The only site I could imagine being worse for fandom than Tumblr is Twitter. Like Tumblr, Twitter serves its purpose well and fills a niche in the web 2.0 landscape c. 2006. I'm not saying Tumblr is a bad site, or that Twitter is a bad site; they're both pretty good for what they're meant to do. Tumblr is a hyper-simplified blogging platform that's ( Read more... )

skrtomg said:

You should probably write a paragraph of meta on "Asspen."

lalondes answered:

South Park's greatest metatextual successes frequently result from strict adherence to the esoterica of bygone media. The 2002 episode “Asspen” is one such success, constructing an exaggerated, artificial replica of 1980s sports films merely by cleaving ( Read more... )

The chances of Stan and Kyle having an mpreg baby with red hair are pretty low. Though negniahn points out to me that both Stan's Uncle Jimbo and Aunt Flo have red hair, I would argue that Jimbo's hair is more brownish than not. Also, Aunt Flo is an old woman so she's probably dyeing her hair. I have pointed out that Aunt Flo is actually a personification ( Read more... )

Taking a break from playing SOT to have an anxiety attack, so I'm taking a break from that by writing some brief meta ( Read more... )

A response to this post! I tried reblogging and responding that way, but I'm sorry, reblogging an ask is just too ugly to organize my thoughts. Please accept my apologies, formerdinosaur. The thing is, I mostly agree with what's already in that post, to the extent that I just scrapped the longer post I was writing. Here are some disjointed thoughts of less ( Read more... )

There was some arguing on Tumblr and you know me, I love arguing. It's a long thread, or whatever, so start here and read back. A lot of people there have covered all the points I would make really well, but formerdinosaur mentioned that she is sick of seeing the conversation about bottoming and characters who are depicted as bottoming. She's right, it's an old ( Read more... )

I wanted to write a really in-depth, thoughtful post about things, particularly concrit in fandom and why saying you dislike something has become verboten. But tonight was hard on me and I'm angry, so I'm just going to say two things ( Read more... )

So they're doing this thing and like, what do you people want from me.

Kyle v. BebeI love Kyle. Truly, madly, deeply. What a bitchy little dweeb that kid is. But, you know what, I'm sick of him. Bebe's funny, right? She's like Wendy with all the brains and half the conscience. I also have a crippling shoes weakness. It's difficult not to spend ( Read more... )

Tall, Dark and Handsome: Implied in the show. The fact that he is definitely taller than the rest of kids is obvious in "South Park Is Gay!", where Craig and three other classmates wear identical clothes and Craig's pants are drawn much longer than the others'. Plus, the creators draw him taller most of the time, as he wears high-waisted, dark ( Read more... )

This weekend, we all found out that FF.net user XxXZombieCestXxX has plagiarized -- that is, posted in their entirety -- two stories formerdinosaur had written for the SP kink meme.

The stories are: Hell Yeah (original) and Hell Yes (stolen); and This Means War (original) and War Games (stolen ( Read more... )