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Currently reading: Theories Of Personality by David Lester
I like the system approach to present Freud (theory of motivation), Kelly (theory of cognition) and the holistic approach to personality psychology in a modern and rational way, and how he shows many psychologists absent in text books that actually complement, modify and elaborate on the main streams of psychology.

Currently reading: Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse
I think this book is inspiring. I realize for the first time that the first lesbian fandom has been established as late as 1986, of a female buddy cop show Cagey and Lacey, which's the first show to be saved a letter campaign in the article tracing the history of media fandom. Different metaphors and contexts to understand fan fictions are suggested and I'm most interested in the one that sees fan fiction as a blend of text and performance. One of the essays gives me insight on why alpha/beta/omega gains popularity recently.

Currently listening: various Chinese Wind music (modern Chinese music that makes use of traditional music instrument e.g. di, er hu, melodies and classical poetry images in the lyrics) 
Harvest Sprouts by Hita is one of the songs that I listen to often. The music style recalls a traditional folk song and the lyrics is a response to a classical poem which mentions the angst of soldiers away from home.  Only that in Harvest Sprouts it tells the untold story of the soldiers' wives left at home.

Currently researching: academics paper on fan fiction and fandom
Discover that academics love football a lot . (One of them can be concluded as "Korean Women Save World Cup from Hooligans") Read a paper that celebrates dark fic as double resistance to both the canon and to the interpretative community.

Date: 2012-09-03 12:26 am (UTC)
garrideb: Ms. Marvel flying over New York (ms. marvel flying)
From: [personal profile] garrideb
Currently reading: Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse

Oh, I've read a few of the essays in that book! I agree, it's inspiring. I think there was one essay that looked at a source text and all works inspired by it as being part of an archive, so that while fanfic doesn't influence a closed text directly, it still influences the archive of that text. A remember thinking it was a cool metaphor. And I always love hearing about the histories of fandom. I don't remember reading about a Cagey and Lacey letter campaign, so I must not have gotten that far in the book.

Which essay gave you insight into alpha/beta/omega fics?

ETA: Thanks for linking Harvest Sprouts. Very beautiful music!
Edited Date: 2012-09-03 12:33 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-09-03 04:53 am (UTC)
garrideb: The wasp stands in snow, holding Captain America's shield (Wasp shield)
From: [personal profile] garrideb
Thanks, I'm going to try to find a copy of that book again & read that essay. It sounds very interesting.

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