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I will soon return from finals, but until then, here's something perfect.
This makes me gigglesnort so much not just because of the lyrics but because he looks like Freddie Highmore in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. -
Okay. This is the Coolest Master's Thesis EVER!
I was going to post something quick saying that I was going to take an official break from LJ for a while (for realsies this time), but then I found out about this:
Fandom Then/Fandom Now
In the words of the chief investigator, Katherine Morrissey (a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaulkee):
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FYI
My computer has been dead since Tuesday and the LJ app kind of sucks, so that's where I've been.
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Let's Talk About Manpain and Masculinity
I had a new idea for my grad school writing sample.
MANPAIN.
It's a fan-coined term for "when a main character in a story (always male, generally white) is written with a particular kind of psychologically painful history that causes him to behave in specific ways ( Read more... ) -
Carry Your World :: A Buffy Summers Fanmix
About a month ago I promised to make red-satin-doll a proper Buffy fanmix with art and everything, and here it is. It turns out I had twice as many songs as I needed, so there might be a second volume of this coming out. I could have separated the songs with one album being angsty and one being empowering, but instead I mixed it up (mostly because I'm too lazy ( Read more... ) -
Because I'm Still Waiting for a Lady Doctor
Excellent piece by Vanity Fair about how Orphan Black is Buffy's heir, and that the world is ready for more strong women in geek media properties.
"Because Maslany’s performance and the show’s writing contain multitudes and run the gamut of archetypal feminine strength. We have Sarah (who covers wiliness, brawn, and a mothering instinct), Cosima ( ( Read more... ) -
Two AMAZING Things Are Happening Today!
1. I GOT THE SALLY CASANOVA PRE-DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP! This is the one I was working on in March, and I seriously thought I wouldn't get it because I talked about using fan fiction in education. That's $3000 towards visiting graduate schools next fall!
2. HULU IS IN TALKS WITH SONY TO REVIVE COMMUNITY! Yes, this gets me as excited as a $3000 -
Revisiting Seasons 4, 5 and 6
I was going through all of the mp4 files from my ripped Buffy DVDs, titling them in my ever so anal way, and I was using the BtVS Wikipedia list of episodes for reference. I noticed the ratings for a few particular episodes. Season 4 ended with 3.2 million U.S. viewers watching it live on the WB (tangental thought: I wonder how many more viewers ( Read more... )
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