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Ivo van Hove's English language première of Hanya Yanagihara's critically acclaimed prize-winning novel, A Little Life, comes to cinemas ac

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Reminder...

...that it's always OK to write, draw whatever you want. You're not a bad person for liking any sort of problematic things in fiction.

After all, it is just that: fiction.

Fan fiction (fan fic) is an area of interest within modern media theory. It examines the role and impact of fan-created works in the context of contemporary media culture. Fan fic represents a form of participatory culture, where fans actively engage with and contribute to the media they love. Modern media theory explores how fan fiction challenges traditional notions of authorship and ownership, blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers. It also examines the ways in which fan fic allows fans to explore and express their own identities, desires, and interpretations within existing media universes, fostering a sense of community and creativity. Additionally, modern media theory recognizes the cultural and transformative power of fan fiction as a site of resistance, subversion, and alternative narratives.

#media theory #queer media #fandom #fanfic

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must representation be “good”? is it not enough to watch two men destroy each other's lives

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🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍⚧️

solitairians

not to sound pretentious but sometimes i will go on goodreads and feel as if ive landed on another planet. one star reviews saying "the main characters have toxic relationship/friendship" "the main character is an awful person, she's unlikable" "the prose was too extravagant" IS THAT NOT WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR ...??????

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by Koka Ramishvili

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"I’m lonely,” he says aloud, and the silence of the apartment absorbs the words like blood soaking into cotton"

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James Norton as Hugo Swann in The Nevers, episode 7

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-It’s not real. It’s not possible, this. Why can’t you see that? -We just brought a stag-headed girl to an orphanage to be looked after by a woman with fire for hands and a debutante giantess. I think what is possible is very much up for debate. Hugo Swann and Frank Mundi in The Nevers 1.07-1.12

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"It's not possible… this. Why can't you see that?" "We just brought a stag-headed girl to an orphanage to be looked after by a woman with fire for hands and a… debutante giantess! I think what is possible is very much up for debate."

oldshrewsburyian

Apologies if I already asked this, but recs for campus detective novels? I will be buried with my copies of Gaudy Night, but I want to try some other authors over the summer in between researching for my prospectus.

I do! Also set in Oxford is Robert Robertson's Landscape with Dead Dons, and it is uproariously funny.

Obviously the premise of the campus novel relies on an American setting, but if we do take Oxford (bless it) as providing an insulated setting suitable to the requirements of the genre, Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen novels would count. And Swan Song contains so many Wagner jokes... which I realize will only be a recommendation if you like that sort of thing (I do.)

Guillermo Martínez, The Oxford Murders, is (obviously) still in Oxford. It might be a shade over-clever for my taste, which I astonish myself by saying. Perhaps the problem is that it's written by a mathematician and I will take any amount of excessive cleverness dished out by my fellow humanists.

Sebastian Faulks, Engleby, is a dark and extremely intelligent mystery that starts at a university, and arguably would not have developed in the way that it did without the university setting.

Nayana Currimbhoy, Miss Timmins' School for Girls, is a satisfying classic mystery plot with a richly atmospheric evocation of the place and time (and monsoon season!) in which it is set.

Geoff Cebula, Adjunct, is brilliant, inventive, and will make you laugh-cry about the realism of its academic setting, I suspect, if you've ever been precariously employed at a university.

Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages, would count, I think, but I remember its prose (favorably!) better than its plot.

Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation, is an academic mystery rather than the murderous kind, but no less satisfying as a classic detective puzzle for that, in my view.

I'll also add this list of campus mysteries for good measure, though I've read few of them myself.

yuriinadress

It's Abel and Ofelia appreciation hours

thechanelmuse

Another book to recommend. (I lowkey feel like I turned into a book critic on here. 🙃)

Nonetheless…here’s an intriguing crime-mystery novel.

“Change is never a smooth curve; it comes in leaps and jolts, plateaus and remissions. And in the periods after an old identity fades away but before a new one is fully installed, there is a certain sense of impunity. As if nothing quite matters. You are not quite yourself. You’re not quite anyone.” Who is Maud Dixon? is a clever debut novel that Alfred Hitchcock would’ve likely adapted to screen.

Interweaving topics of classism and influence into the shaping of identity, author Alexandra Andrews begins the novel like a contemporary tale, following a young woman, Florence Darrow, who is desperately driven to trade her life as a low-level publishing employee to become a famous author. When she gets the opportunity of a lifetime to be the assistant to the best-selling pseudonymous writer known as “Maud Dixon” and join the literary research trip to Morocco, Florence enters a newfound world of wisdom in life and writing, as well as story building and character development when an accident occurs, propelling readers down a rabbit hole of crime and mystery that will leave you questioning what’s fact, what’s fiction, and exactly who is Maud Dixon. Alexandra Andrews’ writing style is colorful (the atmospheric setting of Morocco) and easily gets you entranced into her world of twists and turns. Funny enough, this novel doesn’t feel like a modern book. (Hence the Alfred Hitchcock nod.) But that’s by no means a bad thing.

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Harassing and bullying people for what they ship harms fandom.

It hurts content creators because it creates a toxic and paranoid environment in which everyone is too afraid to post anything in fear of being witch-hunted. It hurts victims as they can't express their feelings freely and makes them feel ashamed of their own, perfectly valid reaction to trauma, which at time entails graphic and intrusive thoughts. It hurts creativity as stories become more and more bland as a result of not wanting to insert problematic elements, which are essential to move a story forward.

But fictional pairings and fantasies are not equivalent to actual, real abuse. They are not responsible for crimes, nor do they endorse them, and nor do they brainwash people into forgetting their own moral compass.

Like everything, there's a possibility that the fiction could be used for harm, but that fault does not lie in the fiction itself, but in the abuser. By blaming the fictional content instead of the abuser, we make them escape accountability for their actions, giving them yet another shield to hide behind.

All of this to say that, no matter how much we may dislike, and even detest, what someone ships, their right to speak, draw and write about it should never be infringed upon, as censorship will never solve any of the issues that anyone might have regarding that particular ship or dynamic.

However, censorship will, eventually, rip away our voices all together.