April 7th, 2009

12:45 am

beccaelizabeth: Counted Torchwood: Both seasons, now with tables! - I am counting speaking characters: male or female, white or of color, and Bechdel test pass/fail. -
(tags: bechdel_test demographics race gender torchwood)

dsudis: Demographics of Stargate SG-1, season one. - Inspired by [info]beccaelizabeth's counting of characters in Torchwood, I decided to count characters in Stargate SG-1 while rewatching, to calculate percentages of female characters and characters of color. (SPOILER: the results were kinda depressing.) -
(tags: demographics gender race bechdel_test sg1)

stultiloquentia: but i just wanted a hamburger... - That's it in a bathtub nutshell - why I love some fanfic stories with all my heart, but the thought of holding them aloft in front of the Literary Establishment as paragons of the genre still makes me cringey with embarrassment. -
(tags: criticism fandom fanfic reading reccing reviewing writing)

b_hallward: Forgotten Dialects of the Heart - My characters never talk to each other about love. As Jack Gilbert puts it, in his precise and lovely fashion: How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. What I love is pairings where there simply isn't language for what they feel: emotions that are vast and strange and ultimately unconveyable. -
(tags: shipping reading writing culture)

melannen | Me & Fandom - So one thing I'm hoping my new fresh start here will do is help me make a place where I can be panfannish, butterfly around and be attached to no particular fandom, but still be both productive and connected in a new way. -
(tags: migration fandom community)

xtricks: meta: Imaginary queer ‘Bechdel’ test - But, what would you look for if you were trying to gauge how mainstream media is presenting queerness/sexual minorities? -
(tags: sexuality media bechdel_test)

sabrina_il: So, I think I have finally managed to pu - I really, really mind current events happening in my country, controversial, complicated, events that are not even my history so much as my day-to-day life, RIGHT NOW, being used on some show overseas for entertainment value. -
(tags: culture)

damned_colonial: OTW's Archive Of Our Own, and tag wrangling - I recently got recruited to the Archive Of Our Own tag wrangling team. -
(tags: indexing archiving)

alex_beecroft: Why do women write m/m fiction? Answers for the men. - When a gay man asks "why do women write m/m fiction", it's my impression that the question is often coming from a different place of discomfort: Exploitation -
(tags: fanfic slash)

melannen | Me & Fandom - So one thing I'm hoping my new fresh start here will do is help me make a place where I can be panfannish, butterfly around and be attached to no particular fandom, but still be both productive and connected in a new way. -
(tags: migration fandom community)

xtricks: meta: Imaginary queer ‘Bechdel’ test - But, what would you look for if you were trying to gauge how mainstream media is presenting queerness/sexual minorities? -
(tags: sexuality media bechdel_test)

sabrina_il: So, I think I have finally managed to pu - I really, really mind current events happening in my country, controversial, complicated, events that are not even my history so much as my day-to-day life, RIGHT NOW, being used on some show overseas for entertainment value. -
(tags: culture)

damned_colonial: OTW's Archive Of Our Own, and tag wrangling - I recently got recruited to the Archive Of Our Own tag wrangling team. -
(tags: indexing archiving)

alex_beecroft: Why do women write m/m fiction? Answers for the men. - When a gay man asks "why do women write m/m fiction", it's my impression that the question is often coming from a different place of discomfort: Exploitation -
(tags: fanfic slash)

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