This post contains all the tags I have used to tag my posts so far. Tomorrow, I shall post-date it so that it always sits on top of the journal. And I will edit it to add new tags as I create them. Let's see how well this works.

( Very spoilery and not very happy thoughts on the latest episode. )

Like, okay, I did noticeway back on my first Avengers viewing that when Tony first shows up on the Helicarrier, talking a mile a minute and getting into everybody’s face and being super-obnoxious, that he’s actually creating a distraction so that he can plant a bug in SHIELD’s computers ( Read more... )

( Thoughts on Natasha, and emotions, and strength vs. weakness. Spoilery, natch. )

Not all pro writers, mind you, just a certain self-selected subset ( Read more... )

Yep, it's another feminist critique of the season. If you're sick to death of the subject, you might want to skip, though I do think I'm discussing something that hasn't been discussed much elsewhere, at least not with this much tl;dr ( Read more... )

Reading LJ outside of my flist is always an interesting and educational experience. My flist is, not too surprisingly, slanted heavily toward people whose temperament and conversational style is compatible with mine, which means I miss out on a lot of what goes on in the wider world of fandom until I check out friendsfriends or randomly follow ( Read more... )

I think at some point I might've entertained ambitions of writing up a full season overview: the mytharc, the philosophical issues, the worldbuilding and the minor characters, etc. But I think if I tried to do all that, the end result would be longer than my proposed dissertation. So I figured I'd at least write up the most important parts -- ( Read more... )

As many of you have no doubt noticed, there's a lot of interesting discussion going around right now on the subject of fanfic vs. media tie-ins, inspired by kradical's post here.http://kradical.livejournal.com/868712.html?format=light Krad makes a number of interesting points, some of which I agree with and some of which I don't, and the same goes for the ( Read more... )

Much to my amazement, today marks my 5th anniversary on LJ. Wow. Five years since I first discovered this crazy fannish space and begged thamiris for an invite code. (Yeah, we actually needed invite codes back then. That makes me positively ancient in LJ terms, doesn't it?) Back then, I was still living in NY, working the Corporate Job From Hell, and ( Read more... )