sasha_feather: Leela from the 5th element (multipass)
https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/186a-disability-and-fandom-part-1

Contains a full transcript and show notes with links! I have a bit in this at the end.

(x-posted to access fandom).
sasha_feather: Garak from deep space nine (Garak)
Posting this here, copied from Twitter, so I can save it. I had a lot of fun with these prompts (suggest more if you'd like). Twitter is nice for this kind of thing because it encourages just writing what comes to mind rather than over-thinking things.

The original meme was "give me a fictional character and I'll tell you why I would not date them." This seemed too negative to me and besides I don't really date anyway, so I changed it to "I'll tell you where I'd take them on a date."

Read more... )
sasha_feather: Bright green grass (green grass)
Hello! I am doing decently well right now. Not much energy for reading, but trying to write a little bit. I am enjoying Joy Fest and finding the low-pressure prompts to be inspiring. It's a fest for celebrating characters of color. I have 2 stories going.

Joy Fest rules post is here:
https://longwhitecoats.dreamwidth.org/180511.html

Prompts are here:
https://longwhitecoats.dreamwidth.org/180918.html

Reading Old Guard fic reminded me of how ignorant I am about world history. I never learned it in school: I had one world history class in middle school, but I was afraid of the teacher (incorrectly, it turned out). You don't retain much knowledge when you're afraid of your teacher.

So anyways, I asked a friend for YouTube recs, and I'm going to watch John Greene's Crash Course series:

https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/worldhistory1?page=2

He talks super fast, but the length of each episode is short, and it's entertaining.
sasha_feather: ken watanbe with a horse and dog (ken wantanbe with pets)
Joy Fest - a prompt fest celebrating characters of color.

Rules / FAQ are here: https://longwhitecoats.dreamwidth.org/180511.html
sasha_feather: Garak from deep space nine (Garak)
Meme modified from something I saw on Twitter that is a "song a day" meme. The idea is to fill one prompt a day, but I will be going at my own pace. Feel free to copy this, modify it, whatever.

Post about a fanwork (art, fic, podfic, vid, etc) that:

1. Has a color in the title
2. Has a number in the title
3. Features summer
4. Is in a fandom from your past
5. Makes you feel joyful
6. Features dancing or athletics
7. Features a trip of some kind
8. Is about food in some way
9. Features snow or winter activity
10. Makes you sad or contemplative
11. You keep coming back to (re-reading, re-listening, etc).
12. A fanwork created by a favorite writer/artist/podficcer/vidder.
13. Features technology or robots.
14. is about a favorite character.
15. Features music.
sasha_feather: Kira Nerys from deep space nine (Kira)
For [community profile] snowflake_challenge day 2: talk about your fannish history.

I flirted with fandom and had some trysts in my late teenage years and early twenties, when I posted on bulletin boards and wrote a little fanfic for "the Pretender". In 2007, I went to WisCon and met FullyGoldy. She introduced me to Stargate Atlantis slash. At that point, I basically married fandom.

I shifted from writing original fiction to writing fanfic, which I find more rewarding and more communal. I eventually made friends in fandom, in part by luring existing friends into fanfic, and in part by slowly getting to know the people whose work I admired, and who have similar values.

Fanfic helped me a lot with coming out, because (for me) it normalized queer relationships. Fanfic stories put queer people and relationships front and center. We can be the protagonists and heroes, not the villains or side characters.

I still attend WisCon, and interestingly, the convention has much more of a media fandom presence than it did 12 years ago. There is a thriving vid party which I've helped organize.

I am mutli-fannish; these days when I to download fic onto my e-Reader, or listen to podfic, I'll look for MCU, mostly, or authors that I particularly like. I would like to read more stories about non-binary folks, and more fem slash.
sasha_feather: Nux running (mad max) (nux running)
Sophinisba is a dynamite, experienced, awesome pod ficcer, and you should check out her stuff!

[Podfic] Bucky's Reasons for Staying Alive (27 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Darcy Lewis
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 1-1.5 Hours, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: M4B, Audio Format: Streaming, Jewish Bucky Barnes, Plants, Gardens & Gardening, Service Dogs, Panic Attacks, Bucky Barnes Has Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Bucky Barnes Has PTSD, Disability, Headaches & Migraines, OT3, Threesome - M/M/M, Pesach | Passover, Veterans, Coping, Therapy, Anxiety
Summary:

sasha_feather's story read aloud: A gentle story about Bucky dealing with PTSD and anxiety by finding hobbies and connecting with the world. This contains a description of a panic attack.

sasha_feather: Retro-style poster of women who aspire to lesbianism (you too can be a lesbian)
I'm sorry about folks who are invested in Tumblr. I am not a heavy Tumblr user but I've enjoyed seeing people's art and goofy memes and photos. I am sad to leave it behind.

Welcome, or welcome back, to Dreamwidth. We in fandom need our own spaces.
sasha_feather: Leela from the 5th element (multipass)
Everyone in my house is tired today, including the dog.

Nothing much to report here. I found this article on the "anti" phenomenon to be very helpful for understanding what is going on in fandom.

Toxic Fandom: When criticism and entitlement go too far.
By Sean Z, with additional reporting by Aria C.

https://geekdad.com/2018/10/toxic-fandom-when-criticism-and-entitlement-go-too-far/

While some fans may be on a purity/ morality crusade, this article makes the case that certain people in fandom are interested in waging harassment campaigns, and have co-opted the language of social justice in order to do so. It also talks about how Tumblr, as a platform, fueled this fire due to the way it is set up.

Podfic Recs

Oct. 3rd, 2018 12:41 pm
sasha_feather: alexander siddig  (alexander siddig)
[Podfic] Stately Homes of Wiltshire (44 words) by Lazulus
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson
Additional Tags: Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic
Summary:

Malfoy Manor has mould, dry rot and an infestation of unusually historical poltergeists. Harry Potter is on the case.



My notes: This one is so funny and cute and just nice. I love how the reader emphasizes the humor. About 6 hours.

[Podfic of] Numberless the ways, and imperceptible. (29 words) by exmanhater
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf
Characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Aragorn | Estel, Arwen Undómiel
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 45-60 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: M4B, reverse pining, Pining
Summary:

"The conceptualization of emotion feeling as a phase of a neurobiological process is congruent with the idea that emotions can be sensed and registered in phenomenal consciousness and at low levels of awareness without being perceived."


Izard, Carroll E. "Emotion theory and research: Highlights, unanswered questions, and emerging issues." Annual review of psychology 60 (2009): 1-25.



My notes: Highly relatable, in that Legolas does not know how he feels or what he wants. Exmanhater is such a great reader. About an hour.

[Podfic] The Trouble With Miles (10 words) by cantarina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien, Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien
Characters: Julian Bashir, Keiko O'Brien, Miles O'Brien
Additional Tags: Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 2.5-3 Hours, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: M4B, Polyamory, Pre-Threesome, Mutual Pining, Drunken Kissing, implied Garak/Bashir
Summary:

Author's Summary:
And now the story of a wide-eyed doctor and a grumbling engineer who just couldn't seem to resolve their own overwhelming mutual romantic tension, and the one wife who had to resort to schemes to bring them all together.

An examination of scenes from a variety of episodes, and some extrapolation.



My notes: Another funny and cute fic. Includes actual scenes from the show, that I now see in a different light. Read by the wonderful cantarina.
sasha_feather: Nux running (mad max) (nux running)
[content note: mental illness, coming out]
*I'm not sure that "illness" is the right word to use here; but not sure what fits better.

A couple of works of art that I feel reflect some aspects of my own particular kind of mental illness.

I recently watched "Evening on the Ground," an SGA vid by hollywoodgrrl. I can't find a link to this online at the moment (if anyone has it, please comment and I will add the link). This vid uses very fast cutting. It's a character study of John Sheppard, a war veteran and soldier who probably has PTSD, guilt issues, and anxiety. I do not mean to compare my experience to his, but this one particular little piece, the fast cutting, represents to me the sense of having your thoughts happen too fast. It is a disorienting and stressful experience. Your mind and heart race. You know too much, you feel too much.

In dira sudis' story "Sell your body to the night",
(https://archiveofourown.org/works/2838161)
(a podfic is also available:https://archiveofourown.org/works/5145440)
Stile is dealing with a specific trauma. His mind compartmentalizes and he very carefully does not think about the trauma. He is in survival mode; he lives according to a specific set of rules and routines that he has created. He knows that if he thinks about the trauma, he will come apart.

The type of compartmentalization is something that happened to me when I was in the closet. I kept my anxiety and my feelings *away* somewhere in order to function in the world. It was not a conscious process. When I finally did come out, I fell apart for a while. My thoughts came too fast and I felt too much.

Now, I am so good at compartmentalization that it happens automatically. I function well in the world, for the most part, but I end up never processing certain things that have happened to me. And then I have panic attacks.

It is soothing to think about art that is reflective of my seemingly unusual experience. Perhaps it is not so unusual, but I don't hear people talk about it much, or see this kind of experience portrayed in mainstream art or entertainment.
sasha_feather: beautiful gray horse. (majestic horse)
Day 12 - create a fanwork

I started writing an essay which I plan to submit to "Disabled People Destroy SF" anthology. It is about representation of disabled people in SF films and TV.

Day 13 - Set some goals

Collaborate with someone on a fanwork. This will encourage me to create more things.

There are plenty of things I'd like to do, but having low energy, pain, etc make doing things difficult. Working with friends helps, so I am going to seek out more opportunities to have work parties or honestly, just be more social.

Day 14 - Create your own challenge

My challenge to everyone is to say something nice about yourself. You can do it just in your head or spoken out loud, or write it down in your journal (or in comments here).
sasha_feather: Retro-style poster of skier on pluto.   (hot fuzz)
Day 9 - Post at least three recs for fanworks that you have created.

I haven't read any of these in a long time, fair warning.

Silenciar (1222 words) by sasha_feather
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen
Additional Tags: Community: kink_bingo, Silence Kink, Canon Character of Color


Head and Shoulders (1549 words) by sasha_feather
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Parker/Eliot Spencer, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Background Parker/Alec Hardison, Background Eliot Spencer/Alec Hardison
Characters: Parker, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison
Additional Tags: Trans Male Character, Community: kink_bingo, Sex Toys, First Time, Strap-Ons, Trans Character, Hair, Eliot's hair is amazing, OT3
Summary:

A PWP featuring trans-masculine Eliot and Parker.


Yippee Ki Yay, DaddyFucker (3732 words) by sasha_feather
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matt Farrell/John McClane
Characters: John McClane, Matt Farrell
Additional Tags: Age Difference, Daddy Kink, Dirty Talk, Phone Sex, Star Trek References, Alien references, assholes in love, cross play, alternating pov, Established Relationship, cross dressing, PWP, Community: sexy_right
Summary:

Matt ran his hands over John’s bald head, pulled him down, and said too loudly, “Yeah, Daddy, give it to me.”

sasha_feather: beautiful gray horse. (majestic horse)
Snowflake challenge day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource!

I read / listen/ view fanworks primarily from recommendations. Therefore I really appreciate people who rec things. It saves me a lot of work, and I find awesome stuff this way. It's also neat to share the love between friends, and to promote wonderful things.

Communities where people rec things:

[community profile] fancake Themes such as arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, first time, royalty AUs, daemons, etc.

[community profile] bestthingever For new fanworks

[community profile] vidrecs fan vid recs!

A shout out to [personal profile] dodificus who recommends fanfic!
sasha_feather: Retro-style poster of women who aspire to lesbianism (you too can be a lesbian)
Create a fannish wishlist

1. Fic using "they" pronouns for the main characters. I have so many friends using they/them/theirs pronouns and I'd like to see that reflected in fic.

2. A new, juggernaut femslash ship with 1000+ fics on ao3. Let's do it, fandom!

3. Leave comments/feedback on fan works.
sasha_feather: white woman in space suit (Astronaut)
A read a fanfic, Soulmate Theory for Dummies, by piffle, where Bucky is a plant hoarder like I am and has a cat.

There are a lot of plants, he admits silently, his eyes traveling over all the variously shaped leaves, just to make sure Stark didn’t touch anything. He still likes them, and doesn’t think he’ll ever give them up. They were the first living things he’d been able to lay his hands on after leaving HYDRA, the first things he hadn’t destroyed, and he’s grown fond of them since, adding to their number whenever he happens across one that he doesn’t already own.

He doesn't take anything toxic to cats. I think eventually he'll get a dog, so nothing toxic to pets generally.

I imagine he starts out with:
African Violet
Spider Plants (inspired by Black Widow; easy to grow) (Chlorophytum comosum)
Orchids
Bamboo
Boston Fern
Burro's Tail (Sedum morganianum)
Friendship plant (Pilea involucrata)
Ghost Plant (Secum weinbergii) (because he's a ghost get it)
Wax plant (Hoya carnosa)

pictures )
sasha_feather: Retro-style poster of skier on pluto.   (Default)
Decided to try using Tumblr a bit more.

https://www.tumblr.com/angelictroublemaker

I put up a couple of WisCon-related / disability posts at my Wordpress blog:
https://accessthis.wordpress.com/
sasha_feather: the back of furiosa's head (furiosa: back of head)
My premise here is that female gaze barely exists in media, and where it does, in exists in opposition to (in a space empty of) male gaze.

I will start with some background reading. I refer back to these a lot and have learned tons from them.

Bonehandled Knife at Tumblr has a series of amazing posts, focusing on the film Mad Max: Fury Road, and its cinematography.

Mad Max: Center Frame

Eyes Up Here: Composition and Gaze

Mad Max and the Male Gaze (Mad Max eschews the male gaze while other popular fandom films do not).

it’s a choice each time to frame women in one way and men in another.

Composition Choices

Another Tumblr post from Superhuman Disasters:

Filmmaking Intent vs. Theory

This gets at the training and tradition of film making. Some "male gaze" techniques may be so ingrained as to be unintentional.

The 2 hour making-of video with cinematographer John Seale beyond confirms this. Seale is obviously a true artist, but he repeatedly mentioned his frustration with the “on the nose” rule, because it undercut his instinct for rule-of-third framing and more focus on the beautiful women in the back of the cab. Not because he was intentionally trying to be sexist, but because that’s how he’d been trained, both as a filmmaker and a man.

100% of art is manipulation (of the funnest kind) of what the audience receives. We choose where to draw your eye in visual art, where to draw your ear in musical art, where to draw your curiosity in written art, where to draw your emotional response in all of them. It is ALL part of a plan - every bit of it. The better the clarity of purpose, the better the impact of the art.

So... that is quite a bit of reading. BUT I HAVE MORE.

[personal profile] thingswithwings is brilliant and makes brilliant vids and has things to say about what she notices when makings vids.

Many thoughts On Manpain

Gunn and Sayid's manpains are explained to the audience via the camera saying "some white men are sad." Because I guess if there wasn't a white man there, we wouldn't have anyone to identify with.

Briefly, in this post:

The Making of the Yuletide Vid

1) We learned that people of colour are actually filmed differently, in terms of framing, than white people, or at least this was our anecdotal experience; it was often easy to get two white characters, especially two white male characters, in the same frame, but people of colour are by comparison much more isolated, cinematographically - often appearing in one-shots.

And in these tweets which I have storfied, in which [personal profile] thingswithwings and others talk about the challenge of trying to vid for women and minority characters:

sasha_feather: Max from Dark Angel (Max from Dark Angel)
Vid Discussion Panel with myself, [personal profile] metatext, [personal profile] brainwane, [personal profile] were_duck, and [personal profile] cyborganize. For a list of all vids, please see http://wiscon-vidparty.dreamwidth.org/12762.html

These notes are from memory; any mistakes are my own and please correct me! We mostly talked about the premier vids.

We discussed brainwane's premiere, Pipeline, quite a bit. Brainwane has written about her vid on her journal including sources. This was brainwane's first vid and she did a lot of research into how to use still footage and how to make a multivid; she was very pleased with people's response to the vid. Women used to make up a lot of the tech world but have been pushed out. Similarly, women are recruited into tech but then are pushed out due to hostile work environments. Someone in the audience said that in Mongolia, Ghengis Khan had his daughters inherit power in the capitol city and his sons took over the outlying territories. But when the daughters died, the sons came in and literally scratched the daughters' names off of the stone because it was shameful to them to have women in power.

I don't remember what we said about garrideb's Pretty Deadly vid, "Hope in the Air", except a lot of Ooooh, it is beatiful, and great song choice! Brainwane said that the still techniques were different than what she had researched for her vid.

For starlady's vid, "Just a Dream Away", people joked that hardcore ST fans will brag about seeing "everything" in the Star Trek universe but will not have seen the animated series. But what is great about the series is the camp, and the way it uses animation to do things that traditional film cannot (such as tentacles), and this vid celebrates that. I loved the humor in this vid, and the way it centers women.

For seekingferret's vid "Cassavetes", metatxt explained that Cassavetes was a controversial, prolific film maker who did not share credit easily. The band here, Le Tigre, is a feminist band, and the question they pose in the song is one we struggle with in fandom: how do we react to problematic characters? No person is all good or all bad; when we elevate them, what does that mean? A very WisCon-appropriate question.

Other vids that the panelists and audience mentioned as being particularly note-worthy:
Roxane Samer's Orphan Black vid, Gold Rush, which intercuts footage with intersectional feminist quotes
Silent Fandoms by Ghost-Lingering. were-duck liked the vidder's subtitles which were quite meta and contributed to a community, in-the-moment feeling
Repeated use of the song "Blank Space" in 3 vids (Pipeline; Purple_fringe and such_height's Dr. Who vid; and sleepygeeky's Power Rangers/Fair Use vid). Interesting to note how the meaning of the song seems to change in each vid.
Losing my Religion by rhoboat. Such intense feelings and the song really stood out for people, as it is a cover of a familiar song.
Pressure (Quantum Leap/vidding) by the California Crew. A spotlight on vidders, in the VHS/analog age. were-duck mentioned that when you see what they are actually vidding, you can see that it is in the service of smut, which is so great.
sasha_feather: Steam punk goggles (Steam punk goggles)
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