So, this thing with the Lambda Literary Awards. (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably better off. If you want to know what I'm talking about, a lot of people have been weighing in all over the place.)

( Trying not to take sides, except actually I totally am )

So, I like genderbender fic. Both of the always-was variety and the spontaneous-change variety. I like it a lot. It's interesting to explore how gender informs our responses, and making characters switch gender is an interesting thought experiment, which makes it sound much more srs than it has to be. It's not an academic paper...but on the other ( Read more... )

Some day, since nobody else seems to be going to do so, I am going to write a book. A nonfiction book. And this book will be about fandom. It will be about the history of (Western) fandom, how it goes back much farther than we in the modern day think--since, after all, who owns Hercules? Where would Virgil be without Homer? Does Ovid have a ( Read more... )

Because for a kerfuffle that seems to me to be so damn obvious, it sure is going on for a while. (metafandom has links to most of the relevant posts, if you've been fortunate enough to miss it.)

( So, to warn or not to warn? )

Dear Amazon,

You are stupid, and therefore wrong. Seriously, removing dozens of books with GLBT content (defined as "characters, discussion, or author") from rankings lists? Not cool. Not cool at all. Especially since you can still search for and find volume upon volume of explicit heterosexual fiction, Playboy, and sex toys, but not some ( Read more... )

You Are 12% Girly


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Not that this particular stupidity is in any way unique to Final Fantasy X, or Final Fantasy at all, but two FFX fans have advanced this argument to me in the course of a week or two, so it feels like it is.

"[Character Name] cannot be gay because he is too masculine!" is not, and never will be, a valid argument against writing slash about [ ( Read more... )