J.K. Rowling ‏@jk_rowling 10h ago
All I've done so far this week is change three characters' genders and I still don't know whether their current genitalia are permanent.
This is a post I've been meaning to write for a little while and J.K. Rowling's tweet today is too good of a lead-in to miss. I'm using my Lockhart icon not to indicate that I'm ( Read more... )

God knows I'm no supporter of Hillary Clinton. Right now I'm furious at her because she's doing nothing to support Senator Dodd's efforts to resist retroactive immunity for illegal wiretapping by telecoms (and being the single-largest receiver of telecom donations). But I'll be voting for her if she's the Democratic nominee and stuff like this will ( Read more... )

According to the Progressive Blogosphere, today is Blog Against Sexism Day. Or, as Shakespeare's Sister puts it:
Sad Irony Day-because basically the only people who participate in Blog Against Sexism Day are the people who blog against sexism every day, anyway. Wah wah wah.

I'll try to make that untrue, at least for me.

Why You Should Be a ( Read more... )

'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.

I have been watching with a great deal of interest the various responses -- and responses to the responses, and responses to the responses to the responses -- to J.K. Rowling's rant in which she stated that she hopes her daughters grow up to not "give a gust of stinking ( Read more... )

They must be from J.K. Rowling, because they're making me bounce and bubble and babble. So here is the babbling about the teacher list: ( spoilers if you consider them so )

I can't seem to stop posting today. Thinking about Book 7 has, naturally, led me to think about Beyond Book 7. Rowling has made it clear that when the HP series is over she intends to write again, possibly in a more adult-oriented style. And we all know that whatever she writes will find a publisher, though I suspect she's correct that she'll ( Read more... )