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

[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.