rivkat | Sep. 15th, 2013

So, one of my son’s second-grade assignments was to think of as many things as possible that could be picked up with a spoon but not a fork. He returns home with a list in which three of the about eight entries—“alcohol,” “beer,” and “liquor”—have been carefully erased, as per his teacher’s policy. Now we are amusing ourselves imagining the first parent-teacher conference. “Did you folks drive?”

Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling: ( long, positive review )

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In the latest Transformative Works and Cultures, Emily Regan Wills has Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in The X-Files, in which Iolokus is cited as one of the fandom's attempts to recuperate Scully's reproductive arc.

I wish I hadn't lost my hard drive with all the XF fic on it. Perhaps it's time to reread the other stories discussed!