Heh, so I was very intrigued to see this article on women's bodily functions linked at ontd_feminism today. It seems ironic to put this discussion under a cut, given that the whole point is "we should be able to talk about this," but I'll spare you.

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First, WHEEEEE!!! Google has enabled multiple account sign-in! This has always been a pain in the ass for me, because I keep my RL email and my fandom email separate. I know, I could just use email forwarding, but my fandom email is also my "junk" email, the one I use to sign up for things that I don't want cluttering my inbox, so forwarding it all ( Read more... )

I'm sure probably everyone has seen it by now, but I wanted to put in a plug for deird1's vid The Dance. Quite possibly one of the best visual summaries of the show ever.

Also, a random observation: I have 430 icons saved on my computer. Of those, 73 are angry/annoyed/sad/WTF or otherwise negative icons. In comparison, 44 are happy/smiley/positive icons. ( Read more... )

Just a few blog posts I spotted this week that I thought were interesting and/or helpful.

Finding Tips on Self-Editing at The Blood-Red Pencil: This is a round-up of many posts from the blog with lots of good editing advice, some of which you've probably heard before (adjective/adverb use, dialogue tags, habit words). I particularly liked the one ( Read more... )

I'm watching Dexter (don't worry, I'm abiding by the results of the poll, but Rome and Six Feet Under weren't available to stream) and waiting for my parents to arrive for the weekend. I'll probably have thoughts on Dexter next week, but for now, here's some other recs.

( Movies! )

I could use some. But that is not the point of this post.

Not too long ago, cleolinda posted a clever and useful expansion of the glass of water metaphor, (you know what I mean, how the essence of all plot conflicts is that a character has to want something, even if it's just a glass of water) and in the process creates some hilarious summaries of popular ( Read more... )

Okay, this is kind of brilliant/hilarious: Chuck, with all the characters' genders flipped. I love the casting. Alison Brie as Chuck? Yes, please. Kristen Bell as Captain Awesome? OMG!!

Which raises some interesting thoughts, actually. I mean, I would pay huge amounts of money to see a female version of Casey. Like, HUGE. That goes without saying. ( Read more... )

This is an excellent article on Writer's Voice, which serves as a timely follow up to Emmie's recent post on the subject.

What do we mean when we talk about "voice"?

Voice, at its most basic level, is the sensibility with which an author writes. It's a perspective, an outlook on the world, a personality and style that is recognizable even out of ( Read more... )

So, after hearing about the latest privacy-violating feature that's been made opt-out rather than opt-in, I'm about ready to delete my Facebook account. WTF Internets?? Why is it so hard to understand that some of us might enjoy limited social networking without having our personal information automatically shared with every other site we use? Like ( Read more... )

If real life were more like the internet...