We’re back to inflating the value of fanfiction as Real Literature ™ (or rather, claiming everything else is fan fiction so you can’t say anything “bad” or critical about fan fiction at any point) and I just… want to shout.
No seriously, I saw someone on Tumblr say that Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, and The Epic of Gilgamesh were all fan fiction.
They are not.
They are not even remotely fan fiction.
Read More »The concept of “family” in the Fast and Furious series is one of the best things about the series – if not the best thing. Dominic Toretto views family the way that fandom and fantasy heroes view family. He collects people who are deeply loyal to him and go along with his wild ideas, even though they can confront him and call him out at times. It doesn’t hurt that half of the members of la familia are people who Dom has had some kind of antagonistic relationship with at first… starting from day one with Brian O’Conner (literally) being on his case in the first film before becoming an integral part of his life.
Read More »I put my podcast on hiatus mode with my host because a) money and b) I live underneath what sounds like every single Titan in Attack on Titan and so recording is frequently interrupted by those heavy-stepping heffalumps. But I wanted to still have a medium to convey sincere feelings through audio and when I didn’t feel like coloring on-camera and so… Talking to talk. Everything and nothing.
Unfortunately, no transcript at the time because I’m pinching pennies and currently can’t afford to pay for one when I’m all budgeted out for the Fic Friday transcripts. But in this I cover:
Read More »I’ll talk more about this in detail – as in a proper essay, not an off the cuff blog post – one day, but it is weird being a public figure of any kind and a symbol before you’re a person.
For starters, everything I say has weight… but it’s not usually the weight I attribute to it or intend? If I say I like something, there are people who assume it must be an incredible and insightful piece of media that gives amazing moral messages. (It’s not. It’s usually a villainess webtoon with at least one siscon and at least two yanderes)
Read More »I have been on a Spider-Man kick these past few days — and yes, that means I’m working on multiple somethings about Across the Spider Verse — and I’m now rewatching Spider-Man No Way Home while I do my work for the day. This movie put me through so much when the niecelings and I watched it together, and I’m still here going through it but…
One thing that I really love? Zendaya’s MJ. She is so nieceling-coded at all times, but especially in this movie. She is a baby. Her eyebrows are excellent. Her wit and sense of curiousity? Wonderful. I adore her. I also just… really appreciate her getting more to do in the narrative.
Anyway, I always forget to add it to my list of Top Marvel Movies because Spider-Man films really… don’t feel like MCU movies even though they so clearly are but… No Way Home is actually in my top ten of MCU films. Even though it made me cry the first time I watched it and it’s going to make me cry this time.
Fundamentally, at the most basic level, if your response to that Telegram screenshot of “Anonymous Sudan” claiming credit for DDOS’ing AO3 because of “smuts” and “LGBTQ+ content” was to immediately express anti-Muslim spree and malign an entire country just so you could pretend to be even more oppressed than you usually think you are… You’re a bad person.
Objectively.
Definitively.
(And in before “well I didn’t see that happen so it didn’t”….
I’m not even on twitter anymore and I saw it. I saw it in TikToks. Not (just) TikToks comprised of tweets but people making quippy racist videos they then quickly backpedaled on. The AO3 Status twitter had to call it out so you know they saw it.
You’re just wilfully ignorant and determined to pretend fandom isn’t a racist shithole where racism is okay as long as it’s sexy and/or in defense of the fandom status quo. You are also a bad person, person who rushes to dismiss other people talking about racism!)
I was reading a Jujutsu Kaisen story that happened to be a Regency AU with a remarriage concept and it’s a good story. Great, even.
But it made me think about how fandom really resists (or runs away from) doing research when something easier is at hand?
Regency AUs are everywhere in fandom because… they are everywhere in Romancelandia and so the first thing many people thinks of when putting together a historical romance for their favorite character is… a Bridgerton style romance in a culturally fuzzy world.
Read More »Several weeks later, it remains horrifying that Dreamwidth co-creator Denise/@rahaeli (bluesky and Twitter)/synecdochic on Dreamwidth chose to unmask as an unhinged racist anti of… me.
To this day she continues to slander me based on the words of five to fifteen POC Too that she can’t provide any links to in public, even moving it to BlueSky and other platforms where even less people will see me dealing with this harassment and defend me.
Read More »Fast X isn’t worth the $25 USD it currently costs to buy it on most sites.
This is so painful to write as a diehard fan who’s seen every movie at least twenty times, owns them all on Blu-ray, and will one day write the Letty/Dom criminal romcom prequel we all deserve but I must say it… that movie is ass.
Read More »I don’t think I am or should be above critique. I’m at critique, craving those rare moments where someone will sit down and send a long meaty email for me to chew on as I rewrite… And knowing how how rare it is.
I’m not getting critique so much as harassment people then claim is critique as if there’s anything I can learn from unintelligent racists spending years lying about me…
Take the reaction to the woobification article. People called me racist, said I hated abuse survivors, said I had internalized homophobia and didn’t understand queer coded villains. Those aren’t criticisms and they’re not true in the slightest. They also hold no basis in what I actually wrote. Few critical (negative) engagements with my work actually address my work?
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I’ve been talking about misogynoir in fandom spaces for over a decade at this point – less than that on this site but still.
One thing that remains clear is that queer/feminist “transformative” fandom has never been interested in seeing Black women as valid and viable sites for shipping with the character fandom actually loves.
Fandom actively rejects romance and relationships for Black women unless it’s to make them a Mammy figure for someone they don’t care about so that duo can take care of their white fave.
Which brings us to The Bear and the way that, from the second the first season finished airing, people have decided to wring their hands and whine about shippers ”ruining” Syd and Carmy’s perfect platonic relationship by making it romantic in fanon and wishing it was requited and romantic in canon.
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