A little background: Years and years ago, a very long time indeed by internet standards, I read the book Les Miserables and frequented a message board (remember those?) for fans of the book. I never saw the musical because I lived way out in the middle of nowhere until such as I had moved onto other fandoms. I remember there being a great deal " ( Read more... )

Hey, if anybody is still keeping up with this journal, what are your thoughts on gendering robot/AI characters? The practice of assigning social genders to characters who don't have sexes in the biological sense has been on my mind lately. Among other things, I'm trying to sort out how the category of "robots that humans prefer to think of as ( Read more... )

I am just about fed up with books in which the main character is female but all the important supporting characters are male, especially when the setting is one which appears to have equality on the surface (no expressions of surprise to find a woman doing the heroine's job or holding certain titles, no evidence that family law favors husbands/ ( Read more... )

Give me the name of a character from anything you know I've read/watched, and I'll give you three headcanons about them.

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So . . . y'all probably noticed some sudden changes in my LJ and DW recently, as well as a complete lack of commentary on the sequel to the series for which I had the most icons and produced the most fic, followed by multiple posts about a game fandom I didn't write much about before. ( Cut for stuff that people who haven't had me friended since the early days probably won't find interesting )

Okay . . . I think I've pulled myself back together after my Pyrosplosion. I'm ready to get meta. I don't plan to link to or explicitly describe anything gory this time, but I'll use a cut anyway because it's going to get long.

( Thoughts about TF2 and its fandom )

Yesterday I did something that I had previously told myself I'd never do: I reread The Great Gatsby. I first encountered this book as required reading in high school and predictably hated it. Recently, someone who loves it convinced me to give it another try, having argued convincingly that one needs life experience to appreciate all its merits ( Read more... )

Earlier, I was in a comment thread that took a turn for both the creepy and the WHAT.

( cut for fictional consent issues )

Ana Mardoll, who has written a series of posts analyzing C.S. Lewis's Narnia books and frequently getting all rage-smashy over their sexism, decided to add a post about the movie adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from a few years ago. She was bothered by what she perceives as extra sexism added to the movie, especially in how ( Read more... )

I just finished watching (and re-watching) the Japanese trailer for the movie that's being released as Brave in the United States, and I've got to say this trailer looks a lot more interesting than the US trailer to me, both as a fantasy fan (Hey, this movie DOES have supernatural elements after all!) and as feminist. This trailer, which has ( Read more... )