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General Fandom
In defense of the ‘Cool Girl’: EJ Dickson (blog) - "In its most platonic form, being a Cool Girl means you have been marked as an exception to your gender, that you’ve received some elusive form of validation from male society."
Television networks, stop trying to make fandom happen: Alexandra Edwards (blog) - "But I’m more worried about—and embarrassed by—fandom becoming the new marketing ploy every network wants to leverage."
Women Characters And Romance veleda_k: (DW) - "Fighting against the idea that the very act of love makes women weak is actually something I consider super important."
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Secrets and Lies: The Silver Spiderweb: ghostlovesinger (blog) - "Of all the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, Varys and Littlefinger have always been, and still remain, the hardest to unravel."
Untitled: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "At this point in the books, Arya is definitely considered very pretty. I see her as a more atypical beautiful (like Visenya Targaryen or Lyanna Stark) rather than a more conventional gorgeous (such as Sansa and Cersei.)"
Blair Witch Project
Out from the Wilderness: The Blair Witch Project at 15: Chris R. Morgan (blog) - "I first saw The Blair Witch Project when it came out, in the summer of 1999, in Summit, New Jersey, with my dad and one of my brothers in tow."
Burn Notice
Lying To Find The Truth: Jesse Porter Vs Michael’s Team In Burn Notice: merryghoul (DW) - "You team up with people who have a reputation of fixing problems on the sly to get your job back. But there's a twist: they're the ones that cost you the job."
Constantine
Sexualized Saturdays: The Future is (Not) Now: Lady Saika (blog) - "But having a bisexual protagonist on a TV show is apparently way too futuristic for some people."
Frozen
Would You Believe I Haven’t Actually Seen This Movie?: chordatesrock (DW) - "And yet, I have opinions about Frozen! All of which I am keeping to myself, in favor of looking at all* the translations of Let It Go."
More Frozen Translation Meta: chordatesrock (DW) - "I've talked about translations of "the cold never bothered me anyway" already. Now I'd like to talk about some other aspects of Frozen song translations. No, I still haven't seen this movie! Also, spoilers."
Guardians of the Galaxy
’Guardians of the Galaxy’ passes the Bechdel Test - but it fails women: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "As much as I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy in all its space-operatic wonder, that enjoyment was marred by what I can only describe as a miasma of douchiness."
Iron Man
Stark Modernism: Fine Art and Iron Man: Sam Keeper (blog) - "Iron Man has an Alberto Giacometti statue in his living room."
Lucy
Who Speaks Chinese Anyway? And Other Mortifications from Luc Besson’s Lucy: renay (DW) - "As people, some of us latch on to superficial reasons to dislike a thing and never really dig into the critical whys. I, however, am not afraid to admit I came out of the theater going, "What the hell was that? Did I like that? No? Maybe? Sure, it had good parts. But as a whole? No. BUT WHY?" "
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel unceremoniously snuffs out female founding member of Avengers team: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Even at the best of times, comic book fans can be overly critical about adaptations of their favorite superheroes. But in the case of Marvel’s Ant-Man, fans have already been given plenty of reasons to be concerned."
How Gamora, Black Widow and other Marvel women handle sexism: Alyssa Rosenberg (blog) - "It is a modest dream, the idea that sexism might boomerang back on the peoplewho try to exploit it to make women feel bad and weak. In our world, though, theability to do that would genuinely feel like a superpower."
Untitled: ink-phoenix (tumblr) - "During the Howling Commandos era, do you think that any of the other guys noticed that something was /different/ about Bucky? "
Untitled: historicallyaccuratesteve (tumblr) - "When do you think they actually released Steve's name to the public?"
Untitled: historicallyaccuratesteve (tumblr) - "The biggest problem with the Bucky Barnes display in the museum exhibit is that it contradicts itself (and other things mentioned in the films)."
Untitled: therealdeepsix (tumblr) - "I’ve been thinking about Bucky’s robot arm a lot"
TGIF: princessofgeeks (DW) - "I have been reading (and reccing) a ton of Steve/Bucky from Avengers/MCU, and I adore it. But I adore Natasha/Clint just as much, and for a lot of the same reasons."
Marvel Comics
Superheroes vs. The Black Panther: Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "Criminals in the United States are insistently conceived of as black. Superheroes are iconically crime fighters. A black superhero is forced to confront that contradiction one way or the other — since even ignoring it becomes a kind of confrontation."
Pacific Rim
Untitled: starseedjenny (tumblr) - "A couple days ago I saw someone raise the question of why Pacific Rim only seems to be resonating with millennials, and I didn’t know the answer, but i’ve been thinking about it a lot and suddenly I understand."
Pacific Rim/Star Wars
Untitled: melannen (DW) - "This will probably remain a favorite of mine, because it is approx. 0% heterosexuality by weight. And that doesn't mean it's particularly queer either - there's just no portrayal of sexuality in it at all. This is a movie where you can easily argue that not only all the protagonists, but also the entire society, is asexual and aromantic. "
Queer as Folk
Discovering Brian - A Minute-by-Minute Exploration: Frayach (AO3) - "This isn't a story; it's an invitation to a discussion. I can't get enough of talking about Brian Kinney, and I can't get enough of watching the show. Thisis my excuse to do both. "
Spider-man
Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity: Osvaldo Oyola (blog) - "But here’s the thing, a returned “real" Peter Parker/Spider-Man will still be responsible for whatever ills caused by Doc Ock assuming his identity, just as he is still responsible for everything done by previous versions of Peter Parker/Spider-Man who made poor choices because of the thread of shared identity, regardless of what changes to the character have been made, undone or forgotten."
Supernatural
Untitled: yeahcoolduck (tumblr) - "Nothing forces us down a dark path quicker or more efficiently than reason, and I love the way this manifests in Sam. When the chips are down his ethics fly right out the window, he’s confidant, and he doesn’t give a shit about consequences. "
Untitled: amonitrate (tumblr) - "I've been reading your posts on guilt and shame and they're fantastic, but I'm wondering what your thoughts are re Sam's guilt over his relationship with Dean? Because that was obviously an issue at the end of season 8, but doesn't seem to have led to any positive effort on Sam's part in season 9. Do you think that's rooted in Sam's character, or is it more the direction the story has taken, or just bad writing?"
Untitled: lucifcr (tumblr) - "So Nour and I started analysing the new title card for s10 and wow there’s fun stuff to deduce from it (aka maybe subtle hints who knows)"
Teen Wolf
Untitled: hitori-no-tora (tumblr) - "Scott McCall is standing in a moral gray zone."
Answering Asks: Meta, Speculation, Spoilers, and Beyond: notanotherteenwolfpodcast (tumblr) - "A collection of metas and answered asks."
Weeds
Why I Quit Watching Weeds: Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "I binge-watched several seasons of Weeds back there a while ago. The show got worse and worse and more and more improbable as it went along."
Wonder Woman
More Than a Superhero: How Wonder Woman Helped Shape Feminism: Nikki Gloudeman (blog) - "Amid this veritable mass of testosterone, one woman has stood tall, golden lasso in hand, as a bona fide beacon of hope for the arguably fairer but never lesser sex: Wonder Woman."
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
In defense of the ‘Cool Girl’: EJ Dickson (blog) - "In its most platonic form, being a Cool Girl means you have been marked as an exception to your gender, that you’ve received some elusive form of validation from male society."
topic:misogyny, topic:femalecharacter
Television networks, stop trying to make fandom happen: Alexandra Edwards (blog) - "But I’m more worried about—and embarrassed by—fandom becoming the new marketing ploy every network wants to leverage."
topic:fandom
Women Characters And Romance veleda_k: (DW) - "Fighting against the idea that the very act of love makes women weak is actually something I consider super important."
topic:femalecharacter, topic:romance, topic:relationships
Specific Fandoms
A Song of Ice and Fire
Secrets and Lies: The Silver Spiderweb: ghostlovesinger (blog) - "Of all the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, Varys and Littlefinger have always been, and still remain, the hardest to unravel."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - "At this point in the books, Arya is definitely considered very pretty. I see her as a more atypical beautiful (like Visenya Targaryen or Lyanna Stark) rather than a more conventional gorgeous (such as Sansa and Cersei.)"
fandom:asoiaf
Blair Witch Project
Out from the Wilderness: The Blair Witch Project at 15: Chris R. Morgan (blog) - "I first saw The Blair Witch Project when it came out, in the summer of 1999, in Summit, New Jersey, with my dad and one of my brothers in tow."
fandom:blairwitchproject
Burn Notice
Lying To Find The Truth: Jesse Porter Vs Michael’s Team In Burn Notice: merryghoul (DW) - "You team up with people who have a reputation of fixing problems on the sly to get your job back. But there's a twist: they're the ones that cost you the job."
fandom:burnnotice, topic:characterization
Constantine
Sexualized Saturdays: The Future is (Not) Now: Lady Saika (blog) - "But having a bisexual protagonist on a TV show is apparently way too futuristic for some people."
fandom:constantine
Frozen
Would You Believe I Haven’t Actually Seen This Movie?: chordatesrock (DW) - "And yet, I have opinions about Frozen! All of which I am keeping to myself, in favor of looking at all* the translations of Let It Go."
fandom:frozen, topic:music, topic:translations, topic:linguistics
More Frozen Translation Meta: chordatesrock (DW) - "I've talked about translations of "the cold never bothered me anyway" already. Now I'd like to talk about some other aspects of Frozen song translations. No, I still haven't seen this movie! Also, spoilers."
fandom:frozen, topic:music, topic:translations, topic:linguistics, warning:spoilers
Guardians of the Galaxy
’Guardians of the Galaxy’ passes the Bechdel Test - but it fails women: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "As much as I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy in all its space-operatic wonder, that enjoyment was marred by what I can only describe as a miasma of douchiness."
fandom:mcu
Iron Man
Stark Modernism: Fine Art and Iron Man: Sam Keeper (blog) - "Iron Man has an Alberto Giacometti statue in his living room."
fandom:mcu
Lucy
Who Speaks Chinese Anyway? And Other Mortifications from Luc Besson’s Lucy: renay (DW) - "As people, some of us latch on to superficial reasons to dislike a thing and never really dig into the critical whys. I, however, am not afraid to admit I came out of the theater going, "What the hell was that? Did I like that? No? Maybe? Sure, it had good parts. But as a whole? No. BUT WHY?" "
fandom:lucy, topic:racism, topic:feminism, topic:femalecharacter
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel unceremoniously snuffs out female founding member of Avengers team: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Even at the best of times, comic book fans can be overly critical about adaptations of their favorite superheroes. But in the case of Marvel’s Ant-Man, fans have already been given plenty of reasons to be concerned."
fandom:mcu
How Gamora, Black Widow and other Marvel women handle sexism: Alyssa Rosenberg (blog) - "It is a modest dream, the idea that sexism might boomerang back on the peoplewho try to exploit it to make women feel bad and weak. In our world, though, theability to do that would genuinely feel like a superpower."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: ink-phoenix (tumblr) - "During the Howling Commandos era, do you think that any of the other guys noticed that something was /different/ about Bucky? "
fandom:mcu
Untitled: historicallyaccuratesteve (tumblr) - "When do you think they actually released Steve's name to the public?"
fandom:mcu
Untitled: historicallyaccuratesteve (tumblr) - "The biggest problem with the Bucky Barnes display in the museum exhibit is that it contradicts itself (and other things mentioned in the films)."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: therealdeepsix (tumblr) - "I’ve been thinking about Bucky’s robot arm a lot"
fandom:mcu
TGIF: princessofgeeks (DW) - "I have been reading (and reccing) a ton of Steve/Bucky from Avengers/MCU, and I adore it. But I adore Natasha/Clint just as much, and for a lot of the same reasons."
fandom:MCU, topic:relationships
Marvel Comics
Superheroes vs. The Black Panther: Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "Criminals in the United States are insistently conceived of as black. Superheroes are iconically crime fighters. A black superhero is forced to confront that contradiction one way or the other — since even ignoring it becomes a kind of confrontation."
fandom:marvelcomics, topic:race
Pacific Rim
Untitled: starseedjenny (tumblr) - "A couple days ago I saw someone raise the question of why Pacific Rim only seems to be resonating with millennials, and I didn’t know the answer, but i’ve been thinking about it a lot and suddenly I understand."
fandom:pacificrim, topic:race
Pacific Rim/Star Wars
Untitled: melannen (DW) - "This will probably remain a favorite of mine, because it is approx. 0% heterosexuality by weight. And that doesn't mean it's particularly queer either - there's just no portrayal of sexuality in it at all. This is a movie where you can easily argue that not only all the protagonists, but also the entire society, is asexual and aromantic. "
fandom:pacificrim, fandom:starwars, topic:asexuality, topic:crossovers
Queer as Folk
Discovering Brian - A Minute-by-Minute Exploration: Frayach (AO3) - "This isn't a story; it's an invitation to a discussion. I can't get enough of talking about Brian Kinney, and I can't get enough of watching the show. Thisis my excuse to do both. "
fandom:queerasfolk
Spider-man
Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity: Osvaldo Oyola (blog) - "But here’s the thing, a returned “real" Peter Parker/Spider-Man will still be responsible for whatever ills caused by Doc Ock assuming his identity, just as he is still responsible for everything done by previous versions of Peter Parker/Spider-Man who made poor choices because of the thread of shared identity, regardless of what changes to the character have been made, undone or forgotten."
fandom:spiderman, fandom:marvelcomics
Supernatural
Untitled: yeahcoolduck (tumblr) - "Nothing forces us down a dark path quicker or more efficiently than reason, and I love the way this manifests in Sam. When the chips are down his ethics fly right out the window, he’s confidant, and he doesn’t give a shit about consequences. "
fandom:supernatural
Untitled: amonitrate (tumblr) - "I've been reading your posts on guilt and shame and they're fantastic, but I'm wondering what your thoughts are re Sam's guilt over his relationship with Dean? Because that was obviously an issue at the end of season 8, but doesn't seem to have led to any positive effort on Sam's part in season 9. Do you think that's rooted in Sam's character, or is it more the direction the story has taken, or just bad writing?"
fandom:supernatural
Untitled: lucifcr (tumblr) - "So Nour and I started analysing the new title card for s10 and wow there’s fun stuff to deduce from it (aka maybe subtle hints who knows)"
fandom:supernatural
Teen Wolf
Untitled: hitori-no-tora (tumblr) - "Scott McCall is standing in a moral gray zone."
fandom:teenwolf
Answering Asks: Meta, Speculation, Spoilers, and Beyond: notanotherteenwolfpodcast (tumblr) - "A collection of metas and answered asks."
fandom:teenwolf
Weeds
Why I Quit Watching Weeds: Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "I binge-watched several seasons of Weeds back there a while ago. The show got worse and worse and more and more improbable as it went along."
fandom:weeds
Wonder Woman
More Than a Superhero: How Wonder Woman Helped Shape Feminism: Nikki Gloudeman (blog) - "Amid this veritable mass of testosterone, one woman has stood tall, golden lasso in hand, as a bona fide beacon of hope for the arguably fairer but never lesser sex: Wonder Woman."
fandom:dccomics, fandom:dccu
Tags:
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:blairwitchproject,
- fandom:burnnotice,
- fandom:constantine,
- fandom:dccomics,
- fandom:dccu,
- fandom:frozen,
- fandom:lucy,
- fandom:marvelcomics,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:pacificrim,
- fandom:queerasfolk,
- fandom:spiderman,
- fandom:starwars,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:teenwolf,
- fandom:weeds,
- topic:asexuality,
- topic:characterization,
- topic:crossovers,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:femalecharacter,
- topic:feminism,
- topic:linguistics,
- topic:misogyny,
- topic:music,
- topic:race,
- topic:racism,
- topic:relationships,
- topic:romance,
- topic:translations,
- warning:spoilers
