Anecdote one: I remember, ages ago, some journalist said that there were two reasons to go to the cinema: Either you wanted to appreciate the art of film making, or you wanted a good time with your friends and popcorn. I wrote back saying, well, maybe you just plain like the film, and he told me that this would fall under category 1, since the ( Read more... )

rozk wrote an article comparing religion and fandom, which made me finally get my ass in gear and finish the meta post I started in May, concerning the similarities in how religious groups and fannish groups are structured ( Read more... )

This morning, my sister called me up at work to ask me where to buy foreign books translated to Swedish. I suggested BokspindelnIn the afternoon, before and at my other work, my mom called me twice (the first time she was on a train and I could only hear every other word) to ask me the name of a certain ABBA song, which, as she hummed it, turned ( Read more... )

You know, the most interesting bit about finding out that Han Solo was supposed to have a Wookiee wife has been reading the comments. Also in other places. There are certain people who are surprised and shocked by this, which surprises me (plus I find it kind of cute), since, scifi. Lots of weird creatures. Large fanbase. Have they never had a ( Read more... )

I'm quite late in the whole academics in fandom debate that started with these posts and continued all over Metafandom, but I still feel the need to say my piece, because when I started thinking about it, I became quite fascinated by how my OWN attitude has changed for the past ten years ( Read more... )

I'm too tired to wrap my head around a real post, but I thought I should mention that Transformative Works and Cultures has its first issue out, and that I have written a review for it.

Feel free to read the review and proceed to tell me how wrong I am. :-)

I've been watching companion departures from old Doctor Who episodes for vidding purposes, and the difference between old school and new school is really startling. Generalizing, one might say that new school companions are forced out of the TARDIS, and there's much wailing and gnashing of teeth about it, while old school companions leave ( Read more... )

Apparently, an adaptation being wildly different from the original isn't always a bad thing.

My previous post made me look up some of my old cartoon favourites, including Quest for Camelot. Which is a crappy movie in so many ways, but as any true fan, I look at what could be rather than at what is ( Read more... )

On the subject of TV again, but this time good TV - I caught a very nice documentary called Good Copy Bad Copy on TV last night. (Unfortunately, I missed the beginning of it, but it can be downloaded on the website, so I'll probably do that soon.) It was highly interesting. At first, it seemed like the average kind of debate; on one hand the Pirate ( Read more... )

*reads slash discussion* I always feel like such a rotten ficcer in slash discussions because I don't really care about subtext - not for the purpose of fanfiction. (Though of course I enjoy it for the purpose of squee.) The assumption usually seems to be that either you write based on the subtext (real or perceived), or you write based on teh ( Read more... )