So, I just got an e-mail back from the panel people. The Limits of Online Fandom and Yaoi Pre-Yaoicon are fine but ( Read more... )

I glanced at Luminosity (sockkpuppett)'s post from the other day (screencap here).

Now, ms_treesap has a great post about it, and the_wanlorn similarly is awesome about pointing out the ridiculous assumptions contained within the post ( Read more... )

Why can't my boss pick a lunch hour to give me and fucking stick with it? They've managed to do that for most of the time I've been working here, how is it so hard now ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure the webcomic Wicked Alchemy has ripped off my favorite tabletop RPG, In NomineThe problem is that IN uses some pretty general biblical stuff-- you see "elohim" a lot in biblical literature, and the same with Seraphim and Cherubim ( Read more... )

Because this whole deletion thing is beginning to annoy.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO FANDOM!

fandom_count, all that other shit? Doesn't matter because fandom is NOT what's going to get them to back down. the people in fandom might, but regardless of what happened to pornish_pixies et al, this is NOT a fandom fight. This is a misguided attempt at doing something that clearly ( Read more... )

Strangest book to cross my desk so far today:

The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams.

Apparently meat-eating is a misogynist act that upholds the patriarchy and supports war.

( RAPE METAPHOR! )

I was hanging out with my girl and rolling around a bit and the next thing I know I've given my laptop a good hard smack and now the LCD screen is broken. I mean totally broken. It looks like a Mondrian instead of showing, you know, anything at all. This is pretty, but quite useless. Currently, I've found a workable solution, thanks to koala_motchi, who ( Read more... )