burning at the centre of time

Hello! I am just here to publicly state (in a location visible to all, rather than users of a particular archive!) that I think Franzeska's apologia is:
- lacking coherence
- lacking in historical rigor
- most importantly, a trash fire that is full of shit.

All of which she dresses up a little bit in wink-wink-nudge-nudge and statements that seem to be going one way but actually are going the other.

So many people I know have been disgusted and hurt by this over the last day or two that I feel I gotta say something, that I am so fucking tired of this shit, because it's exactly what one sees in Western society and at present in certain other subcultures that will remain nameless. The people who have had structural power* freak the fuck out when they don't have 100% control of the narrative anymore.

Fandom is not a space apart from these kinds of actions and reactions. I will throw a copy of Dick Hebdige's book on subcultures at any acafan who disagrees.

And I'm certain this will all get dismissed by her and others as exactly the kind of thing that they mean, god those people are such bullies.

Seriously, fuck this noise. I have been in fandom for 15 years and just...fuck.

That is all. I highly recommend/appreciate the stuff folks have been saying on Twitter, by the way, especially Rukmini Pande and Nico.

* I don't mean power over the canon or over media. I mean power in fandom-the-subculture, which is a thing, even if that power isn't necessarily large in the scales of the greater world.

I do not really have braining for RP tags as I've just got home from a sixteen hour day including dinner and a movie. Apologies.

But! Can we talk about The Muppets and how the film, aside from its fandom continuity, high-level moral, and teh lolz, has a lot to say about celebrity and collaborative performance group dynamic?

Along with doing amazing stuff with parody and pastiche, for that matter.

Yes, I am late to the party, it literally just came out here, okay? Screw you Disney.*


* If Brave--the only decent trailer tonight, by the way--is released ten weeks late in Scotland, where it is fucking SET, someone is going to hear from me.

As giandujakiss commented today, you get really thinky about stuff when you make a vid, and in the case of Festivids, you can't say anything until later. Sigh. Not sure if anyone cares, mind, but I do, so I'm writing it.

This may be a bit disjointed, me having been up until 3:45. Sorry. It turns far more into Star Trek meta than notes on a vid, so read if you're interested in that instead.

Notes on 'Resistance'
( Hello, darkness, my old friend. )

I was going to write an entry on the proper writing of smut in fic and RP, but it sounded a lot better at 12:30 AM than it does now. I may still write it though. And that guide to vidding that I've got notes for.

Maybe this will end up being the journal where I opine about random shit.

Gee whiz, I should really actually write something here while I have a modicum of motivation, something which I've been short on lately. An introduction, perhaps? Not that I don't have anyone subscribed who doesn't know me already...

Rhi, twenty-five, BA from Smith College, Milwaukeean, geek, and queer in several not-necessarily-intersecting ways. Eventually I will be an expatriate, and I am very cool with that. I know a different meaning of 'international relations'. I tend to dwell in liminal spaces even though I prefer definitive answers. Also, I'm a pragmatic liberal feminist who believes that the best way to start taking down the master's house is with his tools, but I recognize that as a white middle-class person, that may come from a place of privilege. I try to unpack mine as often as possible. (I don't think it's impossible to approach privilege from a non-liberal standpoint, either.)

Right now my fandoms, insomuch as I participate, are Doctor Who, House, Star Trek: TNG, and a touch of CSI, but I dabble in lots of things. My latest hooks are Leverage, Gunnerkrigg Court, MI-5/Spooks, mumblepokémonplatinummumble, and the Temeraire books. Also, I'm too lazy to go back and italicize the TV show names above.

This journal may be slightly more politicized than my LJ, but less in the sense of American political schema and more in the sense of being critical of fannish things without actually writing thousand-word essays that have to be coherent. Also, I think things are stupid a lot and sometimes I just want to say I WILL BASH YOU OVER THE HEAD, YOUR SHIT IS FUCKED UP.

Anyway. I read a lot. I RP a lot. I knit regularly and watch too much public television. I listen mostly to music written before I was born. I think about making films. The latter half of the American 20th century as historical and cultural period fascinates me, particularly the 70s. I throw random quotes into things and am disappointed when people don't get them. (there are three in this post alone.)

Generally, I am pretty fucking weird.

Welcome to my little soirée.