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General Fandom
On The Fetishisation Of Gay Men By Women In The Slash Community: Kiri Van Santen (blog) - "It's more complicated than you might think."
topic:fandom, topic:slash, topic:homosexuality
An Ambiguous Utopia: Science-Fiction and Fantasy as the Solution to our Problems?: Sarah Shoker (blog) - "Within the span of one month, we have contradictory viewpoints about what makes “good" science-fiction and fantasy and apparent agreement that these genres should be instrumentalized to serve social purposes."
topic:sci-fi, topic:fantasy
Hollywood’s (Real) Problem with the Asian Male: Em Liu (blog) - "“There are no Asian movie stars" - Aaron Sorkin"
topic:race
Dates Matter: or why do I care when your work was first published: snowgall (AO3) - "Accurately dating fics is good practice, and is useful to both individual fans and the fandom as a whole. Yet finding accurate publication dates for many fics is nearly impossible: some fics don't have dates at all, some fics have hidden or lost dates, and others are incorrectly dated when they are re-posted to AO3."
topic:fanfic
A Spoonful of Sugar: Keidra Chaney (blog) - "Yes, yes, we have a ton of soap-like TV shows on the air right now: Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Nashville, Jane The Virgin, Empire. But for all of those shows, the label of “soap opera" tends to be used as a pejorative descriptor"
topic:soapopera
Actually, It’s Actually about Ethics in Journalism: Recent Korean Dramas About Journalism: Raizel Liebler (blog) - "If you want to take a break from North American real and fictional scandals about ethics in journalism, I invite you to watch two recent Korean shows that consider what it means to be a reporter. "
topic:journalism
Sexualized Saturdays: Immortal Men and the Mortal Women Who Love Them: syngraphea (blog) - "I want to discuss a strange one-sided trope I’ve noticed, and why I have a problem with it: immortal male characters who have a series of mortal girlfriends. For some reason, this trope appears in geek media fairly often, yet I can’t think of a single example of the reverse (i.e., immortal women with several mortal boyfriends) or of a queer version."
topic:romance, topic:sexism
Magical Mondays: Fairies Are Jerks and That’s Awesome: Lady Saika (blog) - "How good are fairies, anyway? The answer is, not particularly-at least by human standards-but that’s not necessarily a bad thing from a storytelling perspective."
topic:magic
How Do You Like Your Magic?: various authors (other) - "Do you want it to be something everyone can do? Something you need to learn how to do? A gift from the gods you follow? Doyou want it to be strict and repeatable and scientific, or mythical and metaphorical and fae-like ? Should it have a mind of its own? Should it be rare or common? Something weird and unnatural and creepy, or something glorious and fantastical?"
topic:magic, topic:books
How many manga to anime paradigms are there?: various authors (other) - "How many manga-to-anime adaptation paradigms are there?
I've identified at least five, labeled with some of the most popular instances:
"
topic:anime, topic:manga, topic:adaptations
Doylist Vs Watsonian Perspectives & Fandom: various authors (DW) - "how has this effected your relationship with your canon and the rest of your fandom. Specific instances would be interesting.
"
topic:fandom, topic:canon, topic:interpretation
What is Shipping? various authors: (DW) - "What do you mean when you say you ship something? Do you like the idea of them being together? Think they should end up, or should have ended up, together in canon? Enjoy reading fic about them but have no investment in the pairing from what canon presents?"
topic:shipping, topic:romance
Favourite Siblings in fandom: various authors (DW) - "Favourite Siblings in fandom and why"
topic:relationship, topic:siblings
Specific Fandoms
American Sniper
American Sniper’s Uniquely American Kitsch: Michael Carson (blog) - "drearily episodic American bildungsromans that manipulate the idea of authenticity to play on the audience’s mawkish assumptions and aspirations about history and art."
fandom:americansniper
Arrow
Psychology of Arrow: Dr Janina Scarlet (blog) - "I’ve received a lot of requests to do a post on CW’s Arrow. Being that it’s one of my favorite currently running shows, I’m happy to do it. Both the show and the Green Arrow comics do a wonderful job at demonstrating the psychological processes that this superhero experiences."
fandom:arrow
Batman
The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 49: “What is Reality?": Andrea (blog) - "The Riddler is back, and this time he’s equipped with a virtual reality game so dangerous that it could actually kill Commissioner Gordon, Robin, and the Caped Crusader himself!"
fandom:dccomics, topic:psychology
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Mostly for the_moonmoth: rahirah (DW) - "This is not all my S6 Spuffy thoughts by any means, but this is what I could cobble together in a hurry."
fandom:btvs, topic:shipping, topic:canon
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: Power Imbalances, Captivity, and Abuse - The Makings of True Love?: MadameAce (blog) - "I also find Beauty and the Beast interesting because by the time the movie ends, the relationship between the two titular characters could be seen as healthy. Sadly, it doesn’t start off this way, and the movie never feels the need to address the abuse their relationship was founded on."
fandom:disney, warning:abuse
Captain America
The Man on the Bridge: Captain America and Nietzsche: vulcansmirk (AO3) - "Nietzsche's idea of the "Übermensch" -- literally, "superman" -- as mankind's alleged moral salvation is problematic for a number of reasons. What Nietzsche failed to realize is that it takes two to tango -- and, incidentally, to save the world."
fandom:mcu
Disney
Disney Princesses and Feminist Femininity: stinekey (blog) - "Disney Princesses are a source of love and contention for many feminists."
fandom:disney, topic:femalecharacter
Doctor Who
Vintage Fandoms: various authors (DW) - "When the show started the Doctor was a mysterious figure who left his home planet behind - and there was very little further information given for years. Then in 1969 they decided to reformat the series and base it on Earth"
fandom:doctorwho, topic:history, topic:wank
Dresden Files
Harry Dresden - Doofus or Jerkass: various authors (other) - "Basically, is Harry really likable? Or do his flaws and sexism overwhelm those parts."
fandom:dresdenfiles, topic:characterization, topic:canon
The World Beyond The West: various authors (other) - "Right now, there is a thread about Harry Dresden and his treatment of women.I see the presentation of non-Western, non-White or even non-American things as at least as problematic"
fandom:dresdenfiles, topic:diversity, topic:race
The Fall
Why Are You Watching This?: "The Fall," Season 2, and the Allegedly Fascinating Paul Spector: PlaidAdder (AO3) - "Cubitt is in a bit of a bind here. He wants people to be fascinated by the show so they will keep watching. He doesn’t want to be glorifying the destruction of women. He therefore has taken steps to make his killer the opposite of omnipotent and infallible. Yet he must continue to fascinate to some extent, or else why’s anyone watching? His way out of this bind, as far as I can tell, is to comment rather judgmentally on our fascination with his own creation.
"
fandom:thefall
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game: Does It Pinkwash Alan Turing?: aelarsen (blog) - "there was some concern among gay activists that the decision to focus the film on Alan Turing’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) relationship with a female co-worker was an exercise in ‘pinkwashing’, rewriting a gay man as a straight man by giving him a conventional heterosexual romance. "
fandom:theimitationgame, topic:homosexualitywarning:spoilers
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Charlie Kelly: A Case for Psychopathy: ChloShow (AO3) - "Is Charlie Kelly a psychopath?"
fandom:ItsAlwaysSunnyinPhiladelphia
Moonrise Kingdom
Overthinking “Moonrise Kingdom": The Nature of the Threat: Stokes (blog) - "What if the threat of the film is not really a bad thing happening to this little boy, but that our regimented institutions … what if the threat is that these things may become something menacing and brutal, Sam included? What if that’s what Suzy’s meant to save him from, and what he’s running from, off in the wild?"
fandom:moonrisekingdom
Nightwing
Why Is Nightwing Hot?: Andrew Wheeler (blog) - "Nightwing is comics’ hottest male superhero. His superior hotness is a fact so indisputable that, when we compiled our list of the 50 Sexiest Guys In Comics a while back, there was never any serious doubt that he would come out on top."
fandom:dccomics
Reservoir Dogs
Freddy Newandyke: An Identity Crisis: ChloShow (AO3) - "A analysis of Freddy's conflicting identities."
fandom:reservoirdogs
Scandal
Is Rowan Pope a “Tiger Parent?": Vivian Obarski (blog) - "What I’m seeing is a case example of the tensions and stress that occur between first-generation and second-generation immigrant families. "
fandom:scandal
Sherlock
It's All True: Re-Reading "The Reichenbach Fall": PlaidAdder (AO3) - ""The Empty Hearse" was not a sequel to "Reichenbach Fall." It is essentially a reboot, a la "Day of the Doctor," whereby Steven Moffat destroys a backstory-one created largely by another writer-that interferes with his new plan for the show. I am referring to the fraud plot, which is the part of TRF’s plot most obviously made up from whole cloth by Stephen Thompson-and which is to all intents and purposes erased and forgotten in "The Empty Hearse.""
fandom:bbcsherlock
A Song of Ice and Fire
Top Characters #43 Olenna Tyrell: Alex Smith (blog) - "George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire suffers no lack of entertaining characters, from the ridiculous caricature that is Strong Belwas to the quick-witted master of the sarcastic rejoinder Tyrion Lannister, but there is no one in the series quite like the Queen of Thorns."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #44 Renly Baratheon: Xela (blog) - "The late Renly Baratheon holds a special place in many readers' hearts."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #45 Roose Bolton: Johnny (blog) - "Early in the war, Robb Stark devised a clever ruse that required someone to lead a small contingent of the Northern army."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #46 Ygritte: DanysFolly (blog) - "Ygritte was a wildling girl north of the Wall."
fandom:asoiaf
Star Trek
Is One Man's Terrorist Another Man's Freedom Fighter?: Cerridwen(AO3) - "Is "One Man's Terrorist another Man's Freedom Fighter?" Does Khan fit the legal definition of terrorist as he is so often called? The debate still rages and this meta is my contribution to that debate"
fandom:startrek
Star Wars
Critiquing Our Favorite Franchise Effectively: Fangirl (blog) - "Read that again: “Merchandise Target: Priority: Boys 5-12." Not children. Boys."
fandom:starwars, topic:sexism
The Evolution Of Force Powers: various authors (other) - "Having only seen the six core films and played the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games and maybe read one or two EU novels, I was curious what kind of SW force exist"
fandom:starwars, topic:canon
Strange Magic
Kay Reviews Strange Magic: Kay (blog) - "It’s hard not to feel that Strange Magic would have been so much more ground-breaking in terms of storytelling ten years ago."
fandom:strangemagic
Superman
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Superman, Christianity, & Syncretism… Maybe: Lady Geek Girl - "Even when Superman isn’t being practically written as Christ, he is always displayed as having extremely Christian values."
fandom:dccomics, topic:religion
Supernatural
No Will and No More Madness: mrsbluebertgreggleson (tumblr) - "Orange and I were discussing Uriel’s and Hester’s death scenes in “On the Head of a Pin" and “Reading is Fundamental," respectively. What got us were how similar they were, mirroring each other so well that it had to be intentional. We kicked around a little discussion on it, and she thought it’d be a cool idea for me to post it, so here it is!"
fandom:supernatural
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf: Subversion, Masculinity and Gender: Foz Meadows (blog) - "Despite the title, Teen Wolf isn’t just a fantasy-action show about werewolves in high school: it is also an increasingly sophisticated dialogue on gender, masculinity, family, love and the cyclical nature of violence - and if any of that sounds like news to you, then I’d strongly suggest that you haven’t been paying attention."
fandom:teenwolf
Tolkien
On Female Characters and Femslash in the Silmarillion Fandom: vefanyar (blog) - "What I want to say is this: Stories outside the fannish mainstream should be recognized as having just as much value as the more popular genres."
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash
Untitled: last-snowfall (tumblr) - "Let’s talk about Éowyn Éomundsdaughter for a bit, shall we?"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter
Female Characters And Femslash In The Silmarillion Fandom: Vefanyar (tumblr) - "This post has been a while in the making, and as per usual several things coincided - working on a female-centric fic, nattering about female characters with friends, a ‘fannish wishlist’ prompt that reminded me how much I want there to be more diversity in Tolkien fic"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash
Musings on Elrond, Elros and Age: erurnayauve (tumblr) - "According to the ‘Line of Elros’ (Unfinished Tales, p 228), Elrond and Elros were 58 years old when the War of Wrath ended and they were given the choice to be counted among Men or Elves"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:age, topic:canon
Dwarven New Year and Durin's Day: various auhtors (other) - "I've been wondering whether we can arrive at a reasonable estimate for the date of Durin's Day in The Hobbit."
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:canon, topic:dates
Elven Meta myrkvdrs: (tumblr) - "So, just how does the “Great Elven King, Thranduil" compare to the other Elven Kings?"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:characterization
Twin Peaks
“I sure feel uncomfortable being in this situation with you" - Twin Peaks and the Sublimity of Awkwardness: Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Twin Peaks is coming back!"
fandom:twinpeaks
Wonder Woman
Resuscitating Wonder Woman: Kailyn Kent (blog) - "I hope there is room in mainstream entertainment for risky visions of what it means to be a hero. Even more, I hope there is room for visions like Marston’s, who was willing to embrace paradox, and attempted to describe the wonderful, ineffable, irrationality of love."
fandom:dccomics
Yuri Kuma Arashi
Episode 1-3 - Yurikuma Arashi: Gabriella Ekens (blog) - "Kunihiko Ikuhara is a divisive auteur. Some anime fans swear by him, others scoff at the notion that any sheer insanity he puts onscreen could ever be considered deep."
fandom:anime, topic:queer
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
On The Fetishisation Of Gay Men By Women In The Slash Community: Kiri Van Santen (blog) - "It's more complicated than you might think."
topic:fandom, topic:slash, topic:homosexuality
An Ambiguous Utopia: Science-Fiction and Fantasy as the Solution to our Problems?: Sarah Shoker (blog) - "Within the span of one month, we have contradictory viewpoints about what makes “good" science-fiction and fantasy and apparent agreement that these genres should be instrumentalized to serve social purposes."
topic:sci-fi, topic:fantasy
Hollywood’s (Real) Problem with the Asian Male: Em Liu (blog) - "“There are no Asian movie stars" - Aaron Sorkin"
topic:race
Dates Matter: or why do I care when your work was first published: snowgall (AO3) - "Accurately dating fics is good practice, and is useful to both individual fans and the fandom as a whole. Yet finding accurate publication dates for many fics is nearly impossible: some fics don't have dates at all, some fics have hidden or lost dates, and others are incorrectly dated when they are re-posted to AO3."
topic:fanfic
A Spoonful of Sugar: Keidra Chaney (blog) - "Yes, yes, we have a ton of soap-like TV shows on the air right now: Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Nashville, Jane The Virgin, Empire. But for all of those shows, the label of “soap opera" tends to be used as a pejorative descriptor"
topic:soapopera
Actually, It’s Actually about Ethics in Journalism: Recent Korean Dramas About Journalism: Raizel Liebler (blog) - "If you want to take a break from North American real and fictional scandals about ethics in journalism, I invite you to watch two recent Korean shows that consider what it means to be a reporter. "
topic:journalism
Sexualized Saturdays: Immortal Men and the Mortal Women Who Love Them: syngraphea (blog) - "I want to discuss a strange one-sided trope I’ve noticed, and why I have a problem with it: immortal male characters who have a series of mortal girlfriends. For some reason, this trope appears in geek media fairly often, yet I can’t think of a single example of the reverse (i.e., immortal women with several mortal boyfriends) or of a queer version."
topic:romance, topic:sexism
Magical Mondays: Fairies Are Jerks and That’s Awesome: Lady Saika (blog) - "How good are fairies, anyway? The answer is, not particularly-at least by human standards-but that’s not necessarily a bad thing from a storytelling perspective."
topic:magic
How Do You Like Your Magic?: various authors (other) - "Do you want it to be something everyone can do? Something you need to learn how to do? A gift from the gods you follow? Doyou want it to be strict and repeatable and scientific, or mythical and metaphorical and fae-like ? Should it have a mind of its own? Should it be rare or common? Something weird and unnatural and creepy, or something glorious and fantastical?"
topic:magic, topic:books
How many manga to anime paradigms are there?: various authors (other) - "How many manga-to-anime adaptation paradigms are there?
I've identified at least five, labeled with some of the most popular instances:
"
topic:anime, topic:manga, topic:adaptations
Doylist Vs Watsonian Perspectives & Fandom: various authors (DW) - "how has this effected your relationship with your canon and the rest of your fandom. Specific instances would be interesting.
"
topic:fandom, topic:canon, topic:interpretation
What is Shipping? various authors: (DW) - "What do you mean when you say you ship something? Do you like the idea of them being together? Think they should end up, or should have ended up, together in canon? Enjoy reading fic about them but have no investment in the pairing from what canon presents?"
topic:shipping, topic:romance
Favourite Siblings in fandom: various authors (DW) - "Favourite Siblings in fandom and why"
topic:relationship, topic:siblings
Specific Fandoms
American Sniper
American Sniper’s Uniquely American Kitsch: Michael Carson (blog) - "drearily episodic American bildungsromans that manipulate the idea of authenticity to play on the audience’s mawkish assumptions and aspirations about history and art."
fandom:americansniper
Arrow
Psychology of Arrow: Dr Janina Scarlet (blog) - "I’ve received a lot of requests to do a post on CW’s Arrow. Being that it’s one of my favorite currently running shows, I’m happy to do it. Both the show and the Green Arrow comics do a wonderful job at demonstrating the psychological processes that this superhero experiences."
fandom:arrow
Batman
The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 49: “What is Reality?": Andrea (blog) - "The Riddler is back, and this time he’s equipped with a virtual reality game so dangerous that it could actually kill Commissioner Gordon, Robin, and the Caped Crusader himself!"
fandom:dccomics, topic:psychology
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Mostly for the_moonmoth: rahirah (DW) - "This is not all my S6 Spuffy thoughts by any means, but this is what I could cobble together in a hurry."
fandom:btvs, topic:shipping, topic:canon
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: Power Imbalances, Captivity, and Abuse - The Makings of True Love?: MadameAce (blog) - "I also find Beauty and the Beast interesting because by the time the movie ends, the relationship between the two titular characters could be seen as healthy. Sadly, it doesn’t start off this way, and the movie never feels the need to address the abuse their relationship was founded on."
fandom:disney, warning:abuse
Captain America
The Man on the Bridge: Captain America and Nietzsche: vulcansmirk (AO3) - "Nietzsche's idea of the "Übermensch" -- literally, "superman" -- as mankind's alleged moral salvation is problematic for a number of reasons. What Nietzsche failed to realize is that it takes two to tango -- and, incidentally, to save the world."
fandom:mcu
Disney
Disney Princesses and Feminist Femininity: stinekey (blog) - "Disney Princesses are a source of love and contention for many feminists."
fandom:disney, topic:femalecharacter
Doctor Who
Vintage Fandoms: various authors (DW) - "When the show started the Doctor was a mysterious figure who left his home planet behind - and there was very little further information given for years. Then in 1969 they decided to reformat the series and base it on Earth"
fandom:doctorwho, topic:history, topic:wank
Dresden Files
Harry Dresden - Doofus or Jerkass: various authors (other) - "Basically, is Harry really likable? Or do his flaws and sexism overwhelm those parts."
fandom:dresdenfiles, topic:characterization, topic:canon
The World Beyond The West: various authors (other) - "Right now, there is a thread about Harry Dresden and his treatment of women.I see the presentation of non-Western, non-White or even non-American things as at least as problematic"
fandom:dresdenfiles, topic:diversity, topic:race
The Fall
Why Are You Watching This?: "The Fall," Season 2, and the Allegedly Fascinating Paul Spector: PlaidAdder (AO3) - "Cubitt is in a bit of a bind here. He wants people to be fascinated by the show so they will keep watching. He doesn’t want to be glorifying the destruction of women. He therefore has taken steps to make his killer the opposite of omnipotent and infallible. Yet he must continue to fascinate to some extent, or else why’s anyone watching? His way out of this bind, as far as I can tell, is to comment rather judgmentally on our fascination with his own creation.
"
fandom:thefall
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game: Does It Pinkwash Alan Turing?: aelarsen (blog) - "there was some concern among gay activists that the decision to focus the film on Alan Turing’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) relationship with a female co-worker was an exercise in ‘pinkwashing’, rewriting a gay man as a straight man by giving him a conventional heterosexual romance. "
fandom:theimitationgame, topic:homosexualitywarning:spoilers
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Charlie Kelly: A Case for Psychopathy: ChloShow (AO3) - "Is Charlie Kelly a psychopath?"
fandom:ItsAlwaysSunnyinPhiladelphia
Moonrise Kingdom
Overthinking “Moonrise Kingdom": The Nature of the Threat: Stokes (blog) - "What if the threat of the film is not really a bad thing happening to this little boy, but that our regimented institutions … what if the threat is that these things may become something menacing and brutal, Sam included? What if that’s what Suzy’s meant to save him from, and what he’s running from, off in the wild?"
fandom:moonrisekingdom
Nightwing
Why Is Nightwing Hot?: Andrew Wheeler (blog) - "Nightwing is comics’ hottest male superhero. His superior hotness is a fact so indisputable that, when we compiled our list of the 50 Sexiest Guys In Comics a while back, there was never any serious doubt that he would come out on top."
fandom:dccomics
Reservoir Dogs
Freddy Newandyke: An Identity Crisis: ChloShow (AO3) - "A analysis of Freddy's conflicting identities."
fandom:reservoirdogs
Scandal
Is Rowan Pope a “Tiger Parent?": Vivian Obarski (blog) - "What I’m seeing is a case example of the tensions and stress that occur between first-generation and second-generation immigrant families. "
fandom:scandal
Sherlock
It's All True: Re-Reading "The Reichenbach Fall": PlaidAdder (AO3) - ""The Empty Hearse" was not a sequel to "Reichenbach Fall." It is essentially a reboot, a la "Day of the Doctor," whereby Steven Moffat destroys a backstory-one created largely by another writer-that interferes with his new plan for the show. I am referring to the fraud plot, which is the part of TRF’s plot most obviously made up from whole cloth by Stephen Thompson-and which is to all intents and purposes erased and forgotten in "The Empty Hearse.""
fandom:bbcsherlock
A Song of Ice and Fire
Top Characters #43 Olenna Tyrell: Alex Smith (blog) - "George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire suffers no lack of entertaining characters, from the ridiculous caricature that is Strong Belwas to the quick-witted master of the sarcastic rejoinder Tyrion Lannister, but there is no one in the series quite like the Queen of Thorns."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #44 Renly Baratheon: Xela (blog) - "The late Renly Baratheon holds a special place in many readers' hearts."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #45 Roose Bolton: Johnny (blog) - "Early in the war, Robb Stark devised a clever ruse that required someone to lead a small contingent of the Northern army."
fandom:asoiaf
Top Characters #46 Ygritte: DanysFolly (blog) - "Ygritte was a wildling girl north of the Wall."
fandom:asoiaf
Star Trek
Is One Man's Terrorist Another Man's Freedom Fighter?: Cerridwen(AO3) - "Is "One Man's Terrorist another Man's Freedom Fighter?" Does Khan fit the legal definition of terrorist as he is so often called? The debate still rages and this meta is my contribution to that debate"
fandom:startrek
Star Wars
Critiquing Our Favorite Franchise Effectively: Fangirl (blog) - "Read that again: “Merchandise Target: Priority: Boys 5-12." Not children. Boys."
fandom:starwars, topic:sexism
The Evolution Of Force Powers: various authors (other) - "Having only seen the six core films and played the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games and maybe read one or two EU novels, I was curious what kind of SW force exist"
fandom:starwars, topic:canon
Strange Magic
Kay Reviews Strange Magic: Kay (blog) - "It’s hard not to feel that Strange Magic would have been so much more ground-breaking in terms of storytelling ten years ago."
fandom:strangemagic
Superman
Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Superman, Christianity, & Syncretism… Maybe: Lady Geek Girl - "Even when Superman isn’t being practically written as Christ, he is always displayed as having extremely Christian values."
fandom:dccomics, topic:religion
Supernatural
No Will and No More Madness: mrsbluebertgreggleson (tumblr) - "Orange and I were discussing Uriel’s and Hester’s death scenes in “On the Head of a Pin" and “Reading is Fundamental," respectively. What got us were how similar they were, mirroring each other so well that it had to be intentional. We kicked around a little discussion on it, and she thought it’d be a cool idea for me to post it, so here it is!"
fandom:supernatural
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf: Subversion, Masculinity and Gender: Foz Meadows (blog) - "Despite the title, Teen Wolf isn’t just a fantasy-action show about werewolves in high school: it is also an increasingly sophisticated dialogue on gender, masculinity, family, love and the cyclical nature of violence - and if any of that sounds like news to you, then I’d strongly suggest that you haven’t been paying attention."
fandom:teenwolf
Tolkien
On Female Characters and Femslash in the Silmarillion Fandom: vefanyar (blog) - "What I want to say is this: Stories outside the fannish mainstream should be recognized as having just as much value as the more popular genres."
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash
Untitled: last-snowfall (tumblr) - "Let’s talk about Éowyn Éomundsdaughter for a bit, shall we?"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter
Female Characters And Femslash In The Silmarillion Fandom: Vefanyar (tumblr) - "This post has been a while in the making, and as per usual several things coincided - working on a female-centric fic, nattering about female characters with friends, a ‘fannish wishlist’ prompt that reminded me how much I want there to be more diversity in Tolkien fic"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:femalecharacter, topic:femslash
Musings on Elrond, Elros and Age: erurnayauve (tumblr) - "According to the ‘Line of Elros’ (Unfinished Tales, p 228), Elrond and Elros were 58 years old when the War of Wrath ended and they were given the choice to be counted among Men or Elves"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:age, topic:canon
Dwarven New Year and Durin's Day: various auhtors (other) - "I've been wondering whether we can arrive at a reasonable estimate for the date of Durin's Day in The Hobbit."
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:canon, topic:dates
Elven Meta myrkvdrs: (tumblr) - "So, just how does the “Great Elven King, Thranduil" compare to the other Elven Kings?"
fandom:jrrtolkien, topic:characterization
Twin Peaks
“I sure feel uncomfortable being in this situation with you" - Twin Peaks and the Sublimity of Awkwardness: Richard Rosenbaum (blog) - "Twin Peaks is coming back!"
fandom:twinpeaks
Wonder Woman
Resuscitating Wonder Woman: Kailyn Kent (blog) - "I hope there is room in mainstream entertainment for risky visions of what it means to be a hero. Even more, I hope there is room for visions like Marston’s, who was willing to embrace paradox, and attempted to describe the wonderful, ineffable, irrationality of love."
fandom:dccomics
Yuri Kuma Arashi
Episode 1-3 - Yurikuma Arashi: Gabriella Ekens (blog) - "Kunihiko Ikuhara is a divisive auteur. Some anime fans swear by him, others scoff at the notion that any sheer insanity he puts onscreen could ever be considered deep."
fandom:anime, topic:queer