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Korra doesn't 'swoon' and Lin is not a man: 3 Fangirls and a Rant
If you haven't seen Avatar: the Last Airbender or Avatar: The Legend of Korra what are you doing? Don't stay here looking at this post. Go forth, buy, borrow, download. AtLA and Korra are among the most interesting, nuanced, fascinatingly constructed genre television programming I have ever watched, with superbly etched out characters and ( Read more... ) -
How I learned Musicals were manipulating me (and learned to live with it)
Apparently I should be ashamed of this, but I am not: I LOVE MUSICAL THEATRE! I really really do. I've been to at least 6 musicals in my short stint in London (ok, some of them were shite). I shamelessly pimp musical theatre to unsuspecting and captive friends. I sing Defying Gravity in the shower, I am that person!
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Alpha/Omega Dynamics: Biological Determinism or Porny Good Times?
So let’s talk about the not so recent trend across fandoms for Alpha/Omega fics heavily featuring knotting, heats and more likely than not mpreg. The trend started, as kink trends so often do in the SPN fandom (take a bow, guys) and now seem pervasive in several other fandoms, particularly in the XMFC fandom. And I will admit to enjoying the kink. ( Read more... ) -
Can you, YES YOU, guess my Ship?
Since apparently I haven't met a meme I didn't like, snagged from sabrina_il
These are all (well mostly) hugely popular fandom, and so should be a cinch to guess. zorana84 will know all of them, because I can't stop talking about them
1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your ( Read more... ) -
Fake TV: Trials and Tribulations
Another TV show that I have done make up. This cast list is courtesy the lovely hiddencait who has been more than patient, since I took absolute ages to get around to it (P.S. If you like FakeTV btw, check out every single thing she's done, it's all genius). Hope you like this bb
WARNING: If you have a problem with terrible no-good mangling of biblical ( Read more... ) -
Because Every Fandom needs a Genderswap Picspam
I love X-Men! I have loved it since I was 8... I watched both the cartoons, collected comic books, and yes, watched the movies, including the execrable X-3... I was wary, very wary indeed about X Men: First Class... but amazingly it was actually a lot of fun.. Some very strong performances, a strong if somewhat truncated narrative, excellent action ( Read more... ) -
A Meme to Make Up your Own TV Show? Sign me up!
Snagged from across the interwebz. Since I lurk on the LJs of about a 100,000 people, I saw this marvellous meme which involved prompting of seven actors and then making up a TV show about them with a blurb and character descriptions. I basically seal-clapped as leupagus; robanybody; and seren-ccd among others made up fabulous, brilliant, inventive shows, and then poked seren-ccd ( Read more... ) -
Let's talk Privilege
Two rants in a month? I'm on a roll. But I believe that I genuinely have something to say about the recent outrage regarding a certain fic set in Haiti in the spn_j2_bigbang. Again, it's something that's been intensely discussed and fantastic points about privilege, racism and ignorance have been highlighted, but as a FoC there are responses ( Read more... ) -
Potentially Triggering: Rape Culture and Me
Now I am not usually a ranter. Hell, if you look at my LJ history, I'm not even much of a poster. But sometimes things come up that force you to speak. Even if virtually everyone you know has already spoken about it, and usually infinitely more eloquently than you even could. But the events of Wincon 2008, and the various responses that ( Read more... )
