I've bought Göran Everdahl's new book Kom nu'rå!, about children's TV shows. It's not as good as his book on soaps - mostly, he just mentions various shows that used to air on TV, describes what they're about, and move on to the next one. But it does have its funny points, such as "Sigrid, where are you now? Eat fibres" and the description of ( Read more... )

I've been doing some backreading in the motivator thread on TWoP and found all these posts going "In my fandom, the geeks look like this. We win." Well, I have waaaay too many fandoms for something like that, and so instead, I'm doing a geekery picspam of lots of cute geek characters. (I would say "hot" geek characters, except that two of them are ( Read more... )

verstehen has a good rant about good 40+ female characters on TV. With a list. And it just so happens that last week when I was having a long boring train ride to an interview in Bålsta, I started making a list much like that one. That is to say, it started as a list of TV mothers I liked, but soon morphed into 40+ women in general. After that rant, I ( Read more... )

Have been making a bunch of new icons. One is the Inigo and Fezzik one I have as a new default. Three of the others are the same style though featuring Buffy and Faith plus Paris and Rory twice. The other two are of Gabrielle Anwar.

Wow, you guys... I may be an attention whore, but every time I get this sort of response to something I said just to vent, I'm floored. Metablogged and metaquoted? Not to mention all the comments, and the interesting discussion about martial arts that I can't participate in due to lack of knowledge, and the three new people who friended me ( Read more... )

Here's a little test for you all, because I'm bored. I've written down quotes from a dozen of TV shows I watch or have watched rather regularly. You're to tell me where the quotes are from. If you can tell who's talking too, you get extra points ( Read more... )

Since my latest entry was about a fascination for the different, I thought I'd bring up the other side of the coin here. I also like reading and writing about people who are like me ( Read more... )