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- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:btvs,
- fandom:disney,
- fandom:fable,
- fandom:fightclub,
- fandom:gaming,
- fandom:harrypotter,
- fandom:intheflesh,
- fandom:jrrtolkien,
- fandom:marvelcomics,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:snowpiercer,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:teenwolf,
- fandom:terminator,
- fandom:theoriginals,
- fandom:tron,
- fandom:trueblood,
- fandom:x-files,
- topic:alternaterealities,
- topic:canon,
- topic:copyright,
- topic:disability,
- topic:femalecharacter,
- topic:identity,
- topic:law,
- topic:morality,
- topic:profic,
- topic:queer,
- topic:queerbaiting,
- topic:race,
- topic:religion,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:sexuality,
- topic:tropes
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General Fandom
Magical Mondays: Kill Your Double?: Lady Saika (blog) - "Magic that fucks around with identity is, frankly, terrifying. Whether it’s something as simple as a Polyjuice Potion, which allows you to take on another person’s appearance, or something as dramatic as traveling to an alternate universe where your life is markedly different, identity magic is, at its core, an affront to autonomy."
Show Some Skin! Or, When Will We Actually See Some Black Characters?: polyglotpisces (blog) - "Why does it seem so difficult to find genre media creators/producers willing to create media with Black characters who get to show they are Black?"
The Continuing Influence of Weird Al on Law, Especially Copyright Law: Raizel Liebler (blog) - "Considering Weird Al has his first #1 album on the Billboard charts, many have taken this as an opportunity to do a retrospective on his career. But outside of his musical and parodic impact, he has also had an impact on law."
Rewriting the Future: Retroactive Continuity as Marketing: Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "The phenomenon of retroactive continuity (or retcon) is a well-established method that creators have for fixing up problems that occurred in the past within the artwork."
The ethical debate over buying a ticket to a Woody Allen movie: Dominick Mayer (blog) - "Let’s start with a question that pop culture forces us all to ask on occasion, and is rarely answered in return, and we’ll go from there: what do you do when somebody who makes art you like is exposed as a potentially or actually awful human being?"
Filing Off The Slash: naraht (DW) - "
The twist in this case is that the fic, Northwest Passage, is slash - but the novel, The Longest Night, is het."
Accumulation, or the problem with too many dukes: Dear Author (blog) - ".That discussion and various others around the internetz got me thinking about Problems in Romance and the nature of them."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Glamours: mightyisobel (tumblr) - "Generally, I think it is a marker of outsider status in the ASoIaF universe, for characters to be able to accurately read the quality of virtue of other characters."
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Theon I: Steven Attewell (blog) - "Theon I is one of those chapters that reads completely differently after the publication of ADWD, when you can see the payoff to this setup."
Essos and Westeros in my head: southagermican (tumblr) - "Westeros makes me think of the American Continent, and Essos is Eurasia.."
robert slapping cersi is not your moment of good triumphing evil: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - " We’re not dealing with a traditional fantasy narrative here. Robert slapping Cersei isn’t a moment of moral triumph: it’s symbolic."
so, we need to talk about joffrey: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - " I think having a discourse about Joffrey’s place in the narrative is difficult because Joffrey’s place in the narrative is incredibly problematic - the lone one-dimensional psychopathic character in a family of otherwise incredibly multi-faceted villains."
Untitled: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - "Okay, so I’ve seen a lot of conversations swirling around recently about people getting jumped on whenever they post about their dislike for female characters and how that’s implicitly unfair because you’re entitled to dislike whomever you want."
The Bloody Cloak: radiowesteros(tumblr) - "The cloak is highly significant as a symbol of protection and comfort in Sansa Stark’s arc."
Untitled: sunneinsplendour(tumblr) - "People tend to dismiss the Lannisters (they are the ‘villains’ of the story, after all) as being less duty-bound than the other houses but part of me feels that the Lannisters hold just as firm to the ideals of duty and even honour, as the Starks and Tullys do, but duty and honour mean entirely different things to them."
Untitled: ashaqueenasha (tumblr) - "Have you ever discussed with anyone in the Sandor- (and sansan) obsessed ASOIAF fandom whether (despite all the things that occurred in his life leading to him being who he is) the fact that Gregor and Sandor are related may actually be a bit of factor in why he's so cruel and brutal? I mean, Gregor is seemingly born complete and utter evil, and I know Sandor is not, but, at the end of the day they do share the same blood… could genes actually be partly to blame?"
Captain America
How do you write Steve? Your characterization is great, so what are the main things you focus on when trying to get him right?: bluandorange (tumblr) - "Steve is fucking unhappy and the last thing he wants is for you to know that. "
Why Captain America Should Stay Black Forever: E. Knight (blog) - "But the decision to make Sam Wilson who in the comic books has been Steve Rogers sidekick for over 40 years the new Captain America is about as natural as the decision to make Jim Rhodes Iron Man whenever Tony Starks dies. It happens it makes sense. It’s not at all forced. And best of all for you racist nerds it is always very very temporary. It’s stunt casting."
The life and times of Sergeant James ‘Bucky’ Barnes: laporcupina (tumblr) - "Okay, so a little self-referential blahblahblah on Bucky’s NCO career, mostly as a follow-up to the Sam Wilson Is Not an Officer stuff."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Let's Talk About Sex: Vampire/Slayer Biology in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "This is only intended to apply to my own 'verse; I'm not making ANY claims that this has any relation at all tothe way the inheritance of Slayerness works in canon. I've tried not to do anything that outright contradicts canon, but I'm making quite a lot of this up from the whole cloth."
Blooming Onions and Beyond: Vampire Nutrition in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "As you know, Bob, the Barbverse is a post-Gift AU wherein a soulless Spike gets dosed with Mohra blood, transforming him intoa living demon. He retains most of the strengths and weaknesses of your standard vampire, but since he’s now a living being rather than an animated corpse, they work a bit differently, and require somewhat different care and feeding. Today I’m gonna look at the feeding aspect."
Too Many Damn Vampires: Vampire Biology in the Barbverse III: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "So Sunnydale vampires are killing how many people a night again?"
Because Evil Spelled Backwards Is Live: Vampire Biology in the Barbverse II: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "Some while back I went off on a mental tangent and started trying to work out the reasons why Buffyverse vampires are evil.Above and beyond "Demons are evil because they’re evil, the end, move along, nothing to see here," that is. This is the result."
The Sire Thing: Vampire Society in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "Vampire social interaction in the Barbverse."
D&D
New Rules of Fantasy #1: Evil is a Choice: quinn (blog) - "I'm torn regularly by what fantasy gaming has been to me and what it has not been to me; I anguish a bit about what fantasy gaming is and what it could be."
Disney
The Evolution of Women in Disney FairytalesPart Two: From Sleeping Beauty to Maleficent: Wolfen Moondaughter(blog) - " This week, in the conclusion, I'll examine how that evolution is reflected in their most recent offering ...."
Fable
Why Fable II Makes Me So Uncomfortable vorquellyn: (LJ) - "I play games for escapism and improving my spatial reasoning and eye-hand coordination. What follows is a lot about why one game doesn't give me an escape from homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, and the general skeeviness of gamer dudes."
Fight Club
What we talk about when we talk about ‘Fight Club’: Chris Ostendorf (blog) - "The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club—unless of course you love Fight Club, in which case you probably talk about it all the time."
Harry Potter
Slytherin’s Problem: Hogwarts and the Cardinal Virtues: stinekey (blog) - "Identifying with Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin is one of the most important questions to members of the Harry Potter fandom."
In the Flesh
Suffering from Partially Deceased Syndrome in In the Flesh: MadameAce (blog) - "Zombie stories have all but saturated pop culture. They’re everywhere—28 Days Later, The Last of Us, Warm Bodies, just to name a few—and thankfully for those of us who love zombies, they’re not going away any time soon."
The Last of Us
Details about the deleted scene they performed: thelastofusfans (tumblr) - "So the big surprise wasn’t a TLOU movie teaser, UC4 gameplay, or a freebie to take home."
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Insecticide: domarzione (DW) - "Marvel is going to have to come up with perfect reasons to justify apparently fridging Janet in 2014 to give Hank a tragic past and Scott Lang an age-appropriate love interest. "
Marvel Comics
Marvel’s Diversifying and It Feels So Good: brothadom (blog) - "So if you haven’t heard, Thor is now a woman and Captain America is Black! In the comics, at least, so these developments are not in the cinematic universe."
Snowpiercer
How an Obscure 2nd Century Christian Heresy Influenced Snowpiercer: Michael M. Hughes(blog) - "But no one has yet commented on one of the film's most unusual subtexts — its direct allusions to Gnosticism, the ancient Christian belief system that was damned by the Roman Church as heretical and virtually extinguished by the 5th century."
Supernatural
’Supernatural’ goes meta with ‘musical-ish’ episode: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Supernatural has a long history of meta episodes, with mixed results."
Untitled: queerpotters (tumblr) - " ’So what I was wondering is, do you want Dean to be bisexual or do you want him to be bisexual AND with Cas?’ "
Untitled: selfihateyouithink (tumblr) - "The most respectful thing that could be done right now in SPN for queer people is to deliver on the narrative they subtextually have already established but thus far not yet textualized—with a happy ending, preferably, and without canonicity premiering during Demon!Dean."
Untitled: yeahcoolduck (tumblr) - "Dean feels bad about himself, Sam feels bad about his mistakes. Now this has led me to google the differences between shame and guilt, which has shed some light on the behavioral differences between the brothers."
Teen Wolf
In Brightest Day: Malia Tate from Teen Wolf: MadameAce (blog) - "Teen Wolf does a pretty poor job when it comes to disabilities—I’ve yet to forgive the show for how it treats Deucalion’s blindness. So it doesn’t surprise me that it has also failed to address the full scope of problems a character like Malia should have."
Untitled: condemnedtorocknroll (tumblr) - "This is a total shot in the dark, but what if the berserkers are erica and boyd? "
Terminator
Terminator 2 and the world’s biggest spoiler: Tasha Robinson (blog) - "And none of it mattered, because in 1991, when Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, the marketing campaign gave the whole game away."
The big action and little problems of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
: Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Matt Singer, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias
(blog) - Roundatble discussion on Terminator 2
The Originals
The Originals Meta: Klaus fits the criteria for a BPD diagnosis: luvtheheaven (AO3) - "Cami tells Klaus in episode 1x04, "I don’t believe in evil as a diagnosis. I think you have unstable personal relationships, stress-related paranoia, chronic anger issues, fear of abandonment. I think you could benefit from talking to someone professionally."Then I realize these symptoms scream Borderline Personality Disorder to me. This is just a simple little meta analysis of thispossibility of a legitimate psychological diagnosis to explain Klaus's behavior."
Tolkien
On Melkor and Aulë and Creative Thinking: hobbitingaround (tumblr) - "This is less of a character analysis and more a summary of my thoughts,"
Tron
Kevin Flynn: The True Villain of the Legacy Timeline?: Allronix (AO3) - "There's a lot about Kevin Flynn's behavior that adds up more to a case of anti-hero or (come Betrayal and Legacy) somethingdangerously close to villain."
True Blood
Oh, My Pop Culture Lilith: Vampire Religion in True Blood: polyglotpisces (blog) - "As someone who enjoys thinking critically about religion, this season really stood out for me because a main plotline was the role of religion in the vampire community."
The X-Files
Know When To Fold 'em: "Three of a Kind" and the Very Bitter End of X-Files's Season Six: PlaidAdder(AO3) - "What makes “Three of a Kind" a prophet of doom is that it’s the "Assignment: Earth" of the X-Files."
The Only "Monday" I Ever Loved: PlaidAdder(AO3) - "So, in the second half of Season Six, there’s a lot of crap. But there are two episodes that stand out to me like beautiful if slightly tarnished gems: “Monday" and “Arcadia." Let’s talk about “Monday." If I start in on “Arcadia" it might get long."
AAAAAAARGH!!: Or, Plaidder Rewatches "Milagro" (X-Files, Season 6): PlaidAdder (AO3) - "First time around, I found this episode flawed but intriguing. This time around I hate it with the white-hot fire of a thousand suns."
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General Fandom
Magical Mondays: Kill Your Double?: Lady Saika (blog) - "Magic that fucks around with identity is, frankly, terrifying. Whether it’s something as simple as a Polyjuice Potion, which allows you to take on another person’s appearance, or something as dramatic as traveling to an alternate universe where your life is markedly different, identity magic is, at its core, an affront to autonomy."
topic:identity
Show Some Skin! Or, When Will We Actually See Some Black Characters?: polyglotpisces (blog) - "Why does it seem so difficult to find genre media creators/producers willing to create media with Black characters who get to show they are Black?"
topic:race
The Continuing Influence of Weird Al on Law, Especially Copyright Law: Raizel Liebler (blog) - "Considering Weird Al has his first #1 album on the Billboard charts, many have taken this as an opportunity to do a retrospective on his career. But outside of his musical and parodic impact, he has also had an impact on law."
topic:copyright, topic:law
Rewriting the Future: Retroactive Continuity as Marketing: Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "The phenomenon of retroactive continuity (or retcon) is a well-established method that creators have for fixing up problems that occurred in the past within the artwork."
topic:alternaterealities, topic:canon
The ethical debate over buying a ticket to a Woody Allen movie: Dominick Mayer (blog) - "Let’s start with a question that pop culture forces us all to ask on occasion, and is rarely answered in return, and we’ll go from there: what do you do when somebody who makes art you like is exposed as a potentially or actually awful human being?"
topic:morality
Filing Off The Slash: naraht (DW) - "
The twist in this case is that the fic, Northwest Passage, is slash - but the novel, The Longest Night, is het."
topic:profic
Accumulation, or the problem with too many dukes: Dear Author (blog) - ".That discussion and various others around the internetz got me thinking about Problems in Romance and the nature of them."
topic:profic, topic:tropes
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Glamours: mightyisobel (tumblr) - "Generally, I think it is a marker of outsider status in the ASoIaF universe, for characters to be able to accurately read the quality of virtue of other characters."
fandom:asoiaf
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Theon I: Steven Attewell (blog) - "Theon I is one of those chapters that reads completely differently after the publication of ADWD, when you can see the payoff to this setup."
fandom:asoiaf
Essos and Westeros in my head: southagermican (tumblr) - "Westeros makes me think of the American Continent, and Essos is Eurasia.."
fandom:asoiaf
robert slapping cersi is not your moment of good triumphing evil: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - " We’re not dealing with a traditional fantasy narrative here. Robert slapping Cersei isn’t a moment of moral triumph: it’s symbolic."
fandom:asoiaf, topic: sexism
so, we need to talk about joffrey: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - " I think having a discourse about Joffrey’s place in the narrative is difficult because Joffrey’s place in the narrative is incredibly problematic - the lone one-dimensional psychopathic character in a family of otherwise incredibly multi-faceted villains."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: sunneinsplendour (tumblr) - "Okay, so I’ve seen a lot of conversations swirling around recently about people getting jumped on whenever they post about their dislike for female characters and how that’s implicitly unfair because you’re entitled to dislike whomever you want."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:sexism
The Bloody Cloak: radiowesteros(tumblr) - "The cloak is highly significant as a symbol of protection and comfort in Sansa Stark’s arc."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: sunneinsplendour(tumblr) - "People tend to dismiss the Lannisters (they are the ‘villains’ of the story, after all) as being less duty-bound than the other houses but part of me feels that the Lannisters hold just as firm to the ideals of duty and even honour, as the Starks and Tullys do, but duty and honour mean entirely different things to them."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: ashaqueenasha (tumblr) - "Have you ever discussed with anyone in the Sandor- (and sansan) obsessed ASOIAF fandom whether (despite all the things that occurred in his life leading to him being who he is) the fact that Gregor and Sandor are related may actually be a bit of factor in why he's so cruel and brutal? I mean, Gregor is seemingly born complete and utter evil, and I know Sandor is not, but, at the end of the day they do share the same blood… could genes actually be partly to blame?"
fandom:asoiaf
Captain America
How do you write Steve? Your characterization is great, so what are the main things you focus on when trying to get him right?: bluandorange (tumblr) - "Steve is fucking unhappy and the last thing he wants is for you to know that. "
fandom:mcu, topic:race
Why Captain America Should Stay Black Forever: E. Knight (blog) - "But the decision to make Sam Wilson who in the comic books has been Steve Rogers sidekick for over 40 years the new Captain America is about as natural as the decision to make Jim Rhodes Iron Man whenever Tony Starks dies. It happens it makes sense. It’s not at all forced. And best of all for you racist nerds it is always very very temporary. It’s stunt casting."
fandom:marvelcomics, topic:race
The life and times of Sergeant James ‘Bucky’ Barnes: laporcupina (tumblr) - "Okay, so a little self-referential blahblahblah on Bucky’s NCO career, mostly as a follow-up to the Sam Wilson Is Not an Officer stuff."
fandom:mcu
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Let's Talk About Sex: Vampire/Slayer Biology in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "This is only intended to apply to my own 'verse; I'm not making ANY claims that this has any relation at all tothe way the inheritance of Slayerness works in canon. I've tried not to do anything that outright contradicts canon, but I'm making quite a lot of this up from the whole cloth."
fandom:btvs
Blooming Onions and Beyond: Vampire Nutrition in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "As you know, Bob, the Barbverse is a post-Gift AU wherein a soulless Spike gets dosed with Mohra blood, transforming him intoa living demon. He retains most of the strengths and weaknesses of your standard vampire, but since he’s now a living being rather than an animated corpse, they work a bit differently, and require somewhat different care and feeding. Today I’m gonna look at the feeding aspect."
fandom:btvs
Too Many Damn Vampires: Vampire Biology in the Barbverse III: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "So Sunnydale vampires are killing how many people a night again?"
fandom:btvs
Because Evil Spelled Backwards Is Live: Vampire Biology in the Barbverse II: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "Some while back I went off on a mental tangent and started trying to work out the reasons why Buffyverse vampires are evil.Above and beyond "Demons are evil because they’re evil, the end, move along, nothing to see here," that is. This is the result."
fandom:btvs
The Sire Thing: Vampire Society in the Barbverse: Barb Cummings (Rahirah) (AO3) - "Vampire social interaction in the Barbverse."
fandom:btvs
D&D
New Rules of Fantasy #1: Evil is a Choice: quinn (blog) - "I'm torn regularly by what fantasy gaming has been to me and what it has not been to me; I anguish a bit about what fantasy gaming is and what it could be."
fandom:gaming
Disney
The Evolution of Women in Disney FairytalesPart Two: From Sleeping Beauty to Maleficent: Wolfen Moondaughter(blog) - " This week, in the conclusion, I'll examine how that evolution is reflected in their most recent offering ...."
fandom:disney, topic:femalecharacters
Fable
Why Fable II Makes Me So Uncomfortable vorquellyn: (LJ) - "I play games for escapism and improving my spatial reasoning and eye-hand coordination. What follows is a lot about why one game doesn't give me an escape from homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, and the general skeeviness of gamer dudes."
fandom:fable, topic:sexuality
Fight Club
What we talk about when we talk about ‘Fight Club’: Chris Ostendorf (blog) - "The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club—unless of course you love Fight Club, in which case you probably talk about it all the time."
fandom:fightclub
Harry Potter
Slytherin’s Problem: Hogwarts and the Cardinal Virtues: stinekey (blog) - "Identifying with Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin is one of the most important questions to members of the Harry Potter fandom."
fandom:harrypotter
In the Flesh
Suffering from Partially Deceased Syndrome in In the Flesh: MadameAce (blog) - "Zombie stories have all but saturated pop culture. They’re everywhere—28 Days Later, The Last of Us, Warm Bodies, just to name a few—and thankfully for those of us who love zombies, they’re not going away any time soon."
fandom:intheflesh, topic:queer
The Last of Us
Details about the deleted scene they performed: thelastofusfans (tumblr) - "So the big surprise wasn’t a TLOU movie teaser, UC4 gameplay, or a freebie to take home."
fandom:thelastofus
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Insecticide: domarzione (DW) - "Marvel is going to have to come up with perfect reasons to justify apparently fridging Janet in 2014 to give Hank a tragic past and Scott Lang an age-appropriate love interest. "
fandom:mcu
Marvel Comics
Marvel’s Diversifying and It Feels So Good: brothadom (blog) - "So if you haven’t heard, Thor is now a woman and Captain America is Black! In the comics, at least, so these developments are not in the cinematic universe."
fandom:marvelcomics
Snowpiercer
How an Obscure 2nd Century Christian Heresy Influenced Snowpiercer: Michael M. Hughes(blog) - "But no one has yet commented on one of the film's most unusual subtexts — its direct allusions to Gnosticism, the ancient Christian belief system that was damned by the Roman Church as heretical and virtually extinguished by the 5th century."
fandom:snowpiercer
Supernatural
’Supernatural’ goes meta with ‘musical-ish’ episode: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Supernatural has a long history of meta episodes, with mixed results."
fandom:supernatural
Untitled: queerpotters (tumblr) - " ’So what I was wondering is, do you want Dean to be bisexual or do you want him to be bisexual AND with Cas?’ "
fandom:supernatural, topic:slash, topic:queerbaiting
Untitled: selfihateyouithink (tumblr) - "The most respectful thing that could be done right now in SPN for queer people is to deliver on the narrative they subtextually have already established but thus far not yet textualized—with a happy ending, preferably, and without canonicity premiering during Demon!Dean."
fandom:supernatural, topic:slash, topic:queerbaiting
Untitled: yeahcoolduck (tumblr) - "Dean feels bad about himself, Sam feels bad about his mistakes. Now this has led me to google the differences between shame and guilt, which has shed some light on the behavioral differences between the brothers."
fandom:supernatural
Teen Wolf
In Brightest Day: Malia Tate from Teen Wolf: MadameAce (blog) - "Teen Wolf does a pretty poor job when it comes to disabilities—I’ve yet to forgive the show for how it treats Deucalion’s blindness. So it doesn’t surprise me that it has also failed to address the full scope of problems a character like Malia should have."
fandom:teenwolf, topic:disability
Untitled: condemnedtorocknroll (tumblr) - "This is a total shot in the dark, but what if the berserkers are erica and boyd? "
fandom:teenwolf,
Terminator
Terminator 2 and the world’s biggest spoiler: Tasha Robinson (blog) - "And none of it mattered, because in 1991, when Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, the marketing campaign gave the whole game away."
fandom:terminator
The big action and little problems of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
: Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Matt Singer, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias
(blog) - Roundatble discussion on Terminator 2
fandom:terminator
The Originals
The Originals Meta: Klaus fits the criteria for a BPD diagnosis: luvtheheaven (AO3) - "Cami tells Klaus in episode 1x04, "I don’t believe in evil as a diagnosis. I think you have unstable personal relationships, stress-related paranoia, chronic anger issues, fear of abandonment. I think you could benefit from talking to someone professionally."Then I realize these symptoms scream Borderline Personality Disorder to me. This is just a simple little meta analysis of thispossibility of a legitimate psychological diagnosis to explain Klaus's behavior."
fandom:theoriginals
Tolkien
On Melkor and Aulë and Creative Thinking: hobbitingaround (tumblr) - "This is less of a character analysis and more a summary of my thoughts,"
fandom:jrrtolkien
Tron
Kevin Flynn: The True Villain of the Legacy Timeline?: Allronix (AO3) - "There's a lot about Kevin Flynn's behavior that adds up more to a case of anti-hero or (come Betrayal and Legacy) somethingdangerously close to villain."
fandom:tron
True Blood
Oh, My Pop Culture Lilith: Vampire Religion in True Blood: polyglotpisces (blog) - "As someone who enjoys thinking critically about religion, this season really stood out for me because a main plotline was the role of religion in the vampire community."
fandom:trueblood, topic:religion
The X-Files
Know When To Fold 'em: "Three of a Kind" and the Very Bitter End of X-Files's Season Six: PlaidAdder(AO3) - "What makes “Three of a Kind" a prophet of doom is that it’s the "Assignment: Earth" of the X-Files."
fandom:x-files
The Only "Monday" I Ever Loved: PlaidAdder(AO3) - "So, in the second half of Season Six, there’s a lot of crap. But there are two episodes that stand out to me like beautiful if slightly tarnished gems: “Monday" and “Arcadia." Let’s talk about “Monday." If I start in on “Arcadia" it might get long."
fandom:x-files
AAAAAAARGH!!: Or, Plaidder Rewatches "Milagro" (X-Files, Season 6): PlaidAdder (AO3) - "First time around, I found this episode flawed but intriguing. This time around I hate it with the white-hot fire of a thousand suns."
fandom:x-files