Comments | jlh: linking and thinking. like picking and grinning, only less Hee-Haw.

jlh

linking and thinking. like picking and grinning, only less Hee-Haw.

Nov 30, 2010 10:26

Two big links that lead me to two big thoughts on two big issues, but really really, if you care about either issue please follow the links.

First, my pal kalichan wrote an amazing post about a week ago: What's Love Got To Do With It: My Thoughts on *fail that everyone who's interested in such matters, especially in the way social justice is interacting ( Read more... )

fandom meta, movies, manga, culture, race

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sistermagpie November 30 2010, 17:26:26 UTC

Arrrgh! I can't listen to NPR podcasts at work and I really want to hear that! Must try to listen to it at home if I remember. But I already agree with what you're saying there--it's ridiculous. Especially since comics now don't even spin out a story over however many months in one book, they're all about crossovers so you have to be issues of every book for a long time and it's a ridiculous amount of money. It's like movies--surely there was a time when this was *cheap* entertainment. Jacking up the price to something significant changes how people are able to relate to them ( ... )

jlh December 3 2010, 16:17:43 UTC

Have you listened to the podcast yet? This is your reminder to do so at home!

Yeah, they didn't even get into the crossovers because the comics guy didn't want to get into all the drama about entertainment value, but when he went into the comic store to get the issues for his fellow podcasters they were sold out of something he'd wanted to get that was Marvel, and the lady at the store advised him to go DC because Marvel is so intertwined these days.

some of the SJ talk almost wants fiction to be meta
I think that some of the metafandom crowd very much think of fanfiction, at least, as being meta, or that fic being meta is a sign of a really good fic (see Take Off Clothes As Directed, which I think is not a good fic at all taken out of its meta context as a comment on a series of BDSM SGA fics, that trope of BDSM 'verses where instead of sexuality working along gender lines it works along dom/sub lines and whether they really work at all, etc) or at least a fic that other people will want to write a lot of meta about. I think ( ... )