Let me tell you something odd I noticed last summer. It’s about pyros and candy and dreams. But mostly pyros.
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I am the Very Model of a Modern Major Slenderman: Why I Laugh When Playing Slender: The Eight Pages
SLENDERMAN
On Halloween, a small band of us got together with our flashlights & binkies & played Slender: The Eight Pages. I’d wanted to try it out for a few weeks, & for some reason, it seemed like a fun group game to me.
If you’re not familiar with the game, you begin the game with the admonition, “Collect all 8 pages.” You’re armed with a flashlight that you need to conserve, & you can walk or run through the map in the dark, which consists mostly of forest & several landmarks & clearings where the pages can be. You can’t fight or speak. Once you pick up a page (or enough time has passed), Slenderman will begin to chase you, & with each successive page you collect, his chase will grow more intense. If he catches you or you look at him too long, you’ll go insane, & it’s game over. Sounds like the perfect Halloween game for getting scared, right?
Posted by TheKittymeister on 11 November 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/11/11/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-slenderman-why-i-laugh-when-playing-slender-the-eight-pages/
Growing Up in Worlds of Fictional Men
Yeah, I’ll leave it at that.
Many moons ago, I posted about Cardcaptor Sakura & gender. Now, I’m back to explore video games & gender. Why not anime this time, you may ask? Because, uh…battleaxe.
I’ve been playing video games for most of my life. While they provided a beautiful escape, they also shaped much of my ideas about what was male & what was female through my adolescence. Part of the reason for that is I didn’t have many games that even had women in them, much less had a female protagonist. & not that many games that were made when I was a kid had female protagonists. I grew up with fictional, pixelated men.
Posted by TheKittymeister on 5 September 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/09/05/growing-up-in-worlds-of-fictional-men/
We Remember Love is my…opponent? (and other allies)
Let us be clear about this from the outset. A vote (in the, you know) for We Remember Love on Monday is a vote for two posts by me. It’s a vote for two posts by Cuchlann. It’s a vote for dialogues in which lelangir and Shance play considerable parts. It is of course a vote for a whole goddamn lot of posts by Ghostlightning, who has contributed to Super Fanicom posts both thoughtfully imaginative and imaginatively thoughtful. GL comments here often, and WRL is one of the few places I comment with any semi-regularity.
I won’t play the part of the angsty underdog because 1) my enterprise and Ghost’s are pretty well entwined, and 2) owing to Ghost’s considerable skill at writing, forming webs of connections between bloggers, and somehow finding the time to blog while working and having a kid, he deserves the win. He’s invested more into blogging than I have — it’s as simple as that.
Or maybe it isn’t. I have another, somewhat more selfish reason for appreciating Mr. GL.
Posted by Pontifus on 6 May 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/05/06/we-remember-love-is-my-opponent-and-other-allies/
Adventures in Criticism: Otaku 2
Well, OGT warned me, but I didn’t think it would be that bad. The second chapter of Otaku is pretty epic. O_o It’s where most of the meat of the book lies, actually. So. Chapter two: “Database Animals.”
Posted by cuchlann on 16 August 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/08/16/adventures-in-criticism-otaku-2/
