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An examination of the role of gender in The Mighty Boosh
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So, what's the dynamic between Irene and John? Taking a look at the episode and trying to suss it out.
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- Part 2 of English 221b
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Facts About Britain you Probably Don't Need but Might Want by Lore_Giver
Meta - Fandom, James Bond (Movies), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, One Direction (Band)
25 Apr 2013
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A piece of writing about common things you might need to know about Britain (and Europe).
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This is not me being satirical. This is not me poking fun at something by imitating it. This is straight up, absolutely serious, I am not screwing around, this needs to be discussed right now material. These are my genuine opinions and thoughts on important issues of writing. Feel free, of course, to talk about it, criticize, praise, add issues of your own. The only way one gets better is through trial and error. And I want this to be seen by EVERYONE to get these issues talked about.
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It's not that simple.
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The World Is Always Ending: Time in Torchwood's Jack/Ianto Arc by solitary_summer
Torchwood
20 Mar 2013
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Time is Jack's main problem, and now, carelessly catching the stopwatch that Jack tosses to him at the beginning of the episode, it becomes Ianto's problem too, even if he doesn't realise it yet.
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Bad Romance: Dracula, Twilight, and Rape Culture by 100indecisions
Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Dracula - Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Demons (TV)
17 Mar 2013
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My no-kidding master's thesis, the tl;dr version of which can be summarized as "Twilight sucks, but not because teenage girls love it or because it contains sparkling vampires". Actual abstract: "Despite being generally received as wholesome entertainment, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series implicitly supports rape culture by subtly reinforcing dangerous ideas about romance and relationships. In order to demonstrate the pervasive nature of these attitudes at work in the Twilight series, this paper first describes the concept itself and the crucial features of the beliefs that support it. Dracula—and, more importantly, the prevailing cultural perceptions about Stoker’s novel—functions as an important intertext for Twilight thanks to its status as one of the earliest popular vampire novels, and I use it to show how these attitudes can normalize certain assumptions about sexuality in a context generally assumed to involve a clear sexual interpretation. My examination of the books in Meyer’s modern vampire narrative takes this idea further, arguing that the same attitudes applied to Dracula provide an even more subtle representation of the mindsets that comprise and perpetuate rape culture."
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Maiden No More: Rape Culture in Tess of the D'urbervilles by 100indecisions
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15 Mar 2013
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Issues of coercion and sexual consent are at the forefront of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, and the novel itself does not seem to present a solid conclusion on what exactly happened between Tess and Alec on the night that started her supposedly inevitable decline. Approaching the text from the viewpoint of modern feminist criticism and ideas about rape culture allows insights into Tess’s story that might not have been available to Hardy or his readers. I wrote this paper for a graduate class a few years ago.
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Ficthropology Episode 3: Abigail Derecho - Archontic Literature by earis, Lukoni, Measured_Words, Nary
Meta - Fandom
13 Mar 2013
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Okay, after a long delay (for which I apologize profusely), we are finally back with Episode 3. Hooray! In this episode, we follow on from last time with a discussion of what constitutes fanfiction and how it is best described and understood. Is there really a good metaphor that can encompass this whole crazy, multi-faceted world? Thus we tackle "Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction" by Abigail Derecho. It is the first chapter in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse's Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (2006). We hope you enjoy!
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- Part 3 of Ficthropology Podcasts
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An exploration of why Loki is guilty of murder in Thor and what him being under duress in The Avengers means legally. (Written in response to a popular Tumblr post.)
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A list of songs that I think are Sherlocky and my reasoning for each. Links to the songs included. Some of these fit perfectly; some you'd have to change some pronouns or use your Johnlock glasses. Would love to know what songs you would add to this list!
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On Writing Tolkien's Elves by Oshun
TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Jan 2013
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Written for the August 2012 Non-fiction challenge at the LotR Community Live Journal. I spend a part of every month, writing a character biography for the Silmarillion Writers Guild. Those are certainly not free of opinion, but are hopefully written in a more objective and overall more scholarly tone than this one. This one is an opinion piece, but filled with references to the texts.
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This is NOT fanfiction. It is an analysis of three minutes of A Scandal in Belgravia. How does Irene get under Sherlock and John's skins so quickly? Within three minutes of meeting each other, she totally has their number and plenty of evidence that they are, in fact, a couple.
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Ficthropology Episode 2: Henry Jenkins - Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by earis, Lukoni, Measured_Words, Nary
Meta - Fandom
23 Dec 2012
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For our second episode, we introduce our fourth contributor, Earis, and spiral off on an involved discussion of Henry Jenkin's 1992 book Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. This text is now twenty years old, but though it is dated, still contains some interesting insights into fandom, and seemed like a reasonable place for us to start delving into an exploration of academic works on fandoms. Please share this around if you're interested, and feel free to join our communities on either Livejournal or Dreamwidth to get regular updates. We have plans to start crossposting to Tumblr as well, and if anyone has suggestions on how to promote and disseminate this podcast, we would be pleased to hear about it!
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- Part 2 of Ficthropology Podcasts
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Queer and New Who: A Commentary on Discussion by Jasper
Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005)
22 Dec 2012
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A relative newbie fan (and relative newbie queer) takes a look at some perceptions of queer representation in media, by way of New Who.
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Ficthropology Episode 1 - Meet the Panelists by earis, Lukoni, Measured_Words, Nary
Meta - Fandom
14 Nov 2012
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Ok, here we go!! Our very first episode of our new podcast Ficthropology!! It is a bit short, as it's primarily introductions but we do also make a round of fic recommendations. Hey, we gotta start somewhere, right?
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- Part 1 of Ficthropology Podcasts
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A short Sorting Hat quiz unlike any I've encountered before, and a brief explanation of why.
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The Adventures of Standout and Everyman: a classic pairing by Stayawhile
Xena: Warrior Princess, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka, Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Jun 2012
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An exploration of a classic pairing across several fandoms.