Some serious links...
For some time now, a lot of us have been worried by the messages sent to young people by certain popular novels - I'm looking at you, Twilight and Shades of Grey - and by certain parts of fan fiction. One of my favourite fan writers, who goes by the name scifigrl47 on AO3 and Tumblr, was asked on Tumblr about her thoughts on the characterisation of Loki in the films Thor and The Avengers/Avengers Assemble (and, incidentally, the UK DVD of the latter is appalling - bad transfer, pan and scanned, no extras, a couple of odd cuts.) Her view (with which I agree completely) that Loki is responsible for his own actions, which include attempted genocide and murder, brought a torrent of abuse down on her head in her 'ask' box. This resulted in the linked post, in which she explains why she is worried about certain trends in fan fiction.
There is a tendency, more obvious now than it has been before, to present unstable, unapologetic, dangerous sociopaths and outright psychos as “sexy and desireable.” And that is dangerous.
Read the whole thing at
http://scifigrl47.tumblr.com/post/31796175155/it-seems-like-your-ask-box-is-full-of-stressful-things
Also on fanfiction, my friend evilmissbecky an excellent fanwriter, is in temporary (we hope) financial difficulties and is offering to write fan fiction for you, any universe, any kink, for payment. If you are interested, check it out here
http://evilmissbecky.livejournal.com/337065.html
Elsewhere, in discussions on C.S. Lewis, I am still trying to come to terms with the idea that most Americans seem to have no idea what Turkish Delight (or Greek Delight, as you would need to know if you were buying it in Greece) actually is. And then a conversation on little_details brought to light the fact that a majority of the contributors to a question did not know that the Bald Eagle did not have a naked head like a vulture, but a white head, using 'bald' in its older sense of 'white'. It seems to me that David Attenborough must have lived in vain.
There is a tendency, more obvious now than it has been before, to present unstable, unapologetic, dangerous sociopaths and outright psychos as “sexy and desireable.” And that is dangerous.
Read the whole thing at
http://scifigrl47.tumblr.com/post/31796175155/it-seems-like-your-ask-box-is-full-of-stressful-things
Also on fanfiction, my friend evilmissbecky an excellent fanwriter, is in temporary (we hope) financial difficulties and is offering to write fan fiction for you, any universe, any kink, for payment. If you are interested, check it out here
http://evilmissbecky.livejournal.com/337065.html
Elsewhere, in discussions on C.S. Lewis, I am still trying to come to terms with the idea that most Americans seem to have no idea what Turkish Delight (or Greek Delight, as you would need to know if you were buying it in Greece) actually is. And then a conversation on little_details brought to light the fact that a majority of the contributors to a question did not know that the Bald Eagle did not have a naked head like a vulture, but a white head, using 'bald' in its older sense of 'white'. It seems to me that David Attenborough must have lived in vain.