One. I didn't sign up for Remix this year. It's maybe a statement about my current awareness levels that I didn't even realize that signups were open. This is what I get for not reading my flist for weeks at a time. (I binge on it some days to make up for this.) I wouldn't have signed up anyway. I am too glacial these days to feel good about ( Read more... )

It's time for summer_of_giles! katekat1010 has already blown my mind, and it's only the first day.

calapine on the awesomeness of women in this season of Who (via violetisblue).

There is also this brief pointed rant about what's not feminist about slash: erasing women. Slash sure doesn't have to disappear the women, but when it does let's not pretend that's some bold feminist statement ( Read more... )

Well! I'm certainly glad that the Menz have appeared to tell me that I'm doing LJ and Buffy fandom Rong(tm).The point of criticism should be attempting to effect change in the creators of the thing criticized, and we should stop all this talking about it with friends nonsense. This certainly has nothing to do with the fact that the poster loves ( Read more... )

LJ posts are my version of Morning Pages. I read metafandom, groan and/or mutter under my breath, write something in response, then usually delete it all unposted. This morning I wrote something about how much I love science fiction. Then I went to the gym to fling heavy metal objects around. In the shower afterwards I figured out a pacing problem ( Read more... )

This unfunny business writeup about awful behavior from a single BNF in SPN fandom has sort of exploded all over the place in fandom this week. If you haven't read it yet, as some of my flistians might not have, you might want to just so you have the context of the conversation. For further reading about the rape culture issue, I recommend "A ( Read more... )

I was thinking (a dangerous yet fortunately rare occurrence) about the recent fandom go-round about warnings, which is iteration #392 in what is likely an endless culture clash. If you want to catch up on the thrash, check out metafandom's warnings tag. In this post I share the evolution of my own thinking about warnings, and a decision I've taken ( Read more... )

Brutal honesty fannish question meme answers here! Not much brutality, I'm afraid. And despite my threats, I haven't found it hilarious to lie, so these are all straight answers.

One. violetisblue wants to know about Giles & Ethan. ( Giles & Ethan, in my theory... )

This is pretty much what went through my mind when all the kerfluffles happened last summer. I've only gotten around to expressing it coherently now. I continue to think about it because the project is tempting: I look at fanfiction.net and I see a terrible archive platform; I look at LJ and I see an even worse one. But today seems like a great day ( Read more... )

I get the feeling that you may fill in the following journal entry for me every day for the rest of this week:

1. Working madly. Have taken new resolution to ignore everything, including stupid process problems, and just write software. Not necessarily the software people want written right this second. Ha.

2. Writing madly. Have not started forty_or_better ( Read more... )

Well, there's.... no, boring. And then there's... no, that's boring too. Er, at least I don't have to do giles_watchers tonight, thanks to the awesome kambee. Which is good, because to be honest, easy as that task is, I think it might be beyond me tonight. Brain == pudding. Was virtuous this morning, at least: packages and other oddments mailed.

I have some Blake's 7 ( Read more... )