Admiral Motti! Poor Admiral Motti! I'm outraged! Who will stand up for our fictional Imperial space war criminals now? :p :p :p
This is a fascinating read, thank you. I feel that the internet over the past years with its obsession with "real" identity and authenticity has marred everything that the system was to begin with - certainly *not* revealing my identity, not having my real name plastered over a million social network platforms was super important for me as a teen in allowing me to begin talking about the decades long of process of exactly how and when I was going to come out.
I should probably lay my bias on the table though: I am a big supporter of Death of the Author excepting scenarios where you can leverage that idea of knowledge of the author to challenge the reader (re: Crash by J.G. Ballard) and this obsession, this panic that criminals are on the internet writing fanfiction about their twisted desires is simply just a knee-jerk reaction from companies who continually have failed to monetise such use of the internet and thus engage in riling up baby boomers with no understanding of such things in order to demonise this content (re: Mumsnet).
I don't know. I wanted to make a point but really all I'm doing is leaving my own rant here in your comments, sorry!
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This is a fascinating read, thank you. I feel that the internet over the past years with its obsession with "real" identity and authenticity has marred everything that the system was to begin with - certainly *not* revealing my identity, not having my real name plastered over a million social network platforms was super important for me as a teen in allowing me to begin talking about the decades long of process of exactly how and when I was going to come out.
I should probably lay my bias on the table though: I am a big supporter of Death of the Author excepting scenarios where you can leverage that idea of knowledge of the author to challenge the reader (re: Crash by J.G. Ballard) and this obsession, this panic that criminals are on the internet writing fanfiction about their twisted desires is simply just a knee-jerk reaction from companies who continually have failed to monetise such use of the internet and thus engage in riling up baby boomers with no understanding of such things in order to demonise this content (re: Mumsnet).
I don't know. I wanted to make a point but really all I'm doing is leaving my own rant here in your comments, sorry!