claudiablacks: buffy rewatch ❉ normal again
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foxhero: *browses own blog* amazing
*browses own blog* amazing
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Praise be to Meta...
You go, meta writers, with your thinky thoughts and your “let’s overthink this”, with your attention to set dressing and editing as well as script and actor nuance, with your discussions about representation and what sorts of worldviews media producers are replicating or, sometimes, challenging.
“Meta” is a wonderful phenomenon – it’s basically grassroots, live, literary/ textual criticism, written for free by and for fan audiences, and shared by them in active learning communities.
Most literary and textual criticism (because let’s face it professional re-cappers and reviewers are mostly damn bad at informed critique) is gated – it’s locked up in academic journals and conferences, and you can’t get at it unless you have current membership of a university library. That’s beginning to change, as some journals shift to “open source”, but at present, the gates to the academy are still standing tall.
I loved literary criticism as an undergraduate but I felt somewhat disillusioned about its place in the world, precisely because it mostly took place walled up in the ivory tower. Did it have “real” social and cultural meaning, I wondered.
Here on Tumblr there are concentric circles of people, across national borders, and across age ranges, sharing the active, excited, analysis of media texts with one another. Here be joy and knowledge-sharing - fantastic! Because textual analysis shared, has the ability to make films and television shows and anime and gaming richer. That’s why people reblog “meta”, right? Because they want to join the conversation, because now they’ve seen something they hadn’t seen before, because it’s made the film or the episode resonate in a new way for them, or maybe because they passionately disagree with that analysis and want to offer their own. How wonderful.
So, you go, meta writers!
There is no such thing as “overthinking” a media text. Why would you want to use your intelligence and your imagination less, when you can use it more? If you engage with meta, whether as a writer or a reader, I guarantee that your imaginative and cultural life, your inner and intellectual worlds, will be richer, and deeper. You will learn things and you will ignite in yourselves the desire to learn. And as such, you will be active citizens of the world, moreover you will be part of a community of active citizens of the world - better able to change the world, together, rather than just to sit passively in it.
Therefore, praise be to meta.
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clannyphantom:*takes gulp of vodka straight from the bottle* my day was fine
*takes gulp of vodka straight from the bottle* my day was fine
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jazzforthecaptain: Have another pair of men dancing a gorgeous...
Have another pair of men dancing a gorgeous tango and switching leads. And braces? Yep. Braces.
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thegingerbatch: #sherlock Holmes
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playbill: Hamilton Pays Emotional Tribute To Original Cast of A...
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stephenhawqueen:the US is unreal like girls cant wear shorts to school, you can literally lose your...
the US is unreal like girls cant wear shorts to school, you can literally lose your job for being gay, and unarmed black children are brutally murdered on the regular but old white ppl r still like “what a beautiful country. i can freely carry a gun for no reason and some of our mountains look like presidents. god bless”
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agnesanutter: Just write that fic. Don’t think about how someone else will write it better. Just...
Just write that fic. Don’t think about how someone else will write it better. Just write the fuckin fic man. Because I have read 100k fanfic where almost every other word was misspelled and the tenses were wrong. Things made no fuckin sense at one point. I had to read sentences aloud and ask my boyfriend what he thought they meant. AND I STILL FUCKIN FINISHED READING THAT FANFIC. And I liked it. Went back to read a few key scenes. I mean I know there are better writers out there. I know that some people have a bigger following. I know that you are scared but just fuckin write that fic man. SOMEONE will read it. SOMEONE WILL ENJOY IT. AND YOU WILL be THAT much happier that you did it.
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fyeahmcublackwidow: Pretty please.
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important PSA about when your car is smoking
like literally smoking from the engine
white and you smell pancakes?
it’s the coolant. panic and pull over, but you’ll livea slight blue tinge?
it’s the oil. panic and pull over, but you’ll livegrey, looks like fire smoke?
gasoline; the most combustable and dangerous. pull over and leave the vehicle, pray.sharing because i didn’t know this when my car started smoking white yesterday and i was so afraid for my life.
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tsukum: i hate when i go up north and go to restaurants and the waiter comes to take my order and...
i hate when i go up north and go to restaurants and the waiter comes to take my order and im like “do yall have sweet tea??” and theyre like “no sweetheart but we have unsweetened iced tea and we can give you some sugar packets!!!” llike no you fucking yankee because now the tea is already cold so the sugar wont dissolve in it and itll all just sink the bottom and be nasty learn basic fucking solubility this is 9th grade chemistry thats why sweet tea exists in the first place you fucking heat the tea up to make it and then while its still hot you add the sugar and then you chill it and its sweet fucking tea i bet you pronounce pecan like peecan too you four seasons-having piece of shit
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swahiliculture:Zanzibar Festival 2011, Swahili children wearing...
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Life found a way. Jurassic Park ( 1993 )
Life found a way.
Jurassic Park ( 1993 )
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rareblondie: to everybody that asks me if i can read their lips
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deans-delicious-pie:silencesongbird:Wtf? How many 1000s of hours...
Wtf? How many 1000s of hours of Obama tape did this peraon have to watch cut and clip back together with music to get this.
It was for a good cause
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thescienceofobsession: dkwilliams: foiledmonsters: There are no Righteous Warriors of Right and...
There are no Righteous Warriors of Right and as we age, we see more and more how complex the world is and how statements of absolutes and of black and white are almost always more harmful than not. Censorship is almost never the answer. Contextualization IS. Discourse IS. Communication IS. Information IS. Be open-minded. Approach life with love and good faith. Do no harm. And if you do, for the love of all that is good, make it right. Do not leave a fellow fan in tears. Do not take something given in confidence and good faith and weaponize it.
Mrs. Hudson has it right: “Live and let live, that’s my motto.”I am nearing 60 and I have been writing fanfiction for 50 of those years. I have been around, Will Robinson, and none of this is new. Back in the early days of TV fandom, when only Anderson’s dinosaurs walked the earth, anyone who wrote slash, even mild slash with fade-to-black sex scenes, was bullied, doxxed, outed, humiliated, and often banned from the fandom communities. Slash panels were not allowed at regular fan convention, and ‘zines sold under the counter. When fandom went on-line, on-line links to slash stories were secretly passed around to those in-the-know because your website could get shut down if someone found it and pointed out “that gross slash porn” to the provider. A convention like 221B-Con with a discussion on Gender Politics on the same program with panels about Sebastian Moran and Granada Holmes and Watson through the Ages? And an actor in the same building, much less on fan panels while next door people creat flash fanfiction? Never would have happened then, and most of us would have been incredulous at the idea that 20 years later we could be having a fan convention with all these things going on at the same time.
We’ve come a long way, baby.
What an excellent response to the discussion going on right now. I wish everyone would read it…
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