Knickerweasels

Knickerweasels is a weekly fancast by hosts flutiebear and myjusticecake on all things Dragon Age and fandom. We’ve taken our ongoing conversation to the internet in the hopes that some of you will find it interesting, amusing, or perhaps even want to join in.

Episode #16: “Can You Be a Feminist And a Gamer?”

This week we’re joined by the ever delightful cypheroftyr to discuss fandom and feminism, and how best we can reconcile the two. What does it mean to be a feminist in fandom, or in the greater gaming community as a whole? Which battles are worth fighting? Do we have a responsibility to participate in less-than-safe public spaces, so that our voices can be heard?

Also: Is it more accurate to compare Velanna to Fenris—or Oghren? Can offline social anxieties influence how we relate to female characters in-game? Are cosplayers only interested in the male gaze? Plus much, much more.

Note: Sadly, a technical issue occurred wherein Flutie’s entire audio track this week was lost to the Seven Hells.  It took some serious blood magic to recover what little we could, so please forgive the poor audio quality whenever she’s on mic. We’ve done our best this week to make her intelligible.  

Links:

• Cypheroftyr’s Tumblr, as well as a preview of her upcoming gaming panel at Wiscon 36
• Wiscon 36: The World’s Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention
• Article on cosplay: “Oh You Sexy Geek: ‘Geek Girls’ and the Problem of Self-Objectification”
• Subitoallegra’s Isabela cosplay gallery
• Elizabeth Moon’s original blog post, the withdrawal of her invitation as a 2010 Wiscon guest of honor, and Race Fail
• BioWare openly solicits fan feedback on the Dragon Age games that could guide future content

If you’d like to leave us a comment, question or maybe just some good old fashioned hatemail, drop us an ask in our Inbox or send us an email at knickerweaselspodcast (at) gmail [dot] com.

Previous episode: “Of Languages, Ladies and Lovely Voices” 

Knickerweasels is a weekly fancast by hosts flutiebear and myjusticecake on all things Dragon Age and fandom. We’ve taken our ongoing conversation to the internet in the hopes that some of you will find it interesting, amusing, or perhaps even want to join in.

Episode #15: “Of Languages, Ladies and Lovely Voices”

Flutiebear returns to the show this week, and we finally, finally take some voice questions! At the top of the show, we explore the reasons why fandom tends to overlook female characters in favor of their male counterparts, while in the second half, we dig into the pros and cons of how spoken and written languages are implemented in Dragon Age 2.

Thank you a thousand times over to svenharel, historymiss and fragilespark for sending in audio questions! As you can tell, we love your voices, and your comments!

Links:

• Lose an afternoon trawling through Historymiss’s Feminist Friday tag
• Check out some recent DA Kink Meme fill statistics — looks like we underestimated the popularity of het pairings on the show, although femslash is definitely the laggard
• Flutie’s Merrill Alphabet series and many of the other Alphabet meme series
• Myjusticecake’s Nineteen, Wayward Son and Empty Arms, and Andraste’s Kissverse series
• Flutie’s meta two-parter on the Heroine’s Journey: “Taking the Heroine’s Journey: How This Often Overlooked Storytelling Pattern Worns, Using Tangled and Dragon Age 2 as Examples”
  Part 1 and Part 2
• Eric Kripke admits Bela Talbot’s departure from Supernatural was tied to negative fan reaction
• Katiebour’s Tevene (Arcanum? Whatever It’s Called) Dictionary
• A transcript of Gaider’s post-PAX BioWare Social (not Twitter, as stated in the show) interview

If you’d like to leave us a comment, question or maybe just some good old fashioned hatemail, drop us an ask in our Inbox or send us an email at knickerweaselspodcast (at) gmail [dot] com.

Previous episode: “Trash It Like A Hotel Room”

Knickerweasels is a weekly fancast by hosts flutiebear and myjusticecake on all things Dragon Age and fandom. We’ve taken our ongoing conversation to the internet in the hopes that some of you will find it interesting, amusing, or perhaps even want to join in.

Episode #14: “Trash It Like A Hotel Room”

This week flutiebear abandoned the show for adventures in New Orleans. Luckily, the lovely and talented missl0nelyhearts agreed to fill in. We discuss the origins of our fanlives, what happens when a new fandom seduces you, and lots more.

Links:

- missl0nelyhearts’ tumblr

- Fan Art: An Explosion of Creativity

- The story myjusticecake references during the email segment is Silk, by liripip

If you’d like to leave us a comment, question or maybe just some good old fashioned hatemail, drop us an ask in our Inbox or send us an email at knickerweaselspodcast (at) gmail [dot] com.

Previous episode: “It’s All You, Baby” 

Knickerweasels is a weekly fancast by hosts flutiebear and myjusticecake on all things Dragon Age and fandom. We’ve taken our ongoing conversation to the internet in the hopes that some of you will find it interesting, amusing, or perhaps even want to join in.

Episode #13: “It’s All You, Baby”

This week we put the onus on you, dear listeners, and you came through for us like champions. It’s our first ever email show! Things that you wanted to know about: polite nerd rage, flutie’s feels about cites, how to write good old fashioned smut, and more.

Links:

-  Tasteful, Understated Nerd Rage: Dragon Age 2

- flutiebear’s Shadows fic

- Armor concept sketches for DA3 -thanks bellisadinosaur!

- blackcoffeeandink’s Coffee, Black

- katiebour’s A Light That Never Goes Out (sorry, doll, we’ll get the name right on the show someday!)

If you’d like to leave us a comment, question or maybe just some good old fashioned hatemail, drop us an ask in our Inbox or send us an email at knickerweaselspodcast (at) gmail [dot] com.

Previous episode: “Spoiler City”