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Here's the thing: It's taken an immense amount of reading in the wank-reporting communities, but I've finally, painful realized that as a white, cisgendered, able, bisexual (but appearing to be straight) girl with a fantastic support system, I'm saturated in privilege. Wading through the arguments (mostly started by people railing about how ( Read more... )

You know, I used to not like watching TV. Between high school and college, I was rather proud that I didn't waste any time on passively watching anything except an occasional movie. (Instead, I wasted my time on the internet. ;) Now I'm currently watching about six shows. How the heck did that happen?

First my RL friend got me hooked on Smallville, ( Read more... )

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I just watched the epic trailer of epicness (Smallville's Season 9 trailer from Comic Con, found here) and am listening to the Superman: The Movie soundtrack for the first time in a long while. This music, and the Superman theme at the end of the trailer, just made me fall in love with Reeveverse (and Superman mythology in general) all over again ( Read more... )

So this morning I was reading Scientific American Mind, specifically an article called "Let Your Creativity Soar" by Mariette DiChristina, John Houtz, Julia Cameron, and Robert Epstein (June/July 2008). There were quite a lot of similarities in the discussion to what we in fandom talk about and come to know intuitively, so I thought I would share ( Read more... )