So, I've just finished reading Notes from Underground: zines and the politics of alternative culture by Stephen Duncombe and I'm feeling conflicted and thoughtful. Also embarrassed, because I pulled a zine I made in 2001 out of a box and it's so incredibly typical of the "genre:" Text written on a typewriter; a rant about how "rape affects everyone ( Read more... )

*takes deep breath ( Read more... )

Apparently my department is even more full of fangeeks than I knew--at a party tonight this guy told me about how he used to read lots of Days of Our Lives slash and there was this whole community of gay men who wrote it. Then he and his boyfriend got into a teensy spat because he apparently deleted a Nip/Tuck episode off of their Tivo before his ( Read more... )

I'm in a really good mood. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the classes I want and not a single one of them starts before noon and I only have to go to school Mon-Weds. (Which means, greenapricot, that we can go to winchestercon early, btw. We'll talk soon ( Read more... )

So I'm in Portland now. Have loaded up on chocolate and cherries and gotten totally sucked in by herself_nyc's book (50 pages in and it had me hunched over and breathless in the bus depot). I am also the kind of jerk right now who keeps posting on her own journal even though I have hardly any time away from visiting and so have only been skimming my flist ( Read more... )

So I am now homeless, feel truly single, and in two weeks I will be unemployed--all things that I have not experienced in years.

( The Recent Moving/Life Trials/Fangeekery/Mal-lust Extravaganza in the Life of Femme in Disorganized List Form )

I just went through a fannish rite of passage...getting fic bound at Kinko's ( Read more... )

Fandom is...

And to that I say, yes.

Have I mentioned recently that Fray totally kicks ass? Because it does. I really think that if you love Slayer lore it's required reading. Joss-written if you care about that and from a visual standpoint definitely amongst the most beautifully illustrated of the Buffyverse comics.

I napped through Passions today which is my usual dishwashing ( Read more... )

Joss said this: "In my world, heroes bugger each other senseless. Not all of them, but more than you'd think, and probably not who you're thinking. But seriously, Anybody here care to tell Apollo and the Midnighter how a hero should behave? To their faces?" in the comments of a Whedonesque post about the "slashiest couples in SciFi/Fantasy fandom ( Read more... )