Link round-up (both fannish and not) of interesting/funny things I found on my flist last month.
[US election]
penknife spells out why McCain is bad news for LGBT families, and
makes it personal.
[US election]
What our country desperately needs is a leader who loves us by Alice Walker at guardian.co.uk
[US election]
Damn those pinko commie Swedes! Joe Biden vs. right-wing reporter. I so do not blame Biden for cracking up.
[US]
giandujakiss is trying to explain
what is happening to the US finance sector right now.
[US] As
monanotlisa aptly put it: "
Holy Germanic invasion, batman!" (.pdf) Knowing there's a large amount of Americans with Germans roots is one thing, but seeing it on a map is another thing entirely.
[Twilight/US election]
stoney321 wrote
Sarah Palin/Edward Cullen fic. No, I'm not kidding.
[Bandom]
airgiodslv picspams a certain Mr Beckett.
[HP]
praetorianguard is
taking apart the JKR vs RDR ruling.
[OTW]
Transformative Works and Cultures has their first issue out. I have only read two articles yet, but looking over the table of contents along is exhiting. (
printable .pdf courtesy of
elfwreck)
[FNL]
puppetoflove wrote a heart-felt
declaration of love for the show and its characters.
[Bandom] Someone laced Panic at the Disco's halloween candy with
crazy sauce.
[Hewletts]
Teeny tiny Baz can walk!
[Lotrips] Another round of
slashababy is up and running. Sign up
here.
[Vidding] Round-ups for
vidukon vid shows:
Man Power: Men Kicking Ass & Taking Names,
TV Heroes,
Looking Deeper: Vids as Meta.
[Brokeback Mountain]
Annie Proulx bemoans torrent of 'pornish' Brokeback fan fiction. via guardian.co.uk
[Social media]
Facebook and Techcrunch: the costs of technological determinism and configuring users [Music]
Unknown Mozart score discovered in French library via guardian.co.uk
[Germany]
Terrorists and their victims on film; Das Todesspiel selenak talks about Germany's own brand of terrorism, the
RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion) and two movies dealing with the so-called "German Autumn" of 1977, Das Todesspiel and the newly released Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.
[Books]
cesperanza asked for GLBT lit recs. And got them
by the bucket load.
[Cute] Youtube vid of
Dolphins playing with bubble rings.