10/29/14 - 11/05/14
Notices
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General Fandom
Why Are We Still Fighting About YA Lit?: Sarah Arboleda (blog) - "While plenty of dyed-in-the-wool, serious bibliophiles have read their fair share of YA Lit into their 20s and beyond, the vast majority of people reading YA lit as adults are people who, if John Green didn't exist, would be reading about spies or shoes or European trips of female self-discovery instead. And I don't mean that in a patronizing way."
topic:literature
How Classic Horror Continues to Inspire: Vance K (blog) - "I think these earlier films, despite a lack of special effects, despite their limited budgets, and despite much actual onscreen violence, used what they had, which were their gifted casts. Products of a different time, they told different kinds of stories - fundamentally human stories - that might not get the recognition they deserve."
topic:characterization
On the Gentrification of Geek (and why it's fine, you guys): Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Because Geek Culture, like most societies, has an economy. More than the buying and selling of physical objects, the real marketplace of geek culture trades in that species of social status composed from a mixture of arcane knowledge and seniority (and sometimes accomplishment, though not always) - that curious currency known as cred."
topic:fandom, topic:culture
Questionable: How Do You Make a Collaboration Work?: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - advice on collaboration
topic:writing
Newsweek Drills Down on Percentage of #GamerGate Tweets to Developers Rather Than Journalists, Results Are Predictable: Susana Polo (blog) - " So let's ask a social media analytics company to delve deep into the #GamerGate tag to see which is more predominant: tweets at games journalists, or tweets at game developers who have no direct power to affect ethical behavior in games journalism."
fandom:gaming, topic:feminism, topic:statistics
Untitled: darthstitch (tumblr) - "If you like something, you are a real fan."
topic:fandom
Microreview [book]: Valor, by John Gwynne: Zhaoyun (blog) - "Still enjoyable, but the flaws are (getting) hard(er) to ignore"
fandom:literature
Naming our Narrators: quinn (blog) - "Here's a thought that I can't guarantee will leave us in a productive place: I can't believe that meta-fictional narrators in RPG texts are neutral."
fandom:gaming
Building a Protagonist Visually: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - "So for the first time in a long time, I'm having to consciously do discovery on my protagonist before I write her, which makes it a lot easier to see how she develops. "
topic:writing
Brainstorming Setting: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - "Setting is more than location. It's time, geography, weather, and people. It's the wallpaper for your story, and just like wallpaper, poor choices and inadequate preparations can destroy the whole story."
topic:writing
GeekGirlCon 2014: Heroine's Journey Panel Recap: Lex (blog) - "Two weeks ago at GeekGirlCon 2014 in Seattle, I moderated the panel "The Heroine's Journey: Moving Beyond Campbell's Monomyth.""
topic:herosjourney, topic:femalecharacter
All About Sheev (and Other Star Wars Names): Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - Star Wars, Marvel, DC and other topics
topic:names, topic:adaptations
Is Hollywood's superhero factory too big to fail?: Dominick Mayer (blog) - "It's not particularly shocking to declare that superhero movies are bigger now than they've ever been at any point."
topic:movies, topic:superheroes
Framing the Future of Fanfiction: Drew Emanual Berkowitz (journal) - "This article discusses how online fanfiction communities, their members, and their literacy practices are portrayed within popular and news media discourses."
topic:fandom, topic:fanfic
New Rules of Fantasy: On the Road: quinn (blog) - "Taking this further, what I want in my games is to take away adventuring as a "profession". What I'd rather have is adventuring as something that emerges from the result of my crazy job, and the crazy people that I meet. I want to keep mobility so characters can travel freely, but I want to give characters a purpose in the world besides gaining power and money. Rather than being the sole purpose for taking action, adventure becomes an emergent part of characters engaging in activities they are doing."
topic:gaming
We Rank 'Em: Female Protagonists - Young Adult SF/F: Tia (blog) - "Much of today's mainstream YA SF/F franchises have female protagonists and it makes me wonder about the value of what is being presented to the always impressionable population of young adults readers."
topic:femalecharacters, fandom:hisdarkmaterials, fandom:harrypotter, fandom:frozen, fandom:divergent, fandom:hungergames
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Who Needs an Afterlife, Anyway?: stinekey (blog) - "This got me thinking about the way the afterlife appears in our geeky media. Saika and I have already written posts about Heaven and Hell, respectively. Both of us note that each realm is usually twisted in some way (either corrupted or comically), or kind of boring. So do we really need to give our characters an afterlife?"
topic:religion
Why I Don't Buy #Gamergate: Squid, Inc. (blog) - "The events of #Gamergate not only leave me highly disappointed, they also confirm the notion that any scandal or event described with the suffix "-gate" will be idiotic."
topic:gamergate
Television, Toil and Trouble: The Witches Of TV: Kristina Meek (blog) - "When I was young and my mom would catch sight of herself in a mirror without make-up, she would exclaim, "Ew, I look like a witch"! Witch meant ugly. Ugly, in turn, tends to mean "bad," not only for witches but for all kinds of pop culture characters, especially women. Witches as protagonists, i.e., those we're supposed to empathize with, then need to be attractive. So, have we just traded one stereotype for another?"
topic:witches
Untitled: Connie (blog) - "I am so pleased that New York Comic-Con had so many different panels on diversity for so many marginalized groups, people of color being just one such voice. The more a large convention allows our voices to be heard from the smallest of the panel rooms to the Main Stage, the more we will be thought of and heard in both the independent and main stream industries that we are fighting to be represented in."
topic:race, fandom:comics
The Dark Assembly Meeting: Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - "Darkness is the theme of the day at the Fantastic Fortress (and not just because Merchman is about to see Deathly Hallows Part 2). It is Halloween week and we've filled the podcast with talk of death and darkness."
topic:angst, topic:dystopia
Femslash meta: Rule 53 and femslash within fandom: intransitive (DW) - "I'm going to try and articulate some of the unease I feel about many traditional challenges and fan communities and how they choose to define femslash and women within fandom."
topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash, topic:rule63
Specific Fandoms
Agents of SHIELD
PE=mgh: domarzione (DW) - "I watched this past week's Agents of SHIELD, my latest attempt to get into the series, and I suspect I've failed again."
fandom:agentsofshield
American Horror Story
So You Want To Watch American Horror Story: polyglotpisces (blog) - "As part of my celebrations for Halloween, which is a month-long festival for me, I started re-watching American Horror Story from the very beginning, so it would be fresh in my mind. I had plenty of critiques in mind already, but the re-watching experience also led me to something of an epiphany."
fandom:americanhorrorstory
Animorphs
Thoughts About Ax’s Narration: featherquillpen (tumblr) - "I've been thinking a lot about what alliecat-person has said about the introductory narration in each book, and what that says about the character. In honor of #axattack I'd like to point out something interesting about Ax's intros."
fandom:animorphs
Arrow
In Brightest Day: Arrow and Ableist Excuses: MadameAce (blog) - "A few weeks ago, Arrow's third season began with an incredibly shocking first episode. And now, four episodes later, all the characters are still dealing with the tragedy."
fandom:arrow
The Book of Life
The Book of Life… The Dia de los Muertos Fiesta We Didn't Need: polyglotpisces (blog) - "The 2014 American film The Book of Life, which just opened a few weeks ago, is a rollicking romp set with this backdrop of Mexican Day of the Dead celebration, directed and co-written by Mexican animator and creator Jorge Gutiérrez. Though I am of a different Hispanic descent (Ecuadorian to be exact), I was excited to see a children's movie celebrating any Latin American culture when the vast majority have backdrops of European folklore. I went in hoping for a lot, and left disappointed and offended."
fandom:thebookoflife
Borderlands
Talking Female Characters, "Friendzoning," and Representation With The Writers Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: The Mary Sue (blog) - "We asked Burch and Suckling how they came to the unusual (but awesome) decision to have parity in the playable characters' gender, and they said that while including Nisha was an easy choice because of her relationship with Handsome Jack, deciding on Athena wasn't quite so simple."
fandom:gaming, topic:femalecharacters
Doctor Who
Twelve, Trenzalore, and Clara Oswald: thefrozenhurricane (tumblr) - " It's not explicit, but the effects of the 900 year stint the Doctor spent on Trenzalore have been a constant undercurrent so far this year."
fandom:doctorwho
The Impossible Girl: Tammany (AO3) - "Throw in Daleks emBorging humans, and cybermen emBorging humans, and you've got this vast and interconnected web of associated links allowing for the notion of all of it being a network of connected minds and connected enemies entirely free of time once you've got The Master inside the network providing access to knowledge and tech."
fandom:doctorwho
In the Forest of the Night - Series 8 - Episode Ten (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "He gives up on the planet. The children. His other friends. The future as he perceives it, other possible futures - everything. This, from the man who carried The Moment in a burlap sack, miles from the TARDIS, to the barn at Lungbarrow."
fandom:doctorwho
Gremlins
Why Gremlins Is the Scariest Film I've Ever Seen: Jed W. Harris-Keith (blog) - "I'm typically not moved to being frightened by any so-called scary movie. Never have been. With one exception: Gremlins."
topic:movies
His Dark Materials
Sexualized Saturdays: Innocence and Sexual Maturity in His Dark Materials, Part 2: lady geek girl (blog) - "This week I explain how Lyra's lack of interiority in particular makes it difficult for the reader to reconcile the plot of the story with its broader philosophical themes."
fandom:hisdarkmaterials, topic:sexuality
Interview with the Vampire
Sexualized Saturdays: Subverting the Lolita Trope in Interview with the Vampire: Lady Saika (blog) - "The sexualization of young girls is an ongoing issue in our society, and it constantly trickles down into our pop culture."
fandom:interviewwiththevampire, topic:sexuality
In the Flesh
Untitled nothingrhymeswithsquash (tumblr) - "I love the way Luke Newberry chooses to portray Kieren's anxiety."
fandom:itf
MCU
Untitled carryonmypaintedwhore (tumblr) - "So my headcanon about the AoU Mjolnir scene is that none of them would have been able to lift it, not even if they were worthy. Because none of them are worthy in that scene-not even Cap."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: darthstitch (tumblr) - "Okay, I'm going to start with Bucky Barnes, because everyone seems to be confused about him as a character and that he needs "redemption.""
fandom:mcu
Untitled: shadowkai45 (tumblr) - "Personally based on that clip I think Steve can't quite lift Mjolnir yet because he's not in the state of mind/place in his life that she would let him."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: shadowkai45 (tumblr) - "i dont want a natasha solo movie to be a flashback about her backstory"
fandom:mcu
Untitled: ink-phoenix (tumblr) - "Thoughts on the reveal that Captain America 3 is going to be the Civil War storyline??"
fandom:mcu
Selfie
Untitled: Vivian Obarski (blog) - "And the interesting thing about this is that she's also interacting with the audience. Which makes sense, given that Eliza is a social media celebrity who talks about food, fashion and random bits of the day. Bits of her tweets and Instagram photos show up on the episode for the week and Eliza retweets and replies back to people on Twitter."
topic:television
Sherlock
META: Mary/Maryam: Mary Morstan in BBC Sherlock and Truth May Vary: amalnahurriyeh (DW) - "The figure of Mary Morstan can pose a problem for those who ship John and Sherlock, as do canon female love interests in lots of canons; she comes between the characters we want to see together, and we have to choose how to approach her, how we might get our ship together with her in the picture."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:fanfic
Benedict Cumberbatch dishes on Sherlock's sex life: Michelle Jaworski (blog) - "While the show is still on hiatus until filming for the Christmas special starts, Cumberbatch showed that he'd thought a lot about his character, at least when it came to his sex life and sexual urges."
fandom:bbcsherlock
A Song of Ice and Fire
Building the "World of Ice and Fire": Steven Attewell (blog) - "And that's because Martin is, for all of his world's attention to the grim realities of medieval society, a romantic. (For more on this topic, see my various chapter-by-chapter essays, or buy my book) And because it's his world-book, he gets to subtly champion his genre's romantic impulses against all comers."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:worldbuilding
Untitled": sansastarkisbetterthanyourfavesl (blog) - "Ok, so, here's the thing. I never expected to read the world book and like Baelor Targaryen, a.k.a. Baelor the Blessed, and I'm still not really sure why I do."
fandom:asoiaf
A Reassessing of Sorrows: msunyata (blog) - "October marks the second-year anniversary of our very first ebook, Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows (and the one-year anniversary of its limited print version, A Flight of Sorrows: Collector's Edition). To help celebrate the occasion and to also acknowledge that a great deal of time has passed, I thought it would be instructive -- and kinda fun -- to revisit some of the issues brought up in both editions and see where we all stand on them now."
fandom:asoiaf
Star Trek
Untitled: (tumblr) - "what if khan's blood does eventually turn kirk into a homicidal madman and that's how we get mirrorverse kirk"
fandom:startrek
Star Wars
Episode LXXXVIII: Fangirls Gone Sith
: Full of Sith (podcast) - "They talk about their first experiences in Star Wars, the new episode of Rebels, and then they have a discussion on Darth Bane…"
fandom:starwars
Fangirls Going Rogue Episode 12: Star Wars is for Everyone!: Fangirls Going Rogue (podcast) - "On this month's episode of Fangirls Going Rogue, Teresa Delgado and Tricia Barr report back on their convention trips, including interviews with Steve Blum (Zeb) and Greg Ellis (Baron Ruhdor) from Star Wars Rebels."
fandom:starwars
Hyperspace Theories Episode Two: The Legacy of George Lucas: Hyperspace Theories (podcast) - "For our second episode of Hyperspace Theories, Megan Crouse joins Tricia, B.J., and Kay for our storytelling and speculation discussion."
fandom:starwars
Stargate
random thought from histor: princessofgeeks (DW) - "I still sometimes marvel at how Stargate: Atlantis had this enormous explosion of fic of all kinds in such a short period compared to the fic production for the original show, Stargate SG-1."
topic:fanfic, fandom:sga, fandom:stargate
Supernatural
'Supernatural' fan booted from convention after being labeled a 'threat' to stars: Aja Romano (blog) - "A noted Supernatural fan who organized a fandomwide gift-giving campaign for the cast and crew of the show has been banned from all future Creation Entertainment conventions-and it may be because she ships Destiel."
fandom:supernatural, topic:fandom, topic:conventions
Xena
Throwback Thursdays: Help, It's 2014 and I've Only Just Discovered Xena: Warrior Princess: pantydragon (blog) - "To all of you who grew up getting a forty-five minute weekly dose of Lucy Lawless crushing men's skulls with her perfectly sculpted thighs, you have no idea how lucky you are."
fandom:xena
If you have meta to submit 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
Why Are We Still Fighting About YA Lit?: Sarah Arboleda (blog) - "While plenty of dyed-in-the-wool, serious bibliophiles have read their fair share of YA Lit into their 20s and beyond, the vast majority of people reading YA lit as adults are people who, if John Green didn't exist, would be reading about spies or shoes or European trips of female self-discovery instead. And I don't mean that in a patronizing way."
topic:literature
How Classic Horror Continues to Inspire: Vance K (blog) - "I think these earlier films, despite a lack of special effects, despite their limited budgets, and despite much actual onscreen violence, used what they had, which were their gifted casts. Products of a different time, they told different kinds of stories - fundamentally human stories - that might not get the recognition they deserve."
topic:characterization
On the Gentrification of Geek (and why it's fine, you guys): Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Because Geek Culture, like most societies, has an economy. More than the buying and selling of physical objects, the real marketplace of geek culture trades in that species of social status composed from a mixture of arcane knowledge and seniority (and sometimes accomplishment, though not always) - that curious currency known as cred."
topic:fandom, topic:culture
Questionable: How Do You Make a Collaboration Work?: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - advice on collaboration
topic:writing
Newsweek Drills Down on Percentage of #GamerGate Tweets to Developers Rather Than Journalists, Results Are Predictable: Susana Polo (blog) - " So let's ask a social media analytics company to delve deep into the #GamerGate tag to see which is more predominant: tweets at games journalists, or tweets at game developers who have no direct power to affect ethical behavior in games journalism."
fandom:gaming, topic:feminism, topic:statistics
Untitled: darthstitch (tumblr) - "If you like something, you are a real fan."
topic:fandom
Microreview [book]: Valor, by John Gwynne: Zhaoyun (blog) - "Still enjoyable, but the flaws are (getting) hard(er) to ignore"
fandom:literature
Naming our Narrators: quinn (blog) - "Here's a thought that I can't guarantee will leave us in a productive place: I can't believe that meta-fictional narrators in RPG texts are neutral."
fandom:gaming
Building a Protagonist Visually: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - "So for the first time in a long time, I'm having to consciously do discovery on my protagonist before I write her, which makes it a lot easier to see how she develops. "
topic:writing
Brainstorming Setting: Jennifer Cruise (blog) - "Setting is more than location. It's time, geography, weather, and people. It's the wallpaper for your story, and just like wallpaper, poor choices and inadequate preparations can destroy the whole story."
topic:writing
GeekGirlCon 2014: Heroine's Journey Panel Recap: Lex (blog) - "Two weeks ago at GeekGirlCon 2014 in Seattle, I moderated the panel "The Heroine's Journey: Moving Beyond Campbell's Monomyth.""
topic:herosjourney, topic:femalecharacter
All About Sheev (and Other Star Wars Names): Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - Star Wars, Marvel, DC and other topics
topic:names, topic:adaptations
Is Hollywood's superhero factory too big to fail?: Dominick Mayer (blog) - "It's not particularly shocking to declare that superhero movies are bigger now than they've ever been at any point."
topic:movies, topic:superheroes
Framing the Future of Fanfiction: Drew Emanual Berkowitz (journal) - "This article discusses how online fanfiction communities, their members, and their literacy practices are portrayed within popular and news media discourses."
topic:fandom, topic:fanfic
New Rules of Fantasy: On the Road: quinn (blog) - "Taking this further, what I want in my games is to take away adventuring as a "profession". What I'd rather have is adventuring as something that emerges from the result of my crazy job, and the crazy people that I meet. I want to keep mobility so characters can travel freely, but I want to give characters a purpose in the world besides gaining power and money. Rather than being the sole purpose for taking action, adventure becomes an emergent part of characters engaging in activities they are doing."
topic:gaming
We Rank 'Em: Female Protagonists - Young Adult SF/F: Tia (blog) - "Much of today's mainstream YA SF/F franchises have female protagonists and it makes me wonder about the value of what is being presented to the always impressionable population of young adults readers."
topic:femalecharacters, fandom:hisdarkmaterials, fandom:harrypotter, fandom:frozen, fandom:divergent, fandom:hungergames
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Who Needs an Afterlife, Anyway?: stinekey (blog) - "This got me thinking about the way the afterlife appears in our geeky media. Saika and I have already written posts about Heaven and Hell, respectively. Both of us note that each realm is usually twisted in some way (either corrupted or comically), or kind of boring. So do we really need to give our characters an afterlife?"
topic:religion
Why I Don't Buy #Gamergate: Squid, Inc. (blog) - "The events of #Gamergate not only leave me highly disappointed, they also confirm the notion that any scandal or event described with the suffix "-gate" will be idiotic."
topic:gamergate
Television, Toil and Trouble: The Witches Of TV: Kristina Meek (blog) - "When I was young and my mom would catch sight of herself in a mirror without make-up, she would exclaim, "Ew, I look like a witch"! Witch meant ugly. Ugly, in turn, tends to mean "bad," not only for witches but for all kinds of pop culture characters, especially women. Witches as protagonists, i.e., those we're supposed to empathize with, then need to be attractive. So, have we just traded one stereotype for another?"
topic:witches
Untitled: Connie (blog) - "I am so pleased that New York Comic-Con had so many different panels on diversity for so many marginalized groups, people of color being just one such voice. The more a large convention allows our voices to be heard from the smallest of the panel rooms to the Main Stage, the more we will be thought of and heard in both the independent and main stream industries that we are fighting to be represented in."
topic:race, fandom:comics
The Dark Assembly Meeting: Assembly of Geeks (podcast) - "Darkness is the theme of the day at the Fantastic Fortress (and not just because Merchman is about to see Deathly Hallows Part 2). It is Halloween week and we've filled the podcast with talk of death and darkness."
topic:angst, topic:dystopia
Femslash meta: Rule 53 and femslash within fandom: intransitive (DW) - "I'm going to try and articulate some of the unease I feel about many traditional challenges and fan communities and how they choose to define femslash and women within fandom."
topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash, topic:rule63
Specific Fandoms
Agents of SHIELD
PE=mgh: domarzione (DW) - "I watched this past week's Agents of SHIELD, my latest attempt to get into the series, and I suspect I've failed again."
fandom:agentsofshield
American Horror Story
So You Want To Watch American Horror Story: polyglotpisces (blog) - "As part of my celebrations for Halloween, which is a month-long festival for me, I started re-watching American Horror Story from the very beginning, so it would be fresh in my mind. I had plenty of critiques in mind already, but the re-watching experience also led me to something of an epiphany."
fandom:americanhorrorstory
Animorphs
Thoughts About Ax’s Narration: featherquillpen (tumblr) - "I've been thinking a lot about what alliecat-person has said about the introductory narration in each book, and what that says about the character. In honor of #axattack I'd like to point out something interesting about Ax's intros."
fandom:animorphs
Arrow
In Brightest Day: Arrow and Ableist Excuses: MadameAce (blog) - "A few weeks ago, Arrow's third season began with an incredibly shocking first episode. And now, four episodes later, all the characters are still dealing with the tragedy."
fandom:arrow
The Book of Life
The Book of Life… The Dia de los Muertos Fiesta We Didn't Need: polyglotpisces (blog) - "The 2014 American film The Book of Life, which just opened a few weeks ago, is a rollicking romp set with this backdrop of Mexican Day of the Dead celebration, directed and co-written by Mexican animator and creator Jorge Gutiérrez. Though I am of a different Hispanic descent (Ecuadorian to be exact), I was excited to see a children's movie celebrating any Latin American culture when the vast majority have backdrops of European folklore. I went in hoping for a lot, and left disappointed and offended."
fandom:thebookoflife
Borderlands
Talking Female Characters, "Friendzoning," and Representation With The Writers Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: The Mary Sue (blog) - "We asked Burch and Suckling how they came to the unusual (but awesome) decision to have parity in the playable characters' gender, and they said that while including Nisha was an easy choice because of her relationship with Handsome Jack, deciding on Athena wasn't quite so simple."
fandom:gaming, topic:femalecharacters
Doctor Who
Twelve, Trenzalore, and Clara Oswald: thefrozenhurricane (tumblr) - " It's not explicit, but the effects of the 900 year stint the Doctor spent on Trenzalore have been a constant undercurrent so far this year."
fandom:doctorwho
The Impossible Girl: Tammany (AO3) - "Throw in Daleks emBorging humans, and cybermen emBorging humans, and you've got this vast and interconnected web of associated links allowing for the notion of all of it being a network of connected minds and connected enemies entirely free of time once you've got The Master inside the network providing access to knowledge and tech."
fandom:doctorwho
In the Forest of the Night - Series 8 - Episode Ten (Meta/Review): Boji (AO3) - "He gives up on the planet. The children. His other friends. The future as he perceives it, other possible futures - everything. This, from the man who carried The Moment in a burlap sack, miles from the TARDIS, to the barn at Lungbarrow."
fandom:doctorwho
Gremlins
Why Gremlins Is the Scariest Film I've Ever Seen: Jed W. Harris-Keith (blog) - "I'm typically not moved to being frightened by any so-called scary movie. Never have been. With one exception: Gremlins."
topic:movies
His Dark Materials
Sexualized Saturdays: Innocence and Sexual Maturity in His Dark Materials, Part 2: lady geek girl (blog) - "This week I explain how Lyra's lack of interiority in particular makes it difficult for the reader to reconcile the plot of the story with its broader philosophical themes."
fandom:hisdarkmaterials, topic:sexuality
Interview with the Vampire
Sexualized Saturdays: Subverting the Lolita Trope in Interview with the Vampire: Lady Saika (blog) - "The sexualization of young girls is an ongoing issue in our society, and it constantly trickles down into our pop culture."
fandom:interviewwiththevampire, topic:sexuality
In the Flesh
Untitled nothingrhymeswithsquash (tumblr) - "I love the way Luke Newberry chooses to portray Kieren's anxiety."
fandom:itf
MCU
Untitled carryonmypaintedwhore (tumblr) - "So my headcanon about the AoU Mjolnir scene is that none of them would have been able to lift it, not even if they were worthy. Because none of them are worthy in that scene-not even Cap."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: darthstitch (tumblr) - "Okay, I'm going to start with Bucky Barnes, because everyone seems to be confused about him as a character and that he needs "redemption.""
fandom:mcu
Untitled: shadowkai45 (tumblr) - "Personally based on that clip I think Steve can't quite lift Mjolnir yet because he's not in the state of mind/place in his life that she would let him."
fandom:mcu
Untitled: shadowkai45 (tumblr) - "i dont want a natasha solo movie to be a flashback about her backstory"
fandom:mcu
Untitled: ink-phoenix (tumblr) - "Thoughts on the reveal that Captain America 3 is going to be the Civil War storyline??"
fandom:mcu
Selfie
Untitled: Vivian Obarski (blog) - "And the interesting thing about this is that she's also interacting with the audience. Which makes sense, given that Eliza is a social media celebrity who talks about food, fashion and random bits of the day. Bits of her tweets and Instagram photos show up on the episode for the week and Eliza retweets and replies back to people on Twitter."
topic:television
Sherlock
META: Mary/Maryam: Mary Morstan in BBC Sherlock and Truth May Vary: amalnahurriyeh (DW) - "The figure of Mary Morstan can pose a problem for those who ship John and Sherlock, as do canon female love interests in lots of canons; she comes between the characters we want to see together, and we have to choose how to approach her, how we might get our ship together with her in the picture."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:fanfic
Benedict Cumberbatch dishes on Sherlock's sex life: Michelle Jaworski (blog) - "While the show is still on hiatus until filming for the Christmas special starts, Cumberbatch showed that he'd thought a lot about his character, at least when it came to his sex life and sexual urges."
fandom:bbcsherlock
A Song of Ice and Fire
Building the "World of Ice and Fire": Steven Attewell (blog) - "And that's because Martin is, for all of his world's attention to the grim realities of medieval society, a romantic. (For more on this topic, see my various chapter-by-chapter essays, or buy my book) And because it's his world-book, he gets to subtly champion his genre's romantic impulses against all comers."
fandom:asoiaf, topic:worldbuilding
Untitled": sansastarkisbetterthanyourfavesl (blog) - "Ok, so, here's the thing. I never expected to read the world book and like Baelor Targaryen, a.k.a. Baelor the Blessed, and I'm still not really sure why I do."
fandom:asoiaf
A Reassessing of Sorrows: msunyata (blog) - "October marks the second-year anniversary of our very first ebook, Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows (and the one-year anniversary of its limited print version, A Flight of Sorrows: Collector's Edition). To help celebrate the occasion and to also acknowledge that a great deal of time has passed, I thought it would be instructive -- and kinda fun -- to revisit some of the issues brought up in both editions and see where we all stand on them now."
fandom:asoiaf
Star Trek
Untitled: (tumblr) - "what if khan's blood does eventually turn kirk into a homicidal madman and that's how we get mirrorverse kirk"
fandom:startrek
Star Wars
Episode LXXXVIII: Fangirls Gone Sith
: Full of Sith (podcast) - "They talk about their first experiences in Star Wars, the new episode of Rebels, and then they have a discussion on Darth Bane…"
fandom:starwars
Fangirls Going Rogue Episode 12: Star Wars is for Everyone!: Fangirls Going Rogue (podcast) - "On this month's episode of Fangirls Going Rogue, Teresa Delgado and Tricia Barr report back on their convention trips, including interviews with Steve Blum (Zeb) and Greg Ellis (Baron Ruhdor) from Star Wars Rebels."
fandom:starwars
Hyperspace Theories Episode Two: The Legacy of George Lucas: Hyperspace Theories (podcast) - "For our second episode of Hyperspace Theories, Megan Crouse joins Tricia, B.J., and Kay for our storytelling and speculation discussion."
fandom:starwars
Stargate
random thought from histor: princessofgeeks (DW) - "I still sometimes marvel at how Stargate: Atlantis had this enormous explosion of fic of all kinds in such a short period compared to the fic production for the original show, Stargate SG-1."
topic:fanfic, fandom:sga, fandom:stargate
Supernatural
'Supernatural' fan booted from convention after being labeled a 'threat' to stars: Aja Romano (blog) - "A noted Supernatural fan who organized a fandomwide gift-giving campaign for the cast and crew of the show has been banned from all future Creation Entertainment conventions-and it may be because she ships Destiel."
fandom:supernatural, topic:fandom, topic:conventions
Xena
Throwback Thursdays: Help, It's 2014 and I've Only Just Discovered Xena: Warrior Princess: pantydragon (blog) - "To all of you who grew up getting a forty-five minute weekly dose of Lucy Lawless crushing men's skulls with her perfectly sculpted thighs, you have no idea how lucky you are."
fandom:xena