My 7-year old son is a Dr Who fan, which is inevitable in this family - hell, my 2-year-old daughter wants Daleks for her third birthday and is mad-keen on Martha and Captain Jack ( Read more... )

These films were some of my earliest introduction into media portrayal of m/m relationships ( Read more... )

As others have said, it only seems fair to Amazon that. having posted on the debacle last weekend, I should follow through.

So, i got this:

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting Amazon.com.

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.

It has been misreported that the issue was ( Read more... )

Anyone who has shopped at Amazon - look at the post below. In brief, Amazon have apparently decided that virtually any book with any kind of loose connection to LGBT issues, from JB's autobiography through Brokeback Mountain to books with explicit same-gender sex scenes are by definition 'adult' and have removed them from searches and stripped them ( Read more... )

I was at uni from 1994 to 1997 for my BA and then another year for my MSc. I took a year out before uni (so if you want you can work out how old I am).

I studied environmental sciences, broadly speaking. I remember the "theory" of global warming, how we could "prevent" it and read of the "nightmare" scenario of a 2C temperature rise at the equator ( ( Read more... )

Please IGNORE the tags - it's all shot to shite and I need to work on it but not right now. Am  trying to watch Pirates III and write chapter 4 at the same time. this might not work ( Read more... )

well, I made a mistake. I thought things might stop getting worse.

SO - my mum has cancer, and my husband got made redundant six hours ago.

And me?> I'm drunk.

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines ( Read more... )

Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete!

I'm a Catholic and today is Christmas Day. A joyous day when, in amonst the presents and the food and the fan-fucking-tastic-looking Dr Who episode that's about 18 hours away, I try to remember a 13-year old girl and her newborn baby. Because I'm a Catholic and my faith is actually ( Read more... )

Well, I'm away off to the wilds of Yorkshire tomorrow and won't have a decent internet connection for a fortnight. And I have nowhere NEAR finished the first draft of Part 3 - sorry! It's kind of getting away from me - I dread to think what the word count is but it's up to 30 pages in Word already and I'm maybe half-way. Ummm - might be begging for ( Read more... )