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I had lost track of the fact that Mary Van Deusen has her fan vids on a website. She is a very good, old-time, old-school vidder, who does fandoms including Blake's 7, Star Trek (TOS), Pros, Forever Knight, Boston Legal, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, House, and others. So go check her out.

Slash in the Jeremiah-verse

This installment of my Jeremiad is on its slash fandom and my own perspectives on slashing the series. The impulse is understandable. In "Fathers and Sons", Aaron Severson describes the female characters as "comparatively colorless," and with the exception of Theo, he's not kidding. They're not bad, mind. They're ( Read more... )

fanarchive is developing a multifandom fan fiction archive to preserve fan fiction works and, if need be, to defend public access to fan fiction in the face of possible copyright litigation (hopefully to be avoided). I'm excited about this project (it intersects with my fandom, intellectual property, and information science interests), but I invite you to ( Read more... )

The Iliad: girl writing or boy writing? (Thoughts inflected by fandom.)

It is sometimes said that the Odyssey is a “woman’s story” and the Iliad is a “man’s.” Samuel Butler went so far as to postulate that the Odyssey was written by a woman. Everyone seems to agree that the Iliad was written by a man. The argument goes like this...

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The answers to the questions. First, the characters:

1. Braca (FS)
2. Servalan (B7)
3. Marcus Cole (B5)
4. Ivan Karamazov (BK)
5. Number 6 (Prisoner)
6. Boromir (LOTR)
7. Yudhishthira (I will make you guys Mahabharata fans yet)
8. Fred (Angel)
9. Spock (ST)
10. Emma Peel (The Avengers)

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I'm gonna do this meme from astrogirl2:

1) Make a list of 10 [original was 15] characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters ( Read more... )

Joining the Multiverse pimping to help andrastewhite get signups for this fun and unique ficathon. According to astrogirl2, signups have been a bit sparse this year, so if you haven't signed up, please consider doing so. It's the first year I've signed up, and I'm really looking forward to it. And thanks to Andraste for all her hard work!

Okay, everybody’s doing it, so I succumb to the peer pressure...

List six of your favorite TV shows [or other fandoms, and these aren't necessarily all-time top fav's, but more "on my mind"]:

1. Blake's 7
2. Farscape
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. The Office (UK)
5. The Mahabharata
6. Buffy

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I've just updated the fannish page. It now hosts 4 vids by ewans_gal_4ever instead of the usual 3, including a new vid on Anakin and Padmé and a revision of her Batman Begins vid ( Read more... )