The Fan Meta Reader 2014 Masterpost

“A Strange Yellow Squiggle: Racism in The Blind Banker” and “Arabialock: the Karachi Conundrum,” by mid0nz

“The Economics of Fandom: Value, Investment, and Invisible Price Tags,” by saathi1013

“Not Actually What They Said,” by flybaldies

“How to Character Design for the Womens,” by shattered-earth

“‘I do not gaze at Scully’: Rain King: The X-Files’ Response to Mulvey,” by memories_child

“Hannibal Lecter and the Subversion of the Male Gaze,” by tenebrica

“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Sherlock,” by professorfangirl

“Thor 2: How to Understand Your Audience (and the Power of Fandom),” by bemusedlybespectacled

“Establishment Culture, or Why Supernatural Is Just as ‘Good’ a Show as Supernatural,” by fangirlingthebook

“Queer Representation in the Media,” by queensuperjelly

“This is an Allegory: Meta on Snowpiercer,” by elucipher

“How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor,” by cupids bow

“His Not-Last Vow,” by aderyn

“Will Graham Takes the Beltway: Geography in Hannibal,” by dignityisforotherpeople

“In Which Amal Puts Her Philosophy Teacher Hat On,” by Amal Nahurriyeh

“A Sense of Belonging,” by Elizabeth Minkel

“The ‘Spotlight Effect’ in Media and Fandom,” by saathi1013

“Canon Shenanigans: The Limits of Canon and the Legitimacy of Fanworks,” by tonipontificates

“What’s a Little Racial Violence Amongst Gods? An analysis of the film Thor and how it (doesn’t) deal with racism,” by schadenfreudessa

“‘The Potter Books are Radical’,” by phoenix-ace

“In Defense of Feels,” by mithen

“Psychiatrists; Somnambulists: The Influence of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari On Brian Fuller’s Hannibal,” by meejaleibling

“Citizen Kane and His Last Vow,” by mid0nz

“Slash Wife Syndrome,” by madlori

“This is Why I Treat Fandom Like It’s Important (Because It Is),” by saathi1013

“In Defense of the Reboot – what the new generation of Trek movies brings to the canon,” by anifanatical

“I made tributes to the Supermen and Batmen, so it felt only fitting to include all 73 years of Wonder Women too,” by hitokirivader

“Champagne from a Slipper: When Fandom Was Acceptably Male,” by Veronica Horwell

“Answering the Critics of Tarsem Singh’s ‘The Fall’,” by othermelissawyatt

“Brief Critical Analysis on Themes on In the Flesh,” by The Graveyard Girl

“Diaspora, Immigration and Identity in Avatar: the Last Airbender,” by irresistible-revolution

“(Sherlock) Season 3: The Mirror of the Troll,” by cantadora_09 (translated by pennypaperbrain)

“The Normal Love of the Aca-Fan (On Slash),” by eyanfire (translated by Lori Morimoto)

“Fandom and Ew, Girls,” by Jessica Sowards

“A meditation on unrequited, fangirl love, and Trent Reznor,” by unreconstructedfangirl