Meta Links 2014/02/13 - 2014/02/19
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General Fandom
my field of dreams*: thedeadparrot (DW) - "what I want, what I really need in my life, is an actual pan-fandom community of people building interactive work in fandom."
topic:fandom, topic:interactivefiction
Regarding “Basic Tips For Writing Orthodox Jews”: lannamichaels (DW) - "I see on metanews a link to a post called Basic Tips For Writing Orthodox Jews, which posits that more and more Orthodox Jewish characters are appearing in fiction these days (I was unaware of this trend, but I don't really read much non-fic fiction, so *shrug*) and gives tips on writing Orthodox Jewish characters."
topic:writing, topic:religion
Fandom As a Potential Nightmare: Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "I need you to use your imagination. Today, I’m putting you in the shoes of an actor you admire. "
topic:fandom
Useful resources for fans who don’t understand why they make their favourite people nervous: sameoldsorceress (tumblr) - "These are all articles mostly geared towards not making the people we’re fans of uncomfortable, so we hope you find them useful."
topic:fandom
RANTY THOUGHTS: nemonclature (DW) - "I don't know, maybe I'm being a bitch here. But I really really dislike this idea that we the fans have to police our behaviour around the objects of our fannishness."
topic:fandom
How to Take a Break from Fandom(s): Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "It may be that you find yourself needing to take a break from one or more of your fandoms. But if fandom’s an ingrained habit, a part of your everyday routine, how do you do that?"
topic:fandom
Branding in Fandom: I Will Always Love You: Red Hamilton (blog) - "However, for all our begrudging participation, St Valentine’s Day and indeed romance in general is pretty big business."
topic:romance
Avengers Assemble! The American Novel Since 1950: Chris Gavaler - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "The Defenders No. 62 cover features team leader Nighthawk holding his apparently throbbing head and roaring at the impressionistically pint-sized heroes buzzing around him. Which is how I feel as I juggle the roster for a would-be course on the recent American novel."
famdom:comics, topic:teaching, topic:writing
Objective, Subjective, Narrative, Clock, and Real: What of Time in Comics?: Adrielle Mitchell - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "Sometimes it is simply the nifty nature of dual time possible in a panel; consider, for example, a graphic memoir like Fun Home, in which the speech balloons emerge from the drawn child while a narrative voiceover in the captions presents an adult “take” on the scene below."
fandom:comics
Specific Fandoms
Agents of SHIELD
Is Agents Of SHIELD really an interracial family show?: Arturo R. García - Racialicious (blog) - "What felt to me like failings of characterization on the part of Zak Whedon et al. struck her as an accurate representation of the tensions between white and Asian parents in her own house."
fandom:agentsofshield, topic:race
Arrow
The Romance Contract: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "The unspoken contract in romance fiction is that the parties to the courtship will end up together."
fandom:arrow, topic:romance
Arrow Thursday: Protagonists: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "The Protagonist is the character who owns the story. His goals, his drives, his hang-ups, his screw-ups fuel the story."
fandom:arrow, topic:protagonist
Frozen
Magical Mondays: Does Frozen’s Magic Run in the Family?: MadameAce (blog) - "It was after my boyfriend’s second viewing that it occurred to him that magic must run in the royal family and that Elsa isn’t the first person to have been born with powers."
fandom:disney, fandom:frozen, topic:magic
Gaming
The Last of Us - Left Behind: The Zombie Apocalypse vs. Female Friendship and Much, Much More: (blog) - "It becomes pretty clear over the course of the DLC that one of these plot lines is the “story” plot line, and one of them is the “combat” plotline, and to be honest I’m not certain whether I think that’s poor integration of the core gameplay of The Last of Us with what was the primary narrative of Left Behind, or an effective and perhaps even necessary way of setting the tone for the Riley portions of the game."
fandom:gaming
In Conquest Born
Liberal Fascism: Noah Berlatsky - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "But, again, the two characters work in almost exactly the same way - they’re both dark, heroic, angsty totems performing awesomeness in repetitive set pieces."
fandom:inconquestborn, topic:fascism
Legend of the Seeker
More Cara Meta: vorquellyn (LJ) - "I’m writing this essay about Cara Mason and how I perceive her because it bothers me when people call her emotionless. Some of the reasons it disturbs me relate to my disability and my reasons for disagreeing are definitely rooted in my experiences as someone who does not process emotions in a way others can always recognize. I don’t think my view of her is definitive or trumps people who do see her as severely out of touch with her emotions. I don’t think Cara has anything diagnostically wrong with her except for PTSD."
fandom:lots
Peter Pan
Are Peter Pan And The Lost Boys Dead?: Springhole.net (blog) - "This article will explore reasons both in-universe and out-of-universe why Peter and the Lost Boys may or may not be or represent dead children."
fandom:peterpan
(BBC) The Musketeers
The Musketeers: nemonclature (DW) - "The reason for this post ... is that it looks GREAT. And it's not just the filming ... It's also the CLOTHES."
fandom:bbcmusketeers, topic:costumes
My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic
Are bronies ready for the first mainstream 'My Little Pony' porn?: EJ Dickson - Daily Dot (blog) - "In Magic Pony Cloud Land, Tasha and her friends discover that if they obtain “unicorn love juice” from the centaurs who currently reign over the kingdom, they can stay ponies forever. How do they obtain the centaurs’ love juice? Your guess is as good as mine! "
fandom:mlpfim, fandom:tashasponytales, topic:porn
Nashville
Frenemy Mine: Women’s relationships on ABC’s “Nashville”: Keidra Chaney - Learned Fangirl (blog) - "While the clash between veteran country star Rayna James and starlet Juliette Barnes propelled the primary storyline of season one, Nashville showrunner Callie Khouri managed to steer away from the usual catfight tropes that seem to define the soap genre, or frankly any television show that involves two female leads that aren’t related."
fandom:nashville
Star Wars
Where are the women in 'Star Wars: Rebels'?: Lisa Granshaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "The absence of any background or other information about the two women seems like a major departure from Lucasfilm’s previous animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. "
fandom:starwars, topic:gender
The Empire Business: Ben Adams - Overthinking It (blog) - "Looking at our summarized list above, we can see that Anakin’s transformation into Darth Vader is strikingly similar to Walter White’s path to Heisenberg."
fandom:breakingbad; fandom:starwars
Supernatural
i think it really counters this idea in fandom that dean’s “too broken” to live “a normal life”: amonitrate(tumblr) - "part of starting to heal can be falling apart, and i think we get some evidence that might have happened here."
fandom:supernatural, topic:character
Teen Wolf
'Teen Wolf' stars tells fans they're watching the show for the wrong reasons: Aja Romano - Daily Dot (blog) - "Tyler Posey, the lead actor for the beloved fandom favorite Teen Wolf, has volunteered his thoughts about Sterek, slash fandom's name for the extremely popular pairing of main characters Stiles and Derek. And they aren’t pretty."
fandom:teenwolf, topic:slash
True Detective
The Crazy Mythology That Explains ‘True Detective’: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "True Detective, on the surface, seems to be a noir story. But a deeper dive into the references that keep popping up in the show suggest it’s from another place entirely: it’s a horror story dressed up in noir clothing. "
fandom:truedetective
Welcome to Night Vale
Reaction post: e040.5 Condos: sailorptah (DW) - "And for another thing, total loss of the culture you grew up in is not how cultural assimilation works. Until recently, it wasn't how Carlos worked either."
fandom:wtnv
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General Fandom
my field of dreams*: thedeadparrot (DW) - "what I want, what I really need in my life, is an actual pan-fandom community of people building interactive work in fandom."
topic:fandom, topic:interactivefiction
Regarding “Basic Tips For Writing Orthodox Jews”: lannamichaels (DW) - "I see on metanews a link to a post called Basic Tips For Writing Orthodox Jews, which posits that more and more Orthodox Jewish characters are appearing in fiction these days (I was unaware of this trend, but I don't really read much non-fic fiction, so *shrug*) and gives tips on writing Orthodox Jewish characters."
topic:writing, topic:religion
Fandom As a Potential Nightmare: Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "I need you to use your imagination. Today, I’m putting you in the shoes of an actor you admire. "
topic:fandom
Useful resources for fans who don’t understand why they make their favourite people nervous: sameoldsorceress (tumblr) - "These are all articles mostly geared towards not making the people we’re fans of uncomfortable, so we hope you find them useful."
topic:fandom
RANTY THOUGHTS: nemonclature (DW) - "I don't know, maybe I'm being a bitch here. But I really really dislike this idea that we the fans have to police our behaviour around the objects of our fannishness."
topic:fandom
How to Take a Break from Fandom(s): Eleanor Musgrove (blog) - "It may be that you find yourself needing to take a break from one or more of your fandoms. But if fandom’s an ingrained habit, a part of your everyday routine, how do you do that?"
topic:fandom
Branding in Fandom: I Will Always Love You: Red Hamilton (blog) - "However, for all our begrudging participation, St Valentine’s Day and indeed romance in general is pretty big business."
topic:romance
Avengers Assemble! The American Novel Since 1950: Chris Gavaler - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "The Defenders No. 62 cover features team leader Nighthawk holding his apparently throbbing head and roaring at the impressionistically pint-sized heroes buzzing around him. Which is how I feel as I juggle the roster for a would-be course on the recent American novel."
famdom:comics, topic:teaching, topic:writing
Objective, Subjective, Narrative, Clock, and Real: What of Time in Comics?: Adrielle Mitchell - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "Sometimes it is simply the nifty nature of dual time possible in a panel; consider, for example, a graphic memoir like Fun Home, in which the speech balloons emerge from the drawn child while a narrative voiceover in the captions presents an adult “take” on the scene below."
fandom:comics
Specific Fandoms
Agents of SHIELD
Is Agents Of SHIELD really an interracial family show?: Arturo R. García - Racialicious (blog) - "What felt to me like failings of characterization on the part of Zak Whedon et al. struck her as an accurate representation of the tensions between white and Asian parents in her own house."
fandom:agentsofshield, topic:race
Arrow
The Romance Contract: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "The unspoken contract in romance fiction is that the parties to the courtship will end up together."
fandom:arrow, topic:romance
Arrow Thursday: Protagonists: Jennifer Crusie (blog) - "The Protagonist is the character who owns the story. His goals, his drives, his hang-ups, his screw-ups fuel the story."
fandom:arrow, topic:protagonist
Frozen
Magical Mondays: Does Frozen’s Magic Run in the Family?: MadameAce (blog) - "It was after my boyfriend’s second viewing that it occurred to him that magic must run in the royal family and that Elsa isn’t the first person to have been born with powers."
fandom:disney, fandom:frozen, topic:magic
Gaming
The Last of Us - Left Behind: The Zombie Apocalypse vs. Female Friendship and Much, Much More: (blog) - "It becomes pretty clear over the course of the DLC that one of these plot lines is the “story” plot line, and one of them is the “combat” plotline, and to be honest I’m not certain whether I think that’s poor integration of the core gameplay of The Last of Us with what was the primary narrative of Left Behind, or an effective and perhaps even necessary way of setting the tone for the Riley portions of the game."
fandom:gaming
In Conquest Born
Liberal Fascism: Noah Berlatsky - The Hooded Utilitarian (blog) - "But, again, the two characters work in almost exactly the same way - they’re both dark, heroic, angsty totems performing awesomeness in repetitive set pieces."
fandom:inconquestborn, topic:fascism
Legend of the Seeker
More Cara Meta: vorquellyn (LJ) - "I’m writing this essay about Cara Mason and how I perceive her because it bothers me when people call her emotionless. Some of the reasons it disturbs me relate to my disability and my reasons for disagreeing are definitely rooted in my experiences as someone who does not process emotions in a way others can always recognize. I don’t think my view of her is definitive or trumps people who do see her as severely out of touch with her emotions. I don’t think Cara has anything diagnostically wrong with her except for PTSD."
fandom:lots
Peter Pan
Are Peter Pan And The Lost Boys Dead?: Springhole.net (blog) - "This article will explore reasons both in-universe and out-of-universe why Peter and the Lost Boys may or may not be or represent dead children."
fandom:peterpan
(BBC) The Musketeers
The Musketeers: nemonclature (DW) - "The reason for this post ... is that it looks GREAT. And it's not just the filming ... It's also the CLOTHES."
fandom:bbcmusketeers, topic:costumes
My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic
Are bronies ready for the first mainstream 'My Little Pony' porn?: EJ Dickson - Daily Dot (blog) - "In Magic Pony Cloud Land, Tasha and her friends discover that if they obtain “unicorn love juice” from the centaurs who currently reign over the kingdom, they can stay ponies forever. How do they obtain the centaurs’ love juice? Your guess is as good as mine! "
fandom:mlpfim, fandom:tashasponytales, topic:porn
Nashville
Frenemy Mine: Women’s relationships on ABC’s “Nashville”: Keidra Chaney - Learned Fangirl (blog) - "While the clash between veteran country star Rayna James and starlet Juliette Barnes propelled the primary storyline of season one, Nashville showrunner Callie Khouri managed to steer away from the usual catfight tropes that seem to define the soap genre, or frankly any television show that involves two female leads that aren’t related."
fandom:nashville
Star Wars
Where are the women in 'Star Wars: Rebels'?: Lisa Granshaw - Daily Dot (blog) - "The absence of any background or other information about the two women seems like a major departure from Lucasfilm’s previous animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. "
fandom:starwars, topic:gender
The Empire Business: Ben Adams - Overthinking It (blog) - "Looking at our summarized list above, we can see that Anakin’s transformation into Darth Vader is strikingly similar to Walter White’s path to Heisenberg."
fandom:breakingbad; fandom:starwars
Supernatural
i think it really counters this idea in fandom that dean’s “too broken” to live “a normal life”: amonitrate(tumblr) - "part of starting to heal can be falling apart, and i think we get some evidence that might have happened here."
fandom:supernatural, topic:character
Teen Wolf
'Teen Wolf' stars tells fans they're watching the show for the wrong reasons: Aja Romano - Daily Dot (blog) - "Tyler Posey, the lead actor for the beloved fandom favorite Teen Wolf, has volunteered his thoughts about Sterek, slash fandom's name for the extremely popular pairing of main characters Stiles and Derek. And they aren’t pretty."
fandom:teenwolf, topic:slash
True Detective
The Crazy Mythology That Explains ‘True Detective’: Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress (blog) - "True Detective, on the surface, seems to be a noir story. But a deeper dive into the references that keep popping up in the show suggest it’s from another place entirely: it’s a horror story dressed up in noir clothing. "
fandom:truedetective
Welcome to Night Vale
Reaction post: e040.5 Condos: sailorptah (DW) - "And for another thing, total loss of the culture you grew up in is not how cultural assimilation works. Until recently, it wasn't how Carlos worked either."
fandom:wtnv