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fairestcat: Wednesday, April 2, 2008

• silver_spotted: an observation about my fannish habbits: - I have a tendency to read (lots) of fic for fandoms I have never seen/read canon for. -
  
  (tags: reading)


• Ask Doctor Science! - Vampires, Werewolves, and the Marxist dialectic - "...vampires represent the aristocracy while werewolves are the underclass." I nodded, because -- of course! viz: vampires: suck the blood of the people, cold and heartless, wear faultless evening dress. werewolves: helplessly controlled by an outside for -
  
  (tags: marxism class)


• copperbadge: *shakes fist at hija_paloma*Sam: *natter - I give you, ladies and gentlemen, the Fandom Compass. -
  
  (tags: charts fandom)


• cryptoxin: Fans invented stalking! - The whole romantic portrayal of "I stalk, because I care so much" men feels fairly pervasive and almost normative across a lot of different media and genres (West in Heroes, for example). What's interesting is the persistence of these older tropes despite -
  
  (tags: fandom trope sexuality)


• oyceter: Alpha male or stalker? - I am tired of reading romances about women's fears of sexual desire and how they get over that fear by giving control up to the hero. I am perfectly fine with this in real life, but as a trope, it's horribly overused, and I would like (the legitimate and -
  
  (tags: fandom trope characterization sexuality)

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