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bossymarmalade) wrote2018-11-09 03:05 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote2018-11-09 03:05 pm
and look at the fine stitching on "dope"
I randomly googled 'stubbleglitter' which I do from time to time to see what's going on with that persona (don't pretend y'all don't do that too or I won't believe you) and I found an academic paper about fandom that referred to my fic smile for the fans. The basic gist of the (really, quite nasty little) story is that JC finds the fans kind of grotesque and intrusive and awful, but pretends he loves them because, y'know, they pay his bills.
What shocked me a little was that the writer of this paper took it to mean that I'd intended to sympathize with JC's disgust, and provide an inside look at how hard it is to be a fancy popstar and have to fake enjoyment of shitty pencil crayon drawings of yourself and rage internally at the unfairness of the squandering of your musical genius. I mean, blah blah authorial intent doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how the story's read and interpreted, but this is the first time I've had it happen to me personally and it's weird, lol! Couldn't she have just quoted one of, I dunno, the GSF stories and said something about female subversion of the male gaze?
What shocked me a little was that the writer of this paper took it to mean that I'd intended to sympathize with JC's disgust, and provide an inside look at how hard it is to be a fancy popstar and have to fake enjoyment of shitty pencil crayon drawings of yourself and rage internally at the unfairness of the squandering of your musical genius. I mean, blah blah authorial intent doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how the story's read and interpreted, but this is the first time I've had it happen to me personally and it's weird, lol! Couldn't she have just quoted one of, I dunno, the GSF stories and said something about female subversion of the male gaze?
oops
(https://cathexys.dreamwidth.org/282389.html)
It is a quite nasty little story. Butit's certainly powerful--even after all these years :)
Re: oops
But anyhow it was interesting to re-find your paper after all these years! My main concern at this point in time was that readers would think that I approved of JC's misogyny/ableism/fatphobia, heh.
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Also hi!
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It's always weird running across your past fandom transgressions, eh? XD
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Personally, I always thought that the beginning of the end of the fandom as the fun place was with the onset of academia navel-gazing and Taking Ourselves Seriously. Of course the tumblr generation is the exact opposite of that. So one could either say that introspection is what's missing or see the causality in people's moving away to oversimplifying.
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I liked a little bit of the academia, but I agree it tipped rather far in that direction. I think it's because so many srs bzns media fandom people migrated into popslash, and that was their interest.