metafandom's Journal

11:53pm: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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• fulselden: On fanfiction and silence - my point here is that fanfiction has essentially reminded me of the POWER OF THE UNSPOKEN, which is not something that twentieth-century literature left exactly unexplored. In fact, a lot of high falutin literary novels tend to obsess about how it is totes hard to cross the bridge between us, man, with language. How difficult it is for a middle-aged professor to rekindle a marriage when words crumble from the tongue like leaves in Vallambrosa, dude. (Said professor is, of course, generally male). . . .But I’m interested by the way which, at least at an initial glance, this female-dominated literary world is so predicated on playing with putting the silences in a different place. -
  
  (tags: fanfic gender reading writing)


• stultiloquentia: Fusions - Three years later, this youtube video about the facial features of anime characters shows up on my network and causes an enormous ZOMG moment. It takes an oft-posed question, "Why do anime creators draw so many white characters? Do they hate themselves or something?" and responds, with evidence, "Dumbass, they are not drawing white characters." -
  
  (tags: fma anime race)


• amalnahurriyeh: META: Redheads Who Could Kill Me: Obvious Kink is Obvious - The connotations we are supposed to have, at least in North America, when we see a redheaded woman seem to rest around the concept of fiestiness. Redheads have attitude, spunk, a particular type of girlish uppityness. They talk back to authority, they argue, they're in your face and brash, just a little bit. In the end, sweet and well-meaning, most likely, but not without a bite.The problem is that none of the women in this essay are anything like that. -
  
  (tags: gender characters westwing bsg btvs xf dw)


• icarus: Riffing off of Auburn's post: AOOO comments - But at this point in time, stories posted on AOOO first receive markedly fewer comments than those posted in LJ first. If the archive is going to be an important portal for fandom, this problem needs to be resolved. -
  
  (tags: ao3 comments)


• auburn: AO3 comments - Am I the only one who finds it vaguely awkward and off replying to comments at Archive of Our Own. Or replying to replies? It seems like the wrong venue for it, like it's fine to comment, but then if the author replies, what? Do you then reply there and becomes a conversation the way it would on DW or LJ? What is the etiquette there anyway? -
  
  (tags: ao3 comments)