Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I swear to god this isn’t clickbait. Over the last few years I’ve thought about fanfiction a lot. Fanfic has changed significantly in my lifetime; once a weird corner of fandom devoted to self-serving wankery, fanfic has emerged as one of the central aspects of fan culture. Fanfic has become not only an accepted way…
SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY.To criticize The Force Awakens for “recycling” the first three Star Wars movies—to complain that it’s “un-original” compared to that original work of genius—misses the point of the franchise so thoroughly and dramatically that this critical impulse seems more interesting to me than the movie itself. The one thing the original trilogy…
A lot of things happen when you look younger than your age, like I do. I’m 24 years old, but I get carded everywhere I go. I’ve been told not to get more tattoos for the sake of preserving my appeal to those who fetishize teenyboppers (true story). I’m often asked what high school I attend….
No, Rey from ‘The Force Awakens’ Is Not a Mary Sue By Rebecca Pahle | Star Wars | December 21, 2015 | Comments (View) Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools A new Star War came out over the weekend, and it’s kind of a big deal. While the rest of us were lusting…
Take a wild stab at how many Reys are available in this aisle, or how many women altogether. I hate to break it to you, but Rey is not a role model for little girls. The Force Awakens has been out all of a few days now, and already I’m over hearing this. “Oh, she’s…
Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…
Even the former Florida governor has given up on his brand. —Russ Choma on Wed. December 23, 2015 6:00 AM PDT Isaac Brekken/AP Perfect last-minute Christmas present for the low-energy person in your life who needs an extra exclamation point: Jeb! Not the candidate, just his name—upbeat punctuation mark and all. The word has apparently…
This was shown in Morning Spoilers earlier today, but I think the fact that the Supergirl TV series has made a supercut of all the people Kara has saved over the course of the show’s eight episodes, because I don’t know what purpose it serves ther than as a reminder of all the people her…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and a winter of discontent, a season of police bullhorns and Christmas lights. Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and travelers in California and the Midwest this week, seeing the crowds as an opportunity to draw attention to their cause. In Chicago…
Every year, a new round of politicians attempt to breathe new life into America’s thoroughly exhausted war on Christmas. But this year, maybe it’s time instead to examine Christmas’s war on Americans. For centuries, the holiday has served as a flashpoint between competing religious ideas. When the Puritans of New England famously made Christmas illegal…