So, I've just been thinking in general (I think it was brought on by a lack of well written smut in the CATs fandom) about the place of sex in stories/fiction/movies/TV shows. It's interesting because in a lot of ways I feel it's a taboo subject in our culture (or at least a sorta generally disliked one in public discourse) but at the same time we ( Read more... )

Also, finally got some books read. It's always nice to read and feel accomplished at the end of it. Got through Korda's 700 page biography on T E Lawrence, Hero. It was excellently done, especially considering how very conterversial Lawrence often is. Got through 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as well. It was interesting for being such a male book, ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/14/ya-authors-gay-characters 

This is really, really, not okay guys.

Since I tend to think of Veteran's Day as more of the end of WWI, I decided it might be a good time to finally pick up Hero by Michael Korda, the biography of TE Lawrence that came out last year to quite a bit of acclaim ( Read more... )

((So, there are a few rants/discussions I've been meaning to get up on things such as why Buffy Season 4 pisses me off in many ways, as does culture's/historical fiction's tendency to paint the past by our own standards rather than their own, so if anyone's interested, pester me on posting those but now you're getting this one ( Read more... )

You know what I really hate ( Read more... )

... I'm sure they exist somewhere. Or find the right screencap/promotional picture if possible and make some. As a last resort, scan one out of the program ( Read more... )

Considering my brain space I'm a little surprised at the moment ( Read more... )

Home from Ireland. Yeah, there were pretty much no entries from that trip, but it was pretty much hands down amazing and there were lots of amazing things to be had ( Read more... )

 Last night I completed Les Miserables. Woo! All 1,463 pages worth of it, in a little over a week. I'm going to go back to my knitting kick now...