I am months late, but my eyes caught on The Untamed while browsing, so I read the first couple of articles.
I found that they (particularly the Mulan essay) provided really great food for thought. It's also all very sad and complicated.
I think the analysis of fan cultures and the impulses they feed in the transcript is really interesting -- I'm a little wary of it, because it feels maybe a little too pat and good of a story, but there were parts of the analysis of the motivation behind fan cultures that resonated, personally:
And also there is - another reason is because I feel when people are pursuing or, say, when they're adoring certain kind of celebrity, they must find something in the celebrity that we'll have our self. and "Because Xiao Zhan is portrayed as such a sweet person, he also needs protection because that gentleness can be taken advantage of." both feel like things I've seen in Western fan cultures.
And:
What she's defending is someone's interiority. I like that she uses the word heroic dream because she's suggesting that to dream it in the first place is in and of itself an act of courage in that you're pushing boundaries that other people place on you, that you place on yourself. And so in fan fiction, you're at least trying to break free of those, to put yourself out there, to make these creations of yours public.
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I found that they (particularly the Mulan essay) provided really great food for thought. It's also all very sad and complicated.
I think the analysis of fan cultures and the impulses they feed in the transcript is really interesting -- I'm a little wary of it, because it feels maybe a little too pat and good of a story, but there were parts of the analysis of the motivation behind fan cultures that resonated, personally:
And also there is - another reason is because I feel when people are pursuing or, say, when they're adoring certain kind of celebrity, they must find something in the celebrity that we'll have our self. and "Because Xiao Zhan is portrayed as such a sweet person, he also needs protection because that gentleness can be taken advantage of." both feel like things I've seen in Western fan cultures.
And:
What she's defending is someone's interiority. I like that she uses the word heroic dream because she's suggesting that to dream it in the first place is in and of itself an act of courage in that you're pushing boundaries that other people place on you, that you place on yourself. And so in fan fiction, you're at least trying to break free of those, to put yourself out there, to make these creations of yours public.