An increasingly popular outlet for manga enthusiasts is doujinshi, meaning both fan-produced manga and the “circles” that create them. They flout copyright law and rearticulate the characters they love, and their numbers are many—the largest public get-together in Japan is not a World Cup or Olympic gathering, but rather a doujinshi market called Comike.
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Otaku2 - Doujinshi and Law - 0 views
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Legally, fans can produce whatever they want insofar as it’s not blatantly for profit or obscene.
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Researcher Gunnar Hempel, 27, a Sophia University MA who wrote his thesis on the phenomenon, estimates there are 8,000 Japanese living off doujinshi, but stresses the number could be greater thanks to digital publishing. A “professional doujinshi” artist scrapes by on some 12,000 yen a month, but can gross 32,000 yen from large sales events.
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Severus Snape in canon - 0 views
ship_manifesto: Argus Filch/Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 0 views
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Still wondering whether to include rarepair fics in the final set of samples that I'll compare to dojinshi.
Bromance & BL - 0 views
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“Bromance” has become a shorthand term for “implied boys’ love.”
Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics - 0 views
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Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Jacobs shows how netporn images and services are important ways of redefining the network body and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society.
Why do women write m/m fiction? Answers for the men. - 0 views
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So, that preamble over with, why do women write m/m romance? There are many possible reasons because each author is different, but here are some answers which are true of many women.
Full-frontal nudity: Taboo for men - 0 views
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Elayne Rapping, a professor of women’s studies and media studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, said it’s such as it ever was: You can look back to classic paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries and see fully clothed men with nude women.“That’s been a constant of Western culture for centuries in representational art — that women have been presented as objects for what in film theory is called ‘the male gaze.’ The assumed viewer is male, and the woman is to be looked at for male pleasure,” she said.
Sometimes a Gaze is just an Eyeball! - 0 views
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The male gaze is social power, which it both draws from and reinforces. You therefore cannot have a female gaze. You can have individual objectification and desire, but there is no gaze.
jennem: Spoilers & Fandom Netiquette: OR, LIVEJOURNAL-UR DOIN IT RONG! - 0 views
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your space. You're free to write whatever the hell you want in it. But, don't be surprised when people call you on your shitty behavior and poor manners. Because on livejournal, your space gets incorporated into my space. That is, afterall, what its all about.
Editor of Syzygy - The Female Gaze - 0 views
The Visual Linguist: Indexing Events with Panels - 0 views
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More interestingly, she claims that the "still-images of actions" are also indexical, because they only show a part of a broader temporal whole action.
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First of all, in the semiotics of C.S. Peirce, indexicality is a means through which reference is garnered via causation or indication. For example, an index finger that points to something doesn't mean that thing, it indicates the thing has meaning. The finger is just saying "for the real meaning look over there." Also, if I saw a footprint in the sand, it indexes the person who once walked there, because of the causation stepping there created.
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in How to Draw..., Lee and Buscema's advice is to use the maximally intense points of that sequence — the ends and beginnings of the action marked "best" or "not bad." These sections of the action seem more representative of the action than the medial parts. In semiotic terms, they would index the overall action better than the parts in the middle, which are less representative of the overall action. Research seems to have borne out their intuition.
Fandom Involvement: Just some musings - 0 views
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Reading is active participation; whether we realize it or not, our mind is engaging with the text. Choosing not to comment does not constitute passive participation. These readers have watched/read/listened to the source text (text in the broad sense) and actively sough out more for some reason or another.
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Whoa! There is no passive involvement in fandom!
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There's a part of me that is really annoyed by "reading deeply." That whole school mentality. Sometimes, when an author describes red shoes, they just mean read shoes - not a journey, not separation from the womb, just SHOES. And, since it is fandom, I like to enjoy it on a superficial level. If it's for fun, I don't want to have to really think about it. Lazy.I can understand that. Though, my first though is that the author might have just meant "red shoes" but the reader brings more meaning than just that.
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"...the author might have just meant "red shoes" but the reader brings more meaning than just that."
Making Light: "Fanfic": force of nature - 0 views
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In a purely literary sense, fanfic doesn’t exist. There is only fiction. Fanfic is a legal category created by the modern system of trademarks and copyrights. Putting that label on a work of fiction says nothing about its quality, its creativity, or the intent of the writer who created it.
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We have a system that counts some borrowings as legitimate, others as illegitimate.
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There was once a conjurer who boasted that he had become god-like. One god happened to overhear, and challenged him to a contest. “Can you do this?” the god asked, scooping up a handful of dirt and making it into a bird. They watched the bird fly away. “Sure,” said the conjure-man, and reached down for a handful of raw material. “Hey,” said god. “Use your own dirt.”
Super deformed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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chibi by some anime fans, though chibi is a different concept that refers more to a person's stature rather than the art style. It is part of the Japanese culture, and is seen everywhere in Japan, from subway signs and advertising to anime and manga.
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chibiby some anime fans, though chibi is a different concept that refers more to a person's stature rather than the art style.It is part of the Japaneseculture, and is seen everywhere inJapan, from subway signs and advertising to anime and manga.
Cartoony vs. Realistic Images in the Brain - 0 views
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In McCloud's Understanding Comics he proposed his theory of "cartoon identification" that cartoony* images are "identified" with better than realistic images. This study (pdf) tested McCloud's theory by using behavioral measures of a 7-point rating and EEG measures of the brain's electrical activity.
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They take these results to be support for McCloud's theory of identification that indeed, cartoony images do invoke greater empathy from a reader than realistic images.
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