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Entry tags:
- fandom:comics,
- fandom:harrypotter,
- fandom:mcu,
- fandom:starwars,
- fandom:supernatural,
- fandom:teenwolf,
- fandom:wheeloftime,
- topic:asexuality,
- topic:copyright,
- topic:costumes,
- topic:discussion,
- topic:fandom,
- topic:fanfic,
- topic:fourthwall,
- topic:gaming,
- topic:meta,
- topic:race,
- topic:religion,
- topic:representation,
- topic:reviewing,
- topic:sex,
- topic:sexism,
- topic:slash,
- topic:writing,
- warning:non-con,
- warning:violence
Meta Links (07/03/13 - 13/03/13)
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General Fandom
The Universal Versus Smash Porn Company fandom-lawyers (LJ) We've been blogging about it on a new tumblr at fyeahcopyright, and found out this morning that the case has settled!
The Information Business: Openings KateElliot (LJ) ”One of the difficult elements (are there any easy ones?) in openings is how to sow information into the seedbed of the story in the right amounts and with the correct distribution”
Authors Talk Fanfic and Fandoms OTW (LJ)
Fannish Expectation OTW (LJ)
meta: Violence, Brutality, and Women on TV: alchemise (DW) - "After watching last week's Banshee, it got me thinking about how rare it is to see brutally violent fight scenes featuring women on TV, where the woman is just one of the combatants. That is, scenes where a woman fights brutally, not where it's just one-sided and she's being victimized."
Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women: Anita Sarkeesian (webseries) - "This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself."
Pitting creators against fandom: Aja Romano (blog) - "Is fan culture entitled or empowered or both at once?"
AU fic: quiet--tiger(LJ) - "Do you guys find there are general alternate universe/history themes that pop up across fandoms? Obviously there is a broad category of "slavery" fics I've seen, but I mean more specific AU settings"
NPR Best-Of Lists: Playing Favorites?: ladybusiness (DW) - "The inevitable question is: so what? What does it matter if this particular list has fewer female authors than it otherwise might? The list already includes more women than men, no matter how we examine the data. But still, it matters."
Coverage of Women on SF/F Blogs (2012): ladybusiness (DW) - "This project is about the visibility of women in science fiction and fantasy reviews and whether the gender of the reviewer impacts that visibility."
Open Thread: Oracle Hotline: mithen (LJ) - Do you generally outline your fics or do you prefer to write spontaneously and then revise?"
Religion and Non-Religion: kaigou (DW) - "It'd be very easy to write a story in which religion (any religion) gets its comeuppance, or gets dissed or shown to be wrong in some way [...]It actually feels harder to write -- believably -- characters who really do cherish, and respect, and feel obligated to fulfill, a set of religious precepts."
I Fought the Book, and the Book Won: merisunshine36 (DW) - "Do our fic reading patterns come from the books we read, or vice versa? Who knows. I suspect it's a bit of both."
Present Tense And Me:Isis (DW) - "FRTDNEATJ I've been thinking about why I bounce so hard off so much present-tense fiction. You have probably noticed this about me if you've been reading my reviews, so I thought it might be interesting (at least to me :-) to ramble about it a little."
Music:Melannen (DW) - "ANYWAY. Along those lines, some years back, somebody (I've no idea who) said that their test for when they're too invested in a fandom is to pick some random songs from their collection, and if they can come up with a pairing (or vid idea) that matches every song, they are exactly the right level of invested. (If you come up with the same pairing for every song, you are probably too invested.)"
No Subject (post on accessibility at a convention):soc_puppet (DW) - "You may remember my post a while back on my efforts to promote accessibility at our local anime convention, AnimeIowa. Well, we're back in convention planning mode now, and while I'm planning to repeat the stuff that worked and implement as many other things as I can possibly think of, I could use a bit of advice from people who may have a bit more experience in this area."
Ace Mini Meta Fest Prompt Listamaresu (DW) - "Prompts have been compiled and here is the list. "
Specific Fandoms
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson's Women: chiusse (blog) - An analysis of the character Nell and a comparison with Stephenson's other female characters.
SHIELD television series
On Superhero TV: beccaelizabeth (DW) "...we're going to have a SHIELD TV series, which will be kin to an Avengers series but distinctly different, so it's interesting to me at least to wonder: what will be the central question to explore in such a show?"
Legend of the Seeker, Supernatural
Interpersonal Relationships on a Team: vorquellyn (LJ) - An analysis of the Dean/Castiel (SPN) and Richard/Kahlan (LoTS) pairings, and why the author ships one but not the other despite a number of surface-level similarities.
Teen Wolf
March Meta for Sterek Campaign: lunarwolfik in sterekcampaign (DW) - "This month, help us to compile a library full of Sterek meta that is easily accessible to new and old Sterek fans alike!"
the scott-bashing i see in fic is the same kind EVERY TIME: amazonpoodle (tumblr) - "in addition to point one in this (very, very long, as always) post, i’ll be addressing the scott-needs-to-be-taken-down-a-peg trope, the scott-is-selfish-and-not-worthy-to-be-friends-with-stiles trope, the scott-reacts-badly-when-stiles-comes-out trope, and of course the fandom number-one hit, everybody’s favorite, always there for you in a pinch, the scott-is-stupid trope."
Werewolf Prohphylactics: an argument: brownbetty (DW) - "So, there's this thing in Teen Wolf fandom where condoms are frequently omitted in fic on the basis that werewolves can't get disease."
Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Meta, Part One - Technology and Race: Katherine Keller (blog) - "What follows in this series is a by no means exhaustive examination of all the differences, just a highlight reel of the treatment of technology, race, feminism, sexuality, and the nature of evil..."
The Wheel of Meta, Part Two - Is The Wheel of Time a Feminist Text?: Katherine Keller (blog) - "The same themes of different but equal, of complement and contrast, are reflected in almost all of the societies and nations in WoT."
Thor (MCU)
Thor and Mjolnir (originally untitled): lokizillas (tumblr) - "I do think there’s some inherent magic in Mjolnir [...] and that the recall function is part of that or possibly part of her bond with Thor, which is much greater than with anyone else."
Game of Thrones
Meta Monday: Sexual violence: justadram (tumblr) - "Today’s topic is sexual violence against women, which in both the HBO series and books seems to be the accepted norm."
Sherlock Holmes
Accounting for Sherlock: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - " In this essay I explore Sherlock’s finances as a consulting detective."
Why can't any recent Sherlock Holmes adaptation get Irene Adler right?: Esther Inglis-Arkell (blog) - "On the plus side, these 21st Century Adlers are more action oriented — but in several key ways, they actually seem more old-fashioned than Doyle's 19th Century original."
Meta: Some thoughts on the canonical relationship between Sherlock and John in BBC's Sherlock Kizzia (LJ) ”At the moment, as most of you know, I am researching the British involvement in the current Afghanistan conflict and thus am reading everything I can lay my hands on about our solider's lives and experiences on the front line.”
Wizard of Oz
Why Oz the Great and Powerful Is A Major Step Back For Witches and Women:Elisabethe Rappe (blog) - " In a bitter reversal of Baum's stories, "Great and Powerful" casts the women as the sidekicks, standing by to aid the Wizard should he need it. "
The Hunger Games
Capitol Couture: Catching Fire.: Hello Tailor (blog) - "I'd hoped that they might kick the weirdness up a notch after the relatively tame aesthetic of the first movie, but these publicity images seem to imply the opposite."
The Sentinel
Your Most Favourite Hurt/Comforty TS Scenes, thank you:mab_browne (DW) - "There are fannishly inclined people out in the big wide world who don't know about The Sentinel, so I'm doing an overview for the Whumpable comm on Dreamwidth. Might I have your favourite h/c moments in canon?"
Person Of Interest
Person Of Interest On Fanlore: arduinna (DW) - "I went poking at Fanlore to see what it said about Person of Interest, and what it said was... nothing. At all. No fandom page, character pages, pairing pages, fanworks pages. Nada. The closest we get is a mention of John and Harold on the Clams page, for obvious reasons."
Harry Potter
Narcissa Malfoy Character Study HP-Darkarts (LJ) ”Blonde, blue-eyed and lethal – Narcissa Malfoy: Not just a trophy wife.”
Star Wars
The Trial of Ahsoka Tano Legal Geeks “ Judge Matthew Sciarrino joined Jessica and Josh for a special video and podcast on The Clone Wars and the trial of Ahsoka Tano.”
We're now using "format light" on all DW and LJ links, and /mobile on all tumblrs, does this help or hinder readability? We will be having a poll later on where you can give your opinion.
If you want to give feedback, volunteer, link us to meta or ask a question, comment to the volunteers post, the Questions and Things post, the screened post, or PM/email.
We desperately need mods! If you want the comm to continue, please think of volunteering.
General Fandom
The Universal Versus Smash Porn Company fandom-lawyers (LJ) We've been blogging about it on a new tumblr at fyeahcopyright, and found out this morning that the case has settled!
topic: fanfiction, topic: copyright
The Information Business: Openings KateElliot (LJ) ”One of the difficult elements (are there any easy ones?) in openings is how to sow information into the seedbed of the story in the right amounts and with the correct distribution”
topic: writing
Authors Talk Fanfic and Fandoms OTW (LJ)
topic: writing, topic: fandom
Fannish Expectation OTW (LJ)
topic: fandom
meta: Violence, Brutality, and Women on TV: alchemise (DW) - "After watching last week's Banshee, it got me thinking about how rare it is to see brutally violent fight scenes featuring women on TV, where the woman is just one of the combatants. That is, scenes where a woman fights brutally, not where it's just one-sided and she's being victimized."
warning: violence, character: female, fandom: banshee
Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women: Anita Sarkeesian (webseries) - "This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself."
topic: gaming, character: female, topic: sexism, trope: damsel in distress
Pitting creators against fandom: Aja Romano (blog) - "Is fan culture entitled or empowered or both at once?"
topic: fandom, topic: fourth wall
AU fic: quiet--tiger(LJ) - "Do you guys find there are general alternate universe/history themes that pop up across fandoms? Obviously there is a broad category of "slavery" fics I've seen, but I mean more specific AU settings"
topic: AU
NPR Best-Of Lists: Playing Favorites?: ladybusiness (DW) - "The inevitable question is: so what? What does it matter if this particular list has fewer female authors than it otherwise might? The list already includes more women than men, no matter how we examine the data. But still, it matters."
topic:gender, topic: media, topic: representation
Coverage of Women on SF/F Blogs (2012): ladybusiness (DW) - "This project is about the visibility of women in science fiction and fantasy reviews and whether the gender of the reviewer impacts that visibility."
topic: gender, topic: media, topic: representation, topic: review
Open Thread: Oracle Hotline: mithen (LJ) - Do you generally outline your fics or do you prefer to write spontaneously and then revise?"
topic:writing
Religion and Non-Religion: kaigou (DW) - "It'd be very easy to write a story in which religion (any religion) gets its comeuppance, or gets dissed or shown to be wrong in some way [...]It actually feels harder to write -- believably -- characters who really do cherish, and respect, and feel obligated to fulfill, a set of religious precepts."
topic: writing, topic: religion
I Fought the Book, and the Book Won: merisunshine36 (DW) - "Do our fic reading patterns come from the books we read, or vice versa? Who knows. I suspect it's a bit of both."
topic: fanfic, topic: reading
Present Tense And Me:Isis (DW) - "FRTDNEATJ I've been thinking about why I bounce so hard off so much present-tense fiction. You have probably noticed this about me if you've been reading my reviews, so I thought it might be interesting (at least to me :-) to ramble about it a little."
topic: writing, topic: reading, topic: discussion
Music:Melannen (DW) - "ANYWAY. Along those lines, some years back, somebody (I've no idea who) said that their test for when they're too invested in a fandom is to pick some random songs from their collection, and if they can come up with a pairing (or vid idea) that matches every song, they are exactly the right level of invested. (If you come up with the same pairing for every song, you are probably too invested.)"
fandom: vidding, fandom: fanmix, topic: discussion
No Subject (post on accessibility at a convention):soc_puppet (DW) - "You may remember my post a while back on my efforts to promote accessibility at our local anime convention, AnimeIowa. Well, we're back in convention planning mode now, and while I'm planning to repeat the stuff that worked and implement as many other things as I can possibly think of, I could use a bit of advice from people who may have a bit more experience in this area."
topic: disability, topic: discussion
Ace Mini Meta Fest Prompt Listamaresu (DW) - "Prompts have been compiled and here is the list. "
topic: asexuality, topic: discussion, topic: meta
Specific Fandoms
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson's Women: chiusse (blog) - An analysis of the character Nell and a comparison with Stephenson's other female characters.
fandom: neal stephenson, character: female, warning: rape/non-con
SHIELD television series
On Superhero TV: beccaelizabeth (DW) "...we're going to have a SHIELD TV series, which will be kin to an Avengers series but distinctly different, so it's interesting to me at least to wonder: what will be the central question to explore in such a show?"
fandom: MCU, fandom: SHIELD
Legend of the Seeker, Supernatural
Interpersonal Relationships on a Team: vorquellyn (LJ) - An analysis of the Dean/Castiel (SPN) and Richard/Kahlan (LoTS) pairings, and why the author ships one but not the other despite a number of surface-level similarities.
fandom: Supernatural, fandom: LoTS, topic: relationships
Teen Wolf
March Meta for Sterek Campaign: lunarwolfik in sterekcampaign (DW) - "This month, help us to compile a library full of Sterek meta that is easily accessible to new and old Sterek fans alike!"
topic: meta, fandom: teen wolf
the scott-bashing i see in fic is the same kind EVERY TIME: amazonpoodle (tumblr) - "in addition to point one in this (very, very long, as always) post, i’ll be addressing the scott-needs-to-be-taken-down-a-peg trope, the scott-is-selfish-and-not-worthy-to-be-friends-with-stiles trope, the scott-reacts-badly-when-stiles-comes-out trope, and of course the fandom number-one hit, everybody’s favorite, always there for you in a pinch, the scott-is-stupid trope."
fandom: teen wolf, fandom: teen wolf: scott, character: bashing
Werewolf Prohphylactics: an argument: brownbetty (DW) - "So, there's this thing in Teen Wolf fandom where condoms are frequently omitted in fic on the basis that werewolves can't get disease."
fandom: teen wolf, topic: sex, topic: fanfic
Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Meta, Part One - Technology and Race: Katherine Keller (blog) - "What follows in this series is a by no means exhaustive examination of all the differences, just a highlight reel of the treatment of technology, race, feminism, sexuality, and the nature of evil..."
topic: race, topic:technology, fandom: wheel of time
The Wheel of Meta, Part Two - Is The Wheel of Time a Feminist Text?: Katherine Keller (blog) - "The same themes of different but equal, of complement and contrast, are reflected in almost all of the societies and nations in WoT."
fandom: wheel of time, topic: feminism
Thor (MCU)
Thor and Mjolnir (originally untitled): lokizillas (tumblr) - "I do think there’s some inherent magic in Mjolnir [...] and that the recall function is part of that or possibly part of her bond with Thor, which is much greater than with anyone else."
fandom: comics, fandom: comics: thor
Game of Thrones
Meta Monday: Sexual violence: justadram (tumblr) - "Today’s topic is sexual violence against women, which in both the HBO series and books seems to be the accepted norm."
fandom: asoiaf, warning: rape/non-con, character: female, topic: history, topic: law
Sherlock Holmes
Accounting for Sherlock: wellingtongoose (tumblr) - " In this essay I explore Sherlock’s finances as a consulting detective."
fandom: sherlock, fandom: sherlock: sherlock, topic: money
Why can't any recent Sherlock Holmes adaptation get Irene Adler right?: Esther Inglis-Arkell (blog) - "On the plus side, these 21st Century Adlers are more action oriented — but in several key ways, they actually seem more old-fashioned than Doyle's 19th Century original."
fandom: sherlock holmes, fandom: sherlock holmes: adler, fandom: sherlock: irene, character: female
Meta: Some thoughts on the canonical relationship between Sherlock and John in BBC's Sherlock Kizzia (LJ) ”At the moment, as most of you know, I am researching the British involvement in the current Afghanistan conflict and thus am reading everything I can lay my hands on about our solider's lives and experiences on the front line.”
fandom: sherlock
Wizard of Oz
Why Oz the Great and Powerful Is A Major Step Back For Witches and Women:Elisabethe Rappe (blog) - " In a bitter reversal of Baum's stories, "Great and Powerful" casts the women as the sidekicks, standing by to aid the Wizard should he need it. "
fandom: the wizard of oz, character: female, topic: sexism
The Hunger Games
Capitol Couture: Catching Fire.: Hello Tailor (blog) - "I'd hoped that they might kick the weirdness up a notch after the relatively tame aesthetic of the first movie, but these publicity images seem to imply the opposite."
fandom: the hunger games, topic: costumes
The Sentinel
Your Most Favourite Hurt/Comforty TS Scenes, thank you:mab_browne (DW) - "There are fannishly inclined people out in the big wide world who don't know about The Sentinel, so I'm doing an overview for the Whumpable comm on Dreamwidth. Might I have your favourite h/c moments in canon?"
topic: discussion, trope: hurt/comfort, fandom: The Sentinel
Person Of Interest
Person Of Interest On Fanlore: arduinna (DW) - "I went poking at Fanlore to see what it said about Person of Interest, and what it said was... nothing. At all. No fandom page, character pages, pairing pages, fanworks pages. Nada. The closest we get is a mention of John and Harold on the Clams page, for obvious reasons."
fandom: Person Of Interest, topic: fanlore
Harry Potter
Narcissa Malfoy Character Study HP-Darkarts (LJ) ”Blonde, blue-eyed and lethal – Narcissa Malfoy: Not just a trophy wife.”
fandom: harry potter
Star Wars
The Trial of Ahsoka Tano Legal Geeks “ Judge Matthew Sciarrino joined Jessica and Josh for a special video and podcast on The Clone Wars and the trial of Ahsoka Tano.”
fandom: star wars