Metafandom - Saturday, February 12, 2011

Sat, Feb. 12th, 2011, 06:53 pm

seriousfic: Three faces of bitch - To be a HBIC, you must be A. In charge. B. A bitch. C. Head. Which is really the same thing as in charge, so clearly this term was coined by someone who hated editors. So we must separate HBIC from two other, equally important categories of bitch. -
(tags: characters terminology)

prozacpark: Reading Against Intent: Women in fiction, authorial intent, and negative reinvention. - In the absence of the female POV, we're constantly forced to rearrange bits of the narrative in our heads for them to give them motivation that the narrative didn't care to explore. And I think how we do that, in large part, indicates how we feel about female characters in general. -
(tags: gender tptb authorial-intent feminism roswell farscape bsg sg1 tvd)

frigg: What to do in fandom when one cannot write - Then, what can one do in fandom when they can't type? As a non-author, that's me fairly all the time, so here's a list I made for a friend once along with recs of what I've been doing for some of them these days. Writing is very, very much not the end-all of fandom activity. -
(tags: reccing reviewing watching lurking fanworks)