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Links
General Fandom
Thoughts On The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, And Morality Systems (Or A Lack Thereof): (blog) - "It’s nerve-wracking, no doubt, especially when the choices at hand involve emotionally-fraught things like life, death, and (gulp) makeshift trauma surgery. But after I finished the latest episode of The Wolf Among Us, it occurred to me that there’s another factor in there, one that really drives the point home: the lack of a morality system."
Magical Mondays: Sleeping Beauty, Fairy Tales, and Inserting Magic Into Magic-less Narratives: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by porluciernagas (blog) - "Fairy tales have been retold time and again throughout our history, and the versions of popular stories differ depending on what year and in which culture the stories are being told. For example, in the oldest version of Cinderella, her slipper is made of gold, and in the version popularized by Disney, the slipper is made of glass."
Names Like Worldships: jjhunter (DW) - "I was reminded yesterday that online vs offline is by no means the only common motor for multiple names."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: how-much-farther-to-go (tumblr) - "Okay, this is gonna sound wild, but I have this theory about House Stark and the direwolves’ fur colors."
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, CATELYN I: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "After all the oblique dramatic setup in previous chapters, Catelyn I plunges headlong into some meaty political dilemmas "
Why Not An Emperor?: racefortheironthrone (tumblr) - "First - why didn’t Aegon declare himself an emperor as opposed to a king? Second - why didn’t Aegon rule directly as opposed to establishing a feudal system as he did? "
Captain America
Pain, Personhood, and Parity: The Depiction of Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Sara (blog) - "The Winter Soldier is a dangerous child having a lethal temper-tantrum all the way through this film. "
Untitled: last-snowfall (tumblr) - "Now see, I’m very much a Cap=Carrot type myself, but I’m open to conversion. Could you maybe say why you see him as young!Vimes instead of Carrot?"
Comics
I’m Lost: Path-Finding in Comics: (blog) - "Not all comics are equally challenging. I appreciate the sturdy 2 by 3 layouts in the work of Chester Brown and the Hernandez Brothers. In these comics, the panel design disappears, much like the word “said” disappears in literature. On the other end of the spectrum is a book like Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonderdog, in which I felt like I was constantly losing my way in a forest of nearly identical panels."
Caped Napoleons: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "“I, Carl Kruger, will be dictator of the world!” bellows Bob Kane’s stumpy Napoleon knock-off in Detective Comics No. 33. It’s 1939, so the name and the zeppelins flew in from Nazi Germany, but Carl says he wants to be “Another Napoleon,” France’s most loved/hated ubermensch."
Game of Thrones
SANSA STARK, PETYR BAELISH, AND WHY SEASON 4 IS WINNING AT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: imaginedmelody (tumblr) - "After this past Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones, I’ve been thinking about this season so far and the series as a whole, and I was really struck by the character development going on between these two."
The Vale in Season 5: eidetictelekinetic (tumblr) - "So, there has been a great deal of confused anger over the changes to the Sansa/Alayne plot."
Game of Thrones, Sex and HBO: Where Did TV's Sexual Pioneer Go Wrong?: Bethany Jones (blog) - "Oh, Game of Thrones. Could it be we've gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say,rapes."
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Catelyn I: Steven Attewell (blog) - "Does a good king attempt to achieve the expressed desires of his people in a kind of indirect representative system, or follow his best judgement? How does a king balance his own personal and familial interests with the interests of his vassals? How does he treat with his enemies, or potential allies?"
A Laboratory of Politics, Part II: StevenAttewell (blog) - "The historian's art is to sift through past events to find the links of cause and effect, for all too often, in order to understand the present, we must begin in the past - so it is in the case of the structure of Essosi politics, where we must begin with the rise and fall of those great empires which once united it and which give the lie to the argument that Essos' size alone renders larger political units impossible."
Hannibal
Untitled: axmxz (tumblr) - "I sometimes wonder whether Fuller has ever thought Hannibal and Will’s relationship all the way through."
Hunter x Hunter
Changing the Face of Women in Anime: The Importance of Ugliness: The Mary Sue by Morgana Santilli (blog) - "Regardless of the aforementioned protagonists, HxH boasts a huge array of supporting characters, both sympathetic and not, who range in age, body type, gender, and strengths."
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Queerness in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: Sam Keeper (blog) - "let's talk a bit about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, queerness, representation, and how context fiddles with our understanding."
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day: Time Loop or Parallel Universe?: MikeR - Overthinking It (blog) - "Parallel universes are a venerable tradition in science fiction and fantasy. And they are super-enticing for an author: Look how easy it is to create any desired setting! Want to visit a world where Napoleon won? Or where your father never met your mother? Just go and find it; it’s out there somewhere."
The Good Wife
what are your thoughts on the Cary/Kalinda scene? and the Cary/Kalinda relationship all together?: fuckyeahkalinda (tumblr) - "My main takeaway from the Cary/Kalinda scene is that there’s no excuse for Cary’s behavior. "
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: The San Lorenzo Job: Turning Points: Jennifer Crusie(blog) - "Leverage had five seasons, or as I think of them, four acts and an epilogue. That means that for me, the season finales were all turning points, events that picked up the series over-all story (and the community) and turned them in a new direction. "
MCU
Post Winter Soldier/Agents Of Shield, What Next For Shield: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "So, how hard would it be to just get SHIELD back?"
The Magicians
Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and the Mainstreaming of Fan Culture: The Mary Sue by Sarah Arboleda (blog) - "Where the Gary Stu narrative would feature the author’s fictional surrogate gatecrashing Hogwarts, making out with Hermione and winning the Quidditch cup, Grossman instead constructs The Magicians as a wish fulfillment theme park for his lead character, Quentin Coldwater, with two main attractions: Brakebills and Fillory."
True Blood
Oh, My Pop Culture Extremist: The Fellowship of the Sun Church from True Blood: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "By equating LGBTQ+ people to vampires, the show has actually given the Fellowship of the Sun Church legitimate reasons to discriminate and support violence against them."
Veronica Mars
"Bygones" Years Timeline (Logan & Veronica): bryrosea (tumblr) - "I’m working on a pair of fics set in the lost nine years and I finally realized I needed to sit down and figure out the timeline for Logan’s military training."
Welcome to Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale: When the Protagonist Isn’t the Hero: Jessica Pedersen (blog) - "Welcome to Night Vale is a unique exercise in story telling for a lot of reasons, but one particularly interesting aspect of the podcast is how it utilizes Cecil’s point of view to tell a story. "
X-men: Days of Future Past
The 'X-Men' franchise's diversity problem is getting worse: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Unless you’ve been interpreting the X-Men movies in the most literal way possible, you’ll know that the whole mutant thing is, you know, kind of a metaphor."
Smile, And Smile, And Be A Villain: Saucery (AO3) - "Oh, Erik. You utter Slytherin."
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.
Links
General Fandom
Thoughts On The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, And Morality Systems (Or A Lack Thereof): (blog) - "It’s nerve-wracking, no doubt, especially when the choices at hand involve emotionally-fraught things like life, death, and (gulp) makeshift trauma surgery. But after I finished the latest episode of The Wolf Among Us, it occurred to me that there’s another factor in there, one that really drives the point home: the lack of a morality system."
topic:morality
Magical Mondays: Sleeping Beauty, Fairy Tales, and Inserting Magic Into Magic-less Narratives: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by porluciernagas (blog) - "Fairy tales have been retold time and again throughout our history, and the versions of popular stories differ depending on what year and in which culture the stories are being told. For example, in the oldest version of Cinderella, her slipper is made of gold, and in the version popularized by Disney, the slipper is made of glass."
topic:fairytales, topic:magic
Names Like Worldships: jjhunter (DW) - "I was reminded yesterday that online vs offline is by no means the only common motor for multiple names."
topic:identity, topic:names
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: how-much-farther-to-go (tumblr) - "Okay, this is gonna sound wild, but I have this theory about House Stark and the direwolves’ fur colors."
fandom:asoiaf
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, CATELYN I: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "After all the oblique dramatic setup in previous chapters, Catelyn I plunges headlong into some meaty political dilemmas "
fandom:asoiaf
Why Not An Emperor?: racefortheironthrone (tumblr) - "First - why didn’t Aegon declare himself an emperor as opposed to a king? Second - why didn’t Aegon rule directly as opposed to establishing a feudal system as he did? "
fandom:asoiaf
Captain America
Pain, Personhood, and Parity: The Depiction of Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Sara (blog) - "The Winter Soldier is a dangerous child having a lethal temper-tantrum all the way through this film. "
fandom:mcu
Untitled: last-snowfall (tumblr) - "Now see, I’m very much a Cap=Carrot type myself, but I’m open to conversion. Could you maybe say why you see him as young!Vimes instead of Carrot?"
fandom:mcu, fandom:discworld, topic:privilege
Comics
I’m Lost: Path-Finding in Comics: (blog) - "Not all comics are equally challenging. I appreciate the sturdy 2 by 3 layouts in the work of Chester Brown and the Hernandez Brothers. In these comics, the panel design disappears, much like the word “said” disappears in literature. On the other end of the spectrum is a book like Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonderdog, in which I felt like I was constantly losing my way in a forest of nearly identical panels."
fandom:comics
Caped Napoleons: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "“I, Carl Kruger, will be dictator of the world!” bellows Bob Kane’s stumpy Napoleon knock-off in Detective Comics No. 33. It’s 1939, so the name and the zeppelins flew in from Nazi Germany, but Carl says he wants to be “Another Napoleon,” France’s most loved/hated ubermensch."
topic:napoleon
Game of Thrones
SANSA STARK, PETYR BAELISH, AND WHY SEASON 4 IS WINNING AT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: imaginedmelody (tumblr) - "After this past Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones, I’ve been thinking about this season so far and the series as a whole, and I was really struck by the character development going on between these two."
fandom:gameofthrones
The Vale in Season 5: eidetictelekinetic (tumblr) - "So, there has been a great deal of confused anger over the changes to the Sansa/Alayne plot."
fandom:gameofthrones
Game of Thrones, Sex and HBO: Where Did TV's Sexual Pioneer Go Wrong?: Bethany Jones (blog) - "Oh, Game of Thrones. Could it be we've gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say,rapes."
fandom:gameofthrones, warning:non-con
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Catelyn I: Steven Attewell (blog) - "Does a good king attempt to achieve the expressed desires of his people in a kind of indirect representative system, or follow his best judgement? How does a king balance his own personal and familial interests with the interests of his vassals? How does he treat with his enemies, or potential allies?"
fandom:gameofthrones, fandom:asoiaf
A Laboratory of Politics, Part II: StevenAttewell (blog) - "The historian's art is to sift through past events to find the links of cause and effect, for all too often, in order to understand the present, we must begin in the past - so it is in the case of the structure of Essosi politics, where we must begin with the rise and fall of those great empires which once united it and which give the lie to the argument that Essos' size alone renders larger political units impossible."
fandom:gameofthrones, fandom:asoiaf
Hannibal
Untitled: axmxz (tumblr) - "I sometimes wonder whether Fuller has ever thought Hannibal and Will’s relationship all the way through."
fandom:hannibal
Hunter x Hunter
Changing the Face of Women in Anime: The Importance of Ugliness: The Mary Sue by Morgana Santilli (blog) - "Regardless of the aforementioned protagonists, HxH boasts a huge array of supporting characters, both sympathetic and not, who range in age, body type, gender, and strengths."
fandom:hunterxhunter, topic:bodyimage
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Queerness in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: Sam Keeper (blog) - "let's talk a bit about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, queerness, representation, and how context fiddles with our understanding."
fandom:js&mn
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day: Time Loop or Parallel Universe?: MikeR - Overthinking It (blog) - "Parallel universes are a venerable tradition in science fiction and fantasy. And they are super-enticing for an author: Look how easy it is to create any desired setting! Want to visit a world where Napoleon won? Or where your father never met your mother? Just go and find it; it’s out there somewhere."
fandom:groundhogday, topic:timetravel, topic:alternateuniverse
The Good Wife
what are your thoughts on the Cary/Kalinda scene? and the Cary/Kalinda relationship all together?: fuckyeahkalinda (tumblr) - "My main takeaway from the Cary/Kalinda scene is that there’s no excuse for Cary’s behavior. "
fandom:thegoodwife, warning:non-con
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: The San Lorenzo Job: Turning Points: Jennifer Crusie(blog) - "Leverage had five seasons, or as I think of them, four acts and an epilogue. That means that for me, the season finales were all turning points, events that picked up the series over-all story (and the community) and turned them in a new direction. "
fandom:leverage, topic:writing
MCU
Post Winter Soldier/Agents Of Shield, What Next For Shield: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "So, how hard would it be to just get SHIELD back?"
fandom:mcu, fandom:agentsofshield, topic:worldbuilding
The Magicians
Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and the Mainstreaming of Fan Culture: The Mary Sue by Sarah Arboleda (blog) - "Where the Gary Stu narrative would feature the author’s fictional surrogate gatecrashing Hogwarts, making out with Hermione and winning the Quidditch cup, Grossman instead constructs The Magicians as a wish fulfillment theme park for his lead character, Quentin Coldwater, with two main attractions: Brakebills and Fillory."
fandom:themagicians
True Blood
Oh, My Pop Culture Extremist: The Fellowship of the Sun Church from True Blood: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "By equating LGBTQ+ people to vampires, the show has actually given the Fellowship of the Sun Church legitimate reasons to discriminate and support violence against them."
fandom:trueblood, topic:religion, topic:queer
Veronica Mars
"Bygones" Years Timeline (Logan & Veronica): bryrosea (tumblr) - "I’m working on a pair of fics set in the lost nine years and I finally realized I needed to sit down and figure out the timeline for Logan’s military training."
fandom:veronicamars
Welcome to Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale: When the Protagonist Isn’t the Hero: Jessica Pedersen (blog) - "Welcome to Night Vale is a unique exercise in story telling for a lot of reasons, but one particularly interesting aspect of the podcast is how it utilizes Cecil’s point of view to tell a story. "
fandom:wtnv
X-men: Days of Future Past
The 'X-Men' franchise's diversity problem is getting worse: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Unless you’ve been interpreting the X-Men movies in the most literal way possible, you’ll know that the whole mutant thing is, you know, kind of a metaphor."
fandom:mcu, topic:diversity
Smile, And Smile, And Be A Villain: Saucery (AO3) - "Oh, Erik. You utter Slytherin."
fandom:mcu, warning:spoilers
Tags:
- fandom:agentsofshield,
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:comics,
- fandom:discworld,
- fandom:gameofthrones,
- fandom:groundhogday,
- fandom:hannibal,
- fandom:hunterxhunter,
- fandom:js&mn,
- fandom:leverage,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:thegoodwife,
- fandom:themagicians,
- fandom:trueblood,
- fandom:veronicamars,
- fandom:wtnv,
- topic:alternateuniverse,
- topic:bodyimage,
- topic:diversity,
- topic:fairytales,
- topic:identity,
- topic:magic,
- topic:morality,
- topic:names,
- topic:napoleon,
- topic:privilege,
- topic:queer,
- topic:religion,
- topic:timetravel,
- topic:worldbuilding,
- topic:writing,
- warning:non-con,
- warning:spoilers
