Originally published May 31 2014 on Tumblr. Addition published October 6 2014 on Tumblr. “[They] aren’t machines for [us] to program and reprogram. That wasn’t what this was meant to be.” Thinking about fandom attitudes towards (show) writers–how some fans seem to view them not as artists or storymakers but as machines who should mechanically …
Category Archive: Writers and TV Writing
May 26
Stop Calling it Worship
The dismissal of positivity as “deification” and “worship” is disgusting. There’s a poisonous underlying idea that anyone who thinks something is good, who has a positive interpretation of someone’s work, is just a mindless zombie. It’s the idea that positivity is irrational and emotional–the sign of an inability to think clearly–while negativity is rational, inherently …