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in title, tags, annotations or urlFrom mourning to 'magic' | The Japan Times Online - 0 views
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lishing firm which never had a best seller, but he was a great editor and the books he published were of a high quality [mainly on historical subjects]. He really dedicated his life to that quality, which I tried to inherit in terms of content as well as design. I think I achieved his dream of publishing good books which sell well. He couldn't achieve the second objective, but I did. My husband,
How doujinshi will take over the world (or not) - 0 views
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First, doujinshi are not commercial products, and this is one of the most important distinctions that allows its very existence.
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Many doujinshi conventions (Comiket included) require doujin circles to provide print run information, and enforces a cap. Quite simply, there aren’t enough books to export en mass.
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This is also why doujinshi has continued to grow while other media like manga, anime, and music have suffered with the advent of peer to peer trading on the internet…the doujinshi market is a collector’s market, where the physical book itself is highly valued
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Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter - 0 views
thingswithwings: a few words on warnings - 0 views
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So his intention was to play this scene of assault, with no warning, in the public space of a classroom. Now, this is a class that also teaches Irreversible and Demonlover and other films that involve pretty graphic scenes of rape and assault, but I think there's a difference between being told to watch Irreversible on your own at home, and coming into class, sitting around with a bunch of half-strangers, and being surprised by an out-of-context rape scene.
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One thing that I really like about fandom is that we're different from the publishing world, from the academic world, from the world of boyfans even, in that we try really hard to take into consideration the needs and squicks and concerns of the reader.
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Professional publishing is about getting people to buy books, and professional publishing is about the rights of the author - so, in the first place, we're often lied to about what a novel will contain, and even when we're not, we're not warned, because the rights of the author to surprise the reader - the rights of his inviolable artistic vision - are more important than the rights of the reader to tailor her reading to her own desires.
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文化の社会学 (有斐閣アルマ): 佐藤 健二: 本 - 0 views
hypothetically speaking - slash/gen: I would like to ship it - 0 views
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a story about queer dudes or ladies can never be defined by its plot or by a single-character story. Slash stories can never be gen.
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This is why I am told that the gay children's book I gave my nephew "contains sexuality," but the dozens of children's books that he already has where mommy and daddy love each other do not contain sexuality.
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I am so serious about this: het/gen, the slashing of het and gen, het and gen making out with each other, is a system that reinscribes heterosexuality as the norm and as normal, a system that excludes queer sexualities from representation, from general interest.
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