Meta links + Merlin rec

[merelyn]

I feel like I haven’t been around much lately. I’ve been feeling a little…quiet, I guess, and I've gotten wrapped up in reading a lot more meta/RL stuff than fic, which is unusual for me.

(What have I been following?

--The latest round of femslash meta

--The Great Elizabeth Bear Race/Cultural Appropriation Imbroglio

--A more RL discussion of where we should locate fertility treatments in the Reproductive Rights debate vis a vis the Octuplet woman

--Most recently: solar_cat’s response to that by-now-probably-infamous post by thingswithwings on fandom migration and problematic texts with a side of Merlin!hate.)

Lots of heavy, thinky stuff, and it does make one appreciate how, whatever else you can say above fandom and livejournal, it’s not always all about the porn and the wank. (But only on alternate Thursdays.)


On a slightly happier note, Gwen/Morgana!

in omne tempus by giddygeek (Gwen/Morgana, R)

This piece is short but packs a hell of a punch. giddygeek manages to say quite an awful lot about women, sex and power in Camelot. It's gorgeous and a little sad but no less awesome for it.

Comments

[nicolasechs.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same boat, in that I feel a little disconnected from fandom right now, mostly because I don't have the same time as I did over break to spend on LJ.

And thanks for the links to solar_cat's entry. I'd missed that. And of course, for the Gwen/Morgana love. <3!

[neptuneskisses.livejournal.com]

Hi! *waves*

I'm kind of popping in and out of things too, as I've got soooo much work to do *weeps*. I've been steering clear of the whole thingswithwings debate because I know from past experience that heated fandom discussions/wank tend to just get me upset! Plus I have to deal with so much debate in my working life I only have energy for the happy/shiny stuff when I log onto LJ! But I'm glad there's been some great responses to her post. Yay for cool intelligent posters!

And thanks for the fabulous rec! What a wonderful slightly scary (actually make that very scary) Morgana she creates! I love the whole twisted power thing.

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

solar_cat's entry there is antirely awesome.

And she's right. We're not morons. (I take a fair amount of offence to that), and my opinion, is that I'm not sure how good I think Merlin is. But I love it. After everything else in life it covers the three basics that I like from my TV - it's fun, it's pretty and you don't have to have your brain switched on to watch it.

And plus it's really really gay.

Why is that a bad thing? When it comes down to it, it's just a TV show, however highbrow or supposedly thought-inducing it is.

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

Ach, I loved that fic. HARDCORE MORGANA IS HARDCORE. Would you happen to have any other Gwen/Morgana recs at all? I'm probably looking in the wrong places, but I've barely managed to find anything of them that I've really enjoyed (my del.icio.us has 166 Arthur/Merlin bookmarks and, like, 4 Gwen/Morgana. THIS SEEMS SOMEWHAT UNBALANCED).

WHOO META! I shall go and get stuck into that now. I do remember that thingswithwings post, though - a lot of what she was saying was fair enough, but man alive her tone did not help her case.