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

[drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooh, yes. Thank you so much for pointing to this.

What mean you about Snapes on an Astral Plane? I've been thinking and writing meta (not academic, as I took the other turn at that crossroads many, many years ago) about readers' erotic love for Snape, in conflict with JKR's stated distaste for him, and am plotting to write more. I've been loving Snapey fanfic, of course, though (you're welcome, world!) not writing it. Please blab more off the top of your head, if you can! *all interested*

[rm.livejournal.com]

Snapes on an Astral Plane is well-documented on Fandom Wank. The very short version is some women felt themselves to be in astral marriages to Snape, formed an online support group for said marraiges, then several of them decided one of them wasn't loyal enough to their lord and master and then kicked her out leading to wank about what constituted a valid astral marriage to Snape. People posted wedding vows, shrines, etc., One woman, talked about setting an empty place at the table for Snape and how her children felt abotu this.

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

I would *love* to know what JKR would say about this, if she were aware of it...

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Are we going to draw straws over who gets to tell her?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Now in post.

[drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com]

....

Er....

....

Must close my mouth before I swallow a fly.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's really sort of the greatest thing to happen on the Internet ever. Because it's so OMGWTFBBQ, but it's also endless entertaining and a good subject for a number of scholarly perspectives.