Point the first: Can we talk about Tamara? I'm so disappointed. We have a black woman on the show, finally! ...and she's all set up to be the villain for the rest of the season. Of course there's going to be massive fandom hate for her, because she's screwing over Bae (and we all love Bae!), while getting in the way of a popular pairing. Bah ( Read more... )

I'm sadly behind in my flist reading, so this might have already made the rounds, but one of my favorite bloggers did a piece on HP!

In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series, by my pretend internet bff* Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown (There's also a really good followup post.)

And what a show it is. In Hermione, Joanne Rowling ( Read more... )

And yet, he thinks it is all about vanilla het sex.

LOL FOREVER.

Apparently I missed this when it first went up at Hoyden About Town, so it might have been round the fandom already. But in case not:

One is, it was clear to me, in some sort of psychological sense, that in these long descriptions usually of anal intercourse, that the basic ( Read more... )

So it turns out I'm too lazybusy to stay current with my LJ roundups, so it looks like it's time to start crossposting with DW, because it's pretty neat.

*waves at everybody*

Originally posted at dreamwidth.

I got all pompous and annoying on WIKTT again. I wonder how many people read this post and thought, what an elitist bitch.

Here's what I wrote:

( Fandom is a community, not a free market. )

God, I love it when people are sensible. Thank you, fleableAs I read these posts, I can't help but think: this story wouldn't last five minutes in my writing class. Most would clamor to say that they just don't believe it, until the professor* requested quiet to gently tell the author, "Rewrite, and let us see it again next week ( Read more... )

Wandered over to switchknife's post via the_pimp_cane, and wrote out a lot of what I think about OTPs in response:

( rather long response )

I got into a discussion of slashy interpretations under my other identity.

Made fun of the Milton-Satan debate, too :)