Related to each other:
* affirmational fandom
* Joss Whedon's "Heart (Broken)" from Commentary! The Musical, also in This American Life
* "Our Reaction to “Cat Person” Shows That We Are Failing as Readers" by Larissa Pham
* The Twitter discussion starting "There's a modern (or at least louder in modern era) tendency in both fiction and the interpretation of fiction that every narrative be some sort of very specific kind of hyper-literal puzzle box that can be "solved" by wikis and lore and clues" by Scott Benson, and a related discussion started by Brandon Rhea
* Biblical literalist theology & strict constructionist judicial interpretation
Edited to add: See![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seekingferret's comment below for an objection to the word "overly" in the previous title of this entry, "overly literal & inflexible reading styles". Potentially a fair cop! I'm like handwaving around here talking about constellations of related things, not saying "every thing in this list entirely fulfills every one of these characteristics [Figure A]".
* affirmational fandom
* Joss Whedon's "Heart (Broken)" from Commentary! The Musical, also in This American Life
* "Our Reaction to “Cat Person” Shows That We Are Failing as Readers" by Larissa Pham
* The Twitter discussion starting "There's a modern (or at least louder in modern era) tendency in both fiction and the interpretation of fiction that every narrative be some sort of very specific kind of hyper-literal puzzle box that can be "solved" by wikis and lore and clues" by Scott Benson, and a related discussion started by Brandon Rhea
* Biblical literalist theology & strict constructionist judicial interpretation
Edited to add: See
seekingferret's comment below for an objection to the word "overly" in the previous title of this entry, "overly literal & inflexible reading styles". Potentially a fair cop! I'm like handwaving around here talking about constellations of related things, not saying "every thing in this list entirely fulfills every one of these characteristics [Figure A]".
