Obviously, sexism influences fans and fannish practices, but I think it’s ridiculously disingenuous to suggest that internalized misogyny is the only force at work. I don’t always want to brace myself for my entertainment; it’s common to say, “[x] is my life, of course it comes with me” - I’ve said it myself, and it’s true to some extent, but ( Read more... )

I write a lot of always-a-girl genderswap. Most people don’t like it, fine, but some responses to it are starting to really annoy me, especially the “it’s all X” or “they only write it because Y.” So here are my actual reasons for doing it - which may not be others genderswappers’ reasons, but should at least give a better idea of “but whyyyy” than ( Read more... )

I found this via sqbr: being the change I want to see in my f-list, for those of us who are missing conversation on the text-based journaling sites. Mine:

1. name: anghraine at dreamwidth/Tumblr, elizabeth_hoot at lj (DW and LJ are crossposted)
2. age(ish): 26
3. primary fandoms: Avatar (mostly LOK), Austen (mostly P&P), Star Wars (don't like the ( Read more... )

Not even f-locking this.

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Dear Yuletide author,

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I’ve been mulling this over, and meant to write a long, thoughtful post about it at some point, but instead I’m just barrelling through this.

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I've now been recc'd at crack_van three times, and I'm ridiculously gratified about it. And two for SW, even, which is particularly nice; people tend to like my Austen stories much more (even with one-shots and drabbles, Austen ones tend to get about five times as many hits - it's like ... fannish typecasting?). To be fair, it may be that I'm much ( Read more... )

I've been thinking for awhile of putting all my serious meta together in some easily accessible place, since I get asked for particular links often enough, and I've posted enough that it's inconvenient to search my meta tag. It's very much a work in progress right now, but I tried to include the ones that people most often ask me about, use the ( Read more... )

I'm careful with money - I usually don't even buy lunch when I'm in Portland all day. But apparently all those skipped meals counted for something, because I had way more money in my account then I expected. So I looked at my Guild Wars 2 e-mail, and then at my account, and then at the GW2 pre-order, and decided that I needed it in my life. GW2 > ( Read more... )