Okay . . . I think I've pulled myself back together after my Pyrosplosion. I'm ready to get meta. I don't plan to link to or explicitly describe anything gory this time, but I'll use a cut anyway because it's going to get long.

( Thoughts about TF2 and its fandom )

I seem to have taken up fan beading today. Some of you (okay, maybe all of you) are wondering what I mean by fan beading. I mean I am making jewelry with bead patterns inspired by fictional characters. I'm planning on making fan bracelets inspired by all of the major female characters in ATLA and all the female Hunger Games tributes who got at ( Read more... )

1) DC treated Alan Moore quite shabbily, and the people in charge should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to exploit his work, in light of that history ( Read more... )

During my recent travels, I observed and thought a lot about how commercial air travel is pretty much awful for anyone who can't walk longish distances and/or who needs to carry take large items wherever they go. While I was away, I also got to get a much more up-close, on-the-ground look at how difficult it is to get a person with mobility issues ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I was reading a lot of feminist writing of the sort that currently gets criticized or simply dismissed by feminist bloggers as being too academic and theoretical. One of the ideas that really stood out for me was the "degeneration" in meaning of feminine words. Basically, degeneration in this sense refers to the fact that it's ( Read more... )

This began with an idea for a Halloween costume, but it turned into much more. I love dressing up in costumes, and this year I felt like getting started early and doing something other than my usual "magical fat lady in a long magical robe." I own multiple plus-size "witch" or "sorceress" or "vampire countess" costumes with slightly different ( Read more... )

One of the frustrating things about discussing the obstacles society places in the way of people who fall into certain categories is that some of the people who get involved in the conversation tend to assume that when you talk about Category X, you are speaking of the LEAST marginalized members of Category X. For example, "women" is often taken ( Read more... )

Found on fybiology tumblr: CGI bears explain a recent wank, er, controversy among evolutionary biologists

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KE and I watched the Kung Fu Panda sequel this afternoon. We were both surprised by how good it is-- and we're both fans of the original and of animation and of over-the-top stylized martial arts sequences. We just weren't expecting this level of quality animation or a mostly coherent and rather touching story from a sequel to a children's movie ( Read more... )