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Entry tags:
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:comics,
- fandom:disney,
- fandom:gameofthrones,
- fandom:harrypotter,
- fandom:homeland,
- fandom:leverage,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:octaviabutler,
- fandom:onepiece,
- fandom:stargate,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:thegiver,
- topic:character,
- topic:disability,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:fanfic,
- topic:feedback,
- topic:livejournal,
- topic:magicalrealism,
- topic:misogyny,
- topic:names,
- topic:philosophy,
- topic:queer,
- topic:religion,
- topic:sci-fi,
- topic:sex,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:sexuality,
- topic:slavery,
- topic:surrealism,
- topic:villains,
- topic:writing
Meta Links 6-18-14 through 6-25-14
Notices
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.
In case there has been any confusion regarding where and how we get our meta, and also to make it easier for you to bring your meta to our attention, a post will go up in the next few days explaining exactly how the system works. So keep an eye out!
Links
General Fandom
Learning From Television: Sam Storyteller (blog) - "I think magical realism may be the next thing."
Janelle Monae: Contemporary Queen of Science Fiction
: Sam Keeper (blog) - "Meet Cindi Mayweather, the Alpha Platinum 9000 android: your new Queen."
The most polarizing feedback in fandom: jedusaur (DW) - ""I normally dislike [category], but I really enjoyed [work being commented on, which belongs to said category].""
SEX!!! Is perverted and sick!!! ... Not really but there are things that people should know about it : pickamix (LJ) - "I talk mostly about the extremely misunderstood hymen and sexually transmitted diseases and infections. "
What's so special about virginity?: pickamix (LJ) - "Oh and why is virginity still important? Honestly ... I have no fucking clue ... you tell me."
La Mort de Livejournal: author-by-night (LJ) - "I had a conversation the other day about what's really changing (possibly killing, depending on your viewpoint) LJ, and honestly, I feel like everyone has different opinions. (Including me, hence the conversation I had.) So I decided to create a poll."
We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome: (blog) - "Bringing in a Strong Female Character™ isn’t actually a feminist statement, or an inclusionary statement, or even a basic equality statement, if the character doesn’t have any reason to be in the story except to let filmmakers point at her on the poster and say “See? This film totally respects strong women!”"
Questionable: Emotional Wounds, Then and Now: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "Life is a series of ongoing emotional wounds. The idea that there was One Big Thing that put a hole in the heart of the character is just too reductive."
Ugliness, Empathy, and Octavia Butler: (blog) - "I didn’t agree to participate in this roundtable on Octavia Butler because I enjoy her writing, but rather because I don’t. My admiration for her storytelling is nothing short of begrudging; I have to work at it."
Qu’est-ce que c’est: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "I’m no expert in French surrealism, but I’ve stood mesmerized in front of more than one Magritte painting. He, like Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton, were mesmerized by the figure of a “masked man in impeccable evening clothes, dagger in hand, looming over Paris like a somber Gulliver.”"
In Brightest Day: Characters Are Never Born With Disabilities: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Professor X, Oracle, Bobby Singer, Daredevil, Hiccup, Bran Stark, Jaime Lannister, and many more characters all become disabled after some tragic event and/or an occasionally heroic event. And while having characters who become disabled is important representation, especially for people who have become disabled themselves, having so few characters who are born with disabilities is a major problem."
Magical Mondays: What’s In A Name?: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Tsunderin (blog) - "Even one of the most famous lines concerning names—“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”—seems to deny the importance of names altogether. Yet fairy tales have argued that names are indeed important, and now even modern day fiction has joined in the crusade."
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Religion is Not a Joke: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by polyglotpisces (blog) - "We’ve discussed before on this blog how few and far between characters of faith are in pop culture. When they do crop up, it is often of the extremist/terrorist/serial killer variety. The only other time it seems to come up is as the butt of a joke — literally."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "how do we know Bran is a stronger greenseer than Bloodraven?"
Untitled: stannisbaratheon (tumblr) - "Stannis isn't the guy. I want him to be the guy, but he's not."
THE TARGARYEN MADNESS - A META: eddardss (tumblr) - "The Targaryen madness is one of the most intriguing aspects of A Song of Ice and Fire. "
LANNISTER BASTARDS: joannalannister (tumblr) - "So why did Tywin keep Joy around? This turned into a really long Joy Hill and other Lannister bastards meta."
Untitled: asongofviceandire (tumblr) - "what are your thoughts on all the Gods? The 7, the red god, etc. "
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "I have a few questions about bastards"
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, TYRION II: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "Reading Tyrion II is a bit like “taking a healthy gulp” of a rich Dornish red, a multi-layered drink that shows George R.R Martin bringing some of his best work to bear,"
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, ARYA III: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "Arya comes a close second in this book to Tyrion in terms of chapters, giving us the perspective of the war on the ground as Tyrion gives us the struggles for power among the elite."
Comics
How Do We Interpret Comic Book Covers?: The Hooded Utilitarian by Roy T. Cook (blog) - "Comics are both a substantial art form and a commercial industry. Thus, it is not surprising that the cover of a comic can play multiple roles. "
Long Comics, Quick Cuts: Time Dilation in Comics and Film: The Hooded Utilitarian by Benjamin Rogers (blog) - "In film, cuts compress the narrative. In comics, they can have the opposite effect. The more ‘cuts’ or panels there are per page, generally, the slower things are moving."
Disney - Maleficent
Maleficent Comes Out of the Closet: Saucery (AO3) - "An in-depth analysis of the queer symbolism of Maleficent."
Game of Thrones
I Know Who I Am: Selfhood and Slavery in GOT:Tower of the Hand by Valkyrist101 (blog) - "Selfhood encompasses a bunch of things, from a person's subjective perception of the world, to their stored-up memories and experiences, to the way they identity themselves within a society."
Bows, Jails, and Prostitutes Who’re Impaled: The Worrying Trend of Misogyny in GoT’s Season 4 Finale: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Tsunderin (blog) - "A good portion of the audience reveled in this “new” character presenting herself and asserting herself into a game that she wasn’t out to win, but to subvert. A smaller portion of the audience found itself crying out for her death when she betrayed Tyrion during his trial."
The Giver
Sexualized Saturdays: Nonexistent Gender and Sexuality in The Giver: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "I recently just got done rereading The Giver, and I have to say that this book is one of the scariest stories I have ever read. Although it’s presented as a utopia, The Giver shows us a world under total government control, where people’s individuality has been stripped from them."
Harry Potter
Demographics of the Wizarding Wo: wellingtongoose (LJ) - "Witches/wizards are very rare when you think in terms of the world as whole. "
Homeland
Forget Nazir: Surveillance vs. Performance and the Discourse of Power in Homeland: (blog) - "In fact, it does something much more interesting: it takes on Foucault by bringing to bear an equally impressive theorist’s own anti-Foucaultian polemic, recontextualizing the whole discussion in terms of the real, practical functioning of the power of observation in terms of The Law against The Criminals."
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: “The Radio Job” & “The Last Dam Job”: Endings: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "And if you create an turning point that answers all questions and leaves all the characters in a place of strength and stability, you’re done. Anything you write after that will be epilogue, the stuff that happens after the story is over."
Marvel Cinematic Universe
How about an unpopular fannish opinion for the MCU: sholio (DW) - "It's a trope that appears in quite a bit of post-Winter Soldier fic … Namely, Bucky going on a Hydra-slaughtering, blowing-up-buildings, torturing-people-for-information round-the-world rampage."
One Piece
Syrup Island Arc- Part V: we-are (DW) - "Here we have a final look at Kuro, showing just how weak he is, look at one of the most important lines of the series, see the measure of a hero, the measure of a villain and just what being a captain and nakama are not."
Syrup Island Arc- Part VI: we-are (DW) - "As we examine the ending of Usopp's arc, we discover what makes a hero, talk about good captains, good nakama, touch on Usopp's past, who he has become, and the role he will eventually fulfill. "
Stargate - SG1
Villain motives: Stargate mirror verse: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "Flip the elements a little from the movie and first episode: Daniel Jackson visits an alien planet and gets given a wife. And keeps her. And decides he loves her, despite the minimal acquaintance and huge language gaps. Then she gets taken away to be a queen, gets a symbiote, and rejects Daniel. He spends the rest of her life trying to find her and get his wife back from the symbiote."
Supernatural
Supernatural: Thoughts: fozmeadows (blog) - "Exposing yourself to certain fandoms on tumblr is like signing up for a bout with Stockholm syndrome: sooner or later, you’re going to drink the Kool-Aid. And by “drink the Kool-Aid”, I mean “become obsessed with Supernatural“, which – surprise!* – is exactly what happened to me."
Supernatural: More Thoughts: Foz Meadows (blog) - "As mentioned in my previous post about Supernatural, what finally convinced me to give the show a try was Misha Collins calling out the writers for sexism: "
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.
In case there has been any confusion regarding where and how we get our meta, and also to make it easier for you to bring your meta to our attention, a post will go up in the next few days explaining exactly how the system works. So keep an eye out!
Links
General Fandom
Learning From Television: Sam Storyteller (blog) - "I think magical realism may be the next thing."
topic:magicalrealism
Janelle Monae: Contemporary Queen of Science Fiction
: Sam Keeper (blog) - "Meet Cindi Mayweather, the Alpha Platinum 9000 android: your new Queen."
topic:sci-fi
The most polarizing feedback in fandom: jedusaur (DW) - ""I normally dislike [category], but I really enjoyed [work being commented on, which belongs to said category].""
topic:feedback, topic:fanfic, topic:fandom
SEX!!! Is perverted and sick!!! ... Not really but there are things that people should know about it : pickamix (LJ) - "I talk mostly about the extremely misunderstood hymen and sexually transmitted diseases and infections. "
topic:sex, topic:fanfic
What's so special about virginity?: pickamix (LJ) - "Oh and why is virginity still important? Honestly ... I have no fucking clue ... you tell me."
topic:sex
La Mort de Livejournal: author-by-night (LJ) - "I had a conversation the other day about what's really changing (possibly killing, depending on your viewpoint) LJ, and honestly, I feel like everyone has different opinions. (Including me, hence the conversation I had.) So I decided to create a poll."
topic:livejournal
We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome: (blog) - "Bringing in a Strong Female Character™ isn’t actually a feminist statement, or an inclusionary statement, or even a basic equality statement, if the character doesn’t have any reason to be in the story except to let filmmakers point at her on the poster and say “See? This film totally respects strong women!”"
topic:character, topic:sexism
Questionable: Emotional Wounds, Then and Now: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "Life is a series of ongoing emotional wounds. The idea that there was One Big Thing that put a hole in the heart of the character is just too reductive."
topic:writing
Ugliness, Empathy, and Octavia Butler: (blog) - "I didn’t agree to participate in this roundtable on Octavia Butler because I enjoy her writing, but rather because I don’t. My admiration for her storytelling is nothing short of begrudging; I have to work at it."
fandom:octaviabutler, topic:sci-fi
Qu’est-ce que c’est: The Hooded Utilitarian by Chris Gavaler (blog) - "I’m no expert in French surrealism, but I’ve stood mesmerized in front of more than one Magritte painting. He, like Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton, were mesmerized by the figure of a “masked man in impeccable evening clothes, dagger in hand, looming over Paris like a somber Gulliver.”"
topic:villains, topic:surrealism
In Brightest Day: Characters Are Never Born With Disabilities: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Professor X, Oracle, Bobby Singer, Daredevil, Hiccup, Bran Stark, Jaime Lannister, and many more characters all become disabled after some tragic event and/or an occasionally heroic event. And while having characters who become disabled is important representation, especially for people who have become disabled themselves, having so few characters who are born with disabilities is a major problem."
topic:disability
Magical Mondays: What’s In A Name?: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Tsunderin (blog) - "Even one of the most famous lines concerning names—“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”—seems to deny the importance of names altogether. Yet fairy tales have argued that names are indeed important, and now even modern day fiction has joined in the crusade."
topic:names
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Religion is Not a Joke: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by polyglotpisces (blog) - "We’ve discussed before on this blog how few and far between characters of faith are in pop culture. When they do crop up, it is often of the extremist/terrorist/serial killer variety. The only other time it seems to come up is as the butt of a joke — literally."
topic:religion
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "how do we know Bran is a stronger greenseer than Bloodraven?"
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: stannisbaratheon (tumblr) - "Stannis isn't the guy. I want him to be the guy, but he's not."
fandom:asoiaf
THE TARGARYEN MADNESS - A META: eddardss (tumblr) - "The Targaryen madness is one of the most intriguing aspects of A Song of Ice and Fire. "
fandom:asoiaf
LANNISTER BASTARDS: joannalannister (tumblr) - "So why did Tywin keep Joy around? This turned into a really long Joy Hill and other Lannister bastards meta."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: asongofviceandire (tumblr) - "what are your thoughts on all the Gods? The 7, the red god, etc. "
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "I have a few questions about bastards"
fandom:asoiaf
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, TYRION II: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "Reading Tyrion II is a bit like “taking a healthy gulp” of a rich Dornish red, a multi-layered drink that shows George R.R Martin bringing some of his best work to bear,"
fandom:asoiaf
CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: ACOK, ARYA III: racefortheironthrone (blog) - "Arya comes a close second in this book to Tyrion in terms of chapters, giving us the perspective of the war on the ground as Tyrion gives us the struggles for power among the elite."
fandom:asoiaf
Comics
How Do We Interpret Comic Book Covers?: The Hooded Utilitarian by Roy T. Cook (blog) - "Comics are both a substantial art form and a commercial industry. Thus, it is not surprising that the cover of a comic can play multiple roles. "
fandom:comics
Long Comics, Quick Cuts: Time Dilation in Comics and Film: The Hooded Utilitarian by Benjamin Rogers (blog) - "In film, cuts compress the narrative. In comics, they can have the opposite effect. The more ‘cuts’ or panels there are per page, generally, the slower things are moving."
fandom:comics
Disney - Maleficent
Maleficent Comes Out of the Closet: Saucery (AO3) - "An in-depth analysis of the queer symbolism of Maleficent."
fandom:disney, topic:queer
Game of Thrones
I Know Who I Am: Selfhood and Slavery in GOT:Tower of the Hand by Valkyrist101 (blog) - "Selfhood encompasses a bunch of things, from a person's subjective perception of the world, to their stored-up memories and experiences, to the way they identity themselves within a society."
fandom:gameofthrones, topic:slavery
Bows, Jails, and Prostitutes Who’re Impaled: The Worrying Trend of Misogyny in GoT’s Season 4 Finale: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by Tsunderin (blog) - "A good portion of the audience reveled in this “new” character presenting herself and asserting herself into a game that she wasn’t out to win, but to subvert. A smaller portion of the audience found itself crying out for her death when she betrayed Tyrion during his trial."
fandom:gameofthrones, topic:misogyny
The Giver
Sexualized Saturdays: Nonexistent Gender and Sexuality in The Giver: Lady Geek Girl and Friends by MadameAce (blog) - "I recently just got done rereading The Giver, and I have to say that this book is one of the scariest stories I have ever read. Although it’s presented as a utopia, The Giver shows us a world under total government control, where people’s individuality has been stripped from them."
topic:sexuality, fandom:thegiver
Harry Potter
Demographics of the Wizarding Wo: wellingtongoose (LJ) - "Witches/wizards are very rare when you think in terms of the world as whole. "
fandom:harrypotter
Homeland
Forget Nazir: Surveillance vs. Performance and the Discourse of Power in Homeland: (blog) - "In fact, it does something much more interesting: it takes on Foucault by bringing to bear an equally impressive theorist’s own anti-Foucaultian polemic, recontextualizing the whole discussion in terms of the real, practical functioning of the power of observation in terms of The Law against The Criminals."
fandom:homeland, topic:philosophy
Leverage
Leverage Sunday: “The Radio Job” & “The Last Dam Job”: Endings: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "And if you create an turning point that answers all questions and leaves all the characters in a place of strength and stability, you’re done. Anything you write after that will be epilogue, the stuff that happens after the story is over."
topic:writing, fandom:leverage
Marvel Cinematic Universe
How about an unpopular fannish opinion for the MCU: sholio (DW) - "It's a trope that appears in quite a bit of post-Winter Soldier fic … Namely, Bucky going on a Hydra-slaughtering, blowing-up-buildings, torturing-people-for-information round-the-world rampage."
fandom:mcu
One Piece
Syrup Island Arc- Part V: we-are (DW) - "Here we have a final look at Kuro, showing just how weak he is, look at one of the most important lines of the series, see the measure of a hero, the measure of a villain and just what being a captain and nakama are not."
fandom:onepiece
Syrup Island Arc- Part VI: we-are (DW) - "As we examine the ending of Usopp's arc, we discover what makes a hero, talk about good captains, good nakama, touch on Usopp's past, who he has become, and the role he will eventually fulfill. "
fandom:onepiece
Stargate - SG1
Villain motives: Stargate mirror verse: beccaelizabeth (DW) - "Flip the elements a little from the movie and first episode: Daniel Jackson visits an alien planet and gets given a wife. And keeps her. And decides he loves her, despite the minimal acquaintance and huge language gaps. Then she gets taken away to be a queen, gets a symbiote, and rejects Daniel. He spends the rest of her life trying to find her and get his wife back from the symbiote."
fandom:stargate
Supernatural
Supernatural: Thoughts: fozmeadows (blog) - "Exposing yourself to certain fandoms on tumblr is like signing up for a bout with Stockholm syndrome: sooner or later, you’re going to drink the Kool-Aid. And by “drink the Kool-Aid”, I mean “become obsessed with Supernatural“, which – surprise!* – is exactly what happened to me."
fandom:supernatural
Supernatural: More Thoughts: Foz Meadows (blog) - "As mentioned in my previous post about Supernatural, what finally convinced me to give the show a try was Misha Collins calling out the writers for sexism: "
fandom:supernatural