December 11th, 2008

04:36 pm

cereta: Dammit, Kirk Lazarus was supposed to be SATIRE - They're specious because they assume a world where the default setting is actually neutral, rather than being so far up the ass of "white, straight male" that Hollywood will not only assume a white, straight male lead unless there's a "reason" to do otherwise, but will cheerfully rewrite the race/ethnicity or gender of fictional characters and even of real people to assure a white male lead. -
(tags: anime avatar race)

vagabond_sal: Angry Asian Man: A break-up, of sorts. - What does this casting choice say to me, the angry Asian man? It says that every time somebody speaks more slowly and loudly to me because they assume that English isn't my first tongue, they're right to do so, because I'm not normal. It says that when my freshman year roommate thought that the delivery guy calling with my order was my dad, I shouldn't have been offended, because the guy sounded Chinese on the phone, so how was he supposed to know, right? -
(tags: anime avatar race)

synecdochic: Writing Q&A: Take one! - Dialog attribution is one of those things that is a very individualistic hallmark of style, really; there are a lot of schools of thought about how to handle it. You'll see a lot of people suggesting that you use other verbs other than 'said', but my way of thinking is: 'said'; is a neutral word, one that the reader's eyes gloss over, while the other synonyms can seem pretentious or really painful. -
(tags: writing)

pir8fancier: Trust Me - Part of what an author does is slight of hand. [...] This is why a book will often work as a whole despite its weaknesses in bits, and why a WIP will suffer in comparison if not followed by subsequent chapters lickety-split. It's because the reader now has time to think. Which is BAD! You don't want the average reader to start thinking. You want them to be yanked into your world and mesmerized by what you write. -
(tags: writing fourth-wall)

tishaturk: TV and movie vids - I want to try to articulate a few general thoughts about TV and movie vids. I'm particularly interested in the reasons that vidders make (and viewers watch) TV and movie vids, and in the conditions that govern viewer responses to them. -
(tags: vidding)

tencrush: Jack scissored his fingers WHERE? - I find every so often, the angle at which fic writers approach a relationship like Jack/Ianto will change, due to new canon or speculation, and suddenly romance will be higher on the agenda, or the top will become the bottom, or some such thing) and, not being an avid reader, I wonder if these are specific to this relationship, or more general slash tropes, or what. -
(tags: fanfic slash torchwood)

mrs_cj_harkness: Smut: What does it mean to you? - What is it that makes a good smut fic? [...] what is it that turns you off a smut fic? -
(tags: torchwood fanfic)