I wrote a little piece about the new Voltron series on Netflix. Specifically, I wrote about it and gender and how truly epic it feels to have a character like me in a cartoon, even at forty years old.

If you're so inclined, it's here.

...but I'm awfully glad it exists.

[Character Pics from The Force Awakens]

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[Mild Mad Max: Fury Road Spoilers Inside]
In response to the folks who say that Fury Road "isn't a Mad Max movie because Max isn't the main character," I call bullshit. Yes, there are other characters who share the spotlight with Max. One of them even surpasses him at some skills. And she (how dare it be a she!) is the grit stuck in the craw of the haters. Yes, Imperator Furiosa pisses ( Read more... )

When I was a child, I was in choir ( Read more... )

A few years ago, a writer's block question here on LJ was: "What do you want to see eliminated in the next fifty (or some such number, I can't quite recall, but exactness isn't important here) years?" Most people answered with things like hunger, war, disease, etc. But one person answered "gender." I remember blinking at that answer and suddenly ( Read more... )

I recently bought some new running shoes. I went to a lovely local business where a nice man named Javier fit me personally and exemplified wonderful customer service. In conversing with him, I thought about something I hadn't in a long time.
( When I was Fifteen Years Old... )

Originally posted by ceosannaat Sage Words
Posted/written by seanan_mcguire:

Dear girls of the world today;

There is nothing wrong with you.

Everything I see, everything I read, everything I hear, is geared toward telling you that something is wrong with you. You're too fat. You're too thin. Your skin is terrible. You look too young. You look too old. You're too smart, you' ( Read more... )

Not.

You are: GAMBIT


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