• ethrosdemon: And one more thing! - I think to some extent that the issue for me in the OTW thing (aside from fandom politics which just does not get addressed in this whole brouhaha) that bothers me about the aim to have fanworks respected as owned in some way by the fans who generate them -
  
  (tags: copyright, fandom otw)


• general_jinjur: summary of what's under the tag, in real [SPOILERS: dark knight, dr. horrible] - it isn't even the misogyny that bothers me the most anymore. what bothers me is my steadily strengthening impression that the creators of the show/movie/whatever expect to be congratulated for it. authorial perceptions vs my perceptions of what's happenin -
  
  (tags: feminism btvs firefly gender jossverse)

Mr. Uslan approached Mr. Miller with “The Spirit” before Eisner’s memorial service in Lower Manhattan. He had seen “Sin City” and was impressed by its digital fidelity to Mr. Miller’s comics.

“‘Frank, Will was your mentor; you’ve got to write and direct this,’” he recalled saying. “And Frank looked at me like I was out of my mind. He said: ‘Touch the work of the master? How could I do that?’ About 10 minutes later he tapped me on my shoulder and said, ‘I can’t let anyone else touch it.’”

There was no way Hollywood really believed what it was saying about boys who’d grown up with Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor as action heroes, and so there was no way to change the system from within. I concluded Hollywood was dominated by perpetual pre-adolescent boys making the movies they wanted to see, and using the “target audience” - a construct based on partial truths and twisted math - to perpetuate their own desires.