Meta Links 2013/09/26 - 2013/10/02
Notices
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General Fandom
How I Turn The Author's Words Into a Performance: anna_unfolding in podficmeta (DW) "Hi, all! I created a bit of meta about what my thought process is as an artist when I am turning the author's words and character headspace into a performance."
topic:podfic
The Web of Influences on Romance: alias_sqbr (DW) - "I haven't studied any humanities since highschool, but something I find really interesting is the complicated interplay between different cultures and changes in attitude within a given culture, and how these affect long standing genres like the Romance."
topic:romance
The Surprising Depth of Saints Row: John Perich - Overthinking It (blog) - "You play SR3 as if you were a video game character - which is in fact what you are. If you knew, in your heart of hearts, that the worst fate you could suffer was waking up in a hospital a few bucks poorer, you’d drive down the wrong lane of a crosstown bridge, too (MAX RESPECT)."
topic:gaming
The Golden Age Of Television Wasn’t About Anti-Heroes. And It Isn’t Over.: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "But what really make HBO the thing we understand it to be today was the decision to expand its scripted original programming slate in addition to its movie library. To a certain extent, what HBO did was similar to the approaches of publications that combine aggregation with original reporting and commentary: it curated movies for you, and offered a stable set of value additions."
topic:television, topic:anti-hero
Creating Proactive vs. Reactive Characters: chaperoned (tumblr) - "Reactive characters are much weaker than active characters, and we tend not to like them. Unfortunately, many writers end up unknowingly creating reactive protagonists. - Odyssey Writing Tips"
topic:writing, topic:protagonist, topic:antagonist, topic:characterdevelopment
A Few Thoughts on Language: kaigou (DW) - "...[M]y preliminary hypothesis: do not have 'broken speaking' for any characters speaking their native tongue. Broken speaking should only indicate when someone is speaking an unfamiliar or new language (and, as the character learns, the broken-ness should slowly fade)."
topic:writing, topic:characterdevelopment, topic:language
On the Weakness of Third-Person Omniscient: chordatesrock (DW) - "I imagine, without being entirely certain, that this POV is probably a difficult one to understand without a strong understanding of the nonverbal cues of the author's culture."
topic:writing
Are You (Still) in a Fandom?: Fandom Wanderers (blog) - " [T]here are varying levels of fandom, and sometimes it can be pretty hard to work out which level you’re at. Sometimes, it can feel as if you don’t know whether you’re still in the fandom at all. "
topic:fandom
More than you ever cared to know about the science of alpha/beta/omega dynamics (and frankly more than I ever cared to know, too.): daleconradsshuttershades (tumblr) - "Anthropology snark and alpha/beta/omega dynamics explored."
topic:alphabetaomega
Specific Fandoms
Burn Notice
Analyzing "The Reckoning": A Burn Notice Meta: merryghoul (DW) - "For journeystory, my plans are to do a missing scene fic for the Burn Notice finale, "Reckoning."
fandom:burnnotice
Game of Thrones
Meta Monday: Knighthood: justadram (tumblr) - "Knighthood and the tools of knighthood are central to our vision of the medieval world and many fantasy worlds as well. So how much does Westerosi knighthood reflect actual historical developments?"
fandom:gameofthrones
Harry Potter
Costume design, JK Rowling's new Harry Potter movie, and the wizarding fashions of 1920s New York. Part 1 Part 2: (blog) - "Most wizarding robes in the Harry Potter movies are a combination of bell-sleeved faux medieval robes, and old-fashioned suits. "
fandom:harrypotter, topic:costumes
The Killing
The Killing: Thoughts: foz meadows (blog) - "I had something of an epiphany tonight: that stories whose emotional outcome can be broadly inferred by what genre you’re in are almost always, on some fundamental level, going to disappoint me, because even though their individual events might surprise me, their actual endings won’t."
fandom:thekilling, topic:writing
Lost Girl
The Ethical Succubus: Polyamory and the World of Lost Girl: Arbryna (AO3) - ""When you mate for life, and your life is measured in centuries, you figure out ways to make it work." ~ Olivia, 1x04 "Faetal Attraction" An exploration of polyamory as it pertains to everyone's favorite succubus."
fandom:lostgirl, topic:polyamory
Rent
Why Benny Is The Closest Thing ‘Rent’ Has To An Actual Hero: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "It might be easier to side with Mark and Roger against Benny if the Alphabet City Avant-Garde outlined any sort of actual political program for their neighborhood. But other than protesting the emptying of the lot-not that they have any thoughts about the services available to their homeless neighbors-their main priority is that they be able to continue to live rent-free in the space where Benny’s letting them crash."
fandom:rent
The Secret History
Why You Should Read ‘The Secret History’ If You Want To Understand Anti-Hero Stories: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "[Richard is] initially attracted to the Greek students for some of the same reasons we find ourselves attracted to anti-heroic characters, the sense that they occupy a different world from the one that feels mundane and unsatisfying to him."
fandom:thesecrethistory, topic:anti-hero
Star Trek
The Reboot’s Uniforms & Why They Are Sexist: thetrekkiehasthephonebox (tumblr) - "There is literally no mechanism for crewmembers to immediately asses the rank of the women serving in Starfleet. "
fandom:startrek, topic:costume
JRR Tolkien
Always Evil Orcs (Now Rebloggable By Request): bronzedragon (tumblr) - "Do you know the reasoning behind all orcs in LotR being evil? I recently read the series and, while I enjoyed it, that is one of the things that I found kind of problematic."
fandom:jrrtolkien
Welcome to Night Vale
The Monster and the Closet: Welcome to Night Vale and Queer SpecFic: thingswithwings (DW) - "WtNV is interested in queering - making strange, decentering, de-heterosexualizing - the genre of horror itself. It's structurally queer, queer in terms of how it goes about things. Queer in structure as well as content."
fandom:welcometonightvale, topic:queer
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
How I Turn The Author's Words Into a Performance: anna_unfolding in podficmeta (DW) "Hi, all! I created a bit of meta about what my thought process is as an artist when I am turning the author's words and character headspace into a performance."
topic:podfic
The Web of Influences on Romance: alias_sqbr (DW) - "I haven't studied any humanities since highschool, but something I find really interesting is the complicated interplay between different cultures and changes in attitude within a given culture, and how these affect long standing genres like the Romance."
topic:romance
The Surprising Depth of Saints Row: John Perich - Overthinking It (blog) - "You play SR3 as if you were a video game character - which is in fact what you are. If you knew, in your heart of hearts, that the worst fate you could suffer was waking up in a hospital a few bucks poorer, you’d drive down the wrong lane of a crosstown bridge, too (MAX RESPECT)."
topic:gaming
The Golden Age Of Television Wasn’t About Anti-Heroes. And It Isn’t Over.: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "But what really make HBO the thing we understand it to be today was the decision to expand its scripted original programming slate in addition to its movie library. To a certain extent, what HBO did was similar to the approaches of publications that combine aggregation with original reporting and commentary: it curated movies for you, and offered a stable set of value additions."
topic:television, topic:anti-hero
Creating Proactive vs. Reactive Characters: chaperoned (tumblr) - "Reactive characters are much weaker than active characters, and we tend not to like them. Unfortunately, many writers end up unknowingly creating reactive protagonists. - Odyssey Writing Tips"
topic:writing, topic:protagonist, topic:antagonist, topic:characterdevelopment
A Few Thoughts on Language: kaigou (DW) - "...[M]y preliminary hypothesis: do not have 'broken speaking' for any characters speaking their native tongue. Broken speaking should only indicate when someone is speaking an unfamiliar or new language (and, as the character learns, the broken-ness should slowly fade)."
topic:writing, topic:characterdevelopment, topic:language
On the Weakness of Third-Person Omniscient: chordatesrock (DW) - "I imagine, without being entirely certain, that this POV is probably a difficult one to understand without a strong understanding of the nonverbal cues of the author's culture."
topic:writing
Are You (Still) in a Fandom?: Fandom Wanderers (blog) - " [T]here are varying levels of fandom, and sometimes it can be pretty hard to work out which level you’re at. Sometimes, it can feel as if you don’t know whether you’re still in the fandom at all. "
topic:fandom
More than you ever cared to know about the science of alpha/beta/omega dynamics (and frankly more than I ever cared to know, too.): daleconradsshuttershades (tumblr) - "Anthropology snark and alpha/beta/omega dynamics explored."
topic:alphabetaomega
Specific Fandoms
Burn Notice
Analyzing "The Reckoning": A Burn Notice Meta: merryghoul (DW) - "For journeystory, my plans are to do a missing scene fic for the Burn Notice finale, "Reckoning."
fandom:burnnotice
Game of Thrones
Meta Monday: Knighthood: justadram (tumblr) - "Knighthood and the tools of knighthood are central to our vision of the medieval world and many fantasy worlds as well. So how much does Westerosi knighthood reflect actual historical developments?"
fandom:gameofthrones
Harry Potter
Costume design, JK Rowling's new Harry Potter movie, and the wizarding fashions of 1920s New York. Part 1 Part 2: (blog) - "Most wizarding robes in the Harry Potter movies are a combination of bell-sleeved faux medieval robes, and old-fashioned suits. "
fandom:harrypotter, topic:costumes
The Killing
The Killing: Thoughts: foz meadows (blog) - "I had something of an epiphany tonight: that stories whose emotional outcome can be broadly inferred by what genre you’re in are almost always, on some fundamental level, going to disappoint me, because even though their individual events might surprise me, their actual endings won’t."
fandom:thekilling, topic:writing
Lost Girl
The Ethical Succubus: Polyamory and the World of Lost Girl: Arbryna (AO3) - ""When you mate for life, and your life is measured in centuries, you figure out ways to make it work." ~ Olivia, 1x04 "Faetal Attraction" An exploration of polyamory as it pertains to everyone's favorite succubus."
fandom:lostgirl, topic:polyamory
Rent
Why Benny Is The Closest Thing ‘Rent’ Has To An Actual Hero: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "It might be easier to side with Mark and Roger against Benny if the Alphabet City Avant-Garde outlined any sort of actual political program for their neighborhood. But other than protesting the emptying of the lot-not that they have any thoughts about the services available to their homeless neighbors-their main priority is that they be able to continue to live rent-free in the space where Benny’s letting them crash."
fandom:rent
The Secret History
Why You Should Read ‘The Secret History’ If You Want To Understand Anti-Hero Stories: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "[Richard is] initially attracted to the Greek students for some of the same reasons we find ourselves attracted to anti-heroic characters, the sense that they occupy a different world from the one that feels mundane and unsatisfying to him."
fandom:thesecrethistory, topic:anti-hero
Star Trek
The Reboot’s Uniforms & Why They Are Sexist: thetrekkiehasthephonebox (tumblr) - "There is literally no mechanism for crewmembers to immediately asses the rank of the women serving in Starfleet. "
fandom:startrek, topic:costume
JRR Tolkien
Always Evil Orcs (Now Rebloggable By Request): bronzedragon (tumblr) - "Do you know the reasoning behind all orcs in LotR being evil? I recently read the series and, while I enjoyed it, that is one of the things that I found kind of problematic."
fandom:jrrtolkien
Welcome to Night Vale
The Monster and the Closet: Welcome to Night Vale and Queer SpecFic: thingswithwings (DW) - "WtNV is interested in queering - making strange, decentering, de-heterosexualizing - the genre of horror itself. It's structurally queer, queer in terms of how it goes about things. Queer in structure as well as content."
fandom:welcometonightvale, topic:queer