"Jab We Met" is a pretty traditional romance narrative at surface level, which is also quitely but very effectively subverting a lot of the common romance tropes.  It's one of my favorite Bollywood movies, but it's rarely one that I use to convert people mostly because it isn't a movie that could only exist in Bollywood.  It's a pretty universally ( Read more... )

Gingerbread CoffinFandom: Pretty Little Liars ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to talk about Revenge, but I am just a flaily, squee-filled mess at the end of each episode, which makes it hard to plug it in an intelligent manner that it deserves.  Before I start a list of why this show is making everything else currently on TV seem drab in comparison, I offer the following disclaimer ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, someone was arguing with me over how slash is really a small subsection of fandom and isn't really the new fandom majority. I know from experience that that's not true, but could not find any stats. But then it occured to me that a good way to break down the numbers would be to search for these cateories on AO3 and analyzing the ( Read more... )

I binged on the 1995 version of "Pride and Prejudice" with Heather this weekend, which is one of my favorite movies/books, not least because it's immensely enjoyable and fun (as opposed to my usual leanings towards doom and gloom fiction). But one thing that leaves me really uncomfortable with the ending is Lydia being married to Wickham. She's ( Read more... )

At some point, I was avoiding LJ/fandom because of the fail, and then I got busy and forgot to post. A lot. But I have been randomly consuming various media, and having thoughts, but mostly too distracted to post. One of the things I kept telling myself I would definitely post about was "Game of Thrones." Which I have been both watching and reading ( Read more... )

So, I went to see X-men: First Class last night because apparently, when it's not being marred by my disdain for Wolverine, Emma Frost's appearance in a movie is just as much of a draw for me as one would expect. Friendslist, have I mentioned lately how much I love Emma Frost? And how I wish I could grow up to be her? And how she's the one who ( Read more... )

This is somewhat of a follow-up to my earlier meta on authorial intent fail (mainly on BSG), where I argued that writers' lack of concrete authorial intent when writing female characters leads to female characters being read in widely different ways in fandom, often in ways that the canon did not intend. I did recap the ideas from there here, but ( Read more... )

I've always off-handedly known that Joss had planned a gang rape for Inara by reavers at some point, but never really pursued the details past what I had briefly come across? But it's something that comes up for me often in "Firefly" discussions in the context of So Glad It Died Before That. Ide_cyan provided some links in my last post with more details, ( Read more... )

meta written for eid_ka_chand, exploring how race and gender play a part in fictional hierarchy and analyzing cultural/narrative appropriation.

Vertigo's Fables comics were, in many ways, my reentry into comics and my first foray outside of the X-men stuff and likely the reason that I ever left the X-men bits to pursue reading any other comics. ( Read more... )