We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this piece of awesome:

[wyncatastrophe]

Community and Doctor Who article
(reblogged)

People interested in fandom studies, as well as anyone drawn to either fandom, should definitely read. :) 

Comments

Just to let you know, I am plundering your LJ for icons. :)

[pronker]

That's a fine article; the last para especially. Also, 'Rogue Reader' may become my new username.

I encourage such plundering! Plunder away! ;)

[wyncatastrophe]

Rogue Reader would make an excellent username. Someday I would like to be known as the_textual_poacher, lol. :)

*steals muchly*

[pronker]

Yeah, I came for rob. And it felt gooooood!!

That is a most excellent username. 'Poaching' has all those royal/British/to the manor born connotations. Like, taking a King's deer was liable for the death penalty, and, I guess, taking an Earl's deer was to lose one's favorite toe?

I recommend the shirtless Anakin icons. But that's just me.

[wyncatastrophe]

Ha! Yes, all of that. But I can recommend the book by Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers - it's a good read, one of the better offerings of Cultural Studies scholarship in the U.S., and while occasionally a bit on the Othering side does take fandom activities fairly seriously as sources of cultural value. So, there's that. :)