#meta about meta metaception

[whetstonefires]

Okay first of all I want to say that you are doing the most incredibly mdzs meta and I love all of it. You do SUCH a great job of remembering themes and everyone actual characterizations. Like, I think you're the only person doing yzy metas (that I enjoy, at least).

Also that wei wuxian as naruto meta? beautiful, wonderful, I wheezed at the thought of wei wuxian doing a sailor moon friendship beam attack.

Awww thank you! Lmao it's very pleasant to have a scream hole for my thoughts that contains other people who can scream back, especially because most of them are nice about it.

Oh man, Yu Ziyuan meta, I definitely feel like the audience is not there but I have so many thoughts. She has like four entire scenes and she's shaped like a cliche but she's got so much psychological depth and is handled with a compassion that doesn't imo attempt to excuse her bullshit, just make it coherent. That's pretty rare.

Which, I guess I can see why that doesn't get a lot of fandom reverb but.

Anyway, thank you for validating! Excellent way to increase the odds I will make more.

All that said: oh my god the Naruto post. I'm. This all happened because I compared Zewu-jun to Jane Bennet one time. Help.

Was getting challenged to frame those mashups akin to being trapped in a hell of my own creation? Yes. Was it also super fun? Yes? Am I mad that tumblr's indexing is so bad I can't go and look at that abomination of a meta post now you've reminded me it exists? Extremely!

#ask #hoc est meum #lightningparadox #mdzs #people say nice things #meta #meta about meta metaception

[inventedfangirling]

thinking about love for love's sake and the sense of unease that pervades every single episode of the show, that which almost completely disappears from view when you're in those pockets of pure happiness✨️ that every episode is peppered with. i can physically remember still how wide my smile was, how my eyes crinkled so much i could barely see and tears came out, how much unbridled joy i felt that i almost wondered if it would somehow overflow out of me and how that literally is the lesson myungha learnt about the meaning of life, to wade through the troubles to find those moments of happiness, to cherish them and accept them as they come, to consider himself worthy to experience all of it... so really if you think about it love for love sake is a meta about life about meta about life and this is a meta of that meta of that meta. metaception really.

#gosh its been just a day but the brainrot has already reached stratospheric levels #DESERVED #love for love's sake #love supremacy zone #cha yeowoon #tae myung ha #myungha x yeowoon #korean bl #meta #love for love's sake meta #love for love's sake brainrot #brainrot #this show is my new pocket of happiness #gonna be wishing the best for everybody behind it for a long time😭✨️

[centaurianthropology]

You have such detailed theories about tma and I love reading all your stuff in the tag. Do you take notes while you listen or do you just remember everything because I'm always impressed by how thorough your posts are. I've wanted to relisten and take notes for a while because I think it'd be fun and satisfying but yk there's always something else that I have to get done first and all that lol

Thank you so much!  It’s really fun to throw out my theories, even as I know most of them will get blown up by canon.  But meta is a huge part of how I enjoy a fandom, and I only have one IRL friend into TMA right now, so this is a great place to really get my nerdity on.

I don’t actually take any notes.  When I’m writing my big metas each week, I listen once for fun, then again pausing and writing my analysis.  Sometimes I need to pause even the first time to write, and then that part will usually get cut and pasted to somewhere with better flow in the essay.

When I’m trying to remember facts or episode details, I tend to turn to the TMA wiki here.  It’s not complete, but it’s a good place to start when I need some quick facts or research.  

Honestly, though, I spent so much time in grad school cranking out essays that writing in that format is generally not that difficult for me.  Huge meta essays on big topics require a lot of research and evidence, sure, but when it’s just me babbling about theories I usually just trust my memory (though that does sometimes prove faulty) and write.

#The Magnus Archives #is this meta about meta? #metaception #clearing out my inbox #reflectivewoman

[legendariumladiesapril]

Legendarium Ladies April - Prompts for April 01

Hello and welcome to another round of Legendarium Ladies April! When a friend and I started this event to draw some attention to the underappreciated women of Tolkien’s Legendarium, we never expected it to sustain the interest to become an annual event. But you’re still here, and we’re still here, and hopefully we’ll make it a good year! I’m looking forward to your contributions - remember to tag them #legendarium ladies april so I can find and reblog them to @legendariumladiesaprilreblogs​, and of course for other participants to find and admire them! Also, as always, you are very welcome to post your own individual contributions - you don’t have to follow the prompts at all. As long as your fanwork deals with a female character in Tolkien’s works, you’re welcome here! For more information, check the blog’s main page for links to FAQ, past schedules and other helpful info. ♥ 

Let’s go! 

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General Prompt: Metaception - Women About Women

To start off this year’s LLA, let’s get meta! Which isn’t to say that you have to write meta, but rather - pick a woman in the Legendarium creating about another woman. Whether it’s Elanor Gardner setting down the history of Galadriel in the Red Book of Westmarch, or Nerdanel creating a sculpture to honour Míriel, Haleth telling a story about the warrior women of her tribe, Arwen relating to Lúthien, or one of the Númenorean queens learning about her foremothers, there is plenty of room to express what women may have thought about another, and immortalize that for history to see. 

For this prompt, create a fanwork about one of the Legendarium’s women creating something about another female character in Tolkien’s work.  ________________________________________________________________

Picture Prompt: Through the Looking-Glass by lexilainephoto

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Poetry Prompt: Backwards, by Warsan Shire (excerpt)

I'll rewrite this whole life and this time there'll be so much love, you won't be able to see beyond it.

You won’t be able to see beyond it, I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love.

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Previous Years’ Prompts: 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 

#legendarium ladies april #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #the hobbit #prompt post

[fineillsignup]

it's time again for REAL TALK with yunyu

People like to say “but you shouldn’t think so much about negative things!” and this is true but it is not absolutely true. It’s a truth that has to be kept in moderation.

If human beings didn’t find enjoyment, satisfaction, and fulfillment in:

Identifying problems

Thinking about those problems

Offering solutions to the problems

Actually solving the problems

Then humanity would never have advanced so far.

So what if people like to get that enjoyment out of problems in fiction? At minimum, that doesn’t hurt anyone else, assuming that they aren’t yelling about the problem into a megaphone outside your window at 2am. You can say they should spend their time on real problems instead, but that isn’t so, because this is fixing problems as entertainment, chiefly. Lots of people like to play simulation games for fun, where they are a waitress, a farmer, a shop owner; that doesn’t mean that getting a part-time job doing the real thing would be stress-relieving and fun like the game is!

Moreover, a lot of people mediate their thoughts on real-life traumatic issues through media specifically because the stakes are so low. It’s emotionally easier for me to think about sexism if I’m thinking of it in relation to fictional characters, who aren’t real and thus aren’t really out there suffering. Fictional problems are also, within the medium of imagination, actually fixable. I don’t like the canon ending of Naruto, so I imagine a different one that’s exactly the way I want it, or I can read other peoples versions. In contrast, my ability to solve [major world issue of your choice] is nearly nonexistent, my efforts a mere drop into a sea–not worthless, but not satisfying. I think many of us need the satisfaction of saying “There, that’s fixed then,” that we don’t get in the real world.

Can it be done to excess? Sure, like almost everything. But it’s not like critiquing or even bashing is somehow inherently a soul-warping hobby that turns those who do it into horrible little purple goblins gibbering away in our basements. That’s correlation not causation.

#but overthinking is fun #meta #meta about meta #metaception #analysis #navel gazing #i want to solve all the problems #is this about naruto? #i'll allow it #this is ur brain on tumblr #deep thoughts with fineillsignup