So, I started thinking about just how many CoCs are underrepresented in fandom, sometimes vastly so (*cough* Gus on Psych * cough*), and it became rather depressing - and then I started wondering about the ones that aren't underrepresented, and why that is.

At which point thelana made a very interesting post about that, among other things. Her example of ( Read more... )

Recent posts by mimesere and technosage, along with the not-so-recent post by fox1013 that made me think about this stuff to begin with, made me decide to make a breakdown of Heroes in terms of race and gender ( Read more... )

I had this thought during the miscegenation debacle that I half planned to make into a post and then never did. And then musesfool pointed out that it's International Blog Against Racism Week, and I figured, what the hell, that's an excuse as good as any to make the post. (Incidentally, replacing my default pic caused some consternation - my "best" CoC ( Read more... )

hesychasm did an interesting statistics thing to show how race and gender appeared in the POVs and relationships of her stories. While this type of statistics obviously doesn't say everything, I think it's fair to say that they say something, and so I pulled out an Excel sheet (well, ods sheet anyway) and started looking through my stuff ( Read more... )

So, I have decided to make a post on racial relationships in Sweden. It's not related to any particular race discussion, because in most of them, sooner or later a post will pop up that frustrates me deeply by its assumption that we all have the same cultural (American) hangups, and that anyone who thinks differently is ignorant, lying or deluding ( Read more... )

My SPN fic is starting to get troublesome. Not the writing of it - that still works pretty okay, even if I don't have much time now with all the RL work. No, the trouble is that it started out as a series of short scenes showing John and the boys immediately post-Mary. Then one of the scenes started to evolve. Now it's half case fic, and the case ( Read more... )

jennyo asks why white ficcers are afraid to write non-white characters, which to me is such a leap of logic I can hardly believe it ( Read more... )