Follow Friday: You know you're doing something right if they're plagiarizing you edition

[starlady]

runners - A DW community for people who run.

middleman - The DW community for The Middleman, one of the best TV shows to ever be canceled after just one season.

animanga_news - The DW anime & manga newsletter!

helens78 gives us the title for today's post. The post in question, about fandom and copyrights, is here, but the entire journal is awesome.

inkstone gets the nod this week for the Small Fandoms Friending Meme and general awesomeness.

jonquil frequently has interesting things to say (though the crafting posts go over my head, because I am not a crafting person at all); I really liked this essay on science fiction, despite my being at least a generation younger.

damned_colonial on general principles, and also for this post on mixing romance with war stories which is giving me thinky-thoughts about militarism.


I have five million things to do and only time for one or two, augh.

Comments

[damned_colonial]

I want to read your thinky thoughts about militarism!

[starlady]

The one-sentence version is that I wonder whether mixing war stories with romance configures the romance (or, if you prefer, the relationships) militaristically--I don't know whether it does or must, but it struck me as something to keep in mind.

I also think that the arc of the fandoms you talk about in that post may provide a lens on militarism in British history--starting out with Austen, whose first books have landowners for heroes but ended up with people like Captain Wentworth as the love interests, and by the time of Holmes it isn't necessary to have any characters actively in the service for the entire thing to be imbricated in the military-social complex (which is a term I think I just invented but which I like way too much). Again, I'm not sure whether I even think I have something here, but it did suggest itself to me.

These thoughts are very inchoate at the moment, but if and when I do put them in order I will write them up!

[damned_colonial]

The one-sentence version is that I wonder whether mixing war stories with romance configures the romance (or, if you prefer, the relationships) militaristically--I don't know whether it does or must, but it struck me as something to keep in mind.

Not sure I get what you mean by "configures the relationships militaristically" ... what's a militaristic relationship configuration?

[starlady]

I am at the limits of what I can talk about or explain coherently. To try and rephrase, does mixing the war stories with the porn turn the war into porn, or the porn into war? You would know better than I would, since you're the one writing the stories. :-)

Maybe "militarism" wasn't the right word; maybe I'm just thinking about violence (since I've been thinking about non-violence a lot in the back of my mind).