14 January 2015-20 January 2015
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General Fandom
In defense of Gyllencest and incest fanfiction: Aja Romano (blog) - "I'm begging you not to be alarmed by a thimbleful of made-up stories about celebrity siblings. Nor should you write off the genre as a frightful sideshow attraction in fandom."
topic:rpf, topic:incest, topic:fanfic
Sexualized Saturdays: So Pumped about Female Friendships: Lady Saika (blog) - "There's a slow but exciting change occurring in popular media, these days: lots of creators are finally beginning to show female friendships in their works."
topic:femalecharacter
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: When Villains Repent: stinekey (blog) - "Getting yourself right with God (or the Gods) and your fellow human beings are big parts of many religions, and huge plot points of many of our most popular stories."
topic:villains
Magical Mondays: Magical Characters in a Science-Minded World: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Magic is almost always introduced as an unknown element that cannot be calculated or figured out by nonmagical beings, making it extremely suspect to those who don't understand it."
topic:magic, topic:superheroes
Question of the day: the Archive of Our Own's rating system: jae (DW) - "Those of you who write fanfiction and post it on the Archive of Our Own: what are your rules of thumb for using its rating system?"
topic:ao3, topic:tags
What's the Point of Modern Adaptation?: violethuntress (blog) - "When deciding to adapt an older work and set it in the modern era, it has to be about more than just seeing beloved historical-fictional characters use cell phones and wear jeans."
topic:adaptations
Genre Wars Part 16739: naraht (DW) - "it sometimes feels like you have to make a choice between mainstream literary circles, where literary fiction is brilliant and genre/fanfic is shit, or fannish circles, where genre/fanfic is joyful and wonderful and literary fiction is boring, pretentious and oppressive. (Or, for that matter, genre circles where literary fiction and fanfic are both shit.)"
topic:genre, topic:fiction
History is for each of us to interpret for ourselves: Selma and The Imitation Game: naraht (DW) - "Following with interest the controversies over historical accuracy in two recent biopics, Selma and The Imitation Game."
topic:history, topic:accuracy, topic:canon
Specific Fandoms
Animorphs
Throwback Thursdays: You Mattered, Animorphs: porluciernagas (blog) - "Animorphs was a book series that had a new book out every couple of months, making it more like a TV show than other book series where you'd have to wait at least a year for the next installment."
fandom:animorphs
Arrow
5 reasons 'Arrow' is the best superhero show on television: Eric Geller (blog) - "With all the attention that Marvel is getting right now for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter, it's important to point out that, thanks to Arrow, DC Comics is doing something few expected from it just a few years ago: competing formidably with its larger rival in the superhero television space."
fandom:arrow
Batman
The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 48: "Birds of a Feather" The Arkham Sessions (podcast) - "We discuss Penguin's tendency toward criminality in relation to his tragic history and lack of positive experiences. We explain topics such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder, correctional rehabilitation and positive psychology. Are we too sympathetic or on the mark?"
fandom:dcanimated
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Nozaki-kun and Bifauxnen In Shoujo: Tsunderin (blog) - "While I've thought of Kashima's character as laudable because she seems unconcerned with typical gender roles and expresses her gender identity through non-sterotypical ways, when looking at her actions from the angle of the cultural trope she fills, her character becomes a little less praise-worthy."
fandom:anime, fandom:manga, topic:femalecharacter
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game: An Imitation of the Life of Alan Turing: AELARSEN (blog) - "The film seeks to help the general public gain a better understanding of Alan Turing's contributions to modern society. It is also arousing complaints about its historical accuracy. So let's take a look at it."
fandom:theimitationgame
My Little Pony: Rainbow Rocks
Friendship is… Unnerving? A My Little Pony: Rainbow Rocks Review: MarchHareMoe (blog) - "Don't get me wrong, I enjoy MLP:FiM as much as the next Pegasister, but the films are known to be disastrous for a reason. Regardless, I had hope for the movie already knowing the prequel shorts Hasbro released on YouTube were pretty good."
fandom:mylittlepony
The 100
uh, in case anyone needs a timeline for season 1 of The 100: tassosss (DW) - "Here is a proposed timeline for season 1, based on my rewatch."
fandom:the100
Sherlock
#Setlock: The fans who stalk the 'Sherlock' film set: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Between Sherlock's love of cliffhanger endings, the BBC's fanatical spoiler-phobia, and the lengthy gaps between seasons, #setlock was born."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:fandom
A Song of Ice and Fire
Fire and Blood: Stefan (blog) - "We, as readers, however, can try to judge on which side the coin fell - or if it was one of the rare circumstances in which the coin didn't fall on either side, but stood there, quivering on its edge."
fandom:asoiaf
Whatever happened to Ned Stark's brother?: Michelle Jaworski (blog) - "With a swift scrawl of the red pen, George R.R. Martin effectively shut down a theory fans have been developing for years."
fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones
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
In defense of Gyllencest and incest fanfiction: Aja Romano (blog) - "I'm begging you not to be alarmed by a thimbleful of made-up stories about celebrity siblings. Nor should you write off the genre as a frightful sideshow attraction in fandom."
topic:rpf, topic:incest, topic:fanfic
Sexualized Saturdays: So Pumped about Female Friendships: Lady Saika (blog) - "There's a slow but exciting change occurring in popular media, these days: lots of creators are finally beginning to show female friendships in their works."
topic:femalecharacter
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: When Villains Repent: stinekey (blog) - "Getting yourself right with God (or the Gods) and your fellow human beings are big parts of many religions, and huge plot points of many of our most popular stories."
topic:villains
Magical Mondays: Magical Characters in a Science-Minded World: Lady Geek Girl (blog) - "Magic is almost always introduced as an unknown element that cannot be calculated or figured out by nonmagical beings, making it extremely suspect to those who don't understand it."
topic:magic, topic:superheroes
Question of the day: the Archive of Our Own's rating system: jae (DW) - "Those of you who write fanfiction and post it on the Archive of Our Own: what are your rules of thumb for using its rating system?"
topic:ao3, topic:tags
What's the Point of Modern Adaptation?: violethuntress (blog) - "When deciding to adapt an older work and set it in the modern era, it has to be about more than just seeing beloved historical-fictional characters use cell phones and wear jeans."
topic:adaptations
Genre Wars Part 16739: naraht (DW) - "it sometimes feels like you have to make a choice between mainstream literary circles, where literary fiction is brilliant and genre/fanfic is shit, or fannish circles, where genre/fanfic is joyful and wonderful and literary fiction is boring, pretentious and oppressive. (Or, for that matter, genre circles where literary fiction and fanfic are both shit.)"
topic:genre, topic:fiction
History is for each of us to interpret for ourselves: Selma and The Imitation Game: naraht (DW) - "Following with interest the controversies over historical accuracy in two recent biopics, Selma and The Imitation Game."
topic:history, topic:accuracy, topic:canon
Specific Fandoms
Animorphs
Throwback Thursdays: You Mattered, Animorphs: porluciernagas (blog) - "Animorphs was a book series that had a new book out every couple of months, making it more like a TV show than other book series where you'd have to wait at least a year for the next installment."
fandom:animorphs
Arrow
5 reasons 'Arrow' is the best superhero show on television: Eric Geller (blog) - "With all the attention that Marvel is getting right now for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter, it's important to point out that, thanks to Arrow, DC Comics is doing something few expected from it just a few years ago: competing formidably with its larger rival in the superhero television space."
fandom:arrow
Batman
The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 48: "Birds of a Feather" The Arkham Sessions (podcast) - "We discuss Penguin's tendency toward criminality in relation to his tragic history and lack of positive experiences. We explain topics such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder, correctional rehabilitation and positive psychology. Are we too sympathetic or on the mark?"
fandom:dcanimated
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Nozaki-kun and Bifauxnen In Shoujo: Tsunderin (blog) - "While I've thought of Kashima's character as laudable because she seems unconcerned with typical gender roles and expresses her gender identity through non-sterotypical ways, when looking at her actions from the angle of the cultural trope she fills, her character becomes a little less praise-worthy."
fandom:anime, fandom:manga, topic:femalecharacter
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game: An Imitation of the Life of Alan Turing: AELARSEN (blog) - "The film seeks to help the general public gain a better understanding of Alan Turing's contributions to modern society. It is also arousing complaints about its historical accuracy. So let's take a look at it."
fandom:theimitationgame
My Little Pony: Rainbow Rocks
Friendship is… Unnerving? A My Little Pony: Rainbow Rocks Review: MarchHareMoe (blog) - "Don't get me wrong, I enjoy MLP:FiM as much as the next Pegasister, but the films are known to be disastrous for a reason. Regardless, I had hope for the movie already knowing the prequel shorts Hasbro released on YouTube were pretty good."
fandom:mylittlepony
The 100
uh, in case anyone needs a timeline for season 1 of The 100: tassosss (DW) - "Here is a proposed timeline for season 1, based on my rewatch."
fandom:the100
Sherlock
#Setlock: The fans who stalk the 'Sherlock' film set: Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (blog) - "Between Sherlock's love of cliffhanger endings, the BBC's fanatical spoiler-phobia, and the lengthy gaps between seasons, #setlock was born."
fandom:bbcsherlock, topic:fandom
A Song of Ice and Fire
Fire and Blood: Stefan (blog) - "We, as readers, however, can try to judge on which side the coin fell - or if it was one of the rare circumstances in which the coin didn't fall on either side, but stood there, quivering on its edge."
fandom:asoiaf
Whatever happened to Ned Stark's brother?: Michelle Jaworski (blog) - "With a swift scrawl of the red pen, George R.R. Martin effectively shut down a theory fans have been developing for years."
fandom:asoiaf, fandom:gameofthrones