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If angels notice and pay attention every time someone speaks their name, then - given the size of the fandom - no wonder Castiel walks around with this permanent ran-into-a-lamp-post expression… Maybe he’s not as much unable to learn anything ever, as rather never given a chance to hear his own thoughts for a minute.

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A brief talk about superpowers and fantasy we had recently with alumfelga reminded me certain musings of mine. Fantasy as a genre is usually big on supernatural powers as a trope. Therefore it's obvious that the genre itself and literary analyses of it focus on supernatural beings. Actually, the only reason that fantasy has any non-supernatural ones is that they serve as the plain background for emphasizing the former and, usually, as the stake in the game – your everyday, mundane, tedious, unappreciated, apple-pie and making-ends-meet things that won't be there anymore if cool and interesting things from other dimensions take over the reality, which would be bad.
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No to lecim z jedenastym sezonem. Nie do końca jestem pewna, czy mi się chce, więc poniekąd wróciłam do punktu startowego sprzed półtora roku: niech się dzieło broni.
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We're used to what feminist research calls the “male gaze” turned on women; fandom turns the “female gaze” right back on men.
This isn’t the only quotable thing Katherine Larsen and Lynn S. Zubernis say in Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, but this one made me thinking about female gaze (on men) also in the canon itself. Would be interesting to gather examples, I thought.
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Spoilery, rozumie się.
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