Reading and watching roundup, Hugo nominees edition
As I mentioned in my previous post, all it took to get my reading mojo back (temporarily, no doubt) was going on an extended vacation. So I continued to do work the first week, and didn't do any reading, and then the week in Bretagne I also didn't do much reading because I was busy hanging out with cafemassolit in person, but in the ~1.5 weeks outside of that
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By way of Typical Reading Fan AssociationsTM this brought me thoughts about a fic read last week that in this regard was just another case of a broader phenomenon in These DaysTM fandoms... It was long, pretty decent in literary terms and in many places pretty enjoyable, and yet I didn't grace it with a single kudo in the end. Sorry not sorry, Author, but no. It was emotional as you expect from fics, and all about finding self and fixing your life in that 'positive' style you not necessarily expect but get from fics nowadays if you want it or not, educational smell and the author's sense of mission all over it. And yet, there's that persistent and all-encompassing feeling of skewed and uncanny and distorting-mirror-wrong about it. People get apologised for their hurt feelings, and other people feel guilty, and find forgiveness, relations are healed, cotton candy and uwufest for ( ... )
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I feel slightly bad every time I use this icon, but, like, there's a reason I have it. Although when I first acquired it, it was because 'Small, Angry Planet' was this frustrating mix of things I really liked and things that emphatically didn't work for me. In this one, there really isn't anything, beyond the "monk + robot + tea ceremony" pitch, that I would emphatically put in the Likes column...
And yet, there's that persistent and all-encompassing feeling of skewed and uncanny and distorting-mirror-wrong about it. People get apologised for their hurt feelings, and other people feel guilty, and find forgiveness, relations are healed, cotton candy and uwufest for everyone. But all those apologies and guilt somehow go in wrong directions
Nod -- I know what you mean, I think. What you wrote made me think about this post, which is about The Bright Sessions but in general talks about Crab Nebula logic (you can Ctr+F for "Crab Nebula" to find that specific part) -- it sounds like you might be talking ( ... )
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or at least never called out, and this is a show where if the author wants you to know something, it will be called out one million times.Oh yes, that very much rings that fic of mine bell. Someone who was seriously wronged in my view gets sidelined by the narration for the sake of someone the author thinks needs to be effusively and repeatedly validated and coddled, because oh! the inspeakable hurt and harm and injustice of... not being let by a third part into the sidelined character's privacy ( ... )
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We need some name for this cliche in fics and other (but somehow fic-like) fiction, because it's a cliche already, some not-so-distant-relative of Manic Pixie Girl so many 'progressive' people consider sexist. Cinnamon Roll works good enough.
The particular quadrant of the Crab Nebula is, I think, young people on Tumblr.We also need some better site shorthand for Crab Nebula circles than Tumblr, because its core problem of a social medium that is shitty at being social and medium aside, it has been following LJ-ish life cycle over time, which only became clear in recent years. I joined after LJ's wild SJWish young age and already in its 'middle-aged people with kids and jobs doing fandoms' phase, which later on my eyes has shifted into FB-ish-but-more-wordy rl-themed blogging, and Tumblr right now seems to be in the second one - it's hard to run into a pure unfiltered SJW wacko anymore, the general tone turned self- ( ... )
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