> For people worrying about the upcoming LJ changes there’s some further information that you might want to look at here. To summarise, apparently we’ll be able to turn off the infinite scroll on the f-list page and we’ll be able to “customise background images”, which suggest we’ll be able to limit the amount of white space or develop a work ( Read more... )

At some point you write too much to sensibly fit it into comment boxes, heh. I haven’t read everybody else’s comments on the series and I’m sure that I’m missing lots of things, because there’s an awful lot packed into it. This is just me trying to get my thoughts together and tease out some overarching themes, since my brain has been taken over ( Read more... )

It’s been Disability Awareness Day in my part of the world today. Emphasis on the awareness. It’s okay not to be comfortable around disability, it’s okay to have questions, it’s okay not to know how to ask those questions, but I believe that it’s not okay to ignore anyone and a whole lot worse when sometimes it appears that whole swathes of ( Read more... )

If you don’t know what it is: every year on Joss Whedon’s birthday people worldwide put on screenings of Serenity, a film based on a cancelled TV show that by rights shouldn’t have been made but was, to raise money for Equality Now, who work globally to protect and promote human rights for women and girls ( Read more... )

If you’re in the UK, the closing date for the Equal Civil Marriage Consultation is tomorrow. Denying two people committed to a life together the right of marriage on any basis, be it gender, sexuality, disability, or anything else, is discrimination. It really is that simple ( Read more... )

Meta from someone with little comics background. Essentially a look at Black Widow in The Avengers and Iron Man 2 with some comics snippets.

With thanks to workerbee73 with her wonderful meta and discussions, surreallis who asked questions and got me thinking, and everyone who joined in the discussion on the Alphabet wars thread on be_compromised. Meta referred to is from here ( Read more... )

In the spirit of the End of Virginity Challenge here are a couple of fic recs for ‘first time’ stories with the ‘why’ I like them whited out because of fic spoilers (highlight to read):

An Interruption of Gravity by bendingsignpost (BBC Sherlock, John/Sherlock, R, 1,800 words)
Summary: This is the seduction of Sherlock Holmes and John plans to make it last. ( Read more... )

So, SOPA/PIPA are off the table. For now at least. (Some info here and here.) It's a relief, but I can't help thinking it'll have a rethink and come back later.

What's going around now is Black March, which is essentially a proposed boycott of the media industry this March. In principal it seems like a good idea: showing the big corporations ( Read more... )

SOPA/PIPA. If you haven't heard of them, or are wondering what the Wiki and Google blackouts are about, take a look at Protect IP - a link I posed a while ago on Facebook, but I don't think I put it on here - and What Is SOPA?. I'm pretty sure my f-list is already up to speed :) but, where you can, pass it on. As a bunch of artists and creators ( Read more... )

World Aids Day today. Durham Student Union did a release of 1000 balloons to raise awareness. Awareness of issues is always good.


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