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General Fandom
Why are British teen shows so much better than American ones?: Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite (blog) - "In general, U.S. television has done a pretty bad job of creating teenagers who seem like actual teenagers."
The conversation on cosplay harassment isn’t over: Ashlyn Keefe (blog) - ”Cosplay is not consent” is a phrase most convention goers should be familiar with by now.”
Big Bang Theory and Gotham on Assembly of Geeks: Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - "The new fall TV season is almost here and we’re getting excited! This week, the spotlight is on an old favorite and a new geek TV show!"
Hypocrisy, Race and Literary Gentrification: foz meadows (blog) - ”Though Parker is speaking specifically about a white writer’s appropriation of black culture, going on to link these elements with the novel’s arguable classification as a work of ‘gentrification fiction,’ the idea of literary gentrification has, I would argue, a wider and more general applicability which he himself acknowledges: namely, the idea of literary writers seeking to detach – and therefore, in their frequent estimation, elevate, or even rescue – genre ideas from their cultural, narrative and contextual points of origin.”
Magical Mondays: Making the Normal Abnormal: porluciernagas (blog) - ”And the interesting thing is, when you take this idea and turn it around—when you make the normal abnormal—you can teach lessons and explore characters just as effectively.”
Theatre Thursdays: Theatre of the Oppressed: Squid, Inc. (blog) - ”But explaining my views on theatre to these young people, I learned that Theatre of the Oppressed provides a great (and simple) model for improving the theatre community at large and reversing many of its inherent injustices.”
Why Do We Love the Apocalypse So Much?: Sara Goodwin (blog) - "My personal theory is that we wouldn’t be creating the post-apocalypse over and over again in art if some part of us didn’t want it to be true in life. No, I don’t want my friends and family turned zombie, hit by a meteor, or institutionalized by a futuristic big-brother state. But… if the end came, what would I wear? How would I live? Would I loot like a disenfranchised punk, or would I head to the country and learn how to grow my own food and shave my own sheep? These are the kinds of questions that I believe draw people back to the Apocalypse over and over again."
Specific Fandom
Attack the Block
”In the Streets It’s Getting Hot”: Attack the Block and Racial Inequality: porluciernagas (blog) - ”Like Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block is in many ways a send-up of a popular genre (this time, alien invasions). It’s suspenseful, engaging, and hilarious. Most of all, it’s thought-provoking: it has a level of diversity that is rarely found in sci-fi, and uses its cast to make some pointed racial commentary.”
Sexualized Saturdays: Attack the Block’s Performance of Masculinity: porluciernagas (blog) - ”As we’ve previously covered, the 2011 sci-fi Attack the Block makes some fantastic points about racism and racial inequality. Equally as important, though, is the script’s focus on performance of masculinity.”
Doctor Who
4 ways to fix Doctor Who before it’s too late: Chally Kalcelnik (blog) - ”Doctor Who, once arguably the best show on television, has been facing mounting criticism.”
Into the Dalek - Series 8 - Episode Two (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "For although the Doctor's companions aren't soldiers (not yet for this regeneration, anyway) he leads them into battle more often than not."
Deep Breath - Series 8 - Episode One (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "But, it’s also very clear Clara doesn’t recognise the Doctor because he doesn’t recognise himself. "
Robot of Sherwood - Series 8 - Episode Three (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "Mark Gatiss penned an episode which is a love letter both to Warner Bros' 1938 Technicolour, swashbuckling, marvel Robin Hood and to the Doctor. He then sprinkled in more than a dash of Robin Hood Men in Tights which seems to have broadened the appeal for most; and lessened it for me. "
Listen - Series 8 - Episode Four (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "This episode is terrifying, but not for the reasons you think it might be. It's also wonderful, but again not necessarily when stared at head on."
Elementary
Untitled: lyrangalia (tumblr) ”I’ll grant you, anon, that diversity isn’t enough to save a show from poor writing. However, let’s talk about a few other things, shall we?”
Frozen
The problem with ‘Frozen’: Alicia Swiz (blog) - ”Although Frozen boasts two female lead characters, passes the Bechdel Test and ultimately defines “true love” as an act of sisterhood, it is embedded with traditional gender norms that serve to cultivate a stereotypical depiction that defines women as an other and devalues their humanity because of how it differs from men.”
The Hidden Anti-Monarchial Message of Disney’s Frozen: overthinking it (blog) - "Over the course of Frozen, we see how patriarchal rules of succession have created a dynastic crisis and left Arendelle vulnerable politically."
Lord of the Rings
A Heroine's Journey — Tauriel: Beng (AO3) - "A Heroine's Journey is turned inward. Yeah, she goes away and does stuff, but the change comes from within, from her own inner strength and endurance, not external help like Excalibur or Gandalf. "
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Untitled: dendritic-trees (tumblr) - "But Steve is never a particularly good soldier, in fact, he very specifically isn’t a good soldier. Steve is a good man not a perfect soldier."
Marvel Comics
Was Spider-Woman Harmed in the Making of this Cover?: Roy T. Cook (blog) - "In particular, the production and publication of Manara’s cover now makes it fictionally the case that Jessica (at least once) poised herself atop a building, in a body-paint version of her costume, ‘presenting’ herself (in the biological sense of the term) to anyone in the city who might want a look."
Outlander
Why I Love Outlander (and you should too): laisserais (DW) - "Holy goodness, this show. I haven't read the books--and having heard Ms Gabaldon's opinions on fanfic, I doubt I will, but I will wholeheartedly watch this show."
Ratatouille
You Cannot Be Mommy: A Female Cook on Ratatouille: Rebecca Lynde-Scott (blog) - "I’m going to ignore all the artifacts of the Disneyness of this movie — ok, most of them, there’s one I want to hit later — like the clean language, the obligatory minimum level of femininity, the romance. Generally, though, she’s really a very accurate portrayal, even examined quite closely."
Sherlock
Major Barrymore as John’s foil gives us insights on John’s past and his father: shinka (blog) - ”So, keeping in mind that Major Barrymore = John or John as a soldier, I was a bit curious about the scene where Sherlock has to deduce Barrymore’s password to get into the H.O.U.N.D program. Every scene needs to mean something and I was a bit surprised about how Sherlock’s deduction and the password were about Margaret Thatcher, about traditionalist values.”
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Worst Man in Westeros: Craster: Jim McGeehin (blog) - ”In terms of raw metrics for quantity and revulsion generated, it's hard to do much worse than Craster, the wildling master of Craster's Keep.”
Chapter By Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Bran II: Steven Attewell (blog) - in-depth analysis of ASOIAF
The Wild World of Game of Thrones Fan Theories, Part 2: Carrie Tupper (blog) - "In the spirit of sharing the aluminium hat love, I’ve complied a few tinfoil theories from around the net. This is in no way a complete list, as there are plenty of others out there! Of those I’ve listed, some border on the fringe of possibly (though none have as much evidence to back them up as the theories in part one), while others will just make you laugh."
Untitled: thedeadviperofdorne (tumblr) - "there is no more fitting bird imagery for sansa stark than that of her mockingbird dress."
Untitled: queencersei (tumblr) - "Cersei’s rule is not an effective one, it’s a shadow, it’s something that is as a matter of fact just in her mind, because paranoid as she is she doesn’t see she’s trusting the wrong people."
Untitled: onionjulius (tumblr) - " There are some things that I have realized upon long ponderings [on Cersi] that make me side-eye GRRM a bit. "
Untitled: lannistermeta (tumblr) - " Ultimately it can be up to interpretation, but because of Cersei’s attitude towards the atonement in general, I think it’s wishful thinking to consider it regret."
Untitled: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - " Arya is actually judged more harshly on a scale of goodness than many other characters for her killings."
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "I sincerely doubt Roose Bolton ordered Ramsay to sack Winterfell. It was an impulsive, wasteful thing, which is very much unlike Roose and very much like Ramsay."
Untitled: eldergrantaire (tumblr) - "thinking about the spectrum of female characters in asoiaf is so fascinating especially the way they relate to their femininity because they all respond in such wildly different ways"
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Comics and Thoughts on Medium Choice: brothadom (blog) - ”Given that the series has gone on as long as it has, there is no shortage of criticism towards the blue hedgehog and his pals. However, most of these arguments take place in the space of the games, and I think the comics deserve some place in the discussion.”
Supernatural
Untitled: castiel-knight-of-hell (tumblr) - ”In honor of Bisexual Pride Day here’s a short meta on Goodbye Stranger 8.17 by Robbie Thompson”
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.
For those concerned we link to the following paid sites: The Mary Sue, The Daily Dot.
General Fandom
Why are British teen shows so much better than American ones?: Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite (blog) - "In general, U.S. television has done a pretty bad job of creating teenagers who seem like actual teenagers."
topic:television
The conversation on cosplay harassment isn’t over: Ashlyn Keefe (blog) - ”Cosplay is not consent” is a phrase most convention goers should be familiar with by now.”
topic:conventions, topic:cosplay, topic:harassment
Big Bang Theory and Gotham on Assembly of Geeks: Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - "The new fall TV season is almost here and we’re getting excited! This week, the spotlight is on an old favorite and a new geek TV show!"
topic:television
Hypocrisy, Race and Literary Gentrification: foz meadows (blog) - ”Though Parker is speaking specifically about a white writer’s appropriation of black culture, going on to link these elements with the novel’s arguable classification as a work of ‘gentrification fiction,’ the idea of literary gentrification has, I would argue, a wider and more general applicability which he himself acknowledges: namely, the idea of literary writers seeking to detach – and therefore, in their frequent estimation, elevate, or even rescue – genre ideas from their cultural, narrative and contextual points of origin.”
topic:race, topic:genre
Magical Mondays: Making the Normal Abnormal: porluciernagas (blog) - ”And the interesting thing is, when you take this idea and turn it around—when you make the normal abnormal—you can teach lessons and explore characters just as effectively.”
topic:characterization
Theatre Thursdays: Theatre of the Oppressed: Squid, Inc. (blog) - ”But explaining my views on theatre to these young people, I learned that Theatre of the Oppressed provides a great (and simple) model for improving the theatre community at large and reversing many of its inherent injustices.”
fandom:theater, topic:socialjustice
Why Do We Love the Apocalypse So Much?: Sara Goodwin (blog) - "My personal theory is that we wouldn’t be creating the post-apocalypse over and over again in art if some part of us didn’t want it to be true in life. No, I don’t want my friends and family turned zombie, hit by a meteor, or institutionalized by a futuristic big-brother state. But… if the end came, what would I wear? How would I live? Would I loot like a disenfranchised punk, or would I head to the country and learn how to grow my own food and shave my own sheep? These are the kinds of questions that I believe draw people back to the Apocalypse over and over again."
topic:dystopia, topic:zombies
Specific Fandom
Attack the Block
”In the Streets It’s Getting Hot”: Attack the Block and Racial Inequality: porluciernagas (blog) - ”Like Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block is in many ways a send-up of a popular genre (this time, alien invasions). It’s suspenseful, engaging, and hilarious. Most of all, it’s thought-provoking: it has a level of diversity that is rarely found in sci-fi, and uses its cast to make some pointed racial commentary.”
fandom:attacktheblock
Sexualized Saturdays: Attack the Block’s Performance of Masculinity: porluciernagas (blog) - ”As we’ve previously covered, the 2011 sci-fi Attack the Block makes some fantastic points about racism and racial inequality. Equally as important, though, is the script’s focus on performance of masculinity.”
fandom:attacktheblock
Doctor Who
4 ways to fix Doctor Who before it’s too late: Chally Kalcelnik (blog) - ”Doctor Who, once arguably the best show on television, has been facing mounting criticism.”
fandom:doctorwho
Into the Dalek - Series 8 - Episode Two (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "For although the Doctor's companions aren't soldiers (not yet for this regeneration, anyway) he leads them into battle more often than not."
fandom:doctorwho
Deep Breath - Series 8 - Episode One (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "But, it’s also very clear Clara doesn’t recognise the Doctor because he doesn’t recognise himself. "
fandom:doctorwho
Robot of Sherwood - Series 8 - Episode Three (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "Mark Gatiss penned an episode which is a love letter both to Warner Bros' 1938 Technicolour, swashbuckling, marvel Robin Hood and to the Doctor. He then sprinkled in more than a dash of Robin Hood Men in Tights which seems to have broadened the appeal for most; and lessened it for me. "
fandom:doctorwho
Listen - Series 8 - Episode Four (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "This episode is terrifying, but not for the reasons you think it might be. It's also wonderful, but again not necessarily when stared at head on."
fandom:doctorwho
Elementary
Untitled: lyrangalia (tumblr) ”I’ll grant you, anon, that diversity isn’t enough to save a show from poor writing. However, let’s talk about a few other things, shall we?”
fandom:elementary
Frozen
The problem with ‘Frozen’: Alicia Swiz (blog) - ”Although Frozen boasts two female lead characters, passes the Bechdel Test and ultimately defines “true love” as an act of sisterhood, it is embedded with traditional gender norms that serve to cultivate a stereotypical depiction that defines women as an other and devalues their humanity because of how it differs from men.”
fandom:frozen
The Hidden Anti-Monarchial Message of Disney’s Frozen: overthinking it (blog) - "Over the course of Frozen, we see how patriarchal rules of succession have created a dynastic crisis and left Arendelle vulnerable politically."
fandom:frozen
Lord of the Rings
A Heroine's Journey — Tauriel: Beng (AO3) - "A Heroine's Journey is turned inward. Yeah, she goes away and does stuff, but the change comes from within, from her own inner strength and endurance, not external help like Excalibur or Gandalf. "
fandom:lotr
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Untitled: dendritic-trees (tumblr) - "But Steve is never a particularly good soldier, in fact, he very specifically isn’t a good soldier. Steve is a good man not a perfect soldier."
fandom:mcu
Marvel Comics
Was Spider-Woman Harmed in the Making of this Cover?: Roy T. Cook (blog) - "In particular, the production and publication of Manara’s cover now makes it fictionally the case that Jessica (at least once) poised herself atop a building, in a body-paint version of her costume, ‘presenting’ herself (in the biological sense of the term) to anyone in the city who might want a look."
fandom:marvelcomics
Outlander
Why I Love Outlander (and you should too): laisserais (DW) - "Holy goodness, this show. I haven't read the books--and having heard Ms Gabaldon's opinions on fanfic, I doubt I will, but I will wholeheartedly watch this show."
fandom:outlander
Ratatouille
You Cannot Be Mommy: A Female Cook on Ratatouille: Rebecca Lynde-Scott (blog) - "I’m going to ignore all the artifacts of the Disneyness of this movie — ok, most of them, there’s one I want to hit later — like the clean language, the obligatory minimum level of femininity, the romance. Generally, though, she’s really a very accurate portrayal, even examined quite closely."
fandom:ratatouille, topic:sexism
Sherlock
Major Barrymore as John’s foil gives us insights on John’s past and his father: shinka (blog) - ”So, keeping in mind that Major Barrymore = John or John as a soldier, I was a bit curious about the scene where Sherlock has to deduce Barrymore’s password to get into the H.O.U.N.D program. Every scene needs to mean something and I was a bit surprised about how Sherlock’s deduction and the password were about Margaret Thatcher, about traditionalist values.”
fandom:sherlock
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Worst Man in Westeros: Craster: Jim McGeehin (blog) - ”In terms of raw metrics for quantity and revulsion generated, it's hard to do much worse than Craster, the wildling master of Craster's Keep.”
fandom:asoiaf
Chapter By Chapter Analysis: ACOK, Bran II: Steven Attewell (blog) - in-depth analysis of ASOIAF
fandom:asoiaf
The Wild World of Game of Thrones Fan Theories, Part 2: Carrie Tupper (blog) - "In the spirit of sharing the aluminium hat love, I’ve complied a few tinfoil theories from around the net. This is in no way a complete list, as there are plenty of others out there! Of those I’ve listed, some border on the fringe of possibly (though none have as much evidence to back them up as the theories in part one), while others will just make you laugh."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: thedeadviperofdorne (tumblr) - "there is no more fitting bird imagery for sansa stark than that of her mockingbird dress."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: queencersei (tumblr) - "Cersei’s rule is not an effective one, it’s a shadow, it’s something that is as a matter of fact just in her mind, because paranoid as she is she doesn’t see she’s trusting the wrong people."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: onionjulius (tumblr) - " There are some things that I have realized upon long ponderings [on Cersi] that make me side-eye GRRM a bit. "
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: lannistermeta (tumblr) - " Ultimately it can be up to interpretation, but because of Cersei’s attitude towards the atonement in general, I think it’s wishful thinking to consider it regret."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: donewithwoodenteeth (tumblr) - " Arya is actually judged more harshly on a scale of goodness than many other characters for her killings."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: nobodysuspectsthebutterfly (tumblr) - "I sincerely doubt Roose Bolton ordered Ramsay to sack Winterfell. It was an impulsive, wasteful thing, which is very much unlike Roose and very much like Ramsay."
fandom:asoiaf
Untitled: eldergrantaire (tumblr) - "thinking about the spectrum of female characters in asoiaf is so fascinating especially the way they relate to their femininity because they all respond in such wildly different ways"
fandom:asoiaf
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Comics and Thoughts on Medium Choice: brothadom (blog) - ”Given that the series has gone on as long as it has, there is no shortage of criticism towards the blue hedgehog and his pals. However, most of these arguments take place in the space of the games, and I think the comics deserve some place in the discussion.”
fandom:comics, fandom:gaming
Supernatural
Untitled: castiel-knight-of-hell (tumblr) - ”In honor of Bisexual Pride Day here’s a short meta on Goodbye Stranger 8.17 by Robbie Thompson”
fandom:supernatural
Tags:
- fandom:asoiaf,
- fandom:attacktheblock,
- fandom:bbcsherlock,
- fandom:comics,
- fandom:doctorwho,
- fandom:elementary,
- fandom:frozen,
- fandom:gaming,
- fandom:lotr,
- fandom:marvelcomics,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:outlander,
- fandom:ratatouille,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:theater,
- topic:characterization,
- topic:conventions,
- topic:cosplay,
- topic:dystopia,
- topic:genre,
- topic:harassment,
- topic:race,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:sociajustice,
- topic:television,
- topic:zombies
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Date: 2014-09-26 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-26 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-26 06:25 pm (UTC)I'd like to read the cosplay link, but get a 404 message. Did they delete the post, or is it a broken link?
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Date: 2014-09-26 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 03:38 am (UTC)Thanks for taking care of it.
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Date: 2014-09-26 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 01:15 pm (UTC)* thoughts on Twin Peaks, especially related to the positive and negative effects of airing a community's dirty laundry
* meta on aspects of Jared Padalecki's performance of Sam Winchester