I know I shouldn't get this worked up over somebody's stupid AU fanfic, but . . .
( cut for feminist nerdrage )

So . . . y'all probably noticed some sudden changes in my LJ and DW recently, as well as a complete lack of commentary on the sequel to the series for which I had the most icons and produced the most fic, followed by multiple posts about a game fandom I didn't write much about before. ( Cut for stuff that people who haven't had me friended since the early days probably won't find interesting )

Okay, I'm pretty sure Michael Bay doesn't know how anything works, but this takes the cake. Most likely one of these cakes.

He's supposed to be making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. So he decided to make the world "richer" (um, what?) by making the main characters members of an extraterrestrial species instead of mutant turtles like it ( Read more... )

Why is it that whenever I like a popular pairing, I soon discover that the reasons I like it are completely different from-- and sometimes directly opposed to!-- the reasons the rest of the fandom likes it? This happens to me over and over again. If I like a het pairing because it blurs or subverts traditional gender roles, other people like it ( Read more... )

A strange and wondrous thing is happening in response to recent discussions among comics fans. Take heart, o feminists, for the newest, hottest trend among DC readers is straight dudes being really, really concerned about slut-shaming, especially the slut-shaming of female fictional characters by prudish real-life female comics fans! Does any ( Read more... )

Stupid Suicide Squad travesty in the stupid "New 52" mess! THEY MADE AMANDA WALLER THIN. They also de-aged her so much that her original backstory can't possibly fit in the timeline. They lightened her skin and straightened her hair too. They put her in a tight, low-cut top and heavy make-up, and they have her introducing herself to her new ( Read more... )

I have been to the bookstore, and I have learned that A Compendium of Wolf Fail has a sequel. It is called The Tempering of Men. Its cover depicts shirtless troll-battle. Because who needs a shirt when you're living in a cold climate and fighting clawy, fangy monsters? Protection from enemies and elements is for those silly, offensive slashers ( Read more... )

( cut for comics-related rage and Scott Summers H8 )

So, about Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi's completely unnecessary reboot of one of my most beloved books, H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy . . .

( Spoilers below cut )

I gave up on X-Men and on Marvel as a whole long ago. Less long ago, I gave up on seeing movies in mainstream theaters (with one instance of backsliding to indulge my lingering weakness for certain wand-swishing bookworms). Yet I'm really, really tempted by X-Men: First Class. The premise sounds like it's closer to an Xavier/Magneto movie than I ( Read more... )