Posts tagged ‘fanfic’
2010.06.21 A linkspammer as good as a man (21st June, 2010) (0)
jadelennox gives concrete ways that able-bodied people can fight ableism, on top of or instead of blogging about it. On that note, Anna has founded a transcripts community on Dreamwidth, for volunteers to help out ...
Full Story »2010.06.03 Girly geeky lit (61)
Here’s a bit of a 101 thread with a difference, it’s 101 for women writers, not 101 for feminism. Over at Tiger Beatdown C.L. Minou talks about her transition in reading (which coincided with her ...
Full Story »2010.04.18 Quick hit: “Mary Sue” policing (10)
Another one bubbling up from our linkspamming hive mind: criticism of “Mary Sue” policing. Mary Sue is a fandom term for a character who is judged to be authorial self-insert and wish fulfilment, prototypically a ...
Full Story »2010.04.12 How John Scalzi invented fanfic (13)
So the other day John Scalzi posted on his blog that he is writing a “reboot” of H. Beam Piper’s science fiction novel “Little Fuzzy”. He says: Why did you do this? Because as far ...
Full Story »2010.01.17 On geekitude, hierarchy, and being a snob (2)
Liz Henry’s thoughts on geekitude got me wanting to post my own half-formed thoughts on the topic. (Crossposted from my personal blog at Skud’s suggestion.) Evidently I have the capacity to continuously raise my standard ...
Full Story »2010.01.13 A vindication of the rights of linkspam (13th January, 2010) (20)
Barbie.com – I Can Be: Vote for Barbie's next career: 'Computer Engineer' is one of the options. Let's make it happen! How objectification silences women – the male glance as a psychological muzzle: Ed Yong ...
Full Story »2010.01.03 Bechdelicious geek entertainment of 2009 (19)
Inspired by a post of lauredhel’s asking for recent movies that pass the Bechdel test, I wondered if anyone has some recommendations for good recent geeky entertainment that also passes, ideally comprehensively rather than barely. ...
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