Recently, Andy and I have been rewatching Babylon 5 and have found ourselves shouting “drink” at certain moments in the show.  Thus, we discovered that a drinking game had naturally evolved from our B5 rewatch.  I’m sure there are other B5 drinking games out there, but we haven’t looked for them because we didn’t want to be influenced and can now ( Read more... )

SF Mistressworks posts a review of an anthology of science fiction stories by women, Women of Wonder: the Contemporary Years .  I’ve had this on my wishlist for a while and may now get round to buying it.

From Bad Reputation, Dr Who, Feminist Icon?   Ace was my feminist Dr Who companion. I thought she was amazing.

One for the Babylon 5 fans, Andy ( Read more... )

Andy and I are watching Season 4 of Bablyon 5, the episode in which Sheridan asks one of the White Star crews to sacrifce themselves for the good of everyone else by tricking the Shadows into showing up where they want them.

It's all "In Valen's name this" and "In Valen's name that".

The problem we're having is that after the two-part episode "War ( Read more... )

From Bad Reputation, Inspirational Fictional Feminists: She-Ra. I was obsessed with She-Ra when I was a kid and I don’t think my mother has ever recovered from taking me to see the feature length version in the cinema. She had a middle-ear infection at the time and every time She-Ra and He-Man did their transformation thing, the noise made her ( Read more... )

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