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General Fandom
Where Have All The Heroes Gone?: Devin Faraci (blog) - "Enough with the troubled, confused heroes who spend a whole movie (or two) figuring it out. Where have the real movie heroes gone?"
A word about fandom: leupagus (tumblr) - "I really do think the biggest problem about show runners, authors, and suchlike responding to fandom—online or otherwise—is that they’re fundamentally misunderstood what fandom is. They see a group of fans and they assume that they, the author, is like unto a god for these fans and that they can send decrees down to them from on high. That’s not what fandom is at all."
Yes, Master, I Am Politically Incorrect: How I Write Slave!Fic: pucktheplayer (LJ) - "I have gotten a lot of comments, good and bad, about the way I write slavery over the years. I came to the Glee fandom from the Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms, so I have to say I was rather astounded by the negative way many Glee fans felt about slave!fic (Supernatural and Harry Potter are rather kinky fandoms). I think it may have had a lot to do, to some extent, with the excessive number of teenagers in the fandom, but their arguments were valid enough and I have finally decided to address them, hence this little essay. "
Race, Fanfiction and the Politics of Desire: Vivian Obarki and Keidra Chaney - Learned Fangirl (blog) - "But this is where I get confused with fandom. I’m seeing a lot of love for Naomie Harris and Eve Moneypenny, but it’s not translating to fanfic, which saddens me because Eve Moneypenny is such a compelling character. I think there is some wish fulfillment. One example I can immediately think of is the Sherlock fandom and how the fangirls love Molly, but don’t care for Sally Donovan. Granted there’s an antagonistic quality with Sally’s relationship regarding Sherlock, so that might affect things."
The Death Of James Gandolfini And The Twilight Of Television’s Anti-Hero Era Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - " If the purpose of The Sopranos was to ask how far we could sympathize with a man like Tony Soprano who was a criminal and the head of a family, a serial cheater who also loved his children, and a man whose closest friendships could end in blood and be bound up by murder, maybe in the intervening years, we’ve found our answers, and it’s time to move on to other questions."
The Hero's Journey: gloveandboots(video blog) - "Fafa explains Joseph Campbell's famous theory."
Fandom and Male Privilege: Seven Years Later: Rebecca Lucy Busker in Transformative Works and Cultures (online journal) - "[T]the valorization that men like Scalzi and Jim Hines receive for speaking positively on women's issues does point to the way fandom still struggles with male privilege: men's voices are valorized at the same time that frustration builds over the usual expectation by men (and women) that they will be."
About the Magical Disabled Person Trope...: chordatesrock (DW) "The oversimplified, probably not fully accurate hierarchy of privilege between disabled groups suggests that the most privileged PWDs are those with SCIs or amputations, while the main groups that either seem to cause benefits or seem to co-occur with benefits for some reason are entirely different groups. I find that interesting."
Being the Change...(discussion): niko in podficmeta (DW) - "So, between tracking the previous post here and being an ffa reader, I'm a little worn down by permission angst (not in a "Stop talking about it" sort of way... just sayin' :) ). Can we have some shiny, happy meta to balance our chi?"
When Is It A Crossover and When Is it Not? (discussion): samantha_kathy in ffr_discussion (LJ) - "One fandom only – not a crossover. Two fandoms heavily mixed – crossover. Tag as appropriate. That’s the easy part. But then there’s that grey fuzzy line in between."
Specific Fandoms
Animorphs
The HYPA Yeerks’ Pick-Up Guide –Tips and tricks for gaining a voluntary host: selfdeterminedsymbionts (tumblr) - "So you’re bitter. You’re lonely. You saw the world of voluntary infestation and dived in head-first, only to find that the universe isn’t a place full of puppies and rainbows clearly visible through the eyes of hosts that are just falling over themselves to accept you. No, the hosts are limited. And for some reason, no matter what kind of bond you try to build with them, they all want to waste their time with other yeerks. How do you turn your fortune around? Well hopefully this guide will help."
Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Search)
A little Bit of Meta and Some Predictions for "The Search"
: attackfish (DW) - "Since "The Search" part two is coming out soon, I've been seeing an uptick in writing about it, and how it's awful, and wrong, and how dare they [spoiler]"
Doctor Who
Race and Gender in Doctor Who: Beyond Who Plays The Doctor: Joseph - Racialicious(blog) - "Contrasting Doctor Who under Moffat and Davies lays bare just how profound an effect the executive producer of Doctor Who has on the show. It’s not just what the Doctor looks like that matters, though who portrays the Doctor does matter very much indeed. If the role of the Doctor is finally given to an actor who isn’t a white man, that actor will need to be supported by an executive producer who able to write for such a character and committed to doing justice to a new vision of Doctor Who."
DC Comics
I am a Wonder Woman Convert: Maggie Mae Fish - Geek Insider (blog) - "Suddenly I was seeing her everywhere. Wonder Woman t-shirts in the comic book store. Wonder Woman on the cover of Buzzfeed articles. Wonder Woman in the mirror when I wore red lipstick. It was then I thought… maybe I’m the one who had her all wrong?"
On the Genesis of Silver-Age Batman">: lego_joker in scan_daily (DW) - "To the general, non comics-reading public, Batman is typically divided into two separate "takes": the grim, dark, moody vigilante hunting down brutal murderers and the like in the dark of the night, and the light, cheery, fun lawman hauling colorful but largely-harmless crooks off to jail."
Game of Thrones
:Meta Monday: Catelyn justadram (tumblr) - "All right. Today’s topic is Catelyn Stark and Eleanor of Aquitaine—two powerful women who wore dresses. Let’s compare."
Harry Potter
Head Canon Discussion: Sirius and Regulus: akatnamedeaster in sirius_black (LJ) - "As with last week's discussion about Sirius and Dumbledore, we're not told a whole lot about these brothers' relationship in canon. So what are your ideas, what do you imagine? "
Marvel Comics
Alex/Kitty's views on Mutant opression, and a rant against Professor X: nemonclature (DW) - "I was looking for meta on this but all could find were the comments on the scans_daily post. I'm hoping someone more in the fandom has written something? Because I want to read it! But as a signal boost/my thoughts/whatever"
Star Wars
The Moral Landscape of the Star Wars Saga: Padme Amidala : ctrent29 (LJ) - "When I had first started on this project, I realized that exploring the moral ambiguity of Padmé Amidala - mother of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa - might be something of a problem. I have always suspected that the majority of STAR WARS fans might regard her as an ideal figure, someone who could not possibly possess a shread of ambiguity in her nature. "
Why Leia is Awesome : Jennifer Heddle (blog) - "Princess Leia is rightly regarded as a female role model, yet I still feel like there are certain displays of heroism in the original Star Wars trilogy for which she doesn’t get enough credit. "
Teen Wolf
Untitled : ephemeralblowjobs (tumblr) - "So I know I'm not the only one that has thought of this, but here’s me adding support to what I have labelled ‘The Dawn theory’"
What just happened with Derek Hale and Isaac Lahey: apolloandellipses (tumblr) - "This is a discussion of everything in canon, especially on Isaac’s abuse and implied triggers. "
DO YOU EVEN PLAY BASEBALL?: wolftraps (tumblr) - "We’ve all speculated, and most come to the same conclusion: Scott and Stiles have been friends forever. They know each other too well, are too comfortable with each other and confident in their friendship for it to be any other way. But the truth is, we’ve been given plenty of signs that suggest they actually haven’t been friends that long. Maybe only a couple years."
About mistletoe, druids and ritual sacrifices…: premoonsyndrome (tumblr) - " I noticed that at the end of episode 3 Stiles mentions the “Lindow man" to Deaton."
Untitled: becauseimwolfit - "So I’ve been thinking about Lydia a lot after Monday’s episode and what her “talent" might be."
If you have meta to sumbit 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
Where Have All The Heroes Gone?: Devin Faraci (blog) - "Enough with the troubled, confused heroes who spend a whole movie (or two) figuring it out. Where have the real movie heroes gone?"
character: hero
A word about fandom: leupagus (tumblr) - "I really do think the biggest problem about show runners, authors, and suchlike responding to fandom—online or otherwise—is that they’re fundamentally misunderstood what fandom is. They see a group of fans and they assume that they, the author, is like unto a god for these fans and that they can send decrees down to them from on high. That’s not what fandom is at all."
topic: fandom
Yes, Master, I Am Politically Incorrect: How I Write Slave!Fic: pucktheplayer (LJ) - "I have gotten a lot of comments, good and bad, about the way I write slavery over the years. I came to the Glee fandom from the Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms, so I have to say I was rather astounded by the negative way many Glee fans felt about slave!fic (Supernatural and Harry Potter are rather kinky fandoms). I think it may have had a lot to do, to some extent, with the excessive number of teenagers in the fandom, but their arguments were valid enough and I have finally decided to address them, hence this little essay. "
topic: fanfic, topic: slaves
Race, Fanfiction and the Politics of Desire: Vivian Obarki and Keidra Chaney - Learned Fangirl (blog) - "But this is where I get confused with fandom. I’m seeing a lot of love for Naomie Harris and Eve Moneypenny, but it’s not translating to fanfic, which saddens me because Eve Moneypenny is such a compelling character. I think there is some wish fulfillment. One example I can immediately think of is the Sherlock fandom and how the fangirls love Molly, but don’t care for Sally Donovan. Granted there’s an antagonistic quality with Sally’s relationship regarding Sherlock, so that might affect things."
topic: race, topic: shipping
The Death Of James Gandolfini And The Twilight Of Television’s Anti-Hero Era Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - " If the purpose of The Sopranos was to ask how far we could sympathize with a man like Tony Soprano who was a criminal and the head of a family, a serial cheater who also loved his children, and a man whose closest friendships could end in blood and be bound up by murder, maybe in the intervening years, we’ve found our answers, and it’s time to move on to other questions."
topic: anti-heroes
The Hero's Journey: gloveandboots(video blog) - "Fafa explains Joseph Campbell's famous theory."
topic: writing, character: hero
Fandom and Male Privilege: Seven Years Later: Rebecca Lucy Busker in Transformative Works and Cultures (online journal) - "[T]the valorization that men like Scalzi and Jim Hines receive for speaking positively on women's issues does point to the way fandom still struggles with male privilege: men's voices are valorized at the same time that frustration builds over the usual expectation by men (and women) that they will be."
topic: fandom, topic: gender
About the Magical Disabled Person Trope...: chordatesrock (DW) "The oversimplified, probably not fully accurate hierarchy of privilege between disabled groups suggests that the most privileged PWDs are those with SCIs or amputations, while the main groups that either seem to cause benefits or seem to co-occur with benefits for some reason are entirely different groups. I find that interesting."
topic: disability
Being the Change...(discussion): niko in podficmeta (DW) - "So, between tracking the previous post here and being an ffa reader, I'm a little worn down by permission angst (not in a "Stop talking about it" sort of way... just sayin' :) ). Can we have some shiny, happy meta to balance our chi?"
topic: podfic
When Is It A Crossover and When Is it Not? (discussion): samantha_kathy in ffr_discussion (LJ) - "One fandom only – not a crossover. Two fandoms heavily mixed – crossover. Tag as appropriate. That’s the easy part. But then there’s that grey fuzzy line in between."
topic: fanfic, topic: writing
Specific Fandoms
Animorphs
The HYPA Yeerks’ Pick-Up Guide –Tips and tricks for gaining a voluntary host: selfdeterminedsymbionts (tumblr) - "So you’re bitter. You’re lonely. You saw the world of voluntary infestation and dived in head-first, only to find that the universe isn’t a place full of puppies and rainbows clearly visible through the eyes of hosts that are just falling over themselves to accept you. No, the hosts are limited. And for some reason, no matter what kind of bond you try to build with them, they all want to waste their time with other yeerks. How do you turn your fortune around? Well hopefully this guide will help."
fandom: animorphs
Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Search)
A little Bit of Meta and Some Predictions for "The Search"
: attackfish (DW) - "Since "The Search" part two is coming out soon, I've been seeing an uptick in writing about it, and how it's awful, and wrong, and how dare they [spoiler]"
fandom: atla, warning: spoilers
Doctor Who
Race and Gender in Doctor Who: Beyond Who Plays The Doctor: Joseph - Racialicious(blog) - "Contrasting Doctor Who under Moffat and Davies lays bare just how profound an effect the executive producer of Doctor Who has on the show. It’s not just what the Doctor looks like that matters, though who portrays the Doctor does matter very much indeed. If the role of the Doctor is finally given to an actor who isn’t a white man, that actor will need to be supported by an executive producer who able to write for such a character and committed to doing justice to a new vision of Doctor Who."
topic: race, topic: gender, fandom: doctor who
DC Comics
I am a Wonder Woman Convert: Maggie Mae Fish - Geek Insider (blog) - "Suddenly I was seeing her everywhere. Wonder Woman t-shirts in the comic book store. Wonder Woman on the cover of Buzzfeed articles. Wonder Woman in the mirror when I wore red lipstick. It was then I thought… maybe I’m the one who had her all wrong?"
fandom: dc comics
On the Genesis of Silver-Age Batman">: lego_joker in scan_daily (DW) - "To the general, non comics-reading public, Batman is typically divided into two separate "takes": the grim, dark, moody vigilante hunting down brutal murderers and the like in the dark of the night, and the light, cheery, fun lawman hauling colorful but largely-harmless crooks off to jail."
fandom: dc comics
Game of Thrones
:Meta Monday: Catelyn justadram (tumblr) - "All right. Today’s topic is Catelyn Stark and Eleanor of Aquitaine—two powerful women who wore dresses. Let’s compare."
fandom: game of thrones
Harry Potter
Head Canon Discussion: Sirius and Regulus: akatnamedeaster in sirius_black (LJ) - "As with last week's discussion about Sirius and Dumbledore, we're not told a whole lot about these brothers' relationship in canon. So what are your ideas, what do you imagine? "
fandom: harry potter, topic: discussion
Marvel Comics
Alex/Kitty's views on Mutant opression, and a rant against Professor X: nemonclature (DW) - "I was looking for meta on this but all could find were the comments on the scans_daily post. I'm hoping someone more in the fandom has written something? Because I want to read it! But as a signal boost/my thoughts/whatever"
topic: race, fandom: marvel comics
Star Wars
The Moral Landscape of the Star Wars Saga: Padme Amidala : ctrent29 (LJ) - "When I had first started on this project, I realized that exploring the moral ambiguity of Padmé Amidala - mother of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa - might be something of a problem. I have always suspected that the majority of STAR WARS fans might regard her as an ideal figure, someone who could not possibly possess a shread of ambiguity in her nature. "
fandom: star wars, topic: character
Why Leia is Awesome : Jennifer Heddle (blog) - "Princess Leia is rightly regarded as a female role model, yet I still feel like there are certain displays of heroism in the original Star Wars trilogy for which she doesn’t get enough credit. "
fandom: star wars, topic: character
Teen Wolf
Untitled : ephemeralblowjobs (tumblr) - "So I know I'm not the only one that has thought of this, but here’s me adding support to what I have labelled ‘The Dawn theory’"
fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers
What just happened with Derek Hale and Isaac Lahey: apolloandellipses (tumblr) - "This is a discussion of everything in canon, especially on Isaac’s abuse and implied triggers. "
fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers, warning: abuse
DO YOU EVEN PLAY BASEBALL?: wolftraps (tumblr) - "We’ve all speculated, and most come to the same conclusion: Scott and Stiles have been friends forever. They know each other too well, are too comfortable with each other and confident in their friendship for it to be any other way. But the truth is, we’ve been given plenty of signs that suggest they actually haven’t been friends that long. Maybe only a couple years."
fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers
About mistletoe, druids and ritual sacrifices…: premoonsyndrome (tumblr) - " I noticed that at the end of episode 3 Stiles mentions the “Lindow man" to Deaton."
fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers, topic: myths
Untitled: becauseimwolfit - "So I’ve been thinking about Lydia a lot after Monday’s episode and what her “talent" might be."
fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers
