so not that long ago, i did a reread of martha wells' the fall of ile-rien trilogy. i then read my brand new copy of her stories of the raksura book of novellas that just came out. which instantly made me want to reread her the cloud roads which is the first book in her raksura trilogy ( Read more... )

yesterday as cassielsander and i discussed the two shakespeare-based movies that we had seen, he was quoting huge chunks of dialogue from other movies and it reminded me of something that i think i've noticed, but maybe it's just my circle of friends? namely, it seems to me that a lot of my male-identified friends can quote huge swaths of dialogue from movies ( Read more... )

dpolicar asked me, in response to an earlier post where i mentioned moving from not having heterosexual privilege for 24 years to suddenly acquiring some by beginning to date men as well as women: "what do you most notice during the visibly-queer to invisibly-queer transition?." and i told him i'd think about it and make a post ( Read more... )

what name do you instantly react positively to, if any? do you know why?

my answer in the comments.

Poll what about "the girls?"

this conversation seems to be taking place in a few places and it seems to be a good thing to ponder right before pride. i don't think i can form it into a poll, so i'll pose it as a question ( Read more... )

here. this post expresses some more of what i've been trying to get at, but much more eloquently than i've been achieving ( Read more... )

i keep seeing people saying "this just isn't that big a deal." which reminds me of some bad relationship stuff, so, hey, i can make a micro/macro post cause i have so been there ( Read more... )