Re-read time! A few topics I'll be noting on this reading:

• The rules of Oz; how magic works; the nomenclature; how death and injury works for different parties
• How, when and why the rules change
• Characterization
• Chronology and just how old all these "little" boys and girls are
• A little bit of geography

I’m totally supposed to be studying for exams, but this ‘verse has been kicking around in my head for a long while, and I want to post it to LiveJournal so I’ll feel obligated to eventually start writing it up properly.

That said, welcome to the very broad-strokes outline of “Focus (Wake Me Up Inside)”, the Glee canon companion fic where all the ( Read more... )

This is a response to crown-of-weeds's wonderful list of episode parallels. She had originally completed the parallels through the fourteenth episode of all three seasons, so in the wake of the entire third season having aired, here are some notes on whether the parallels carried through for episodes fourteen to twenty-two!

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I found this post on tumblr and I thought it was actually a really good summary of how bad the Internet "fan"base is at keeping track of the actual narrative and how good it is at twisting a story beyond recognition in the name of social justice. I don't really care to put this on tumblr where no one will care, so here goes:

I don’t think anyone is ( Read more... )

What is the function of original compositions on Glee? When are they used and why? Why have they not been used in season 3 ( Read more... )

Well, here it is: My very first well-thought-out piece of meta analysis of Glee. It has to do with the multitude of Oz references that are made on that show and that reflects on the characters and on their narratives. Let's cut to the chase.

Oz is an enormous cultural phenomenon. It began as a beautiful if formulaic children's novel in 1900, The ( Read more... )