For July/August this year the theme for the Gender Exploration Carnival is "Gender in Canon – Movies."
The idea of gender in canon is intentionally broad here and can cover a character within a canon, worldbuilding details of a particular work, design choices, role casting, or other details that evoke thoughts about gender. This doesn’t have to be a review or positive recommendation, and any submissions don’t have to be a minimum length.
This could be a good prompt for gender-related metacommentary. Check out the call for submissions post for more information:
Call For Submissions: July/August 2026
Earlier this month,
memorizingthedigitsofpi posted a Tumblr poll for opinions on why fandom is "quieter" now, which
ravensilversea linked over on Pillowfort as well as Dreamwidth. Here are the poll options originally provided: ( Read more... )
I'm not making this a poll here though because I don't want to force people to pick just one over all others.
What do y'all think? What else would you have added?
May. 1st, 2026 05:59 pm
Severance Analysis
Mysterious Work & Alienation of Labor in Severance by me (comment on Dreamwidth)
Severance employs a fantastical scenario at an imaginary company to depict a phenomenon that’s very real: the systematic alienation of labor. This theme has been widely remarked upon by those familiar with the framework, but not everyone is already familiar, and so it warrants explanation. To that end, this analysis presents a brief introduction to alienation as a concept, an in-depth exploration of how it applies to the characters of Severance, and some observations on how that theme relates to the real world.The Brilliance of Severance's Disturbing Precision [video] by Thomas Flight
In an era where high-concept TV shows now feature impressive visual effects, sprawling fantasy worlds, and elaborate costume design and makeup, how does a show that mostly takes place in a white, windowless office end up being one of the most visually striking TV shows ever made?A musical analysis of the Severance theme [video] by Charles Cornell
A tritone is very commonly thought of as one of the most dissonant intervals that you can play... So what we have here is consonance, dissonance, consonance, dissonance.