The kind of literature that fan fiction is did not spring fully formed into being in the 1960s and 70s, though some journalists still seem to think so. Throughout this book I have been stressing the link, in literary terms, between fan fiction and any other fiction based on a shared canon […]. It is clear from the comments of fan fiction writers like Ika and Belatrix Carter that one major attraction of this genre for writers is the sense of a complicit audience who already share much information with the writer and can be relied on to pick up ironies or allusions without having them spelled out. Writing based on the canons of myth and folklore can do this too, though as Belatrix Carter pointed out in chapter 7, these canons have been so extensively used for so long it is becoming harder to do anything with them that feels original.
But there is another point, implied in Ika’s remark in chapter 2 – ‘What I like about fan fiction is that you can still get that very highly trained audience that can understand very, very complex and allusive things.’ The use of ‘still’ alludes to the undoubted fact that for the traditional canons of myth, Bible, history, and folklore, this “very highly trained” audience is not as reliable as it once was, because the canon information is not as widely shared as it used to be. […] a writer can no longer allude to Lazarus, Circe or Alexander and be reasonably sure that most of his readers have in their heads the thoughts, stories or images for which he was aiming. The human need for heroes and archetypes does not go away, but their faces change with time, and one avatar takes the place of another. Ika’s point is a shrewd one: in an age of fragmented rather than shared cultures the fan fiction audience is unusual in having as thorough a knowledge of its particularly shared canon as a Bible-reading or classically educated audience once did.
Sheenagh Pugh, The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context, p. 219 (via karenhealey)
i’m not here to tell you “guys this movie is so important we have to save it”
no
this movie will save itself
because it’s SO TERRIBLE
(by the way if you think this power point is incomprehensible WAIT UNTIL YOU WATCH THE DAMN FILM, ZAZAZING!)
(also if you want some trigger warnings for this dumb film just let me know)
My favorite tag so far was @arrispect’s “#FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SPACE-HOLY GO SEE THIS MOVIE”
I think Jupiter Ascending makes a lot more sense if it’s understood not as the Wachowskis’ answer to Star Wars, but as the Wachowskis’ answer to Twilight. In space. Seriously, start mapping the characters over. The correspondence is nearly 1:1 in places.
(Also, not mentioned in this photoset: Rollerblading Werewolf Boyfriend’s penchant for saving the say by Kool-Aid Manning his way through a nearby wall. He does it like four times in the course of the film, and it’s funnier every single time it happens.)
Slurs are not oppressive because they are offensive, they are oppressive because slurs by nature of being slurs draw upon certain power dynamics to remind their target of his/her/their vulnerability in a certain relation to power and as an extension of that, to threaten violence and exploitation of that vulnerability.
This Man Did Something That’s Already Expected Of Women But He Gets Extra Praise Cause He’s A Man
No. A lot of women don’t go to cosmetology classes to learn how to do hair, they have the experience from growing up-their mom doing their hair, Then experimenting which what they can do themselves. This guy probably had short hair his entire life with no clue on what to do. He didn’t just look up how to do a ponytail, he paid for actual classes so that he could do his little daughters hair in cool and creative ways so that SHE gets the learning experience and learns how to do it her own and then can go to school with fabulous. This is A+ daddy right here, he went above and beyond because he knows that he lack in certain areas where a mom would pick this up. Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.
I was gonna do a project this week, and it was gonna be a two-parter. But then I slept instead of going to the supermarket. Next week for sure!
In the meantime, I spent about three hours today scanning and resizing and cropping images from a book I got out of the library so there would be a post this week.
Some of this book is just boring and you’ve seen it before, but SOME of it.. well..
This is perfectly reasonable and totally not a fire hazard, right?
If you actually LIKE any of these books, don’t do this.
Why did you show us the crucified woman instead of the mermaid? Why is the unicorn’s horn droopy? WHY is there a picture of Mao on the wall in the bathroom on the next page?
I’m so confused.
There’s a TV back there? You’d have to crane your neck like a mother to see it, plus there’s a goddamn plant in the way. I call bullshit.
There is something VERY wrong with those olives.
Okay, pouring your spices into unlabeled containers is a lot of work for no reward.
Also fuck you, those are test tubes.
Too SHINY? Is this what rich people worry about?
Upholstered chairs at the table SOUND nice, but then fucking Uncle Larry spills his wine and you have to hate him forever.
OHHHH NO. No more spoons.
A mirror at the kitchen sink, for people who like to stare at themselves while they scrub dishes.
Wait, I have a toolbox! It’s not wooden, but what the fuck! And the place I order beads from sent me a weird tassel for christmas! I’m gonna do this right now!
Mmmm.
Nope.
Put some flammable shit in some other flammable shit and add a wick. Then pack it in some flammable shit in a flammable box.
Great for people you want to get rid of, I guess.
I think
I’m gonna save up wick pieces and do this at some point.
Okay, now you’re trying too hard.
This is the murder room. It’s what you see right before they murder you.
To me, this just says you put them there and forgot about them.
Okay, why do tile if you’re just going to make it look like brick?
Square Enix announced that they’re having a sale on SE games on steam this weekend! (I personally don’t have steam but I looked over the list and there’s some good shit on there. I know some stuff’s up like 75-80% off so if there’s an SE game you’ve been wanting for PC but didn’t wanna spend the money this may be a good opportunity
These titles in particular may interest some of my followers:
callanswall 