fannish miscellany
Jan. 5th, 2019 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enemyofperfectI'm still watching The Good Wife, unenthusiastically. It's so dismissive of sexual harassment, and I'm not sure they ever even noticed they were depicting intimate partner violence, and the handling of racism is... not really better.
I just want to rescue Kalinda from this show and set her up with Shaw from Person of Interest and let them live dangerously ever after.
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I can't remember now why I went and looked this up after so much time, but I was touched and strangely relieved to see that GLAAD called Lost Girl out for their astonishingly transmisogynist third season premiere.
It's been literally years, but it really stung to see a show lauded for its LGB representation deliver a plot straight out of a TERF's morbid imaginings. I'm glad to know someone said something about it.
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Less gloomily, I've been enjoying the videos of YouTube user TB Skyen lately. (Unfortunately, most of them aren't captioned.)
I'm unfamiliar with probably 90% of the media he covers, so I've only sampled a scattering of his work, but I love the way he'll sometimes insist that he isn't being political at all, he's purely examining artistic and narrative decisions -- and then he just happens to demonstrate that there is no artistic or narrative justification for the incredibly sexist design choices of the powers that be. Well played, sir.
Not to mention, his delighted squee over the Undertale quasi-sequel (?) Deltarune is incredibly endearing.
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Also in YouTubery: Why are Siamés' music videos so amazing??
The Wolf was stunningly good, but I might love Mr. Fear just as much. (Cartoon violence in both videos, and possible body horror warning for the latter.) They're just so stylized and stylish and expressive! And the animation meshes so perfectly with the beat!
(And I admire the way they make a genuine artistic virtue of what I suspect is a strategic reuse of footage to keep the workload/budget reasonable.)
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Possibly against my better judgment, I seem to be gearing up to do Chocolate Box this year! Deadlines can be tricky for me, but surely I can write 300 words in a month's time? (I say knowing full well that last time the story wouldn't let go of me in less than 1000.)
I haven't signed up yet, but I have drafted up some requests and offers, so... I admit it's looking likely at this point. It's just such a fun exchange!
I just want to rescue Kalinda from this show and set her up with Shaw from Person of Interest and let them live dangerously ever after.
I can't remember now why I went and looked this up after so much time, but I was touched and strangely relieved to see that GLAAD called Lost Girl out for their astonishingly transmisogynist third season premiere.
It's been literally years, but it really stung to see a show lauded for its LGB representation deliver a plot straight out of a TERF's morbid imaginings. I'm glad to know someone said something about it.
Less gloomily, I've been enjoying the videos of YouTube user TB Skyen lately. (Unfortunately, most of them aren't captioned.)
I'm unfamiliar with probably 90% of the media he covers, so I've only sampled a scattering of his work, but I love the way he'll sometimes insist that he isn't being political at all, he's purely examining artistic and narrative decisions -- and then he just happens to demonstrate that there is no artistic or narrative justification for the incredibly sexist design choices of the powers that be. Well played, sir.
Not to mention, his delighted squee over the Undertale quasi-sequel (?) Deltarune is incredibly endearing.
Also in YouTubery: Why are Siamés' music videos so amazing??
The Wolf was stunningly good, but I might love Mr. Fear just as much. (Cartoon violence in both videos, and possible body horror warning for the latter.) They're just so stylized and stylish and expressive! And the animation meshes so perfectly with the beat!
(And I admire the way they make a genuine artistic virtue of what I suspect is a strategic reuse of footage to keep the workload/budget reasonable.)
Possibly against my better judgment, I seem to be gearing up to do Chocolate Box this year! Deadlines can be tricky for me, but surely I can write 300 words in a month's time? (I say knowing full well that last time the story wouldn't let go of me in less than 1000.)
I haven't signed up yet, but I have drafted up some requests and offers, so... I admit it's looking likely at this point. It's just such a fun exchange!
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Date: 2019-01-05 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-01-05 03:26 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, your 2016 chocolate box fic was also stupidly good, and 100% of the reason I read the Radch books in the first place. So there.
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Date: 2019-01-05 07:36 pm (UTC)OMG though, why are you so nice! How was my nonsense epilogue fic that makes no sense without context a reason to read an entire trilogy! Don't answer that! But thank you for being so nice! You absolute creature!
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Date: 2019-01-05 10:06 pm (UTC)So.
The dialogue is so good? Kind of effortless and adorable. The little stabs of (good natured) sarcasm. "You're trying to bore us to death." "Don't tell me they've stopped singing." And you made the world seem so real and... mundane. Normal. Having a conversation about meetings and things while they walk to an elevator and still? I'm interested? I'm so interested about these sentient space ships? And also when they were basically like, well if you don't like any of these fic, you should just write one yourself [innocent blink]. Feeding the fish! Terrible singing!
I admit I don't have a decent memory for all those characters (except Basnaaid and her gardens, maybe because it was close to the end), but even now it's still such a sweet slice of life.
:)
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Date: 2019-01-05 10:21 pm (UTC)