Hermeneutics of suspicion! What a great expression! But I know from various tumblr posts that modern academics - many of whom are queer themselves - are getting a bit sick of this whole Academia Suppresses The Queer Truth line.
That's actually the context of the term! Eve KS got sick of talking about repression and wanted to look for more forward-thinking and creative ways of queer reading. I'm not actually super fond of her late work, and sadly one of the ways it's been interpreted is as a hammer AGAINST talking about the, uh, sucky heteronormative wossnames of the past (in //, there's an article by Schultz called 'heterosexuality as a threat to medieval studies', which does take the logical stance that if homosexuality is a modern construct so is heterosexuality, but unfortunately does so by asserting that all these queer academics are just paranoid and they can't function without the bogeyman of heteronormativity). Tumblr wank is, as ever, just academic wank boiled down and five to twenty years late.
Wow, I really love that. That's exactly how I see it, I just hadn't heard it put that way quite yet.
:D:D I think i'm getting that from Henry Jenkins. And Farashasilver. And something someone wrote somewhere about medieval saints' cults.
So fandom can either be more dogmatic and concerned with the canon, or it can be more about coming together through the canon.
Right? Honestly I felt a huge disjunct open up between me and the fandom community around... around Age of Ultron, I think. I haven't enjoyed a sequel fandom since then. I've enjoyed sequels: but I have not enjoyed the bitter fighting amongst disappointed fans, the attacks of happy fans on the disappointed fans, the vitriolic denouncements of canon, et caetera et caetera.
I go into sequels hoping to feel feels, and to be given a bunch of new stuff I can use to communicate with people. I don't... go in hoping to see my ship validated? And if my fave character gets sidelined I deal with that by... writing more fic! Or finding ways to get from the current status of canon to my desired ship ending, finding new triads, etc.
I do have a suspicion that Tumblr as a platform made the negative / otp-ish responsess more visible to me. Back on LJ if I knew someone who, idek, mad stanned Kirk/McCoy and hated any canon that fed content to Kirk/Spock or Spock/Uhura shippers, they put their complaints under a cut and comiserated in their comment section with likeminded people, not in long reblog chains. We could stay good buddies because I also liked Kirk/McCoy, even though I didn't resent any alternatives! Whereas now I'm getting used to having to cull 50% of my tumblr friends from x fandom as the x-sequel comes out, because they will just harsh my squee.
*whistles* Getting to knooooow you, getting to feel freeeee and eeeeeeasy...
THE GLORIES OF LJ-STYLE SOCIAL MEDIA, TL;DR'ing like it's 2007!
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Date: 2018-12-11 09:11 pm (UTC)That's actually the context of the term! Eve KS got sick of talking about repression and wanted to look for more forward-thinking and creative ways of queer reading. I'm not actually super fond of her late work, and sadly one of the ways it's been interpreted is as a hammer AGAINST talking about the, uh, sucky heteronormative wossnames of the past (in //, there's an article by Schultz called 'heterosexuality as a threat to medieval studies', which does take the logical stance that if homosexuality is a modern construct so is heterosexuality, but unfortunately does so by asserting that all these queer academics are just paranoid and they can't function without the bogeyman of heteronormativity). Tumblr wank is, as ever, just academic wank boiled down and five to twenty years late.
Wow, I really love that. That's exactly how I see it, I just hadn't heard it put that way quite yet.
:D:D I think i'm getting that from Henry Jenkins. And Farashasilver. And something someone wrote somewhere about medieval saints' cults.
So fandom can either be more dogmatic and concerned with the canon, or it can be more about coming together through the canon.
Right? Honestly I felt a huge disjunct open up between me and the fandom community around... around Age of Ultron, I think. I haven't enjoyed a sequel fandom since then. I've enjoyed sequels: but I have not enjoyed the bitter fighting amongst disappointed fans, the attacks of happy fans on the disappointed fans, the vitriolic denouncements of canon, et caetera et caetera.
I go into sequels hoping to feel feels, and to be given a bunch of new stuff I can use to communicate with people. I don't... go in hoping to see my ship validated? And if my fave character gets sidelined I deal with that by... writing more fic! Or finding ways to get from the current status of canon to my desired ship ending, finding new triads, etc.
I do have a suspicion that Tumblr as a platform made the negative / otp-ish responsess more visible to me. Back on LJ if I knew someone who, idek, mad stanned Kirk/McCoy and hated any canon that fed content to Kirk/Spock or Spock/Uhura shippers, they put their complaints under a cut and comiserated in their comment section with likeminded people, not in long reblog chains. We could stay good buddies because I also liked Kirk/McCoy, even though I didn't resent any alternatives! Whereas now I'm getting used to having to cull 50% of my tumblr friends from x fandom as the x-sequel comes out, because they will just harsh my squee.
*whistles* Getting to knooooow you, getting to feel freeeee and eeeeeeasy...
THE GLORIES OF LJ-STYLE SOCIAL MEDIA, TL;DR'ing like it's 2007!