fanthropology CFP

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.

fic rec

While Ianto's death gets the most noise in terms of people coping with their reactions to Torchwood: Children of Earth, Jack's actions in Day 5 fucked a lot of people up. The storyline was gutting, sure, but it also recalibrated how many of us had probably come to think of Jack: here he was darker, more broken, and arguably more cowardly than we'd seen before. It shouldn't have been a surprise, not really; certainly, references to Jack's rather inglorious past are all over Torchwood and Doctor Who, but for a lot of us, Jack's arc was about watching him try to become a better man. But a few years is nothing in the face of nearly forever, and Jack has all the time in the world to fuck up, or at least to make nearly inhuman choices.

Anyway, here's the story you need to read if you came out of Children of Earth hating Jack, or, if you're as crazy as I am, hating yourself:

http://speedgeek.livejournal.com/19318.html

Not remotely a fix-it, but it does, in fact, make it way better.