Apropos of nothing (although inspired partly by a discussion over on my Twitter a couple of months ago), I have decided to make a post (actually two posts; it got long) about the worst films I have ever seen ( Read more... )

Being a comprehensive list of the things Delicious has done to piss me off. In this post: screengrabs, ranting, and cattiness; my addiction to slash is laid bare; I accidentally reveal that I still use Hotmail. This post was intended as informative and comes across - I think - as about half informative and half plain old moaning, so, yeah, bear ( Read more... )

I should start by saying that this post isn't aimed at anyone I know on here. It's utterly about getting this off my chest - because I don't seem to be able to get this through to the people who need to hear it.

( Cut for angry feminist rampage )

(Firstly, and at the risk of breaking with verisimilitude, note that this post could potentially be triggery in one or two places.)

Based on the recent SurveyFail, I have decided to do some research of my own ( Read more... )

Backstory: lefaym pointed me to this. It reminded me of all the headdesking I did while reading a bunch of crap articles on slash for a stupid assignment I did last year. This resulted.

Disclaimer: I wouldn't actually argue that slash and mainstream pr0n are equivalent in the slightest, FWIW. But hell, most articles about slash are totally inaccurate, ( Read more... )

This is wanky and childish, so I won't be offended if you ignore it. :D

My heart sank when I saw this news:

"After playing around with a number of different ideas I decided to write a short (for me!) excerpt from a prequel to the Potter series. It is about 800 words long and the action takes place around 3 years before Harry is born."
This is ( Read more... )

( On the offchance anyone is bothered, I guess there are Beedle The Bard spoilers under the cut. )

I haven't been blogging (or responding much to other people's posts) on the whole Strikethrough 2007 thing - mainly because I wouldn't have much to add; I'm getting all my information about it from my flist so it seems a bit daft to repeat what y'all (did I just write "y'all"?) are saying more eloquently than I could. I've done the sort of thing I ( Read more... )

Warning: contains science geek ranting and anti-pseudoscience bile.

I got in from work and did my usual thing of telling myself I'd do something important/interesting/intellectually stimulating in a minute while making a cup of tea and getting comfy in front of the TV. For reasons we won't discuss, I found myself watching Richard and Judy, who ( Read more... )

I haven't updated for a couple of weeks and there are a few miscellaneous thoughts milling around my head which have been in there since this morning - mainly based on the news, so this is just a quick purge-the-brain before I go to bed. :-)

Oh, warning of sorts: there's some bitter, Old-Labour lefty ranting under the cut.

( and then it really is time to go to sleep )