Fans are of course rejecting the writers' reality and substituting their own. (Rhetorical question: Why are so many show endings just bad and lazy these days? Honestly endings aren't THAT hard FFS.) They are also doing charity work: The Castiel Project is donating to The Trevor Project and Dean Winchester is Love is donating to NAMI. So far they ( Read more... )

 I've caught snippets of this building the last couple weeks, but hadn't caught all of it, and of course this has been an ongoing issue for YEARS. If you are active in fandom and/or fan studies, and use AO3, please consider signing:

Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom

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 Socknography, if you will.

Bookmarking for later when my brain works.

 So I'm not much of a con person--it's a social anxiety thing, plus the fact that as much as I like certain actors, in general I would not want to be in a room with them ( Read more... )

 I was going to post about my awesome first week at work, but then late yesterday came the news about S15 being the end of Supernatural. Which....on the one hand shouldn't have been a surprise, because that's a damn long time, and yet kind of was anyway, because it has been so good and with good ratings lately ( Read more... )

I have a weakness for books about fandom. This one had some great ideas but problematic execution. Basically a bunch of not!HungerGames fans find themselves transported to the world of the not!HungerGames and the only way home, maybe, is for the heroine to live out the story, including the obligatory romantic triangle and the tragic death of the ( Read more... )

I was a guest speaker on several episodes of Sci-Fi Lab to talk with DJ and Harper about the history of fandom with my friend and colleague Karen Viars. Much fun was had!

Episode 6: Fandom, pt.1: The Beginning:

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Episode 7: Fandom pt.2 The Wrath of Mod:

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Episode 8: Fandom pt.3 Curative Robots vs. Transformative Pirates

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Episode 9: Fandom pt.4 ( Read more... )

I just had a eureka moment about why purity wank (whether political or fannish) bugs the crap out of me: It's pretty much always, *always* about kicking down, about how the author gets to or justifies feeling superior, and never ever about actually doing something constructive or actually helping any one person or group.

My essay was just posted at PopMatters as part of their Star Trek issue:

The Continuing Voyages
'Star Trek' Reboot Fandom and 'Prime Universe' Canon

BY CAIT COKER

28 September 2016


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