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A Woman Leads by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
17 Nov 2020
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A series of posts I've been reading after finishing a rewatch of the final Skywalker trilogy led me to think about the differences in enemies to lovers storylines when it's a het pairing. For example, although I've never found Kylo Ren of much interest, I do like Rey, and it wasn't difficult at all to see why the Reylo pairing is big in the fandom. There is no way it wouldn't have been shipped hard had Rey been a man, probably because there would be nothing unusual about it.
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My friend was amused when I described Younger as "milk and cookies." It's a show that has a fairly simple setup with a central secret (the lead character Liza is 15 years older than she pretends to be), and an ongoing set of characters with no major dramas in their lives. It has neither particularly good nor particularly bad writing, but set in the NYC publishing industry as it is, I daresay it has very little resemblance to the reality. So while I wasn't all that engaged with it, it was one of those shows that's easy to watch if one is doing other things.
That is until S4 Ep5, "The Gift of the Maggie." In short, this episode was all about appropriation and the view of fans was pretty infuriating.
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Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel: the Series, Firefly, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dollhouse
23 Oct 2020
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This happens to be the 15th anniversary of the Buffyverse Top 5 community, created to share recs in the Buffy and Angel fandoms, and later the other Joss Whedon productions. This timing is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our 2019 session going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3 for our collection here.
This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom which might be much the same for other fandoms which began in the pre-AO3 online era, and which may also have lost a number of their works over the years.
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Assuming one cares about spoilers, it's so easy for TV viewing to become a race to completion, especially if it's a long canon. But I also wonder how much gets missed in the viewing.
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My feelings about the first two seasons of Umbrella Academy are rather mixed. On the one hand, many of the episodes are extremely bingeable. I saw the first season over 3 days, and at first was very curious to see more since the entire series is packed full of mysteries. But both seasons show a tendency to want to do things for effect rather than because they make any sense, and in some cases the behavior is pretty inexplicable.
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- Part 24 of Reviews
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Reviews by yourlibrarian
Fandom: Ant-Man (Movies), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat, Fandom - Fandom, Firefly, Forever (TV), Gilmore Girls, iZombie (TV), Mad Men, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Merlin (TV), Merlin - Fandom, Queer as Folk (US), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Supernatural, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Wire, Thor (Movies), Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman - All Media Types
21 Aug 2020
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Fanfic Genres by yourlibrarian
Fandom: Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPF, Fandom - Fandom, Mad Men, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Merlin (TV), Queer as Folk (US), Real Person Fiction, Supernatural, Supernatural RPF, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
11 May 2020
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Reading Fan Vids by Loki (secretlytodream), secretlytodream, yourlibrarian
Fandom: Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Dark Angel, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Fandom - Fandom, Firefly, Iron Man (Movies), Merlin (TV), Supernatural, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
10 Mar 2020
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Elizabeth Swann: Pirate King
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09 Jan 2021
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The Bullpen by elipie. "Elizabeth Swann: Pirate King." Such a fitting song for her, wonderful pacing, and a celebration of a remarkable character.
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This is ridiculous, Merlin thought to himself. You can already drive. You don’t need to pay for lessons. Even if he is hot. - Baby Driver by mother_of_lions
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26 Dec 2020
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Fanart: Baby Driver by Serena_A
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This is ridiculous, Merlin thought to himself. You can already drive. You don’t need to pay for lessons. Even if he is hot. - Baby Driver by mother_of_lions -
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"I know my value." A Peggy Carter focused fanvid.
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- Part 14 of Marvel Vids
- Part 4 of SSR Jukebox
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02 Dec 2020
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- VID: Seven Nation Army by mithborien. ""I know my value." A Peggy Carter focused fanvid." Some us really miss Agent Carter and this vid gives us so many reasons why.
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'We're not friends/ And we're not lovers/ We're just trouble'
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- Part 106 of Vids by AurumCalendula
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15 Nov 2020
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Tempt My Trouble by AurumCalendula
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'We're not friends/ And we're not lovers/ We're just trouble'This is just a brilliant encapsulation of everything that makes Killing Eve riveting.
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Merlin can't keep dodging Freya's advances forever, so he invents a little white lie to keep her interest at bay: That he has a boyfriend and his name is Arthur.
A fake-relationship troupe.
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27 Oct 2020
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One Little White Lie by this_is_kelly
Summary:Merlin can't keep dodging Freya's advances forever, so he invents a little white lie to keep her interest at bay: That he has a boyfriend and his name is Arthur.
A fake-relationship troupe.