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Weekend Reading List: Christmas appropriation, Korrasami, and queer everything

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Okay okay okay, let’s talk about the Legend of Korra finale, and that ending. That beautiful, magical ending. The Mary Sue has been outdoing itself with its LoK coverage, with articles about the final scene and the desire for explicit queer representation, the confirmation given by the creators of the show themselves, and the relationships Korra formed with Asami, Kuvira, and the world (as well as the success of the show more generally).
Autostraddle adds to the conversation by saying a heartfelt goodbye to LoK, and demanding more (and more explicit) queer content in television.
Tor weighs in on the subject, taking viewers who cry “fan service” to task for casual homophobia.
And (obviously) someone’s made a gif of Korrasami ending the scene with a kiss, so you’re welcome.
Moving on! There’s a teaser for the upcoming episodes of Outlander!
Have you been reading Emily Asher-Perrin’s amazing Harry Potter chapter recaps? You are now! [Tor]
“Things I Have Mistaken for the Babadook Since Watching The Babadook.” [Jezebel]
I can honestly say I never considered that The Nightmare Before Christmas as a story about cultural appropriation, but it totally is. [The Mary Sue]
Here’s a great piece on Sailor Moon—and its giant cast of women characters—acting as respite from a misogynistic world, and as a weapon for continued feminist struggle. [Comics Alliance]
io9’s got a cool list of ten story decisions scifi and fantasy creators later regretted, and Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and that awful scene in The Evil Dead all make an appearance.
You have to read this beautiful essay on the double-edged sword that is the queer subtext in Chris Claremont’s X-Men. [Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men]

Weekend Reading List: Jubilee and literacy

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Disney is set to release Big Hero 6, a movie based on Chris Claremont’s Marvel comics, and it looks super cool. The Nerds of Color have some background on the project, and are super excited about what could potentially be the first computer animated Disney movie with a main character of Asian descent. As am I.
Here’s a great piece on the marginalization of black comic creators that takes particular aim at the trend pieces that, full of misplaced outrage, believe these creators don’t exist at all. [Badazz Mofo]
Tor has a list of the top ten Asian Pacific American comicbook characters that includes the likes of Amadeus Cho and Lynda Barry.
So LeVar Burton is making Reading Rainbow happen again via Kickstarter! (The show—oh fine here’s the theme song—has previously been made into a tablet app, but will now be much more widely available.) Mallory Ortberg over at the Toast thinks he deserves all the money (cosigned!), and when the project reached its $1 million goal in 11 hours, Burton cried.
Interested in how fairy tales went from being adult stories passed on from woman to woman to male-controlled moralizing tales for children? Here ya go. [The Toast]
Also from the Toast (I know, I’m sorry, I’m a little obsessed right at the moment), a short story about a Mexican werewolf falling in love with an awesome Filipina witch.
If you only read one thing today, let it be this amazing piece on misogyny, entitlement, and nerds. Making connections between Elliot Rodger and video games, it’s a really important piece on the systematic dehumanization of women in nerd spaces. [The Daily Beast]
I wrote a couple more pieces for Quirk Books, in case y’all are interested: My top ten literary siblings, and the coolest herbs and spices in literature (obviously gillyweed makes an appearance).
And finally, Autostraddle talks about the wonderful things happening in queer games right now.

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Weekend Reading List: Christmas appropriation, Korrasami, and queer everything

Weekend Reading List: Jubilee and literacy