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Imagination Gaps: Magic and Language in SFF

I’ve been thinking a lot about magic this week.  As an SFF writer (both in fandom and outside of it), almost all of my work involves building fantastical worlds and magical systems that are both realistic and believable. Systems in

Shyam 04/04/202204/04/2022 No Comments Read more

How fan studies researchers center whiteness as normative

Because of their status as minorities within Western media fandoms, nonwhite fans are seen [by fan studies researchers] to interrupt normative operations of such structures only in specific contexts when they make themselves visible. What I mean by this assertion

Nele Noppe 13/06/202013/06/2020 No Comments Read more

On Female Fandom & Gift Culture…

In female fandom’s gift culture, gifts correlate to aspects of the self, such as time or talent. This sort of exchange turns one role of woman and gift on its head: the woman is still the gift, but now she

axanthou 25/03/202025/03/2020 No Comments Read more

Transformative fandom and media fandom

I am rereading Henry Jenkin’s Textual Poacher (after all, going back to one’s roots is not an unusual habit around this time of the year) and I stumbled upon this statement: There are, of course, many different type of fans

Szabo Dorottya 07/02/202007/02/2020 No Comments Read more

On women’s voices in Jewish textual tradition and fanworks

Those of us who came of age fannishly in late twentieth-century Western media fandom grew up fannishly in a paradigm wherein fandom as practiced by boys and men tends to mean consuming, collecting, and indexing, whereas fandom as practiced by

Nele Noppe 16/01/202016/01/2020 No Comments Read more

Queerbaiting: Context, Context, Context!

“Queerbaiting is a historical situated term, assuming that we live in a time and place where queer representation is possible yet constantly denied. The same people that accuse producers of TV shows from the 21st century of queerbaiting, defend TV

axanthou 24/12/201924/12/2019 No Comments Read more

“Dysfandom”: Fandom as Resistance

“I refer to this concept of a fandom who is said to be behaving badly, that is, excessively, as dysfandom, attaching an inseparable Greek prefix to a Latinate word, one which, per Liddell and Scott, is capable of ‘destroying the good

axanthou 03/12/201903/12/2019 No Comments Read more

Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 9

Today’s scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from Katherine E. Morrissey, who is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. It’s from a Twitter thread, reposted with permission. “Some fans are using Tumblr’s new content restrictions as a call

fanhackers staff 12/12/201821/11/2019 No Comments Read more

[request] FanLib

Mel says: Hi everyone, I’m writing a report about FanLib’s poor reception by media fans. I am hoping to find someone with the time to review sections of it in the next week or so for accuracy and fairness, especially

fanhackers staff 20/08/201421/11/2019 No Comments Read more

[META] Worldcon, Not Just Literature

This is the second in a series of posts by Emma England on fannish issues surrounding Worldcon, the longest running science fiction and fantasy convention in the world. Emma is the 2014 Worldcon academic track organizer and is currently researching

fanhackers staff 09/05/201321/11/2019 1 Comment Read more
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