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General Fandom
You Are Where You Are: Jason Aaron’s Settigs: Tom Syverson (blog) - "One of the major strengths of the comic book medium is its unique capacity for placing readers squarely within a specific setting, a characteristic that feeds directly off the primacy of the medium’s visual dimension."
topic:comics


Ask Chris #223: Heroic Duos in Comic Books: Chris Sims (blog) - " Friend, I don’t usually like to start off these columns by specifically denying the premise of the question, but there are a lot of heroic duos in the world of superhero comics."
fandom:comics


Steampunk and the Heroine’s Journey: Part Five and Steampunk and the Heroine’s Journey: Part Five Appendix: Mary Sheridan (blog) - "Subversion is common theme in “punk" culture. It is therefore no surprise that challenging or undermining real and fictitious tropes is a natural part of Steampunk novels. With the growing list of female genre authors writing women as protagonists and working to define them as heroines, it also comes as no surprise that Joseph Campbell’s male monomyth is a prime target."
topic:herosjourney, topic:femalecharacter


How Meta is Too Meta?: Lady Saika (blog) - "Many franchises have tried to play into our desire for our fantasy worlds to be real by adding a layer of meta into their creations, inextricably linking the real world and the fictional one."
topic:fourthwall, topic:meta


Sexualized Saturdays: Challenging Inappropriate Affection: Lady Saika (blog) - "What do I mean by inappropriate affection? I’m referring to a situation between two friends or colleagues where one has an unrequited crush on the other, and said crush-er constantly attempts to win the affections of the crush-ee, despite the latter being uninterested/much older/unavailable."
topic:romance, fandom:gravity falls, fandom:legendofkorra


Magical Mondays: Mirror, Mirror: Tsunderin (blog) - "This mentality has stuck with us as it seems that the state of one’s soul is most commonly entwined with mythos about mirrors in fiction. While a mirror can sometimes trap a soul, I think one of the more interesting interpretations are when mirrors are used to show one’s inner desires, as well as how those desires can lead to one’s downfall."
topic:magic


3 reasons we need a great black romantic comedy: Chris Osterndorf (blog) - "However, one of Rock’s most interesting comments was not socially or politically charged at all. At least, not on the surface: Chris Rock wants to do a romantic comedy."
topic:romance, topic:race


’Supernatural’ pairing takes the crown as Tumblr’s most popular ship: Aja Romano (blog) - "For the first time, Tumblr has published statistics on shipping as part of its Year in Review report, a project that began last year as a way of providing insight into its community activity. According to Tumblr, Destiel is the most reblogged ship on the Internet."
topic:shipping, topic:tumblr


The racist #BlackStormtrooper backlash shows the dark side of geek culture: Matt Rozsa (blog) - "There is a deeper lesson to be learned by the racist backlash against the casting of John Boyega as a major character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s cliché these days to point out that “geek is chic," but 2014 may be remembered as a turning point for the nerd subculture once associated with social marginalization—namely, the year in which it was held accountable for its own dark side."
topic:fandom, topic:racism


Does Sex Make Science Fiction “Soft?": Tansy Raynor Roberts (journal) - "How much kissing and flirting can a story take before it doesn’t deserve to be called science fiction any more?"
topic:romance, topic:sciencefiction, topic:genre


Specific Fandom

Adventure Time
Princess Bubblegum’s Rule by Science: Sara Goodwin (blog) - "But (and in Adventure Time, there is always a butt) – there is a side to this girl that is more than qualified to accept a position of leadership within Aperture Laboratories, Inc."
fandom:adventuretime


Agents of SHIELD
Untitled: hellotailor (tumblr) - "I have a question for you. If Grant was a person or colour, would you still hate him like you do? You don't have to respond. You can yell at me all you want. But please think about this."
fandom:agentsofshield


"Then Mind Telling Me What I’m Doing Here?" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Poorly Shifting Cast: porlucier nagas (blog) - "That is to say, both shows are adding characters without rhyme or reason, and it’s often to the detriment of the narrative and the other characters."
fandom:agentsofshield


Avatar: the Last Airbender
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Airbenders and Religious Traditions: stine key (blog) - "The Rift raises some interesting questions about how religion can and should adapt and evolve to new times and places, questions that are especially relevant to religious people’s lives today."
fandom:atla, warning:spoilers


Batman (TV 1966)
A Whiff of Bat-Wake Should Arouse Her: Noah Berlatsky (blog) - "So why gas? I think it may serve a similar function to Wonder Woman’s lasso in the original Marston/Peter comics."
fandom:batmantv1966


The Worst Is Yet to Come: Noah Berlatsky - "We finished the first season of Batman, and started the second…and holy jumping the shark, Batman. The two initial episodes with the Archer were by far the worst in the series."
fandom:batmantv1966


Batwoman
[UPDATED] Why is Rape in Batwoman More Interesting Than Marriage to DC Comics?: Alan Kistler (blog) - "Is this really a more interesting story to tell than Maggie and Kate getting married?"
warning:rape, fandom:dccomics


Dragon Age: Inquisition
BioWare Talks The Development Of Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s Trans Character: Sam Maggs (blog) - "Dragon Age: Inquisition might just have one of the best representations of a trans character in video games ever."
fandom:dragonage, topic:transgender


Exodus: Gods and Kings
Review: The Whitewashing Isn’t The Only Terrible Thing About Exodus: Gods and Kings: Lesley Coffin (blog) - "When the first trailers for Ridley Scott’s new epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings, hit, the initial reaction (rightfully) was outrage over the film’s whitewashing."
fandom:exodus


Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones Jumping the Shark, Part 1: msunyata (blog) - "For season five, however, the best case yet will probably be made for trotting out that shark one more (and final?) time…"
fandom:gameofthrones


Hunger Games
Mockingjay Part 1 Fangirl Chat Review with Star Wars Report: Fangirl Chat (podcast) - "Last year, Bethany Blanton and Riley Blanton of Star War Report joined Teresa and I to talk The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Fangirl Chat. When Riley, who hasn’t read the books, started texting Teresa at the end of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 we figured he had more things to say. The roundtable discussion on Episode 18 of Fangirl Chat touched on trauma, matters of the heart, and hits and misses in the movie."
fandom:hungergames


Jane Eyre
To Storm or Fire the World Must Fall: Masked_Man_2 (AO3) - "Indeed, the battle of sense and passion is truly focused entirely on Jane, with a scattering of other integral characters (namely Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers) representing one quality or the other in isolation."
fandom:janeeyre


Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Internet’s obsession with the Winter Soldier’s robot arm: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "And among all this, some fans became transfixed by one rather specific detail in the film: the Winter Soldier’s robotic arm."
fandom:mcu


Newsies
Let’s Soak ‘em For Crutchie: The Successes and Shortcomings of Broadway’s Newsies in Accurate Representation of Disability: letssoakemforcrutchy (AO3) - "When the film was adapted into a stage musical in 2011, the plot was expanded to include additional storylines shedding light on other injustices of the era. Most notably, a minor character named Crutchy was redeveloped into a secondary protagonist, and the particular struggles he would have encountered on a day-to-day basis as a result of his disability became very important to the storyline."
fandom:newsies, topic:disability


Newsroom
[UPDATED] Aaron Sorkin Threw Female Newsroom Writer out of the Writers Room Over Rape Storyline: Jill Pantozzi (blog) - "I started seeing rumblings on Twitter last night of some sort of epic train wreck about to take place on HBO’s The Newsroom. The train, it did wreck, but what came after is even more horrifying."
fandom:newsroom, warning:rape


Last night’s ‘Newsroom’ shows Hollywood still doesn’t know how to write about rape: Audra Schroeder (blog) - "One of the narrative threads of “Oh Shenandoah" was that of a college student who claimed she was raped. Don Keefer (Thomas Sadoski) is tasked with producing a segment, and he struggles with how to approach it, especially within Lucas Pruitt’s (B.J. Novak) new millennial regime."
fandom:newsroom, warning:rape


Pippi Longstocking
Fans of Pippi Longstocking Protest the Removal of Racial Slurs From Children’s Show: Carolyn Cox (blog) - "Those might seem like two relatively minor edits (considering the show originally aired in 1969, I expected the need for a larger overhaul) but literally thousands of Pippi fans, many of them respected Swedish journalists and educators, strongly disagree."
topic:racism, fandom:pippilongstocking


Sandman
Visual Representation: Trans Characters In Comics: Tash Wolfe (blog) - "The character of Wanda is merely used as a plot device. Even her death is used as a way to highlight Barbie’s experience as an ally. Wanda is remembered as merely another trope."
fandom:sandman, topic:transgender


Serial
"We have to go back!" Getting Lost in the Serial Podcast: Osvaldo Oyola (blog) - "Over the Thanksgiving Weekend, like a lot of people we know, my wife and I binge-listened to Serial. Serial is a podcast by the producers of This American Life, an episodic exploration of a murder case from 1999 that seems to have more questions than answers, but that is nonetheless addictive.
fandom:serial, fandom:lost


Sherlock
[Sherlock] Season 3: The Mirror of the Troll: cantadora-09 tranlated by pennypaperbrain (blog) - "And I noticed a remarkable thing: Season 3 is perfectly made in terms of professional competence and how to make good cinema, but from the point of view of telling a worthwhile story, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny."
fandom:bbcsherlock


Sleepy Hollow
How ‘Sleepy Hollow’ is failing its fans: Michelle Jaworski (blog) - "The tables are turning in Sleepy Hollow, and not necessarily for the better."
fandom:sleepyhollow, warning:spoilers


A Song of Ice and Fire
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Bran III, ACOK: Steven Attewell (blog) - "For all that Bran III is a pretty short chapter, in which not many actions or events of great moment happen, there’s some really interesting world-building and thematic work going on."
fandom:asoiaf


Star Trek
Throwback Thursdays: Jean-Luc Picard, Last of the Great White Men: mikelywhiplash (blog) - "When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted in 1987, it still went without saying that a white guy would sit in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise."
fandom:startrek


Star Wars
Fangirl Chat Episode 18: The Force Awakens Reaction: Fangirl Chat (podcast) - "Minutes after The Force Awakens teaser trailer released, Teresa Delgado and Tricia Barr jumped on Skype and invited friends Aaron Goins (Star Wars Bookworms) and William Devereux (Ion Cannon Podcast) to share their reactions."
fandom:starwars


GeekGirlCon 2014 Star Wars Panel Recap: fangirl (blog) - "This year’s panel happened on Star Wars Reads Day and we had a lot of positive discussion, but interestingly enough, the topic of reading and Star Wars was one area where this year’s panel felt like the franchise has come up short. Panelists included Lisa Granshaw (Daily Dot, Star Wars Insider), Meg Humphrey (Far Far Away Radio, GeekGirlCon), Linda Hansen-Raj (FANgirl), and Kay Serna (Hyperspace Theories, FANgirl)."
fandom:starwars, topic:femalecharacter


Reaching the Rebels Mid-Way Point with the Rebel Yell Podcast: Disney Vault Talk Rebel Yell (podcast) - "Steve and Teresa are joined by Daniel Berry from Podcast 66 and Kay from Fangirl Blog and Hyperspace Theories to talk about the two-part mid-season finale of Rebels. The quartet dig into whether or not Loth-cat is the right terminology, what is up with Ezra’s parents, and just who is Fulcrum in this extra long extra full episode of Rebel Yell!
fandom:starwars


Why racial diversity in the new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy matters: Dan Marcus (blog) - "As I was watching the first official live-action Star Wars footage in nearly ten years unspool right before my very eyes, there was something I noticed right away that brought a huge smile to my face. No, it wasn’t the homages to the original movies (although those were incredibly cool) such as the appearance of the Millennium Falcon or the breathtaking imagery of X-Wings flying above water. It was the first image that we see: That of Attack the Block’s John Boyega in a dusty Stormtrooper outfit."
fandom:starwars, topic:diversity


True Blood
True Blood Season 3: Tara, Misogyny, and Rape Culture: MadameAce (blog) - "Despite being a really good show with an awesome female protagonist, True Blood’s biggest problem seems to be offensive clichés, and that is no more apparent than how the show treats both Tara and Eggs’s characters and their misogynistic and racist plotlines."
fandom:trueblood, warning:rape
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