amonitrate(tumblr) - "So much has happened between Wendigo and the present to heap these earnest lines with layers of complexity, but in them lies the key to how the events of the current season relate to long-running, seemingly separate themes that play out for Dean, how these themes interrelate, and how they are coming to a head in season 9."
Dean violates Sam’s consent by making a medical decision he knows Sam would object to: fandom is generally able to correctly identify this as problematic behavior: mrdeanvines (tumblr) - "Some people call it rape, despite others pointing out the flaws in equating possession with rape (not using a possessed person’s body in sexual acts, but the possession itself) and some people who have been raped asking for it to not be called that.
"
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.
General Fandom
Romance Is a Feminist Genre: Suzette Chan (blog) - "Last October, at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, I was invited to moderate a panel called Romance Is a Feminist Genre."
topic:romance, topic:feminism
Telling Story Canon From Personal Bias, Erroneous Memories, & Fanwank: Springhole.net (blog) - "Trying to sort out what's canon and what isn't can be tricky work sometimes."
topic:canon
Company's response to outrage over its sexist T-shirt only makes things worse: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "“I like fangirls how I like my coffee. I hate coffee.” Three days after beingspotted on a T-shrt for sale at WonderCon, this idiotic slogan is still making waves in the geek community."
topic:fandom, topic:sexism
Collaborative Storytelling: From Marvel to Disney Animation and Looking Beyond to Star Wars: Fangirl (blog) - "The most important message I have taken away is that good storytelling is about taking risks and subverting expectations. I have seen the same sentiments expressed from storytellers outside Star Wars, including fan favorites Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, and Gail Simone."
topic:writing, topic:collaboration
Oh My Pop Culture Jesus: Catholic Ethics & Sex Between Humans and Non-Humans: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Here is a question that you’ve probably never thought about (and probably don’t want to know the answer to): What would the Catholic Church say about sex between humans and sentient non-humans? "
topic:religion, topic:xenophilia
Aggression is the New Pink: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "You’d think Marvel and Warner never heard of Jennifer Lawrence or the profits Lionsgate is earning from Hunger Games. Not that Lawrence is the leader of a new trend. Her cartoon counterparts changed gender barriers a decade ago."
topic:superheroes, topic:gender
Vampire in the Mirror: The Hooded Utilitarian by Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "The child, therefore, is precisely a fiction; it is a character in a novel, with a made up background to go with the made up narrative. It shouldn’t be surprising, therefore, that a number of novels that are especially interested in reader identification or mirroring deliberately thematize the mirror stage (or at least an imagined version thereof.) "
topic:identity
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Is Margaery Tyrell another Anne Boleyn? : troius (tumblr) - "This is a great meta comparing a character in asoiaf to a historical figure, but it’s important to remember that while GRRM’s characters certainly draw from historical persons, they are in no way parallels or representations of those people."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:character
Cersei has suffered because of the social roles imposed on her. But why should we use fallacious information to do so? Why should we blame the Tully sisters when we can openly point the finger at, well, Littlefinger?: dromedarypenguin (tumblr) - "Yes, Catelyn did not know that Lysa had problems until she got to the Vale.
"
Book!Cersei is isolated. No one understands her, maybe not even Jaime.
: twoquickdeaths(tumblr) - "GOT!Cersei is slowly becoming isolated. She has important fleeting moments with Margaery, with Olenna, with Oberyn, with Tywin, SO MANY with Tyrion, with Brienne, with Joffrey, and earlier, all the way to the beginning, with Catelyn, and it’s giving us a dynamic Cersei, one who is seeing glimpses of the harsh realities within herself."
Dany as AAR: Is Lightbringer the Giveaway?: queen-of-thorns (tumblr) - "Lightbringer is going to be a sword of “living fire” that will be drawn from the flames.
"
What do you think Arya thinks of Sandor about his confession?
: theellieedoll (tumblr) - "Not going really in depth, because I don’t have enough info to do that - I’d say that no, Arya isn’t meant to understand Sandor’s death-bed confession in the same way that we do because, obviously, Arya doesn’t know anything about Sandor’s feelings for Sansa.
"
Link for NY Times article “Game of Thrones Rising Unease over Rape’s Recurring Role” : boiledleather (tumblr) - "In the past, I wrote at length about similar critiques of ASoIaF (specifically one by one of Itzkoff’s interview sources, the writer Sady Doyle) and recorded a podcast with Alyssa Rosenberg and Stefan Sasse about how fundamental Martin’s anti-misogyny is to the entire project."
fandom:asoiaf, warning:rape
Magical Mondays: Magic and Stunted Technologies: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "The combination of these two elements can make a pretty fascinating setting—because of the existence of magic, sometimes a world that is less scientific than ours will occasionally end up with inventions that are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years more advanced than their current level of technology. On the other end of the spectrum, sometimes magic has the exact opposite effect and its use stunts a people’s technological growth."
topic:magic, fandom:asoiaf
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Tyrion I: Race for the Iron Throne by stevenattewell (blog) - "In this section, I want to cover four main themes – first, the Small Council, its (dys)functioning, and Tyrion’s relationship to it; second, Tyrion’s meeting with Cersei; third, Tyrion’s first impressions of King’s Landing; and fourth, Tyrion’s meeting with Varys and Shae and what that holds for the future."
fandom:asoiaf
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Sansa I: Race for the Iron Throne by stevenattewell (blog) - "...I can understand why people feel irritated by Sansa’s character in the first book, although I would argue that this would be a misreading of the text. But I really do have to question people who contend that the Sansa of the first book is this Sansa – and question the empathy of people who are reading the POV of a victim of sustained domestic violence and who still react to her like an annoying child."
fandom:asoiaf
8,000 Years of Stagnation?: (blog) - "Sometimes the history of Westeros seems a bit staggering. House Stark is 8,000 years old. The Andals came 6,000 years ago. "Only" 300 years lay between now and the conquest of the Targaryen kings. Many houses can trace their history back thirty, forty generations, a few ones even over a hundred. Is this realistic?"
fandom:asoiaf
Agents of SHIELD
Sexualized Saturdays: Sirens and the Men Who (Are Forced To) Love Them: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Saika (blog) - "A story involving this trope usually goes something like this: evil woman with otherworldly powers seduces good man (or men); man does her evil bidding against his will; good women are betrayed and jealous but have to save the day anyway."
topic:sirens, fandom:agentsofshield, fandom:startrek
Captain America
”Stephanie” Rogers? I think not: beatrice_otter (DW) - "
But the thing is, when people name babies, they don't have one name and then choose the female form or male form when they find out if it's a boy or a girl."
fandom:mcu, topic:worldbuilding, topic:history
Hannibal
This Is My Intelligent Design: Hannibal’s Evolutionary Theory: Overthinking It by Shana Mlawski (blog) - "Our poor Randall isn’t completely to blame. He thought he was in a show about his own glorious transformation. How was he to know this season of Hannibal is really about the evolution of Will Graham?"
fandom:hannibal
Harry Potter
Tips For Making Better Harry Potter OCs: springhole.net (blog) - "First, keep in mind what timeframe your story is supposed to be set in."
fandom:harrypotter, topic:character
The Hunger Games
On the naming in The Hunger Games: sailorptah (DW) - "The names work. They make complete sense for a future where the language is a slightly futuristic English and the culture has changed in the way Panem's has."
fandom:thehungergames, topic:worldbuilding
Sherlock BBC
Shooting int the Moonlight: mid0nz(tumblr) - " The music and the spoken text tell us to listen, they are seeking our attention. Sherlock saysSo… and makes a really long pause, while the strings play only one long note with a accentuating crescendo. Thus text and music keep us waiting by functioning as an up-beat and then we jump (a tempo) in the new scene of Sherlock’s story."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:music
Star Wars
Where are the women in the new 'Star Wars' cast?: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "So the new Star Wars cast has just been announced, and it’s a total sausagefest"
fandom:starwars, topic:sexism
THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE: April Daniels (blog) - "So Disney has decided that they’re going to nuke most of the previously established Star Warscanon. I think this is as good a reason as any to finally bury the destructive concept of canon in fictional works."
fandom:starwars, topic:canon
Supernatural
This is What You’re Gonna Become: season 9 as the culmination of Dean Winchester’s thematic roles of identity in SPN: amonitrate(tumblr) - "So much has happened between Wendigo and the present to heap these earnest lines with layers of complexity, but in them lies the key to how the events of the current season relate to long-running, seemingly separate themes that play out for Dean, how these themes interrelate, and how they are coming to a head in season 9."
fandom:supernatural, topic:character
Dean violates Sam’s consent by making a medical decision he knows Sam would object to: fandom is generally able to correctly identify this as problematic behavior: mrdeanvines (tumblr) - "Some people call it rape, despite others pointing out the flaws in equating possession with rape (not using a possessed person’s body in sexual acts, but the possession itself) and some people who have been raped asking for it to not be called that.
"
fandom:supernatural, warning:rape
Tags:
- fandom:agentsofshield,
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:bbcsherlock,
- fandom:hannibal,
- fandom:harrypotter,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:startrek,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:thehungergames,
- topic:canon,
- topic:character,
- topic:collaboration,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:feminism,
- topic:gender,
- topic:history,
- topic:identity,
- topic:magic,
- topic:music,
- topic:religion,
- topic:romance,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:superheroes,
- topic:worldbuilding,
- topic:writing,
- topic:xenophilia,
- warning:rape
