I have no title for this.
CIRCLE OF MINE, ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY NEWEST LADYLOVE.
This is Emma Feigenbaum. ♥_♥
She's a cohost on Everyday Food. The show's pretty hit and miss for me since I'm only interested in the vegetarian or easily vegetarianized dishes, but OMG I COULD LISTEN TO THIS WOMAN READ THE DICTIONARY ALL DAY LONG. Everything about her voice is so melodic and soothing, and the way she moves, so gracefully and smoothly, I can't even.
Have I mentioned that seafood is my least favorite thing, oh, ever? But:
SIGH.
In other news, trying to rewrite the
ladiesbigbang FAQs so they aren't convoluted and confusing is a lot harder than it sounds :( But the amount that I'm excited about this challenge is EPIC. I think the thing I'm really looking forward to is all the different media and ugh, I don't know! I feel so flaily about it, the way that there are so many different types of creators able to come together and celebrate women, and I'm just having all these warm feelings about being a woman in fandom right now. In my head I was comparing it with my excitement when I created remixthedrabble and I was noticing that it was different -- because I was really pumped about that challenge, obviously (drabbles and getting to be obsessive about wordcount ♥), and I still get excited every time I participate, but I guess
ladiesbigbang is one of those right time, right place things.
I think it's because during the year that I wasn't online I did a lot of reading and I got to this POINT where I just couldn't deal with reading about male protagonists anymore. It wasn't because the stuff I was reading was bad -- well, some of it was, and some of it had awful gender stuff going on -- but more because it was all I could find and I so desperately wanted to read about some women, particularly about women written by women. Because when I started my search for female protagonists in fiction I kept running into men writing women, which I wouldn't normally mind, either, except that I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the difficulty of finding female protagonists written by women authors outside of romance. Well, this was probably also compounded by the fact that I tend to stick to SF/Fantasy when browsing at my local library, and books like The Sword of Shannara seriously did not impress me.
Then when I came back online I fell right back into my default tendency of m/m slashing, but when all the meta about representation of women started going around it brought me right back to that frustration I felt staring at the SF/Fantasy shelf in the library and not understanding why I couldn't find what I was looking for, and it reminded me that it was probably about time I started channeling my frustration into productive outlets rather than just sighing and walking out the library empty-handed.
On that note, have two quotes I enjoyed (enjoyed with caveats, anyway) from a book by a woman about a woman that I recently enjoyed, "K" is for Killer by Sue Grafton:
I scooped up the mail that had been shoved through the slot, flipped a light on, set my bad down, and locked the front door behind me. I started peeling off my clothes as I climbed the spiral stairs, littering the floor with discarded articles of clothing like those scenes in romantic comedies where the lovers can hardly wait. I felt that way about sleep. -p224
"Everybody comes here. This is hot." She was glancing around as she spoke, snapping her fingers while she did some kind of chin thrust in time to the music. I wondered if this was mating behavior. -p245
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This is Emma Feigenbaum. ♥_♥
She's a cohost on Everyday Food. The show's pretty hit and miss for me since I'm only interested in the vegetarian or easily vegetarianized dishes, but OMG I COULD LISTEN TO THIS WOMAN READ THE DICTIONARY ALL DAY LONG. Everything about her voice is so melodic and soothing, and the way she moves, so gracefully and smoothly, I can't even.
Have I mentioned that seafood is my least favorite thing, oh, ever? But:
Click to viewSIGH.
In other news, trying to rewrite the
ladiesbigbang FAQs so they aren't convoluted and confusing is a lot harder than it sounds :( But the amount that I'm excited about this challenge is EPIC. I think the thing I'm really looking forward to is all the different media and ugh, I don't know! I feel so flaily about it, the way that there are so many different types of creators able to come together and celebrate women, and I'm just having all these warm feelings about being a woman in fandom right now. In my head I was comparing it with my excitement when I created remixthedrabble and I was noticing that it was different -- because I was really pumped about that challenge, obviously (drabbles and getting to be obsessive about wordcount ♥), and I still get excited every time I participate, but I guess
ladiesbigbang is one of those right time, right place things.
I think it's because during the year that I wasn't online I did a lot of reading and I got to this POINT where I just couldn't deal with reading about male protagonists anymore. It wasn't because the stuff I was reading was bad -- well, some of it was, and some of it had awful gender stuff going on -- but more because it was all I could find and I so desperately wanted to read about some women, particularly about women written by women. Because when I started my search for female protagonists in fiction I kept running into men writing women, which I wouldn't normally mind, either, except that I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the difficulty of finding female protagonists written by women authors outside of romance. Well, this was probably also compounded by the fact that I tend to stick to SF/Fantasy when browsing at my local library, and books like The Sword of Shannara seriously did not impress me.
Then when I came back online I fell right back into my default tendency of m/m slashing, but when all the meta about representation of women started going around it brought me right back to that frustration I felt staring at the SF/Fantasy shelf in the library and not understanding why I couldn't find what I was looking for, and it reminded me that it was probably about time I started channeling my frustration into productive outlets rather than just sighing and walking out the library empty-handed.
On that note, have two quotes I enjoyed (enjoyed with caveats, anyway) from a book by a woman about a woman that I recently enjoyed, "K" is for Killer by Sue Grafton:
I scooped up the mail that had been shoved through the slot, flipped a light on, set my bad down, and locked the front door behind me. I started peeling off my clothes as I climbed the spiral stairs, littering the floor with discarded articles of clothing like those scenes in romantic comedies where the lovers can hardly wait. I felt that way about sleep. -p224
"Everybody comes here. This is hot." She was glancing around as she spoke, snapping her fingers while she did some kind of chin thrust in time to the music. I wondered if this was mating behavior. -p245
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