A discussion I was reading brought up the question: "Is having a character you can relate to/identify with/root for necessary to your enjoyment of a show?" in the context of some viewers saying that they no longer enjoyed Weeds because there were no longer any likable characters and they could no longer root for Nancy. Other people listed shows ( Read more... )

I know you'd think I'd said all I could say--but no! There was a side issue I noticed while reading that thread, which, btw, is here, since I keep referencing it. There's one person there defending fanfic and doing a brilliant job staying polite despite everyone being rude and condescending. ( Yet I feel like her defense doesn't hold up somehow. )

Yeah, I'm gonna write about the whole chan thing, my own perspective on it. There's been a lot of really interesting conversations about it lately. I haven't really felt very involved in the whole thing probably because I don't write fanfic and I don't look for chan to read anyway, but other things have come up that ( made me think. )

I should have realized in doing my last post that madness is one of those things that have one meaning in the real world and another in a literary sense...I've gotten into the exact same discussion before in XF fandom. Because if madness in fiction can be considered a kink, I've definitely got it!

( Mad about madness. )

I was reading through some essays today--can you believe I've never read "Draco Malfoy is Ever So Lame?" ::sigh:: Me neither. It's great. Anyway, I came across another post of Elkin's that struck me as even more interesting given OOTP (which it was written before) and the recent discussions we were having here about Gothic Lit. The incest ones ( Read more... )

This thread turned out to be so interesting, it's gotten me thinking even more about incest in literature and what it stands for. Unfortunately I really haven't read any lit crit on the subject. I have a feeling I'll be surfing around today looking for some. The weird thing, too, is that the subject seems to tie in with other recent subjects on ( Read more... )

Happy birthday naiasf!!!!! I hope you have a fabulous day out by that beautiful sea ( Read more... )

Phew! My flist has exploded with all sorts of great stuff while I was spending the day at Jury Duty...which wasn't too bad, actually, though my butt hurts from falling asleep in a hard chair. (It was right out of The Breakfast Club, actually. Everybody around me had zonked out and the guy came in and said into the microphone, "Who wants to go ( Read more... )

Since I haven't seen ROTK yet, I'll stick with the other major topic on my flist, chan! Only this isn't really about chan but a side issue of underage characters and slash...

( Why it's not a problem for me, by me. )