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I see - and sympathize - with all complaining that no one is writing fic for your favourite rare pairing or obscure old fandom, but I will raise you all the sublime frustration that no one is writing serious meta for your critically unregarded comedy loves.

WHY can I not find a good analysis of the political subtext of Brooklyn Nine Nine? WHERE is the critical deconstruction of the narrative tools in How I Met Your Mother? HOW is no one jumping around on a barricade about class issues in Community? Why dost thou betray me and leave out to dry and with no one to talk to, oh fandom?

I'm going to sit here and stare at the wall, y'all.

Well, at the books, because I'm in a library.

Ooh, that one looks interesting.

Apropos, do you know how incredibly boring, obvious and unimaginative most serious books about tv are? All that "Philosophy of Mad Men" (we have no less than 3 books about Mad Men, and the series isn't even done!) or Women on TV: from Lucy to Friends type stuff. I sort through them a lot because that section tends to be a perennial mess, and SO OBVIOUS.

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I love reading meta about any show I watch. Or maybe even join in the discussion. I just... Never come up with these questions/topics on my own.

Also, are Troy and Abed meant to be slashy? They sort of feel like the equivalent of Raj and Howard to me... Or is that just me?

There's definitely a healthy Troy/Abed contingent out there. It's never explicit, or a running gag, the way Raj and Howard are (Community is far too dignified and politically self-aware to frame its protagonists in that kind of crude, slightly degrading humor, I think) but it's a thing.

One of the interesting things about them is that i've heard people actually shy away from slashing them, even though they're so eminently slashable - because they've got such a vibrant, healthy, honest, interesting friendship and that's kind of rare to see between two men on tv in itself.