Another meta on tumblr I'm reblogging, about the ending of Journey into Mystery from a meta perspective:

( spoilers, duh. )

Like with other issues of sexism in comics, the problematic narratives revolving around female characters becoming dangerous and insane / evil (the insane=evil thing in itself would be very much worth the examination and could be easily seen as worse than gender issues, but I’m not sure I’m up to it) as a result of their power was something I’ ( Read more... )

For archiving purpose...

In the Beginning: Themes of Season Four: Or how there were a lot of good ideas to begin with that weren't too well executed
Etrangere - June 11 2002

Thanks to Lady Starlight and Wise Woman for correcting the translation mistakes and general copy editing.I remember having read an explanation of the name of the ( Read more... )

Back when I first finished watching Utena and joined the utena usenet group, I wrote a short essay on some of the themes in Utena. Anyway at some point I decided I wanted to repost such things on my journal so I searched back for it, but when I reread it it looked all horribly vague and badly written, so I ended up rewriting it entirely and it thus ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about intent and interpretation, in communication and art especially, seeing a lot of things popping on my friendlist and journal related to the same thing.

Writer's intent is why people like thecorbie think there might be a case against fanficsIntent is something that might be or might not be gotten, with a responsability that may or ( Read more... )

This is a subject I almost posted about a few months ago, during the latest HP racism merry-go-round (not the Christmas and antisemitism one which I was too busy being swamped under work to properly follow which is a shame because it looked pretty interesting and I missed some excellent post and could link to only one of them), and eventually didn' ( Read more... )

While browsing, today, I happened onto a link to this essay on Why do fanboys hate fanfics, especially slash and This is Our Garden. We Like It.. The article fits in a context of several commentaries a few weeks ago about the exclusion of the female experience of fandom by the majorly male fandom - some of which I saw at the time, some of which I ( Read more... )

So I was reading today a great many posts and essays about writing sex and the nature of slash, and that was reminding me of something I wanted to say about what I liked in fanfics (slashy or not, though always of the transgressive kind) which was non-romantic sex, or sex as metaphor, and which is, in great part, why I love the kind of fanfics and ( Read more... )

I've come to several discussions lately, about the interactions between "loving a character", moral judgment of a character, and finding a character sexy. Mostly there were discussions were the people were seeing this as melding categories.

( Liking, judging and being attracted by a character )

(in case anyone wonders, this is inspired by several people's essays here, here and hereAs often in such cases, people are trying to analyze things along a paradigm that directly opposes religion to technology. *picture me wincing ( Read more... )