I don't particularly like the word bisexual because it's derived from the binary gender paradigm. i'm gender fluid and my attractions to others are not gender-based, they are awesome-based. - Aysa September

Jennifer Smith's "Fantastic Fangirls: Comics and Culture", has a piece on Daken Akihiro, For Your Entertainment, comparing Daken to Adam Lambert:My new appreciation for Daken stems directly from my realization that he is the Adam Lambert of comics. Though maybe not always progressive, or always appropriate (or, frankly, always deserving of ( Read more... )

Links:

• Neil Gaiman's script for Doctor Who - omitted food dialogue
  
• The appearance (or non-appearance!) of the original TARDIS.
  
• Stolen Van Gogh painting - have they questioned Eroica? Neil Caffrey?
  
• I have a very tiny hear of heights. It usually doesn't bother me, except at the top of very, very high escalators. But I'm a little freaked by ( Read more... )

Anna Paquin says she's bisexual. Cool. Too bad I still don't like her, but still. Cool.

Well. It was bound to come up in the media as soon as we learned that Fox was showing an interest in Torchwood. I hear Fox is notoriously homophobic. I haven't watched produced at Fox, as far as I know, since Firefly. Maybe this is not a coincidence.

Anyway, So
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Out of curiosity, I was browsing the Wikipedia site Fictional Bisexuals and I wasn't very happy with what I saw. I was hoping to be steered to novels with bisexual characters; it didn't work. In fact, it seems the venue for bi characters is almost exclusively comic books and soap operas, with the occasional TV comedy (specifically, Nip/Tuck and ( Read more... )

I read another Mike Carey story today: My Faith in Frankie, about a seventeen-year old girl named Frankie, who has her own private god, named Jeriven, who gives her a charmed life. But Jeriven wants to protect her from boys, and Frankie doesn't want to be protected from them. With some help from her best friend Kay, Frankie sets out to discover ( Read more... )