laurashapiro

Sigh. I need to stop reading other reaction posts before I write my own, at least while I'm in my current brain state.

( Elementary 1x23-1x24 The Woman/Heroine )

Crossposts: http://oyceter.livejournal.com/1016193.html

kouredios

http://storify.com/kouredios/spivak-lecture-2

This one got quite a bit challenging, as the professor who introduced her (who was one of my professors, especially for my Master's program) did it in a way that was...overly familiar and rather sexist. He told of how, when they first met in the 60s, how beautiful she was and how everyone was in love with her...and when she took the mike, she called that shit right out. It was amazing, and uncomfortable, and she called us out too, for laughing nervously as it happened.

I had my tutorial with her today, which was amazing and frightening and wonderful. And we talked about it a bit, but also all sorts of other things. I think I'll hold on to them for myself for now, because there's still a lot of processing to do.

Hope you enjoy the storify. There's only one last lecture from her tomorrow, and then the weekend (which I will spend in Rome, and computerless). I'll catch up with you all again on Monday.

Current Mood: tired
Crossposts: http://kouredios.livejournal.com/259955.html

legionseagle

Day One Favourite Lead Female Character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship

Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship

Ah, they weren't included in the platonic ones, after all.

Generally the mother/daughter relationships I've come across are somewhere between fraught and nonexistent. I'm with Ekaterin on the idea that the folktales where the heroine's mother dies young seems to be meant as some form of instruction, and surprisingly prevalent ones, too.

So, sisters. I note, of course, that it's the relationship one is supposed to favourite, not the individuals, and while there are possibilities galore in Austen, I would like to mention Maria Edgeworth's Patronage with Caroline and Rosamond Percy, who are a sort of Elinor and Marianne duo, but with rather more melodrama. I'm very fond of Patronage (it's the book name-checked in Cranford as having "banished wafers from polite society" and the sisters are particularly good.

But I've already discussed how much I love the sibling relationships in Ankaret Wells' Requite novels and in Firebrand. In particular, it allows for an equality in rescue scenarios which traditional damsel in distress models can't match; Kadia and Kassia rescue each other with considerable symmetry in Firebrand, and while things are sparkier and edgier in The Maker's Mask/The Hawkwood War they come over as very real sibling relationships in both cases.

So I'm going with Firebrand.

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lokifan

This has been an unfun week in some ways: either LJ was down or the internet was, plus a south-Vietnam-wide power cut that lasted for hoooours yesterday while I died from lack of air conditioning.

BUT. On the plus side, there have been cool celebrations and exhibitions and that to mark Buddha's birthday. I'm just sorry I missed the lighting up of five giant lotuses in front of a monastery last week. But today was a parade!

I didn't know about it, and I caught it on my way home from work on a motorbike so I couldn't take a picture even if my camera wasn't kaput :( Apologies. It was cool, though - floats with enormous lengths of plastic and real flowers with multicoloured fairy lights threaded through them, people sitting on them waving Buddhist flags, these big images of smiling Buddhists pasted on the sides of the floats. Lots of people were just on their motorbikes with big Buddhist flags, too, and people sticking out of cars to wave them, and light-up Buddhas beaming away everywhere.

It was a very Saigon sort of parade: God forbid the main roads, or any roads, be shut for it. So there were the floats, and people on motorbikes with flags around them, and also people just trying to get from A to B. I was going the other way up Cách Mạng Tháng 8 so I could get a pretty good look, but it was a near-traffic jam. Once I was at the junction I got to see floats going at their top speed, just part of the traffic, until they were out of the way and could slow down to an elegant 3 miles an hour :)

That was entertaining. Work was slightly more stressful; good lesson, got three more planned. But it's occurred to me that ( one of my students might be on the autism spectrum )

Let's do my preferred variety of the Alphabet meme: I make a list of the letters of the alphabet, and you give me stuff you want me to talk about, beginning with any letter. I'll cross out each letter as I get a subject to discuss. It can be any topic: fannish or not, deep or not, WS or not. I'll make a post about those subjects in the next week or so. You can give me as many topics as you like!

( alphabet list )

Current Mood: full
Crossposts: http://lokifan.livejournal.com/268337.html

saraht

So apparently this was cut from Into Darkness? Because there is no God?

giandujakiss

The Captive Prince is getting published by a Penguin imprint!

This is awesome - I never thought they'd take a chance on a m/m romance - especially since it's not a straight up romance, in the romance novel sense - it's much more like an awesome adventure story with a heavy romantic subplot built in, which makes it a bit harder to slot into the romance genre. If it involved a straight couple, it might not even be called a romance at all, just an adventure story with a love interest.

Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to holding the third book in my hands. (Umm, I won't be buying it in a bookstore, though - I buy everything through Amazon.)

The free versions are going offline, so read while you can - happily, I bought the Kindle versions of books 1 and 2, so I can reread them in anticipation.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1701213.html

lettered

1) Guys, Captive Prince. Captive Prince, guys.

2) Has anyone bought the paperback novels? I wanted to, because the maps and covers look pretty, but for some reason never did. I have no idea whether the Penguin editions will use her covers etc, so maybe I should buy them while I can.

3)

coffeeandink said maybe the publishers are hoping for another Fifty Shades. It would be so awesomesauce if the book was popular. And gay romance novels become more mainstream.

4) I'm wondering how much they'll edit?

5) Book 3, you guys. Guys, book 3.

6) Once on my way to Portland to see my brother, I'd just gotten off the bus, and checked my ipad. I saw there was an update of Captive Prince. I walked to the rental place, rented a car (Okay, I know, environment, but the train was booked for the time I needed it and renting a car and driving it to Portland is actually cheaper than taking a train there), got in the car, and then drove to a parking lot. And then proceeded to read the update before starting my drive because I JUST COULD NOT WAIT.

6) In other news, I think Kindle Worlds is hilarious.

Crossposts: http://lettered.livejournal.com/168781.html

kass

There are a lot of things I like about Amazon. There are a lot of things I like about my Kindle! But boy, howdy, am I not delighted about this Kindle Worlds nonsense.

Here are excerpts from a few smart posts I've read on this recently. ( Now behind a cut-tag! )

ETA: Kindle Worlds on Fanlore.

Crossposts: http://kassrachel.livejournal.com/1105451.html

selenak

Borrowed from everyone:

I currently have 188 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 188 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: Munich

killabeez

I and the cutest sloth ever would like to wish

liptonrm and

devohoneybee a wonderful birthday. As a certain drummer of my acquaintance likes to say, congratulations on another successful trip around the sun!

implicated2

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coffeeandink

S.U. Pacat has sold the Captive Prince trilogy to Penguin Berkeley.

Crossposts: http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/1111472.html

hey_legousa

My brother wants to go to Anime Boston because he enjoys spending my money and, whoops, online registration is no longer open. I have never been to a con of Anime Boston's size before, so I have some questions:

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cofax7

--(I.e., Amazon Kindle Worlds)--I feel obliged to point out that, in accordance with cofax's Law of Fannish Persistence:

Fandom will survive. Fandom will thrive. Feel free to stress and challenge people's motives and plan for the worst and hope for the best. Me, I'm not really worried. In twenty years, I'm pretty sure there will still be porn.

Crossposts: http://cofax7.livejournal.com/909155.html

sasha_feather

I am going to be at WisCon the next few days and won't be online much.

*Texting is a good way to reach me usually.

*I'm anxious lately and am going to try not to panic.

*I get a lot of headaches and may need to disappear for a while. I also may need to go home to take care of my dog.

*I probably don't want to shake your hand because I have arthritis. Fist bumps and curtsies and hat-tilts etc. are all OK. Hugs are good for people I know.

*People bringing me food and Dt. Mountain Dew makes me happy.

*I am donating some sweet stuff to the clothing exchange!

*Wheeeeeee!!!!

cofax7

OK, I can do this:

I currently have 135 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recently posted) to 135 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

(Yeah, I know I've been quiet. This state of affairs may or may not continue.)

Crossposts: http://cofax7.livejournal.com/909028.html

rivkat

(Hi, school is out?)

Rough Riders
Sam/Dean, NC-17
From two spnkinkmeme prompts seeking a Sam who likes rough sex and a Dean who doesn’t nearly like it nearly as much, but won’t admit that until Sam figures it out. Additional contents: fantasy/roleplay noncon.
Thanks to

giandujakiss for beta.

( Id parade )

Crossposts: http://rivkat.livejournal.com/392551.html

rivkat

What Flourish Klink says about Amazon’s new fan fiction monetization project is all worth taking seriously, especially the parts about incremental change and bringing in people who weren’t traditionally “fan fiction writers.” I think that’s actually the riskiest part (and I don’t think she argues otherwise); the internet grew to its present point in a context in which it was much easier to go from inventing fan fiction in your own bedroom to finding a community of people who’d made the same invention than it had been when you had to find a convention or a round robin or the like. I’m skeptical of Golden Age thinking, but at the same time I do want to make sure that people who find fandom through places like Amazon can also easily find some non-walled gardens to play in. I also don’t think this is going to be a model for many franchises/works other than those created using the Alloy Entertainment model of monetizing a concept for teen audiences, though I’ve been wrong before!

(Flourish also points out that it’s standard white folk cluelessness to ban “racism” in Vampire Diaries fan fiction given its canonical basis in chattel slavery, though I’m pretty sure Amazon’s enforcers will be defining that term differently than many who might be reading her work; others have noted the ironies in banning excessive brand placement in Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars fic. I guess the official versions have that covered?)

Letters from Titan has a great post too, raising what seem to me to be exactly the key questions. Sure wish I had answers:

Question 1: To what degree does Kindle Worlds suggest that the fanfiction can only be legitimized through the eradication of fan culture’s gift economy?
Question 2: Fanfiction has significantly changed our media culture. Kindle Worlds isn’t just capitalizing on it, but arguably represents an attempt to shape it. Is this a feedback loop in action or an attempt to stop the catalyst that is fan work?
Questions 3: The contractual terms of Kindle Worlds are the sort traditional professional writers would be strongly advised against signing on to. Is fannish work worth less? Should it be?
Question 4: Fanfiction has, arguably, always been about the option to use use all the tools, particularly those often discouraged by corporate content production (e.g., sexuality), to tell story. If the toolbox is limited, whether a given writer would choose to use all the tools or not, is it fanfiction or is it some other form of derivative (vs. transformative) work?
Question 5: How will fan readers view/treat fan writers who use a tool like Kindle Worlds? And how does that impact our communities, hierarchies, and barriers to entry?

I also said some stuff on tumblr. Hi tumblr, I’m trying you out. And wow are you terrible for conversations!

Relatedly: like vids? Vote in the US? Call your representatives and tell them to support DMCA reform so that vidding stays lawful. There are a variety of proposals, but only one bill that is any good and that fixes anything but cellphone unlocking.

Crossposts: http://rivkat.livejournal.com/392318.html

such_heights

It is currently 1:30am. I am at the airport waiting for check-in to open sometime after 5am for my 7:45am flight (getting across London in the middle of the night = expensive, so I came early).

God bless the 24 hour cafe with its electrical outlets and sweet, sweet caffeine.

HI, INTERNET. HOW'S IT GOING.

eta: well, it's 7am, I survived the night! ('I've never not slept before! What if something happens?! And SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS!' Oh, Sokka.) At the departure gate, boarding soon. Wiscon here I come!

morgandawn

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A03 Meme

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So how about Anime Boston?

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