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I Want to Believe...That Chris Carter won't ruin The X-Files: Fan/producer relationships and textual ownership

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Bethan Jones Aberystwyth University

June 16, 2015

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– should not be allowed anywhere near the revival. Research I’m currently doing shows that fans have very ...

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Brothers As Lovers: Shipping Wincest in Supernatural

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Kimberly Workman University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

June 22, 2015

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Brothers As Lovers: Shipping Wincest in Supernatural winchesters wincest supernatural slash fiction shipping fanfiction Curator's Note The act of shipping slash couples was once considered taboo, but now has become commonplace. The gender pairing of ...

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Re: Brothers As Lovers: Shipping Wincest in Supernatural

I’m so glad someone is

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Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

Monday, June 22, 2015 — 10:41 pm

drawn in the sand between what is accepted and what's not, and Wincest is on the other side of that ...

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Mission Accomplished: Fan Reactions to a Realized Ship

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Evan L. Kropp Reinhardt University

June 23, 2015

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words, “I’m pregnant. You’re the father.” This moment was unexpected because the show previously hinted ...

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Re: Mission Accomplished: Fan Reactions to a Realized Ship

Negotiating the progression of relationships in TV narrative

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Pam Wilson Reinhardt University

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 — 1:01 am

"will they or won't they" for as long as possible? And then, when "they will, and ...

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Swan Queen Shippers and the Need for Lesbian Representation on TV

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Bridgett Vanderhoof University of Wisconsin-Madison

June 24, 2015

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Swan Queen Shippers and the Need for Lesbian Representation on TV Television Studies Once Upon a Time gender and sexuality fandom Curator's Note In ABC’s Once Upon A Time, Emma Swan is dragged to Storybrooke, ME by her son and soon encounters his ado ...

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Re: Mission Accomplished: Fan Reactions to a Realized Ship

Is there ever a perfect moment to fulfill a ship?

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Evan L. Kropp Reinhardt University

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 — 1:33 pm

relationship. So, I’m pretty confident that the show’s storyline would have been different if Emily was not ...

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Re: Swan Queen Shippers and the Need for Lesbian Representation on TV

Interesting post. It’s funny

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Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

Thursday, June 25, 2015 — 12:19 am

and sexism than we realize on first glance! On a side note, I really need to watch this show, or maybe ...

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Re: Brothers As Lovers: Shipping Wincest in Supernatural

Different Sides of Fandom

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Kimberly Workman University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Thursday, June 25, 2015 — 5:27 pm

and what’s not, and Wincest is on the other side of that line, in the “not” category. It may be okay ... around it." I think this is where the different sides of fandom come into play. The secrecy of ... the fans that ship wincest?) that I’m not capable of doing, but would totally read." The ...

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