( Spoilers for Dr. Who series 4. And my feelings. )

I read the following yesterday, and thought it applicable to my own work and some of the recent conversations in fandom, especially in light of
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whatever.scalzi.com/2010/05/30/fanfic-contest/

---- Um. Scalzi is asking for fanfic. About himself. And a unicorn-kitten. Uni-kitten? Kittehcorn? The picture is amazing, just click it. And then roll around in the volcanoes and kiuniehcorn for awhile.

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Worlds collide?

In reading the blogosphere today, I came across this post by Tavi Gevinson. If you don't know who Tavi is, she's the child-genius of fashion blogging. She is speaking out against women in the fashion world (specifically, models) who are made to feel uncomfortable by Big Name Fashion Photographer Terry Richardson.

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I have a big project for work that needs to be done fast, fast, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet. So I've been reading lots of SPN, including working my way through the last big bang, and somehow ended up at sockpuppett 's video vault. I've always loved Luminosity's vids (check out the "Wanted" vid, which is great), but missed this one when she ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, my brother had a comic-book version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that I stole and read over and over again. When I was stumbling around the internet this morning, I found a fan-vid steampunk AU of Vernes' world over on Boing Boing. Go watch it now! The work is pretty incredible from my perspective, anyway, knowing a very little ( Read more... )

For those of you that aren't following along, one of my favorite fandom adventures, Remix Redux is gearing up. WooT! Please to be noting there is a chromatic character drabble fest going on over in dark agenda.

As one of the mods pointed out, the drabble challenge only incorporates characters that are played by people of color. Characters that are ( Read more... )

Where are they? I mean, COME ON. Filthy/Gorgeous was made to be, like, a Smallville vid. And Get It Get It ? Totally Supernatural. They've got to be out there, right? If I'm thinking about it, surely 1,000,000 other people in fandom have already figured it out, right? RIGHT?

Title of a paper section. With professor approval. *beams*

Here's the link to proof of Dr. O's book: www.gailross.com/project_health.htm . I've been trying to think of ways he could be more offensive and wrong-headed, but they're just not coming to me.

Link provided via the fanhistory wiki, here: www.fanhistory.com/wiki/SurveyFail