So, for my Film In American Society term paper I wrote on the subject of race in the Buffyverse. It's long, topping out at just over 7,000 words, and contains spoilers for the entirity of Buffy, Angel, and some of the supplemental canon material from the post-series comics. It's also, as of yet, un-betaed so any typos, misplaced words, or factual ( Read more... )

Over here ataniell93 talks about love interests, canon, and female characters. The post has spoilers for potential plot developments in Supernatural, to warn anyone who might want to click, but you really don't need to read the post to understand what I'm objecting to. About one third in ataniell93 says this and this about says it all: "New female character? Awesome. ( Read more... )

When the census meme, described here, first came about I glanced at it, went "That makes no sense," and skipped all links talking about it for the next week and a half. It went away, I moved on, and now it's back again. I still think it makes no sense but now I feel like saying why. Thus, I'm doing two versions of the meme ( Read more... )

It's three episodes into the fourth season of USA Network's sci-fi drama The 4400 and I was grabbed by a sudden urge to blog about the show for the first time, well, possibly ever. For the uninitiated, the show's premise is simply that over the course of fifty years 4,400 people were abducted from across the world. In summer of 2004, they're ( Read more... )

So, I wrote my Epistemology paper on Foucault's Discipline & Punish and the Hive Mind of Fandom. Eventually, as in next year, this will be developed into my senior thesis. So I thought, why not post it? Here goes nothing ( Read more... )

Yesterday a post went up on metafandom (and, as we all know, that is never good for my sense of procrastination) titled "In search of the female anti-hero". The post, by erinya posits what she views as an anti-hero (or, rather, what definition she's using) and the concept of a female anti-hero, then asks people to provide examples they feel fit ( Read more... )

[I'll put a disclaimer here to say that I'm not following the SPN wank over Big Name Fans. The following is a response to a post I saw referencing that wank, but is not a response to that wank in and of itself.]

So, I'm clicking through metafandom and I saw this post by svilleficrecs about the nature of the BNF beast. And while I don't disagree with her conclusion -- ( Read more... )

This is hardly going to be as coherent as my usual posting because the computer is still making me motion sick and sitting up for long periods of time is just... a bad, bad idea that I should not attempt, but I'm slowly, slowly on my way to recovery and I desperately want to do something fannish that doesn't include stumbling my way into an ( Read more... )

To preface this post: This was originally posted in response to a few questions asked by bop_radar over on a post about BNF-ism. S/he wanted to know more about the icon community and I started what I thought would be a short response here, but the conversation continued and eventually she asked a few direct questions. This post is a response to those ( Read more... )

I've been reading both sides of the debate on anonymous speech (having primarily missed the hate memes themselves) and (this post) is definitely the post that resonanted the most with me. As such, I have the following thoughts on fannish anonymity and, more significantly, fannish denial.

( You can read them under the cut, if you're so inclined. )