Listen to me! listen to me! essays
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| Name: | listen to me! listen to me! essays |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Laura Valentine |
| Dates: | 1999-2001 |
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| URL: | listen to me! listen to me! essays[1] |
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listen to me! listen to me! essays is the meta section of devilmonkey: laura jv's fannish home.
"The contents of this page are taken mostly from mailing list and newsgroup posts I've made. I've tried to put them in chronological order. I'm still searching for a number of essays that I want to put here, so this page will probably change fairly often."
The Essays
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Logos, Ethos, Pathos. | Vulcans are logical...or are they?] | fall 99 |
| Ultracondensed Introduction to Document Design for Readability. | Or "How to make a 'zine that most folks can read." | 07.00 |
| Meme, Enthymeme | Fanon and Fiction-as-Argument. | 07.00 |
| The Infamous Post #8746 to Prospect-L | For everyone who has ever wondered "what zombie hand of Rob Lowe?" | 11.00 |
| Beta Readers. | At least, on mine. | 11.00 |
| Memetics: the Science of Fanon | The creation and use of fanon, memetics as a useful discipline.... | 01.01 |
| Daddy Dearest. | A quick look at some family relationships. | 01.01 |
| The Way They Talk: Subtitles and Dialect. | Nothing drives me batty faster than bad character voice. | 03.01 |
| Squickfic and Satire | A reaction to the reaction to A Few Small Dreams. | 03.01 |
| Simply Stop Obeying. | On the psychology of Benton Fraser. | 04.01 |
| Character Comparisons. | From a ROG discussion of the similarities between Methos and Spock. | 04.01 |
| Misogyny in Fanfiction | Why you'll often find me waving my hands around and shouting. | 04.01/01.02 (updated) |
| De-butchify | On the feminization of male characters in slash. | 04.01 |
| Highlander, Xena, Hercules, and Postmodernism. | Bad history vs. postmodern history. | 04.01 |
| Slash, Penetration, and Ratings. | From a discussion on whether slash necessarily includes penetrative sex. | 05.01 |
| Queer, Not Slashy. | What is the difference? | 05.01 |
| Vecchio, Kowalski, and Fraser. Who wins the Better Friend game? | 05.01 | |
| Why Warnings Suck | I hate warnings. Why? Because, that's why. (See also Warn Responsibly.) | 05.01/12.01 (updated) |
| Slashing the Straightboy. | Why I rarely manage to get Ray Vecchio in bed with Fraser. | 05.01 |
| The Edge of Postmodern. | What the hell is "Fight Club", anyway? Contains spoilers for "Fight Club". | 05.01 |
| Worldbuilding, "Inclination", Alternate Universes, and the Creation of Vulcan | 06.01 | |
| Heleninhell and Dialogue. | Why her Sports Night works for me but her Sentinel doesn't. | 06.01 |
| Genre or Looks? | Why do we slash who we slash? Must they be cute? | 07.01 |
| Warn Responsibly | Thoughts on warnings, the responsibility of authors and readers, and definitions of audience. | 01.02 |
References
- ^ "essays on fandom topics". 2005-02-12. Archived from the original on 2022-04-23.