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Just realised I should probably qualify what I describe as "super hot" - it's been hitting somewhere between 19 and 22C the past week or so, which is SUPER HOT to me but maybe not to you :')

It’s a bit hot to me, yes. I remember being really warm the last time I was there, looked up what the temperature had been then, and it was in that range. So, lighter clothes there!

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Hey. Look. I'm in your askbox. Asking you things. Well. Except I've not actually asked you anything yet. Shit. Um. I'm (hopefully) gonna wear a kilt to my graduation in England, that's cool, right? :D (Did you know apparently Oxford and Cambridge don't let you wear kilts for grad? That's shite.)

:D yay!!!! omg you have to wear your kilt!!!! omg the English bastards hahahah

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anas penelope answered your post: guys I’m replaying White 2 and so far ...

Your team should obviously be made up entirely of Mareep, Flaaffy and Ampharos. Duh.

if I want to be fucked over in Clay’s gym sure

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anas-penelope replied to your post “Okay but where this this Amelia and Owen thing come from?”

Shuuush there is no Amelia and Owen thing it's just some kind of collective hallucination. (I'm not in denial. At all. Honest.)

Yep Yep No Amelia and Owen. Not happening. Not at all what. (Also like it was only that episode and now they’re just kinda not mentioning it?)

Also I’m still on the ‘Amelia is less than 100% straight’ train

#anas-penelope #When she asked owen about if they were policies about dating I was like #???#Who are you trying to date Amelia?#You have shown no interest in anyone #??? ?

anas-penelope replied to your post: “justcira replied to your post: “.”: What? Why? You can always invade...”:

Don't ever feel guilty for posting personal stuff on your own blog. It's what it's there for, you know? (If you think it's bugging people, either ignore them because what a bunch of losers, or have a set tag for personal posts so they can blacklist.)

I have a set tag but idk, I feel like I'm just inflicting myself on people like all of the time

#I'm so whiny I need to like not #anas-penelope

Have a 3 for the Hogwarts ask meme thing :D

3. What kind of animal would you bring to school?

I've though about this quite a lot. I mean I love cats so I thought I would bring one of those. But then again there not really very useful, while owls are really useful. So I feel like I'd end up bringing an owl to school.

#anas-penelope #Things you wanna know

anas-penelope replied to your post:Three essays left to go in this book, and I’m...

Since I’m just a lowly undergrad who doesn’t know much of anything, do you have any good recommendations for reading that augments/complexifies Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding? Because we get taught it pretty uncritically on my course :/

There's a few directions you could take this in, but given that my own background is in audience/fan studies...

"Encoding/Decoding" was one foundational text of present-day audience and fan studies (there's a lot of overlap between the two, but they're not always or necessarily synonymous). It was among the first instances of someone suggesting - within a media studies context - that audiences didn't always take intended meanings at face value, but rather were positioned in relation to a media text - and that those positions play(ed) a key role in how they might interpret a given thing. In this sense, it could not be more influential or important, and this is perhaps it's most enduring contribution to the field.

But in essentially placing interpretation on a continuum from complicit to resistant (to the hegemonic media message), and in implicitly making 'resistance' a de facto goal of 'good' interpretative practice, this framework made it very difficult to talk about interpretative practices that aren't necessarily resistant - or are complex mix coming from the multiple subject positions that audiences bring to bear on their interpretations of texts (the 'aca-fan-mom' of my avatar is my attempt to encapsulate just a few of my own, each bringing something different to my own media consumption and interpretation practices).

This has, in a lot of ways, been one of the central concerns of fan studies to the present, particularly given that criticism of fandom from the outside (both outside fandom and outside fan studies) tends to center on assumptions of fan acquiescence to corporate/normative messages; as such, there's a real imperative to argue that fandom isn't (all) about taking what we're given, that we resist encodings. But this, in turn, makes it particularly difficult to talk about those aspects of fandom which really don't resist - which may not have any relation to complicity/resistance at all, even.

A really nice overview (with discussion of other readings) of how things have progressed and changed since Hall's original essay is in Chapter 3 ("Beyond the text") of Mark Duffett's book, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture.

#anas-penelope #if you want a copy ping me #I can get one to you #:)