I wasn't really around-or rather, wasn't paying much attention at the time-to the backlash around Us, Lim's "representative" fanvid that left a lot of people feeling unrepresented. But I knew about it, registered it, have felt vaguely weird about it ever since ( Read more... )

Our movie night was fabulous last night. Everyone loved Bride & Prejudice and a bunch of people stuck around for Bend it Like Beckham. And then after that we all just kept hanging out and talking, and we wound up discussing, among a host of other things:

• Inception fandom, and why Arthur/Eames is the monstrous phenomenon that it is
  
• why the fandom ( Read more... )

First,

OTW, or, I am exhausted. <-- if you only read one link about the OTW election, make it this one.

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If you're an OTW member, I believe you need to vote in this election. The org has gone through a lot of recent growing pains, and we have the opportunity to take it forward in a really positiive, progressive direction. Or, as outgoing ( Read more... )

So summertea was complaining that my pinboard tags are impossible to use, which is a complaint I've heard from numerous people. That's fine; I've never pretended to tag for anybody but myself, and, honestly, I hate logical categorical organization methods too much to start now. :D ( Read more... )

( TAG BUNDLES, M through WHATEVER: )

So, Delicious:
I am currently shut out of both of my delicious accounts. I cannot log in to my personal account, bookshop, which I 've had since 2006 and which my firefox extention informs me had 12,679 bookmarks as of the last sync. Apparently my password is suddenly invalid. I'm terrified that half of my tags and links will be gone. Like I ( Read more... )

Note: This essay is a revision of an essay I wrote for death_note a while back. (Okay, like, 3 years ago. What.) It is a commentary on the manga, anime, and both films of Death Note, and contains major spoilers for all of them.

Death Note is one of those iconic, apocryphal stories that it feels like everyone's read or at least heard of by now and ( Read more... )

One of the dilemmas of life on the internet is that all kinds of people have podiums and sources through which they can speak out and be heard. One of the ugly sides of this fact is that often when news goes viral, there isn't a lot of moderation in the dialogue as the word spreads--especially when the news is alarmist and seems destined to run ( Read more... )

So on Twitter a few of us have been talking about how we're pretty sure the author of Table Stakes is also the author of the kept man Eames WIP. But in discussion of *why* we started to hit the 140 wall, so I proposed a post. Which is what this is ( Read more... )

Hello, lovely friends!

So, I said to two_if_by_sea, WE SHOULD DO THIS THING, and Cathy was like, NO. WHATEVER YOU ARE THINKING, *NO.* And then I explained my plan, and she said, OMG WE SHOULD! And thus we have.

As you may or may not know, Cathy and I are huge fans of weatherfront, and like all fangirls we like to expound upon the object of our affection. So, like a ( Read more... )