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shredsandpatches · 1 year

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tfw you are like "okay, the post about the cringey fandomification of classic lit and the use of glib queer readings to justify ignoring misogyny and racism in canon texts is not actually about you" and then you remember there's a scholarly article about this that cites your fic.

It's a very bad article that is extremely ignorant about fandom and doesn't actually support its case with anything but assumptions about who Does Fandom and why, no real reference to any actual text--I could one million percent think of absolutely devastating critiques of my own work that are better than what this article came up with--but still. Doesn't help with the whole "well, if something makes you feel bad it's because you know you're guilty" thing.

#it was about richard ii fic and the basic argument was:#fandom is mostly made up of cis white women who are nerds #actors beloved by nerds have played richard ii recently #fic about richard ii makes him sympathetic and queer #this is because these cis white women have been blinded to imperialism by skinny white british men #it wasn't even based on the text it was more 'this text exists in this context'#and it's about a fandom that usually has less than a dozen people involved #anyway i have a phd in english i know how to do real litcrit #i'm not vaguing you if you reblogged btw just to be clear #anyway i kinda know i'm a fundamentally unserious person

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