I haven't received my PIN to be able to nominate for the HUGO Awards yet but I have spent a little bit of this weekend thinking about who I might want to nominate and then being amused at myself because in terms of novels/novellas/short stories I've actually read about as many eligible books for the 1941 Retro Hugos as for the 2016 Hugos themselves ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone missed this on twitter there's a new fanfic tinylitter (aka a newsletter) called The Rec Center and it's first issue came out today and it looks pretty good.

It's been put together by Elizabeth Minkel & Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (aka Hello Tailor) and I had one brief rush of oh metafandom how I do miss you when I read through its contents *g ( Read more... )

I started doing one of those year in review things and then realised I was just depressing myself so here are some lovely things I have found so far in 2016.

(aka that question about what has kept me sane in 2015? fandom, theatre and you lot <3)

• This amazing multifandom video by Llin
  
  

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• Basically everything Star Wars on tumblr ( Read more... )

This week appears to be lasting approximately FOREVER and yet at-one-and-the-same-time moving so fast my feet aren't touching the ground. It is a less than awesome feeling. Still. waving not drowning right?

Here are some assorted links to awesome things:

Chicken Shop Shakespeare - Tanya Vital as HamletSO glad to see Chicken Shop Shakespeare back ( Read more... )

I've been trying to write about WorldCon all week but so much happened and it's hard to know where to start! I was trying to write about stuff in the order it actually happened but then several of the evenings have merged in my head a little bit which doesn't help.

We'll see what happens if I start writing again *g*

( Thursday panels etc. )

So... Nine Worlds? I had a fantastic, if completely exhausting, time and came away with quite a few books but even more book recs ( Read more... )

In case any interested parties have missed it Naomi Novik is testifying before Congress today on the "Scope of Fair Use". I believe there's going to be a livestream ( see her LJ for details) but she's also shared the link to her written testimony and it's a clearly articulated argument for Fair Use as a tool that promotes creativity and also a ( Read more... )

Today I have mostly been remembering that casts who get on with each other are pretty much my kryptonite and I maybe out to tumblr saviour some stuff before I accidentally join fandoms I don't want to ( Read more... )

I put this on facebook & twitter last night but in case you missed it/aren't on those sites Vi Hart's latest video is fascinating and slightly mesmerising and if you're interesting in music or maths or patterns (or copyright law) I'd recommend finding the 30 minutes needed to watch the whole thing.

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I'm afraid this is going to be one of those random brain-dump posts. I'm just going to leave it open this morning and post because I keep thinking of things to say and then NOT. This means that today I will think of nothing interesting obviously but I wanted to try it anyway. And maybe writing them down will stop them distracting me from work?

• When ( Read more... )