So, yesterday, I read this tumblr post about feminism in YA lit (h/t to
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...Am I the only one who thinks it would be fun to read/write a book about acceptable masculine and feminine behaviors (and the power dynamics/sexual issues) in romance novels? Specifically called Rakes and Hos?

..My brain is an odd place sometimes, yes.

So, Dragon Age: Origins. It has some kind of major archplot with, like, demons and stuff. Hell if I know. I am so totally playing this for the romance plots and the snarky dialogue. I looooove this game ( Read more... )

So, shogunhb posted one of these videos yesterday, but I had to make sure my friends who don't read his f-list see them.

Both these videos are entirely work-safe.

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There are some parodies floating around, too

(here and here, both are NSFW ( Read more... )

I just finished Lauren Willig's newest, The Betrayal of the Blood Lilly.Not as fond of it as I have been previously (romance really taking a toll on the spycraft, Eloise bits getting more annoying, overused phrases annoying me as a stylistic thing), but I did appreciate one thing ( Read more... )

But I love how you can tell it's a Democratic sex scandal. They're so boring. It involves two consenting adults, usually of the same race and opposite gender, having run-of-the-mill sexual intercourse. Nary a rubber suit, underage prostitute, or giant dildo among the lot.

"You only have three minutes to come...or these orphans will EXPLODE!"

Looking up articles on Project Muse for your Shakespeare thesis paper....

...and finding not one, not two, not three, but four papers penned by Gregory Semenza, that virile forest-god of a professor ( Read more... )

Helen, don't read this.

( You can't tell a book by its cover )

Dear God, thinking of all the things I have to get done in the next couple of weeks makes me want to curl up in a tiny ball and cry. Out of nowhere real life just kind snuck up and smacked me dead in the face. What's up with that? I need to take the GRE's next month and grad school apps are due in December, but I'll have finals then, so I need to ( Read more... )