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Meta on Paris Review Interview with Science Fiction Writer - William Gibson by shadowkat
Fandoms: Neuromancer, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Blade Runner (Movie)
03 Jun 2023
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While the sky just dumped the equivalent of two huge buckets of rain on the city, I was reading a rather fascinating interview with William Gibson in The Summer issue of the Paris Review".
William Gibson is the writer of such books as Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero. And coined the term "cyberspace" along with the genre that it encompasses.
Selected tid bits from the interview that interested me, [my comments are in parentheses in case it's not obvious] follow.
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Wonder Woman and Buffy - two women with great powers, male fantasy or female empowerment? by shadowkat
Fandoms: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), Wonder Woman [Comic], Wonder Woman (TV), Wonder Woman (2017), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffyverse - Fandom
28 May 2023
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From Wonder Woman to Buffy - Sexism and the Male Gaze in Anime and Comic Books, using primarily Wonder Woman as an example.
[published in 2010 - information and views provided in this essay are for items published or viewed prior to or during 2010. I know various things have changed since then.]
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Review/Meta of The Cabin in the Woods (directed by Drew Goddard, co-written by Whedon and Goddard) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon - Fandom, Drew Goddard, The Hunger Games Trilogy
24 May 2023
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The following will compare Cabin with Hunger Games and various other films. Before going into the review, it feels odd to do a meta on it, since the film itself is more a meta than a film or a meta on the horror genre in general. So basically this is a review/meta on a meta-narrative horror film.
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Buffy vs. the Buffy S9 Comics Writers.. (specifically Whedon and Scott Allie) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy (Dark Horse Comics 2007), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
24 May 2023
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Buffy disagrees with the direction the Dark Horse Buffy Comics Writers want to take her character, and confronts them on the issue.
So the writers of the Buffy comics think "Buffy" wants a normal life. Apparently they skipped S6 and S7 and the first part of S9, when she tried that? OR...quick, someone mail them Jeannette Wintersen's memoir: "Why Be Happy when you can be Normal?" [As an aside, that has got to be the best title ever. Indeed, why be happy when you fit another person's definition of normality.] I'm sure Willow has a copy handy.
ETA: Dark Horse Comics Buffy only. [Boom's Buffy comics didn't exist when I wrote this. I honestly think Buffy would have been fine with S10-11 of Dark Horse, and the Boom Comics, different and ahem better writers/editors. Scott Allie and Whedon had left the building.]
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Fanfiction, Twitter & Writing Villains (Writer interviews with Espenson, Whedon & Stan Lee) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Marvel Heroes, Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
24 May 2023
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Steve DeKnight Q&A and Splinter Commentary by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
19 Dec 2022
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Panels at the James Marsters Con at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
Originally posted September 14, 2006
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- Part 34 of Convention Write Ups
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Panels at the James Marsters Con at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
Originally posted September 13, 2006
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- Part 10 of Convention Write Ups
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Do we not have more commentary posts where creators discuss the process of their own work because they're not interested in doing so, because there aren't many readers interested in seeing or engaging with them, or because people feel inhibited in doing it?
Originally posted August 22, 2009
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- Part 23 of Exploring Fandom
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I am still irked by the lack of commentaries on SPN's shortest season yet, but much less so compared to how annoyed I became at some of the comments by Gamble and Kripke. Honestly, it seems somehow miraculous that we get anything worth watching ending up on screen. The comments in question were Gamble's on JiB and Kripke's on Dream. It made me think of a post I read complaining about Kripke as a show runner, and how he was given chance after chance to have his own shows and yet seemed largely uninterested in his own creations. On the whole I thought the post had too much of an ax to grind, but I thought there was a lot of truth to this portrayal, especially since most of it comes right out of Kripke's mouth.
Originally posted December 16, 2008
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- Part 28 of Meta About Specific Canons
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Fan Videos as Canon Commentary by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series
13 Dec 2022
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Because I am in the midst of the March Meta Matters Challenge, I've been reviewing my Dreamwidth account since its early days. I was surprised to realize that fan video recs made up a lot of my first two years of posts. And as I read over them, I realized how important they were to my fannish experience at the time and what they revealed to me about canon.
Includes content originally posted in 2004-2006.
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- Part 19 of Reading Fan Vids
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Vid Commentary on Tall Cool One by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Thor [Movies], Ironman [Movies]
13 Dec 2022
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Being who they are, Tony and Loki don't just mirror one another -- they smash right on through.
Inspired by Tall Cool One by Loki (secretlytodream)
I was fannishly excited at this vid and was dying to pick it apart in a meta way, and secretlytodream agreed to add her own perspective. Lyrics can be found here.
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- Part 16 of Reading Fan Vids
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Reading "This is the Picture" by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Dollhouse, Firefly / Serenity Universe
13 Dec 2022
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There are fascinating details in this look at Joss Whedon's visual landscapes and themes, but also a message involving communication efforts blocked and overcome resulting in personal connections and decisive action.
Inspired by This is the Picture by obsessive24.
Originally posted May 12, 2016
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- Part 14 of Reading Fan Vids
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Castiel's arc over his first two seasons in the show was piecemeal and unclear in canon, but not in fanworks.
Inspired by In Te Domine by Ash48.
Originally posted June 26, 2010
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- Part 13 of Reading Fan Vids
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The transgenics were bred for human wars, but the ones they fought the most were closer to home.
Inspired by [Vid] One War by giandujakiss.
Originally posted May 4, 2016.
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- Part 12 of Reading Fan Vids
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Some thoughts about parents as symbols and their children as legacies.
Inspired by Your Ghost by charmax.
Originally posted June 30, 2010
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- Part 11 of Reading Fan Vids
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The timing of this vid couldn't have been better. While there is never a wrong time for an Impala love vid, there was definitely a right time.
Inspired by Brick House by deirdre_c.
Originally posted July 18, 2010 at vid_commentary.
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- Part 10 of Reading Fan Vids
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Reading "Your Own Personal Co-Dependent Wet Dream" by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Supernatural
13 Dec 2022
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Inspired by Your Own Personal Co-Dependent Wet Dream by Fabella.
Originally posted March 18, 2008
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- Part 8 of Reading Fan Vids
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Reading "Still Breathing" by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12 Dec 2022
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As proof positive that there's never a point where everything's been said, I want to point to charmax's vid Still Breathing, which I think puts a pretty good spin on Spike's story.
Inspired by Still Breathing by Charmax.
Originally posted June 5, 2007
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- Part 9 of Reading Fan Vids
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Commentary on "Don't Cha" by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series
12 Dec 2022
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Giandujakiss's vid had great cuts and contrasts, and it made me rather thinky about Angel's history and relationships, and what different people actually represented to him.
Inspired by [Vid] Don't Cha by giandujakiss.
Originally posted April 19, 2008
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- Part 6 of Reading Fan Vids
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A look back at a time when Soulless Sam and the Winchester bond were particularly angsty things, and how this situation was an inversion of the brothers' relationship in S4.
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- Part 5 of Reading Fan Vids
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Buffy was a unique slayer because she didn't fight her battles alone.
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- Part 4 of Reading Fan Vids
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Some ideas about what was happening in Sam's head while Dean was in hell.
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- Part 3 of Reading Fan Vids
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A look back at a time full of longing, and the hope that change and a future together was always possible.
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- Part 2 of Reading Fan Vids
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Some thoughts about how the Winchesters, work is virtually inseparable from family life –- giving new meaning to the term "family business." The work is what has made them who they are, and also who they are becoming.
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- Part 1 of Reading Fan Vids
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