#everyone's a critic

[ok-boomerang]

fanfiction as textual analysis

a friend shared an episode of the harry potter podcast "witch please" that was all about fanfiction. from the episode:

"Fanfiction demonstrates not only readers' responses to [the] canon text, but their analysis of it. I don't just mean analysis in terms of fan essays, although there are many. I mean, the way in which fanfiction itself, like most fan works, often offers an implicit analysis of the texts and genres to which it responds." (Witch Please podcast, Book 5, Episode 4)

I love this because it's certainly true, maybe even obvious, though we wouldn't usually describe fanfic as "implicit textual analysis" whereas metas and essays are explicit.

Thinking of Zutara as an example, many of the popular ZK conventions serve to critique the show's canon relationships and often its politics too. Three of these conventions that come to mind:

Ambassador Katara -- this is common because in the canon world, we have to get Katara near Zuko. But that's not it, because if that was it Katara could just break all the bones in her body near the Fire Nation and need to recuperate there or something. "Ambassador Katara" ALSO gives Katara an important political role, which is an analysis of Katara's canon future, a critique of her being sidelined. Fire Lady Katara does the same thing!

Bloodbending as healing -- Instead of forcing Katara to abandon her "dark side," Zutara fanfiction often has her accept and reinterpret it, transforming what was considered her "darkness" into something that heals. That's a critique of Katara seen as the paragon of goodness, especially by Aang.

Painted Lady/Blue Spirit -- Of course it's fun and symbolic that Zuko and Katara both had alter egos, but turning them into vigilantes working together highlights some parts of the canon show that work well and that could have developed more: how well Zuko and Katara work together as a team, their empathy for people in need, and their perseverance to do pretty much anything once they set their minds to it.

I'm sure there's a lot more. But tl;dr: Fic writers are doing literary criticism.

#zutara #zutara fanfiction #fanfiction #atla meta #atla critical #anti kataang #everyone's a critic #a literary critic

[cursed-and-haunted]

Whenever I play a song on my phone that my cat doesn't like he will either bite me or my phone until I turn it off

#mine #everyone's a critic #this also applies to videos/tiktoks

[proffbon]

Why does this keep happening to me?

#everyone's a critic #ignore dorn and anri's name being in russian that's the only screenshot I have on hand #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge #baldur's gate #siege of dragonspear #dorn il khan #bg3 spoilers

[slowlystupendousdelusion]

Crying, I'm like 2 mins behind and sent my sister a pic I'd drawn and she just replied with "arms are too long" and I thought she was just being rude

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #wild blue yonder #everyone's a critic

[wiiildflowerrr]

@Calum5SOS: Great to have time with our crew Best crew a band could ask for. Except for @JohnDelfsound the hi hats are too trebly

7 October 2014

#everyone's a critic #this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #michael clifford #john delf #5sos crew #7 october #2014 #band photo

[tommarvoloriddlesdiary]

Tom: People are accusing us of that small fire outbreak that happened the other day in Hogsmeade.

Harry: What? Why?!

Tom: I don't try to understand the foolish assumptions of others.

Harry: But we were only protesting Dumbledore’s continued use of neon in his robes!

Tom: I know Harry.

#tomarry #tomarrymort #everyone's a critic #whoever caused that fire was smart tho

[recurring-polynya]

What the fuck, Google Docs Spelling and Grammar Check, who is writing this fanfic, you or me??

#everyone's a critic #people all worried about Microsoft Bing going sentient but Google Docs out here thinking a quarter of the Gotei has bankai #did you EVEN READ THE MANGA GoogleDocs??

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

If your sole contribution to leftism is sitting and sniping at people on twitter, then please consider the need to actually get organised- you might not fully agree with the aims of your trade union, but you’ll achieve far more as a rep or involved in some way than sitting on the sidelines.

Find an organisation to join, start making contact with other leftists in real life- sitting and saying “well this doesn’t go far enough, we need a general strike or a revolution now”, you’re correct, but it achieves nothing.

If your workplace already has a rep, ask your rep what you can do to help, volunteer to be a co-rep or a health and safety rep or similar- any good rep will appreciate this. In this sort of role, you can make a real, material difference to the lives of your colleagues. And you’re going to say “but we need revolution, not reform” but this is not the point- by showing your colleagues that collective action works, they will be more confident joining in with national actions, and advocating for themselves in the future.

Equally, by finding people in real life to organise with, outside of work, the actions you take part in aren’t necessarily the important thing. The connections you build are. Encouraging others to join the movement is. Very few people are solely persuaded by negativity, especially online- so start building your positive case to share with others within your community or with shared class interests. 

What this is to say is it’s very easy to say the TUC’s campaign is too weak and they should be doing more (whilst you, yourself do nothing) but I do think a lot of unions are very good at building slow engagement- if the TUC called for a general strike tomorrow, then I don’t think it would happen. But if they slowly build a movement over the winter...

I don’t know that’s their aim, to be clear but I hope it is.

Over the last year, being a rep, I’ve seen a lot more of the inner workings of my union- I used to criticise them a lot in the past, and there are still many areas I disagree with them on but I do agree it’s better to play the long game and get a win, than to rush into things and fail to achieve anything.

Anyway, some things to think about, maybe?

#uk politics #leftism #communism #anarchism #trade unions #tuc #critics #everyone's a critic #it's very easy to say we need revolution on social media #actually building a worker's movement takes time.

[animalpayback]

#animal payback #bears #piano #everyone's a critic

[jonberry555]

#fromacertainointofview #returnofthejedi Everyone's a Critic by Sarah Glenn Marsh Review #shorts

#shorts #return of the jedi #star wars return of the jedi #star wars from a certain point of view #from a certain point of view #rotj #facpov #facpov rotj #everyone's a critic #sarah glenn marsh #book review #review #youtube #star wars #youtube shorts #jonberry555

[glambots]

While Sun gushes over your cosplay (after realizing you weren’t replacing him) I have a feeling Moon just circles you and points out every mistake on your outfit and mask 🤔

"Wrong size bells. Eyes are slightly off. Stars are in the wrong pattern. Shoes--"

"I took creative liberties, okay?!"

#ask #ask response #sunnydrop #moondrop #scenario #headcanons #sfw #fluff #cute #silly #everyone's a critic #not a request #anonymous

[frenchtoastcomix]

#theater kid #theatre kid #actor #watercolor #watercolour #everyone's a critic #monster #adaptation #conflict resolution

[hauntedpearl]

@gracekisses is reading everyone's a critic so i made a moodboard <33333

#this is in no particular order btw all emotions are felt AT ONCE #lin bestie i am holding your hand through this experience im so excited for you you have no idea!!!!!!!!!!?? #everyone's a critic

[archtroop]

Sooo... After I caught up with The Boys ...

How the fuck am I supposed to hate Soldier Boy.

He held his end of the deal. Was pretty much agreeable asshole, who you could talk to/with and have an understanding. He was more times right about a situation than wrong.

He was abusive, racist and despicable as the generation he represented, and yet was dependable?! What the fuck?!

I guess putting him in row with all the other fuckers, he was almost heroic, in a weird, very old fashioned, loyalty-driven kind of way.

Also good metaphor on how you can only cage/halt toxic masculinity, but can't ever eradicate it.

Bonus point for The Black Guy being the one to put it in the box both times.

Minus point for wasting up Soldier Boy actually.

Unless that was the metaphor they were going for ... Him ending up not doing damage to Homelander felt like a hit and miss.

#the boys #everyone's a critic #all in all enjoyed it a lot

[shopcat]

telling a zombiegirl you love her heart and soil

#like soul #🍦 #everyone's a critic

[moviecriticseanpatrick-blog]

#Coneheads #Podcast #1993 #Calendar Girl #Dan Akroyd #Jane Curtin #Jason Priestley #Jerry O'Connell #Marilyn Monroe #Sinbad #Phil Hartman #Movies #Comedy #1990s #Everyone's a Critic #Everyone is a Critic #Podcasting #Movie Review Podcast #film #movie review #film review #movie critic #movie #film critic #movie criticism #film criticism #Youtube