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Reading a Moral Panic as a Conservative Outlet for Deliverance [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Dungeons & Dragons
17 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on some important historical context to be familiar with if you're interested in discussions about sexual violence, critical media analysis, censorship, and moral panics. This history is relevant to specific fandoms mentioned as well as to fandom politics more generally. See within for a detailed list of content warnings.
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- Part 8 of Metafandom
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I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. by ShamanicShaymin
Fandoms: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
12 Mar 2023
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit isn't just a movie about a man and his relationship with toons; it's about our relationship with animation as a medium. I explain my point by using way too much parenthesis.
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AO3 Comments and Why People Aren't Leaving More of Them [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
06 Mar 2023
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Many people have complained that the AO3 comment rate is too low and have proposed explanations as to why, but there's another under-discussed factor that might be at play.
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- Part 7 of Metafandom
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Metacommentary on the application for Fanexus, a prospective fandom-focused platform, and some of the implications for new platforms more generally.
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- Part 5 of Metafandom
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Dogmatic Positivity and the Terrible Neutrality of Hope [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on taking a dogmatic approach to hope, happiness, and optimism as morally and politically good.
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- English
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- 4,113
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Metacommentary on aro resonances in Elementary and the relationship arc between the two leads.
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- English
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- 3,617
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- 1/1
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Forbidden Dove: Rejecting Sexualized Nuclear Warfare in Miike Snow's "My Trigger" [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Miike Snow
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on a Miike Snow music video that both sexualizes violence and yet resolves the story with abstention and peace.
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- Part 9 of Ace Readings
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- English
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- 708
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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The Sexless Menace: Moralizing & Valorizing Sexuality in Media Criticism [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: No Fandom
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on criticism of fiction, criticism of audience members, and criticism of creators that all shares one thing in common: framing the "sexless" as both artistically bankrupt and ideologically dangerous.
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- Part 8 of Ace Readings
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- English
- Words:
- 3,091
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Sexual Ethics & Harassment in the Dragon Age Series [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Dragon Age
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on antagonistic interactions between Dragon Age characters regarding sex and the portrayal of sexual ethics as a whole.
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- English
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- 2,421
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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A Demo on Critical Discernment, i.e. How To "Be Critical of Things You Enjoy" [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on the concept of critical discernment, via an analysis of "Ballad of the Alamo" by Marty Robbins.
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- Part 4 of Metafandom
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- English
- Words:
- 3,307
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Sympathy for Anton Ego: An Antifan Manifesto [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Antifandom - Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, Ratatouille (2007)
03 Mar 2023
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A manifesto in defense of antifandoms, arguing that they're as legitimate as any other form of fandom.
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- Part 3 of Metafandom
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- English
- Words:
- 4,028
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Sexnormativity and the Android in Syfy's Dark Matter [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Dark Matter (2015)
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on (non)humanity and the narrative implications of the Android's character arc.
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- Part 7 of Ace Readings
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- English
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- 2,803
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- 1/1
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- 1
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She Balances the Gun on His Shoulder: How Fury Road Affirms Cooperation, Compassion, and Trust Amidst Violence [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on ideological themes in Mad Max: Fury Road, analyzing how it frames anti-hierarchical cooperation, compassion, and the value of "no unnecessary killing."
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- English
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- 4,155
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- 1/1
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- 1
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An Ace Reading of "When She Loved Me," Exploring the Drawbacks and Affordances of Nonhumanity [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Toy Story
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on discussions about nonhuman characters, approached via the asexual resonances of Jessie's lament.
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- Part 6 of Ace Readings
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- English
- Words:
- 2,749
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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The Violence of Fate (or, How To Tell the True Kind of Lie) [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Pathologic (Video Game)
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on the use of "fate" in fiction, critiques of predestined partnership (i.e. soulmates), and why we want stories to pretend like they're real.
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- English
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- 2,387
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Mustangs, Freedom, and Settler Nostalgia in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary challenging the perception of Spirit as an anticolonial movie.
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- English
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- 3,552
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- 1/1
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- 1
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Reflections on Jason Voorhees, Virginity in Horror, and the Specter of the Anti-Sex Killer [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Friday The 13th [Movie 'verse]
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on the Friday the 13th films and the way that certain interpretations of them have been taken up in popular culture. See within for content warnings.
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- Part 5 of Ace Readings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,140
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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"Never An Option": The Untapped Potential Between Raven & Jinx [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Teen Titans: 2003
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on thematic parallels between a demonic superhero and a witchy supervillain, what the show could have done with their storylines, and what it gave us instead.
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- English
- Words:
- 2,482
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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"You're Too Picky, Man": An Ace Reading of Oz's Character Arc in BTVS [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary interpreting Oz as ace and analyzing the Oz/Veruca subplot in terms of (non)consent.
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- Part 4 of Ace Readings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,825
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Masculine Angst, Heterosexual Vengeance, & the Extremes of Exclusivity in the Mad Max Video Game [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Mad Max (Video Game 2015)
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary exploring the thematic implications of the Mad Max video game, its particular construction of masculinity, and why the plot demands the slaughter of a companion.
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- English
- Words:
- 3,359
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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Ace of Eyes: the Violence of Beholding in the Magnus Archives & What it Illuminates About the Paradigm of Visibility [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on how the themes in TMA reflect on real-world frameworks of asexual advocacy.
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- Part 3 of Ace Readings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,020
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Reading Love Songs Against the Grain (Through a Lens of Asexual Greed) [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: The Killers (Band), Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video), Miike Snow
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on a couple of songs where the whole picture clearly adds up to a conventional narrative of sexual jealousy, but I smash that picture to pieces and reassemble them into something else.
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- Part 2 of Ace Readings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,621
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Metacommentary on essentializing rhetoric about "fandom" as a concept.
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- Part 1 of Metafandom
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Dig All Day in the Hot Sun: Prison Labor & the Ethos of Productive Suffering at Camp Green Lake [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Holes
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on the thematic implications around authority, morality, and prison labor in the movie Holes.
- Language:
- English
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- 3,011
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Hubris & Humiliation Gags in Thor: Ragnarok [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Thor [Movies], Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Marvel Cinematic Comics TV Universe
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary on the comedy of deflation and its narrative role in Thor's character arc, using Tony's arc in The Avengers as a basis of comparison.
- Language:
- English
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- 2,223
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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