Blog Topic Mash Up
Sometimes it's easier to talk about things that you don't have much to say. I can talk about my opinion about Merlin, but I have a hard time blogging about Avatar: the Last Airbender because it ate my brain.
1. Merlin:
Hearing all the Merlin squee and watching a few fanvids got me to check out 3.5 episodes. It helps that NBC is showing the eps in the U.S. So when does the cracktastic goodness, and/or femslashy vibes kick in? I also heard that there's lots of m/m slashy vibes, but so far Arthur makes me roll my eyes.
2. On Sampling Michael Jackson:
Yeah, I know it's been two weeks since his death. During the week following Jackson's death, a lot of blog posts went up about him, which led me to watching his music vids on YouTube. I knew some of his work, knew some stuff about him via cultural osmosis, wasn't a fan of his, but was still struck by how familiar some of his songs were. I finally figured out why-- a lot of musicians, especially hip hop artists, sampled Michael Jackson's songs. Oh, and his stuff in the Jackson 5.
3. Queerly Gen is a fic comm on DreamWidth that:
This community will be hosting a festival of gen fanworks featuring sexual and gender minority characters of all tasty flavors -- queer, trans, gay, lesbian, intersex, bisexual, genderqueer, questioning, flamingly ambiguous. Because when you get kicked out of one party, sometimes the best response is to go throw your own.
A cursory skim of the comm shows some interesting meta. Livejournal's lgbtfest has some genfic offerings featuring queer characters.
1. Merlin:
Hearing all the Merlin squee and watching a few fanvids got me to check out 3.5 episodes. It helps that NBC is showing the eps in the U.S. So when does the cracktastic goodness, and/or femslashy vibes kick in? I also heard that there's lots of m/m slashy vibes, but so far Arthur makes me roll my eyes.
2. On Sampling Michael Jackson:
Yeah, I know it's been two weeks since his death. During the week following Jackson's death, a lot of blog posts went up about him, which led me to watching his music vids on YouTube. I knew some of his work, knew some stuff about him via cultural osmosis, wasn't a fan of his, but was still struck by how familiar some of his songs were. I finally figured out why-- a lot of musicians, especially hip hop artists, sampled Michael Jackson's songs. Oh, and his stuff in the Jackson 5.
3. Queerly Gen is a fic comm on DreamWidth that:
This community will be hosting a festival of gen fanworks featuring sexual and gender minority characters of all tasty flavors -- queer, trans, gay, lesbian, intersex, bisexual, genderqueer, questioning, flamingly ambiguous. Because when you get kicked out of one party, sometimes the best response is to go throw your own.
A cursory skim of the comm shows some interesting meta. Livejournal's lgbtfest has some genfic offerings featuring queer characters.