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Entry tags:
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:discworld,
- fandom:disney,
- fandom:doctorwho,
- fandom:edgeoftomorrow,
- fandom:forgottenrealms,
- fandom:gaming,
- fandom:hannibal,
- fandom:harrypotter,
- fandom:leverage,
- fandom:marksmylie,
- fandom:masseffect,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:parksandrecreation,
- fandom:starshiptroopers,
- fandom:wings,
- fandom:wtnv,
- topic:criticism,
- topic:disability,
- topic:fanfic,
- topic:femalecharacter,
- topic:feminism,
- topic:magic,
- topic:religion,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:timetravel,
- topic:twins,
- topic:writing,
- warning:non-con,
- warning:spoilers
Meta Links 2014/06/12 - 2014/06/18
Notices
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General Fandom
Ten Simple Ways To Get More Attention For Your Fanwork: melannen (DW) - "I figured I should share these since it took me a long time to figure some of them out. "
Double the Fun, Half the Character? A Critical Look at Twins in Pop Culture : Lady Geek Girl and Friends by polyglotpisces (blog) - "The biggest problem with twins in fiction is that they tend to come as a packaged whole; it’s as if “the twins” as a unit are a single character, not the individual siblings. (Think the Weasley twins, Fred and George, from Harry Potter.)"
In Brightest Day: Characters Don’t Get to Stay Disabled: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "And maybe I would be less annoyed if 1) I didn’t expect better of Adventure Time, and 2) this wasn’t symptomatic of a bigger problem. “Curing” disabled characters is one of those things that happens a lot in genre fiction and it sends an awful message."
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crit: The Hooded Utilitarian by Marc-Oliver Frisch (blog) - "It’s probably fair to say, too, that “criticism” tends to be seen as being synonymous with “reviews,” and those, in turn, as a service rendered to the entertainment seeker—plot summary, some light background info, thumbs-up/thumbs-down recommendation, mission accomplished."
We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome: Tasha Robinson (blog) - "She’s something female characters so often aren’t in action/adventure films with male protagonists: She’sinteresting.
Too bad the story gives her absolutely nothing to do."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Warning: Spoilers
Game of Thrones: The dragons and nuclear weapons nexus: Timothy Westmyer (blog) - "One parallel, however, has escaped analysis: dragons as living, fire-breathing metaphors for nuclear weapons."
Untitled: danainthedogpark (tumblr) - "In the books, Shae was a teenaged sex worker who was paid to be Tyrion’s girlfriend. "
Untitled: jaimelannister (tumblr) - "Tyrion says something along the lines of 'I took her too' in reference to all of the guards sexually assaulting Tysha, am I right in saying that he is actually admitting to raping her?"
Untitled: eldergrantaire (tumblr) - "In regard to some of the comments on my Sansa/Arya meta."
I have a lot of Lannister thoughts right now and that’s unusual for me.: stannisisthefury (tumblr) - "I have a few other, more…thematic complaints about the change of Jaime and Tyrion’s goodbye. spoilers and such, obviously, under the cut."
WHY STONEHEART MATTERS [ASOIAF BOOK SPOILERS] onionjulius : (tumblr) - " I’m going to respond to Hibberd’s “case both for tonight’s finale absence and against a future appearance: No Lady Stoneheart is a good thing for Thrones" (bolding mine) anyway since what it boils down to is a case against Lady Stoneheart’s appearance in the novels themselves:"
Arya and Sansa’s relationship: asprettyasyourown (tumblr) - "Arya and Sansa’s relationship is the most prominent view on sisters’ relationship in ASOIAF. "
Untitled: everybodyrelaxigotthis (tumblr) - "The most important thing to remember about the Brienne/Sandor fight, at least to me, is that both characters think they are protecting Arya. "
Disney - Maleficent
Maleficent, Consent and Feminism: Saucery (AO3) - "An essay on some of Maleficent's groundbreaking themes."
Doctor Who
Clara Meta: Schrödinger’s Companion: elisis (LJ) - "So far all my Clara meta has been mostly speculative, because we didn’t know who/what she was. This is the opposite. Trying to look at what we know, and how she works. What is her function within the ‘verse?"
Edge of Tomorrow
The Curse of the Mimics’ Claw: Overthinking It by Ben Adams (blog) - "I think she’s half-right. The Mimics do want Earth to launch a massive counter-attack – but they don’t want to win that do-or-die fight. They want to lose. They’ve got a curse to break."
Forgotten Realms
Magical Mondays: The Law of Conservation of Magic and The Legend of Drizzt: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by pantydragon (blog) - "Nothing kills a story faster than a flimsy conflict, and in a universe where magic exists, the biggest mistake a writer can fall into is to make magic too easy."
Gaming
Women as Background Decoration – Tropes vs Women: Anita Sarkesian (blog) - "In this episode we explore the Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insignificant non-playable female characters whose sexuality or victimhood is exploited as a way to infuse edgy, gritty or racy flavoring into game worlds. "
Hannibal
god, agape, and loudly implied cannibalism (a meta): bullroars (AO3) - "or, hannibal and the religious metastory. spoiler: the cannibal is god. if you didn't want me to think that, fuller, you shouldn't have put him on a cross. (a breakdown of this stupid show in as framed by religion, spiritual iconography, and less-than-subtle symbolism. not explicitly hannigram, but there wasn't a tag for "hannibal/will like god loved adam" so i improvised.)"
Harry Potter
12 GRIMMAULD PLACE: pretty-panther (DW) - "Why did the Black family chose to live in a Muggle neighbourhood "
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: “The Lonely Hearts Job” Romance & Community: (blog) - "This is a group that has stolen a country. They have arch-criminals for breakfast. They’re legendary. So where is the story tension going to come from?"
Mass Effect
Mass Effect: Meta: Sexual Health in the Space Future: niki_chidon (LJ) - "Why don't they wear condoms in my stories. "
Marvel Cinematic Universe
How Magazines Would Look if Superheroes Were Real: RACHEL EDIDIN (blog) - "What does it mean to be a superhero in today’s age of 24-hour news cycles and ceaseless “celebrity” coverage? "
MCU + Discworld
"Sooner or later, the graveyards are full of everyone.": recessional(DW) - "The trick is that Discworld answers nihilism with a nihilism so great that it makes nihilism pointless: where Pierce posits that diplomacy, peace, cooperation, etc are all holding actions, the Discworld thematic core returns, "Well yes. So's breathing." "
Mark Smylie - The Barrow
Notes on reading the Barrow: Sex anf horror: Mark Smylie (blog) - "There was, certainly, an “easy” and “safe” version of The Barrow, where Stjepan is a straight (white) male hero, there’s no sex in it (certainly nothing questionable or gay or explicit)"
Parks and Rec + Wings
Erin Watches: Parks & Rec, Wings: sailorptah (DW) - "One thing struck me about trying the two back-to-back like this."
Starship Troopers
The Successful Fascism of Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers: The Hooded Utilitarian by Michael Carson (blog) - "And this brings me to another problem with the film: if Verhoeven’s project was indeed a straightforward satire, it lacks one important precondition of satire – namely, it isn’t in fact funny."
Welcome to Night Vale
Lady Geek Girl and Friends by pantydragon : Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "What’s interesting about this is that the Smiling God is not really ever described and no sense of any religious belief about the Smiling God is mention or even inferred. The only thing we really get is the commercial from StrexCorp quoted above, which seems to imply that StrexCorp is the Smiling God."
Please read the crisis post! Metanews is in danger of closing!
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
Ten Simple Ways To Get More Attention For Your Fanwork: melannen (DW) - "I figured I should share these since it took me a long time to figure some of them out. "
topic:fanfic
Double the Fun, Half the Character? A Critical Look at Twins in Pop Culture : Lady Geek Girl and Friends by polyglotpisces (blog) - "The biggest problem with twins in fiction is that they tend to come as a packaged whole; it’s as if “the twins” as a unit are a single character, not the individual siblings. (Think the Weasley twins, Fred and George, from Harry Potter.)"
topic:twins
In Brightest Day: Characters Don’t Get to Stay Disabled: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "And maybe I would be less annoyed if 1) I didn’t expect better of Adventure Time, and 2) this wasn’t symptomatic of a bigger problem. “Curing” disabled characters is one of those things that happens a lot in genre fiction and it sends an awful message."
topic:disability
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crit: The Hooded Utilitarian by Marc-Oliver Frisch (blog) - "It’s probably fair to say, too, that “criticism” tends to be seen as being synonymous with “reviews,” and those, in turn, as a service rendered to the entertainment seeker—plot summary, some light background info, thumbs-up/thumbs-down recommendation, mission accomplished."
topic:criticism
We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome: Tasha Robinson (blog) - "She’s something female characters so often aren’t in action/adventure films with male protagonists: She’sinteresting.
Too bad the story gives her absolutely nothing to do."
topic:femalecharacter
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Warning: Spoilers
Game of Thrones: The dragons and nuclear weapons nexus: Timothy Westmyer (blog) - "One parallel, however, has escaped analysis: dragons as living, fire-breathing metaphors for nuclear weapons."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: danainthedogpark (tumblr) - "In the books, Shae was a teenaged sex worker who was paid to be Tyrion’s girlfriend. "
fandom:asoiaf, warning:non-con
Untitled: jaimelannister (tumblr) - "Tyrion says something along the lines of 'I took her too' in reference to all of the guards sexually assaulting Tysha, am I right in saying that he is actually admitting to raping her?"
fandom:asoiaf, warning:non-con
Untitled: eldergrantaire (tumblr) - "In regard to some of the comments on my Sansa/Arya meta."
fandom:asoiaf
I have a lot of Lannister thoughts right now and that’s unusual for me.: stannisisthefury (tumblr) - "I have a few other, more…thematic complaints about the change of Jaime and Tyrion’s goodbye. spoilers and such, obviously, under the cut."
fandom:asoiaf, warning:non-con
WHY STONEHEART MATTERS [ASOIAF BOOK SPOILERS] onionjulius : (tumblr) - " I’m going to respond to Hibberd’s “case both for tonight’s finale absence and against a future appearance: No Lady Stoneheart is a good thing for Thrones" (bolding mine) anyway since what it boils down to is a case against Lady Stoneheart’s appearance in the novels themselves:"
fandom:asoiaf
Arya and Sansa’s relationship: asprettyasyourown (tumblr) - "Arya and Sansa’s relationship is the most prominent view on sisters’ relationship in ASOIAF. "
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: everybodyrelaxigotthis (tumblr) - "The most important thing to remember about the Brienne/Sandor fight, at least to me, is that both characters think they are protecting Arya. "
fandom:asoiaf
Disney - Maleficent
Maleficent, Consent and Feminism: Saucery (AO3) - "An essay on some of Maleficent's groundbreaking themes."
fandom:disney, topic:femalecharacter, topic:feminism, warning:non-con
Doctor Who
Clara Meta: Schrödinger’s Companion: elisis (LJ) - "So far all my Clara meta has been mostly speculative, because we didn’t know who/what she was. This is the opposite. Trying to look at what we know, and how she works. What is her function within the ‘verse?"
fandom:doctorwho
Edge of Tomorrow
The Curse of the Mimics’ Claw: Overthinking It by Ben Adams (blog) - "I think she’s half-right. The Mimics do want Earth to launch a massive counter-attack – but they don’t want to win that do-or-die fight. They want to lose. They’ve got a curse to break."
fandom:edgeoftomorrow, topic:timetravel
Forgotten Realms
Magical Mondays: The Law of Conservation of Magic and The Legend of Drizzt: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by pantydragon (blog) - "Nothing kills a story faster than a flimsy conflict, and in a universe where magic exists, the biggest mistake a writer can fall into is to make magic too easy."
topic:magic, fandom:forgottenrealms
Gaming
Women as Background Decoration – Tropes vs Women: Anita Sarkesian (blog) - "In this episode we explore the Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insignificant non-playable female characters whose sexuality or victimhood is exploited as a way to infuse edgy, gritty or racy flavoring into game worlds. "
fandom:gaming, topic:sexism
Hannibal
god, agape, and loudly implied cannibalism (a meta): bullroars (AO3) - "or, hannibal and the religious metastory. spoiler: the cannibal is god. if you didn't want me to think that, fuller, you shouldn't have put him on a cross. (a breakdown of this stupid show in as framed by religion, spiritual iconography, and less-than-subtle symbolism. not explicitly hannigram, but there wasn't a tag for "hannibal/will like god loved adam" so i improvised.)"
fandom:hannibal, topic:religion
Harry Potter
12 GRIMMAULD PLACE: pretty-panther (DW) - "Why did the Black family chose to live in a Muggle neighbourhood "
fandom:harrypotter
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: “The Lonely Hearts Job” Romance & Community: (blog) - "This is a group that has stolen a country. They have arch-criminals for breakfast. They’re legendary. So where is the story tension going to come from?"
fandom:leverage, topic:writing
Mass Effect
Mass Effect: Meta: Sexual Health in the Space Future: niki_chidon (LJ) - "Why don't they wear condoms in my stories. "
fandom:masseffect, topic:sex
Marvel Cinematic Universe
How Magazines Would Look if Superheroes Were Real: RACHEL EDIDIN (blog) - "What does it mean to be a superhero in today’s age of 24-hour news cycles and ceaseless “celebrity” coverage? "
fandom:mcu
MCU + Discworld
"Sooner or later, the graveyards are full of everyone.": recessional(DW) - "The trick is that Discworld answers nihilism with a nihilism so great that it makes nihilism pointless: where Pierce posits that diplomacy, peace, cooperation, etc are all holding actions, the Discworld thematic core returns, "Well yes. So's breathing." "
fandom:mcu, fandom:discworld
Mark Smylie - The Barrow
Notes on reading the Barrow: Sex anf horror: Mark Smylie (blog) - "There was, certainly, an “easy” and “safe” version of The Barrow, where Stjepan is a straight (white) male hero, there’s no sex in it (certainly nothing questionable or gay or explicit)"
fandom:marksmylie, topic:sex
Parks and Rec + Wings
Erin Watches: Parks & Rec, Wings: sailorptah (DW) - "One thing struck me about trying the two back-to-back like this."
fandom:parksandrecreation, fandom:wings
Starship Troopers
The Successful Fascism of Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers: The Hooded Utilitarian by Michael Carson (blog) - "And this brings me to another problem with the film: if Verhoeven’s project was indeed a straightforward satire, it lacks one important precondition of satire – namely, it isn’t in fact funny."
fandom:starshiptroopers
Welcome to Night Vale
Lady Geek Girl and Friends by pantydragon : Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "What’s interesting about this is that the Smiling God is not really ever described and no sense of any religious belief about the Smiling God is mention or even inferred. The only thing we really get is the commercial from StrexCorp quoted above, which seems to imply that StrexCorp is the Smiling God."
fandom:wtnv, topic:religion
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