Am trying very hard to not be a jerk about the “what if Jane Austen wrote Star Trek” post a few people have reblogged today on tumblr but godddd how can so many people take these canons that are WALL TO WALL social commentary and jokes and throw away everything except (to me) secondary aspects like character quirks and a distinctive use of semi ( Read more... )

(Well, no more spoilery than the trailer ( Read more... )

Are people familiar with the Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin? I grew up with translations of his books as a kid and adored them, and it's only recently it struck me that those whose mothers are not arty types of somewhat Eastern European extraction may be unfamiliar with him. So: look at his art! Isn't it the prettiest thing you have ever seen( ( Read more... )

I keep almost making comments to reply to people making the argument in the subject of this post but then stopping when I realise they've gotten tl;dr and personal. Thus, a post. Warning: tl;dr and personal!

Most people are talking about fanfic but since I mostly make comics, that's what I'm mostly talking about (EDIT: See also All things to ( Read more... )

I've been tutoring a Finance student in calculus recently before his exam on Wednesday. I warned him I didn't know any Finance stuff but he said it was straight maths. And afaict they were just taught plain calculus, he showed me the last few worksheets and chapters and the latter could have come straight out of any not-very-good first year ( Read more... )

So first, a month or two ago, I broke Cam's laptop (I spilled water on it in just the right way so that it looked like none had gotten into it but it was actually totally screwed). I felt REALLY bad about it, and thus reacted as I do to feeling really bad about something eg by talking and thinking about it as little as possible ( Read more... )

Following on from What annoys me about fanfic meta about itself, the OTHER thing that annoys me about "fanfic" meta about itself is the assumption by people in the american dominated english speaking scifi-con-culture-associated mostly-inspired-by-mainstream-tv-and-movies LJ-based metafandom-reading part of fanfic-and-other-related-fannish- ( Read more... )

Oops, posted this to the wrong journal, it's now at my Dreamwidth.

(separated out as a tangent from Old school fandom: Can we fix it?There's a difference between "here are some flaws in X group"/"Here are some awesome things about my group" (both of which are valid) and "Let's think about the differences between X and my group. Well.. X has all these flaws. And my group is awesome. Because we are awesome people, ( Read more... )

So I think it doesn't count as a spoiler to say: Wolverine doesn't have his adamantium skeleton at the start of the movie, then partway through he gets it and becomes more baddass ( Read more... )