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Life as a WIP
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| | Tags: | fandom | | Subject: | she said I swear I'm not the devil | | Time: | 11:11 am |
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| Hey, are you guys following the discussion of gender and fan studies over at Henry Jenkins' blog?
Today's bit is part of a discussion between Catherine Tosenberger and Geoffrey Long, and includes discourse about fanon vs. canon, touching on differences between fandoms and how some items that are really fringe in some fandoms have become mainstays in others.
One of the things I find interesting about Tosenberger in particular is that her 'ships in HP fandom revolve around the Weasley twins and include twincest, and her current fandom obsession is the gen vs. incest divide in Supernatural fanfic.
ETA: Oh, hey, and while we're thinking about all those published novels like Wide Sargasso Sea which could be considered fanfic but aren't, have y'all heard that there's supposed to be a book published that's Rhett Butler's POV of Gone With The Wind? That is wrong, wrong, WRONG. Rhett is a man of mystery; I don't want to know what he's thinking. He's the strong, silent type. The other "sequels" were bad enough. Scarlett, leave Tara? As. If. | comments: tell me why you're here   |
| While I wait for my gels to finish running, I'm going to spam y'all with thoughts I've been gathering all day. I'll try to keep the work & political stuff separate from fandom, since I know we don't all have the same ideas on all subjects.
( click for fandom meta-y poll )
Um, and while I'm discussing fandom. Can someone please explain to me the appeal of hooker!fic in some RPS fandoms? 'Cause I don't really get it. I mean, I'm all for AU, but why is AU prostitution fic so prevalent? Or do I just notice it more because it leaves me cold? | | comments: tell me why you're here |
| | Tags: | fandom, writing | | Subject: | sorta a bookmarking post while I think about this | | Time: | 01:28 pm | | Current Mood: | thinking thinky thoughts |
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| I'm reading The Audience As Editor in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet right now, and this bit caught my eye:
[...]beta reading represents a further refutation of the idea that individuals or groups can claim sole intellectual ownership over the texts and images that combine to form a shared frame of reference for a diverse and international community.
So as cheerleaders, aides, and editors, we are turning storytelling back into a folkloric, community-owned endeavor?
Gotta think about this.
Opinions? | | comments: tell me why you're here |
| 1. Henry Jenkins is awesome. I want to have his job when I grow up. And he's gonna have a new and interesting dialogue about and between fanboys and fangirls on his blog this summer. *bookmarks* I have a huge list of new fandom/fanthropology books and articles to read now.
2. Just a thought that kept recurring during the Shipping the Velvet slash panel. Why must slashers' ideas of fanfiction follow the traditional romance novel pattern: fall in love/lust, get married, have babies? (And while we're talking about babies, one of the panelists mentioned some SPN mpreg, in which Dean was the "mother". WTF? *bleaches eyeballs*)
3. The presentation on Mary Sues and slash and gender envy? Had to leave before I threw something at the lecturer.
4. The Drunk Eaters? Scary. Especially Bellatrix.
5. ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ariadne1's roundtable on Granger/Snape and titti's panel on Snape slash this afternoon. Off to be a fandom geek. :) | | comments: tell me why you're here |
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Life as a WIP
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