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    Warning - Ceci est un écrit de non-fiction. J'espère qu'il pourra avoir sa place sur le site en rentrant dans le cadre du fanwork.

    Dans le cadre de mon cours de Poétique des littératures numériques, j'ai eu l'occasion de monter un dossier d'étude sur les fanfictions, un sujet qui me tient à cœur car j'en suis une grande consommatrice, et elles m'ont souvent sauvée lors de mes nuits d'insomnie. Ce dossier fera un petit retour historique sur les fanfictions, leurs avantages pour amener plus de monde vers l'écriture, et ce qu'elles ont pu avoir comme rôle durant le confinement, en analysant les fanfics Chroniques de Sorciers en Confinement d'Assomoir (publiée sur Fanfiction.net) et Mauvais Genres de Judith H (publié sur Ao3).

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    11 Dec 2020

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    How does the aspect system work as a tool for descriptive narrative analysis? I'm so glad you asked.

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    16 May 2020

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    Let’s start with some basal understandings of my approach, here. I’m not affiliated with anyone, including but not limited to Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Andrew Hussie, and Dirk Strider. I am a biochemist who read the comic last year and liked it a lot. I did not nor will I ever write Homestuck.

    But I really, really like Homestuck, and my absolute metric for the success of any explanatory interpretation of Homestuck is ‘does it help me enjoy Homestuck more, whether through interesting lines of inquiry or large-scale resolution of narrative and metanarrative themes’. Thinking about Homestuck, in any sense of that phrase, is something I enjoy for its own sake. By writing this essay, I presuppose that this is something that you, reading this essay, also care about and enjoy. If there is one thing I guarantee through this essay, it is… ten to thirty minutes of thinking Potentially New Thoughts about Homestuck. Some of you read really fucking quickly.

    Does anyone remember infinitywhale's classpect masterpost? No? Or bladekindEyewear's aspect duality theory? I know it's been a /while/ since those were posted, but they've been central to my understanding of how the fuck does classpect even work for like ...5 years, maybe 7? They're pretty much what got me started on deep-dive analyzing Homestuck.

    This essay, though *points to the top of this bookmark* /this/ essay goes into how and why the classpects matter to the narrative. It takes the 'axes of reality' as heavily-implied-to-outright-stated in the webcomic itself, and looks at why exactly they are a necessary part of the original work. It's not a definitive explanation. None of these are, really. The nature of Homestuck as an originally-reader-interactive, perennially-expansive, and increasingly-self-referential work - or even set of works, if we're looking at expanded and dubious canon - makes any one single Right and True answer to ...literally any / all of the questions raised in the text impossible to play ever figure out. Everybody's answers are going to be different, because everybody thinks differently from anybody other than said person(s).

    And that's /part/ of the point, here. Well, it's part of one of the points. Many points. For a relatively-short-in-wordcount meta essay, this does a great job of examining classpect theory (mostly the aspect part) throughout the /entire text/. Homestuck is a big-ass comic, yo. This is some impressive idea-smithing.

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    Intentional Ambiguity - coded references to same-sex attraction in Hikaru no Go by stirring_still

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    20 Oct 2019

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    Hikaru No Go is notable for two reasons:

    - It has been single-handedly responsible for a resurgence in the popularity of Go, which until the show existed was seen as the exclusive territory of diabeetus and people with funny teeth who looked like they might enjoy the taste of human flesh.

    -It has subjected the worlds to levels of homosexuality previously thought by scientists to be merely theoretical.

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    One of the best meta posts I've ever read. Very well-supported arguments, elaborates on stuff I picked up on myself but couldn't put into words properly and mentions stuff I missed completely. Approaches from an unbiased standpoint, not through shipping goggles. Amazingly written.