Self-Insert Niche Interests By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020 “Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”
Digital Fuckery: The Monetization of WebToons By Amanda Hudgins • September 2nd, 2020 These systems are designed to keep the reader in place, to keep them reading as long as possible and on the same sites, spending currency in the same place.
Midnight Sun is a Mistake By Amanda Hudgins • August 17th, 2020 Midnight Sun, the 2020 follow-up to the Twilight series, was a mistake.
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
Self Insert No Beta We Die Like Men By Amanda Hudgins • July 8th, 2020 Readers never know what they’re going to get with this tag. It may be a warning, but it’s not always deserved.
I Did an Asian Readathon and Whoops Now I’m Into MDZS By Amanda Hudgins • June 15th, 2020 This year for May, I decided to participate in #AsianReadathon, a reading event sponsored by the only booktuber I follow readwithcindy.
The Sound of Protest (And What Happens if TikTok Disables it) By Amanda Hudgins • June 4th, 2020 We lose a lot in silence. TikTok’s preferred method of dealing with copyright violations is to simply remove the offending audio altogether, leaving the video behind as a kind of digital tombstone.
Self Insert Expectations By Amanda Hudgins • May 11th, 2020 There’s a different expectation in books versus fanfiction; one predicated on tags and warnings.
In the Business of Adaptation By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 A faithfulness to a format that is no longer consistent with the product that you’re making is worshiping at the ground of a false idol.
Self-Insert RPF By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 Bring Real Person Fanfiction onto The Graham Norton Show, cowards.
True Crime for Beginners By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2020 I’ve got a reputation. Let me put it to work for you. There’s a lot to true crime, and if you’re truly interested there’s some good stuff out there. ACAB, let’s watch some true crime!
Self Insert When Fanon Eclipses Canon By Amanda Hudgins • March 10th, 2020 How a Canadian TV show from the ’90s lives on in alternative universe fanfiction.
Dolittle Makes You Think About Rectal Surgery By Amanda Hudgins • February 24th, 2020 The most interesting thing about Dolittle is probably that I spent a half hour trying to find the right words to describe emptying a dragons colon of armor before settling on “transanal extraction.”
The Emancipation of Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad By Amanda Hudgins • February 17th, 2020 Birds of Prey is the equivalent of an exorcism of Suicide Squad, the bloated carcass of FYE excess that DC had pulled into a back alley to die.
A Review of the Three Descendants Movies That No One Asked For By Amanda Hudgins • February 10th, 2020 Maleficent’s daughter looks to camera and announces, through song of course, that she is “rotten to the core.”
Color Out of Space is Purple By Amanda Hudgins • January 27th, 2020 It’s only been a few days since I watched Color Out of Space, under a week really, and it ran through me like a bad taste — unfortunate, short lived, and quickly forgotten.
The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star By Amanda Hudgins • January 20th, 2020 There’s probably some academic who would be able to stay what stage of capitalism is a multi-part expose about the beauty industry that is actually a seven part ad for a makeup palette.
A Travelogue in Wanderlust and Medicine in 7 Parts By Amanda Hudgins • October 29th, 2019 2018 was the year of travel and 2019 was the year of crying in parking lots over healthcare
A Love Letter to Bit Bash By Amanda Hudgins • August 19th, 2019 I didn’t have an idea except I wanted to smash guitars on stage, and I knew that if I was ever going to do this, it would have to be Bit Bash. I thought they would say no.
Mario Maker 2EZ By Amanda Hudgins • July 29th, 2019 Probably because game design is dead, but also because it’s kind of fun in a “piss off your parents and slide down the hardwood floors in your hallways with furniture polish on your socks” kind of way.
Dancing to the Drama on TikTok By Amanda Hudgins • July 15th, 2019 No editorial has ever grasped the weirdness of some Gen-Z kids dancing in the corpse of a closing J.C. Penney while a teenage girl scream-sings the Bishop Briggs song “River.”
A Review of Pluto TV Commercials By Amanda Hudgins • June 10th, 2019 Trapped in a world of re-runs of Forensic Files and World Poker Tour, I found myself drawn to one particular thing: the commercials of Pluto TV.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
Endgame and the Specter of Representation By Amanda Hudgins • May 6th, 2019 Endgame is such an excellent example of fan service being used to wash the sins of a deeply mediocre film.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a Failure By Amanda Hudgins • April 23rd, 2019 There is no real plotting across the arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no arc of the MCU.
Consensual Violence By Amanda Hudgins • April 8th, 2019 Blood sports are an active brutality on the lives on the participants, a grotesque display of physicality and punishment that leaves them pummeled on the side of the road.
Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
Fantastic Beasts 2 the Crime of Cinema By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2018 There are no circumstances in which you should see this movie.
The Unstable Sexuality of Joji By Amanda Hudgins • November 19th, 2018 He’s got a dangerous sort of attraction, a wild romanticism that calls out for attention in ways that the standard Asian male stereotype isn’t necessarily ready to handle.
The Kentucky State Fair By Amanda Hudgins • November 5th, 2018 I’m one of those rural queers you never hear about. You haven’t heard of me, only of the places I’ve been.
Exploits Feature “This is America” Parodies By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 “This is America” has been made into a dire warning for more than just the United States.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
Go Read DED LED By Amanda Hudgins • September 12th, 2018 This isn’t a eulogy, mostly because I doubt I would be the person to write such a thing and also because how can something actually be lost when the heart of it, the writers who crafted remarkable work and who I respect so terribly much, still exists.
here’s 2300 words on twilight and new moon By Amanda Hudgins • August 27th, 2018 Twilight at its core, is barely functional as a romance, but deeply fascinating as a tragedy where two distinct cultures interact and implode around each other.
idk take your kid to see eighth grade By Amanda Hudgins • August 6th, 2018 Eighth Grade made me want to crawl out of my skin in a way that I haven’t felt since The Babadook but instead of a screaming child, it was middle school awkwardness
Mixed CDs, Stolen By Amanda Hudgins • July 13th, 2018 14 disks in their slimline cases, carefully handwritten descriptions of each song — no more than 2 per artist. 100 songs.
Exploits Feature Praying By Amanda Hudgins • July 2nd, 2018 “You had better hope that a higher power is ready to someday forgive you, it says, because I am not.”
How I Almost Gave Up On Games By Amanda Hudgins • May 29th, 2018 I’m not one of those named faces of GamerGate, the women for whom, for better or worse, GamerGate has become a part of their identity and brand. If you think back to those most visibly affected, the ones who had it worse, I’m nobody.
What to Do When No One’s Doing Anything By Amanda Hudgins • April 11th, 2018 I’m sick of this bullshit. Publication silence on sexual misconduct and harassment in games journalism isn’t helping anyone but the accused.
