"Take away the “greatness” of what Arthur stands for:Noble, humble, brave, honorable and worthy of the crown and to be ruler of Camelot and all you’ve left us with is this man-child.  WTF???"

I don't get Starz, so I haven't seen and likely will never see the new Camelot adaptation, but I read a review or three because the idea of the latest New and ( Read more... )

Not just the FE fandom, but pretty much everyone I've ever joined.  But since those of you out there on f-list land are from the FE crowd, listen up.

This has irked me for years, but since darling raphien  mentioned something about "a sinking ship," it's time for a reality check.  Or at least some perspective.

Stop bitching about how fandom is dying.  You ( Read more... )

 Fanfiction is by nature a derivative exercise.

That said, both the overall "fandom" of those who write and the specific fandom communities have rules.  Some of these are modeled on professional literary and scholarly guidelines for behavior, while some are peculiar to fandom.

A) A person takes a story about Innes from the FE section of FFNet, ( Read more... )

 Had the kind of day where it felt like I was putting out a fire and somebody helpfully gave me a hose filled with gasoline.

Anyway, since I am out of ideas in general at present (or rather, out of energy to turn ideas into anything solid), here's some compare/contrast of FE3 vs FE11 to illuminate why I like one of the most despised games in Fire ( Read more... )

 Moving along with the real Part Three: Canon, What Canon?  Also not about Fire Emblem, FYI.

( Meta only gets you so far... )

I changed my mind.  This is another installment of Part Two, When Pairings Eat a Fandom.  It does not focus on Fire Emblem.

( A roundabout defense of gen fic )

Part One: A Closed Circle

I started reading FE7 'fic long before playing the game out of a combination of boredom and desperation.  Writers I enjoyed, like shimizu_hitomi , had FE7 (and FE6) works that looked promising, and the simple fact was that Elibe fanworks outnumbered Archanea fanworks by about three orders of magnitude.  So I got a taste of the prevailing ( Read more... )

I'd post this kind of thing at the anon meme except most people don't care about Archanea so discussion of it is not very anon, is it?

Food.  Characters in stories gotta eat.  Archanea and Valencia have almost no detail regarding food up until FE12, wherein we learn that Caeda can cook and that Linde has never seen wild strawberries.  Also, there's ( Read more... )

 Below are some more essays I wrote circa 2008 regarding Super Smash Bros. and its fandom.  I had nowhere to post these at the time, so I may as well stick 'em up here if anyone wants to visit the fandom Wayback Machine.  There is probably something in here to offend everyone, so be warned if you do have a look.

Hah.  Looking back, at some points ( Read more... )

This is some essaying I wrote circa 2008, posted at the request of sailorvfan10 .  It is a bunch of meta noodling revolving around Super Smash Bros, Fire Emblem, and some potshots at the Gundam Wing fanbase.  Not my best work, so feel free to ignore me.

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