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THIRTY DAYS OF MEME: Day 13: A fictional BookACK! Look what I let myself fall behind on. The whole point of me tackling this 'post a day' meme was to get myself back in the habit of regular blogging with pre-determined content. Then I just let it fall to the side like I let so much of my life do at the moment. But just because I've missed several ( Read more... )

The day after I posted the Chromatic Discworld, someone dropped me from her LiveJournal reading list and posted in her own LJ about I was "fucking racist and offensive" and she'd had her suspicions about me for years. Don't go looking for her - that's not the point of me sharing ( Read more... )

I realise I have to catch up on my thirty days meme, but I figure that I get weekends free on account of actually working for actual money. Plus I got to see my sister and niece, and that's worth more than blogging.

I'm taking one post out from that to celebrate a little meme that's been doing the rounds and that caught my eye on When Fangirls ( Read more... )

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  "Modern Love" by Penknife
  
  Fic Rec: Discworld Dwarfs are beginning to understand the concept of females and feminity, but other related concepts are just as hard.
  
  (tags: gender discworld fic)
  

1. I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I have booked coach tickets to Leeds for the weekend of the Fantastic Films Weekend in June; theyorkshergob and matgb have offered me their sofa (actually, Mat hasn't, but I'm assuming Jennie's told him by now) and my return ticket on Megabus cost a total of £5.50 including booking fee. So, y'know, if I can't get the weekend ( Read more... )

I'm rather relieved, actually, that everyone's talking about the cast for the upcoming movie of Avatar: the Last Airbender, and talking about my greatest concern above all: The cast is all white.

For those not familiar with the  source material, Avatar is a superior quality children's cartoon based around four separate nations with very distinct ( Read more... )

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Cross-posted to discworld:

So, said rowanberries, who wants to go and see Mort: The Musical? It might have Death singing

Well, with a promise like that, how could I resist?

And it was amazing: the songs were amazing, the young actors (from the Youth Music Theatre) were outstanding: even with Death predictably and absolutely stealing the show, the human characters ( Read more... )

So there's a meme going arond where people list their 'FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME' list of fictional women. For me to do this would be a little superflues now, wouldn't it?

But I'm going to do it anyway. I bet you're not surprised at any of these.

( Women who I love, but who don't actually exist. )