Fanfiction Investigations
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Why Analyze Fanfictions through a Media Critical Lens by Lockea
Fandoms: Original Work, Meta - Fandom
30 Nov 2017
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While introductions to tropes and fanfictions abound, very few articles, videos, and podcasts exist that analyze fanfictions themselves -- what these tropes and stories mean about the hopes, fears, anxieties, and beliefs of the people who create and consume them. In this series, a fanfiction author with 20 years of experience writing fanfics and exactly zero years as a media critic attempts to shed some light on what fanfiction tropes mean. Rather than focus on the fans themselves, Fanfiction Investigations focuses on the works these fans produce and what their popularity may say about the people that read and write them. From Omegaverse and the monster of misogyny to Coffee Shop AUs and the need for a new type of sitcom, fanfiction is used as the lens through which the overwhelmingly female, overwhelmingly queer transformative culture is analyzed.
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- Part 1 of Fanfiction Investigations
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The Beginning and the End: ABO, Cultural Anxiety, and the Monster of Misogyny by Lockea
Fandoms: Original Work, Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Supernatural, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
04 Dec 2017
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In the first REAL episode of Fanfiction Investigations, Lockea tackles alpha/beta/omega dynamics using feminist theory and monster theory as a lens to discuss how ABO's popularity may lay in its ability to grant much needed distance from the very real issues facing the female bodied by enacting those fears on the male body instead. Three fanfics, each the most or one of the most popular ABO fics in their fandom, are highlighted to discuss the anxieties of the transformative generations.
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- Part 2 of Fanfiction Investigations