By Pontifus on 17 February 2010 | SFCentral | 5 Comments
First, note the series page. There may be a better way to keep track of series, but I don’t especially feel like messing with our category/tag taxonomy too much, and a dedicated page allows more control over presentation. If I’ve missed anything (that is, any series of posts that exists primarily on Super Fanicom), let me know.
Second, I have this project in mind, and I need you (yes, you) to let me know how viable it is.
I’m envisioning a series of free ebooks of essays on various topics in fandom. The goal would be to produce something more “professional-looking” than blog work — that is, the things would be copy edited proper-like, and made to conform with some style manual or another, to a degree. But I’d want the “kinds” of essays present in each collection to vary quite a bit. That is, a theoretical analysis paper on franchise x might be followed by a personal account of franchise x’s impact on the writer’s viewing habits — the point being that, as we’re free of the constraints of what approaches are in vogue in the popular press and academia and so on, we should take advantage of the opportunity to present a tremendous variety of angles on the things we enjoy in one mighty document.
What I need to know is, would anyone — bloggers, commenters, readers, or otherwise — be interested in contributing articles/essays/papers (I’m thinking 2000 words and up) to such a thing? As it’d be offered for free, there’d be no monetary compensation involved, of course. But I think the effort at letting ourselves run with a topic and compiling the results in a nice-looking package could prove worthwhile.
By TheKittymeister on 17 February 2010 | Anime | 5 Comments
Hello all! You’ve likely seen me making a few stray comments here & there on the site, but, well, what follows became too much to put in any comment (& what post could I put it in?). Pontifus was gracious enough to let me take over…er, I mean, to let me post here. So today we’ll be taking a look at Cardcaptor Sakura.
By Cuchlann on 5 February 2010 | Anime, Literature | 27 Comments
Or, Whence the Urge to Burn and Protect?
I’ve been having odd thoughts lately, mostly when I walk to and from class — but also in the shower (both places from which ideas emerge). Where does moe come from? That’s the question underlying our work here today. I’m not going to quibble about the definitions of what moe is, I’m going to try to examine where it comes from.
By Pontifus on 30 December 2009 | Anime, Manga | 31 Comments
Here I shall finish what I began — namely, the listing of things that might’ve made my cadre of moments, but did not, for whatever reason. And then I shall rest, satisfied in my yearly contribution to the grand ambitions of Master CCY (or is it Master Canon these days?).
By Cuchlann on 26 December 2009 | Anime, Art and Culture, Literature | 9 Comments
Augh. Obviously, if you bothered paying attention to my efforts to engage in the now-traditional “12 moments” project, you know I failed. Mostly I blame my too-busy semester, during which I watched almost no anime. As my professor (who sometimes reads my blogs — hello, if you’re reading this one!) said, it was indeed true that I had to put my anime blogging aside for the semester. I’m going to try not to take four full classes like that again… it’s, uh, a little extreme.
But you’re not here to listen to me whine (or are you? Maybe we’d get more hits if I just whined about things). I’m going on an adventure through an essay by Robert Scholes called “The Roots of Science Fiction.”
By Pontifus on 25 December 2009 | Anime | 8 Comments
By Pontifus on 23 December 2009 | Anime | 6 Comments
[Read the previous moment here or start at the beginning]
Charming, really.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on a plane to Texas. I’ll be out of town until the 30th, and mostly absent from the internet, so if I fail to address your comments in a timely fashion, that would be why. But keep an eye on this blog and pontif.us; I’ll have posts scheduled through the end of December.
With that said, today’s title references one of Schneider’s moments, which, if you’ve read it, may act as a kind of complement to this post. Though, as a Minori fan, he may not be too thrilled that I’m pointing to his moment as complementary to this one.
By Cuchlann on 22 December 2009 | Anime | 1 Comment
By Pontifus on 21 December 2009 | Manga | 4 Comments
[Read the previous moment here or start at the beginning]
Chia Pet scroll: do want.
If asked to identify the most enjoyable character I read about in the past year, I may not settle on Ginko, but he’d at least put up a hell of a fight.
By Pontifus on 19 December 2009 | Manga | 3 Comments
[Read the previous moment here or start at the beginning]
Says the girl in the bunny suit.
I haven’t exactly neglected to mention Negima! in the past year. I’ve written about Nodoka and Yue, my favorite members of Negi’s unwieldy harem, and Ako, who starts out as a bit player, but comes into her own, and with a vengeance. What’s left to write about?
“What’s left to write about?” Ha!
I thought of continuing what I began with my Ako post, which just scrapes the surface of her character and then promptly ends. But let’s save that for later. Instead, because you asked for it, let’s talk a little about Chisame. And I do mean a little; we’re talking about a manga that’s currently over 270 chapters long here, and Chisame plays into quite a bit of it. But we can at least try to get a handle on what she’s about — which, I think, is probably the tallest hurdle a blogger writing about Chisame would need to jump.
