For 14valentines Day 14: Women and War/Peace. The essay, which is a little meandering, was written by yours truly in honor of the fact that in this day and age we STILL couldn't have a movie that was only about Peggy, in the same way that we still can't have a movie where Steve Rogers deals with PTSD.

Keep Calm and Carry On by
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For 14valentines Day 13

Bro-hood and Other Drugs by
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For 14valentines Day 12

( Recs featuring many of my favorite women of the Vorkosigan 'verse, but mostly CORDELIA *________* )

Because
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Today's recs are for Primeval, aka that one wacky BBC show about time traveling and dinosaurs. (The actual plot doesn't make much MORE sense than that, so you know. I acknowledge that the show is kind of stupid, but I love it ANYWAY. Mostly because there are ALWAYS at least two major female characters in every episode, and that is pretty rare in ( Read more... )

My conflicted feelings on my enthusiasm for The Social Network fandom, let me show you them. On the one hand, the fen involved in this fandom are AWESOMELY talented and the fanworks are AMAZING. On the other, I, er, really disliked the movie for many different reasons and usually wind up pretending that I'm reading RPF about the actualfax Facebook ( Read more... )

For 14valentines day 8 - Women of Color

The Cooperative Cetacean Extrication by
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SG-1 is a weird assed fandom for me, because on the one hand, I really do want to watch the entire series one of these days, because I thoroughly enjoyed season 1. On the other, at this point I've read so much fic about characters I've never met I'm a little afraid to actually meet them in canon. What if I don't like them as much as I do in fic?! ( Read more... )

Go read today's 14valentines essay on politics. Paris Geller wants you to.

( Oi with the poodles already! )

For 14valentines Day 5.

BBC Sherlock

Folding, Unfolding, Refolding by tartancravat (gen, spoilers for Sherlock 2.3)
Sherlock sits down on the toilet lid and opens the bag again, taking out the chicken salad sandwich. “I’ve underestimated you, Molly ( Read more... )