Stolen from my flist. There is a really cool post on Cara from Legend of the Seeker getting to play the usually male trope of the woobie (random: this is probably why I lost interest in LOTS in the second half of the second season. I hate woobies. Glad to see that that applies regardless of the woobie's gender. But just because I can't stand ( Read more... )

So, I was watching the latest episode of Vampire Diaries and I had an "of course" moment. The main character Elena (female!) is trying to find the mom (female!) who gave her up for adoption. She and her aunt (female!) have a conversation about everything they know about birth!mom. They quickly decide of course the name the birth!mom gave to her ( Read more... )

Somebody on my flist mentioned it, I clicked on it and found it really intriguing, thequillstation, a meta community on Lost fanfic. I really enjoyed their "The Joys and Pains" discussions (like The Joys and Pains of Writing Jack/Sawyer or The Joys and Pains of Writing Sawyer/Kate) where writers talk about the history with their pairing and how it evolved ( Read more... )

Laterly, probably due to getting or at least brushing elbows with some fandoms with canon f/f and the wonderful efforts on behalf of International Day of Femslash, I've been mulling about femflash and the dynamics behind it. And it really made me realize what m/m slashers take for granted ( Read more... )

Let's see: Christian got his ass kicked in the ring in front of his boyfriend and contemplated doing steroids. After an argument with Olli he decided to forgo the steroids and instead decided to rack up his training regime. Next Christian clumsily and sweetly tried to tell Olli what he meant to him and then whimped out when Olli told him he loved ( Read more... )

20 Websites before the internet was invented

Took me a while to get why it was funny, but now it totally is.

Speaking of times before the internet existed. Another interesting article is 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

( Thoughts )

Via acari. There is a Harry Potter RPG named Kristallnacht because it draws parallels between Grindelwald's action in the story and the events of Kristallnacht. (btw, is it just me or does this sound vaguely familiar. Was there wank about this a few years ago already?)

Therefore I ponder. Here. Go with your gut:

Poll Kristallnacht RPG

( Motivation (read only after you have voted) )

Well aside from the the answer being "Well, yes, of course!".

I thought of this mostly the context of soap operas, where it is considered more or less acceptable to care about some characters and not about others, to follow some storylines and fast forward through others. The most extreme case are things like Luke and Noah, JP and Craig or ( Read more... )

Excellent take on feedback and particularly the different expectations writers and readers seem to have. Really enjoyed it ( Read more... )

TCR: I totally wish the pope would actually come. Too bad he probably doesn't have that much of a sense of humor. But just how cool would it be ( Read more... )