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I assume that anyone who reads me also reads a lot of other people, and so by now already knows about the persistent racism involved in the casting of the live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. And maybe you haven't felt like you could do anything before now, but you can do this: in addition to everything else they've already done, racebending.com has set up a petition to be sent to the producers of the film to protest the whitewashing of this Asian-influenced and Asian-populated world. Go, check it out, and please consider signing. It's easy and it's important.
And if you don't know what this is all about, racebending.com has all the information.
So I've been having thinky thoughts lately about how people end up in the fandoms they do, and particularly what makes people write or make art in the fandoms they do; that is, not just be consumers, but producers, and in that process layer change over the original product. Which led to thinky thoughts about the ways in which people bend and transform canon to their principles, preferences and ideas. I have a half-written diatribe about bisexuality in fan fiction that was born of this that I hope will come together later, but right now I have to consider getting ready for work.
And if you don't know what this is all about, racebending.com has all the information.
So I've been having thinky thoughts lately about how people end up in the fandoms they do, and particularly what makes people write or make art in the fandoms they do; that is, not just be consumers, but producers, and in that process layer change over the original product. Which led to thinky thoughts about the ways in which people bend and transform canon to their principles, preferences and ideas. I have a half-written diatribe about bisexuality in fan fiction that was born of this that I hope will come together later, but right now I have to consider getting ready for work.