fanthropology CFP

[rm]

I want to draw everyone's attention to this CFP.

Not just because shit, I've got to come up with something, and so should a great many people I know, but because of the following quote, emphasis mine:

Love, desire, fannish obsession and emotional identification as modes of engaging with texts, characters and authors are often framed as illegitimate and transgressive: excessive, subjective, lacking in scholarly rigour. Yet such modes of relating to texts and pasts persist, across widely different historical periods and cultural contexts. Many classical and medieval authors recount embodied and highly emotional encounters with religious, fictional or historical characters, while modern and postmodern practices of reception and reading - from high art to the subcultural practices of media fandom - are characterized by desire in all its ambivalent complexity.

Today I feel like I exist in the world.

That said, someone needs to pitch something about Snapes on an Astral Plane:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1015949.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1022112.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1127219.html


I, myself, have another plan entirely.

Comments

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I think if people don't emotionally engage with a text, what is the point of fiction in the first place?

I read to be someone else for a while, personally. Guess that's the height of identifying with a character.

Icon for you. Snape's on a plane. ;)

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

I've considered passing that quote onto people who once scorned me for writing fanfiction, just to say "Hah!"

Nothing more, really.

My parents used to ground me for writing fanfiction. They didn't mind if I wrote original fiction, but they thought that fanfiction was unproductive and a waste of time because the characters and concepts weren't mine, and they believed it wasn't "real" writing. If I'd had any brains back then, I'd have told them that some of the greatest literary/theatrical works in history were based on other people's stories. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is a classic and very obvious example. Countless variations and adaptations of more recent works like "My Fair Lady" and "Dangerous Liaisons" abound in Hollywood's repertoire. But because those projects actually make money, I guess that's okay. ::eye roll::

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

That... is odd. Your folks grounding you for writing fanfic, that is. Other kids are running around, getting into REAL trouble, and they were freaking out over fanfic? Now if you were writing fanfic whilst shooting smack, I'd understand...

Don't forget The Aeneid (Illiad fanfic), Paradise Lost (Bible fanfic), etc...

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Sadly, The Aeneid and Paradise Lost would be a little over their heads. My parents are smart people in many ways, but not very literary. Better to use examples with which they're familiar.

But as far their being strict and unreasonable, as least I wasn't raised by the kind of religious people who think everything is a sin and should be punished. And to be fair, I'm crazy enough that almost anyone would think I'm on drugs, even though I've never touched anything but alcohol.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

Re: Varying degrees of strictness. Good point, I could never understand neurotic fixations with perfection when "good" would get the job done with less effort.

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

(Sorry, I meant to reply to the entry and just realized that I clicked the reply link on your post instead.)

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

>> Icon for you. Snape's on a plane. ;)

**::GROAN::** ;)