Once upon a time, I used to track various tags on Tumblr related to the TV show Elementary. In those tags, I saw various fans being upset that everyone was celebrating the way the creators said "they won't" in regards to the "will they or won't they" (bang like rabbits) question that media and culture tries to project onto a show about a man and a ( Read more... )

I've always had a bit of a problem of reading everything in the most ultra-feminist way possible. I took Byron's Don Juan and wrote a six-page paper in undergrad about how it was a liberating feminist text that demonstrated the sexual agency and independence of women. The point being: I will find just about anything "liberating" unless it is ( Read more... )

I know Seasons 6 and 7 for Supernatural in particular get a really bad rap, but I think they're brilliant for a variety of reasons. They're messier than the first five (which, upon close scrutiny, are actually pretty messy), but they take that first-five mythology and they make it better (why does that sound like a freakish inversion of the Final ( Read more... )

All right, well I'm trying to head off one of those hopeless pits of despair, so I've been watching random stuff on Netflix that's been in my queue forever.

I just watched Brick. Now a.) Joseph Gordon-Levitt is amazing and I feel like he just keeps getting better, but b.) I adore femme fatales ( Read more... )

My thing with Supernatural is that I see there are problematic elements and I just don't care.

I see the narrative mishaps and hiccups, and I still don't care.

I see the exclusion of groups, and the victimization of people, and the really weird social assumptions, and nothing nothing nothing ruins it for me ( Read more... )

It dawns on me that one of the major problems with fanon and Tumblr is that gifs are often intentionally constructed to remove the context of a canonical situation and frame it in ways that are more friendly to fanon interpretation ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I'll ever understand that part of SPN fandom that thinks the Winchester brothers have this super-rosy completely loving and supportive relationship ( Read more... )

I was just considering this and figured I might as well make it one of my 100 Things ( Read more... )

I've long held that television shows, novels, movies--all of our cultish texts--function in an increasingly secularized society in much the same way the shared mythologies of religion have cemented cultures before us. Rather than relating through our religious texts, even religious peoples now often relate to others through shared taste in music, ( Read more... )

My poor LJ was abandoned around April because I had been very involved with multiple fandoms and had just finished off writing my Master's Paper (which was fandom intensive.) I ended up just shoving all of my energy into one or two things and disappearing off into Tumblr because I had more active friends there ( Read more... )