When you posted you would have a gold crown above your name, right?
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
sumi - Mar 07, 2005 10:37:30 am PST #5004 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Lee - Mar 07, 2005 10:37:56 am PST #5005 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Totally.
Decidedly.
Allyson - Mar 07, 2005 10:38:21 am PST #5006 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, no, it'd be a middle finger with a ruby ring.
Betsy HP - Mar 07, 2005 10:38:42 am PST #5007 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My bucket of despair overfloweth in any case. Why add to it?
Pix - Mar 07, 2005 10:57:13 am PST #5008 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'm really looking forward to this show. Impatient now.
Allyson - Mar 07, 2005 10:57:42 am PST #5009 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There was this interesting article posted to Whedonesque about fandom:
On female Farscape fans:
"They joined the campaign at one stage or another because they were emotionally invested in the show. Rather than sit around and watch it disappear — and lacking the option of physical violence — they decided to put their energy and talent to use doing what it took to change the minds that needed changing. The whole thing has been amazingly strategic, particularly in the efforts to grow the viewership and target advertisers."
To that end, the uniquely imaginative 'Scapers created and distributed a wide range of promotional materials, from calendars and cookbooks to the more traditional buttons, postcards and posters.
One particularly clever ploy, "Brascape," had women fans demonstrating their gender-specific "support" by mailing their bras in to Sci Fi.
"Women are taught from a very early age a different way of problem-solving than men," suggests Nicola Wood, another key Canadian 'Scaper. "Female methods of problem-solving involve co-operation, communication and non-hierarchical thinking. Woman are taught to co-operate with each other, rather than compete."
Pix - Mar 07, 2005 10:59:09 am PST #5010 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Female fans as reduced to using our bras to get a show back on the air?
Oh dear. That's discouraging.
ETA: I was very active in the 'Scaper campaign and did not participate in the bra part. Not that it was a bad thing, just not my thing.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 11:00:22 am PST #5011 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Woman are taught to co-operate with each other, rather than compete
Okay, blargh.
Also, no one gets my bra. Know how much trauma and cost was involved in obtaining this puppy? Not Farscape, not Firefly, nope.
Betsy HP - Mar 07, 2005 11:01:00 am PST #5012 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Master, is there a krav defense against a bra-snatcher?
Allyson - Mar 07, 2005 11:01:22 am PST #5013 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
What was interesting to me is that in my limited experience, it is women who tend to organize and run fan campaigns, though the common stereotype is the pimply-faced, overweight, socially inept boy as scifi/fantasy fan.