A practical note, a geeky thought, and Ghostbusters linkspam
The practical note: my linkspam file is...uh, let's go with "terrifying". A while back now I asked about people's preferred length etc. for linkspam posts, which affects how much I usually post at once, but I suspect sometime tonight or in the next day or so I'm just gonna make a huge (cut) post to clear out my file.
The geeky thought, which I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, won't make sense to those of you who aren't familiar with at least the basic Newsflesh-verse parameters, but consider this: Jillian Holtzmann as an Irwin. Consider. (This is not something I'm likely to fic about. If anyone else did, that would be amazing. Just sayin'.)
The linkspam:
"Who Ya Gonna Troll? With his Ghostbusters reboot, director Paul Feig wades - with good intentions, he swears - into the gender wars". "Now 53, Feig has been going to ComicCon annually for over 20 years, for no other reason than that he likes to be among his people. He doesn’t do cosplay, i.e., dress up as his favorite characters, but he does read Cosplay magazine and made sure to release blueprints for proton packs early on so that people who wanted to make costumes for the movie’s opening would be properly prepared."
"Apparently Little Boys Are Buying Ghostbusters Toys And That's A Big Deal".
"Kate McKinnon’s 10 Gayest ‘Ghostbusters’ Gay Moments of Gay". [Autostraddle]
Here's a Storify of
seananmcguire's tweets about Ghostbusters.
"Queer Women Of The Internet Are Fangirling Hard Over 'Ghostbusters'". [Huffington Post]
"What Lady Ghostbusters Have In Common With 17th-Century Nuns". [The Establishment]
"Ready for Prime Time: After twenty-five years as a road comic, Leslie Jones becomes a star". [The New Yorker] [Jan. 2016]
"The MIT Physicists Who Infused Ghostbusters With Real Science". [Wired]
"So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’". The New York Times movie critics come together to discuss it.
"The New Ghostbusters is a Great Comedy-But It’s Also More Than That". [Tor.com]
"Women's work: the new 'Ghostbusters'".
"Ghostbusters is still haunted by negative racial tropes".
"Women Deserve Better Than The New “Ghostbusters”".
"The Spiritualist Origins of Ghostbusters: Communicating with the dead hasn't always been about male bonding".
"The Importance of Seeing Ghostbusters". [Women Write About Comics]
"Gillian Anderson and Kate McKinnon are kindred spirits". [The AV Club]
"GamerGate’s war against Ghostbusters and Leslie Jones". [Amala Network]
"We Love You, Kate McKinnon. And Thanks for Saving Ghostbusters". [Wired]
"Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones calls for stronger Twitter guidelines after racist abuse".
"The Twitter hate Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones faces shows why representation matters".
"Ghostbusters: So this is what it’s like for guys!"
"Ghostbusters (1984) vs Ghostbusters (2016)". [The Book Smugglers]
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/712248.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
The geeky thought, which I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, won't make sense to those of you who aren't familiar with at least the basic Newsflesh-verse parameters, but consider this: Jillian Holtzmann as an Irwin. Consider. (This is not something I'm likely to fic about. If anyone else did, that would be amazing. Just sayin'.)
The linkspam:
"Who Ya Gonna Troll? With his Ghostbusters reboot, director Paul Feig wades - with good intentions, he swears - into the gender wars". "Now 53, Feig has been going to ComicCon annually for over 20 years, for no other reason than that he likes to be among his people. He doesn’t do cosplay, i.e., dress up as his favorite characters, but he does read Cosplay magazine and made sure to release blueprints for proton packs early on so that people who wanted to make costumes for the movie’s opening would be properly prepared."
"Apparently Little Boys Are Buying Ghostbusters Toys And That's A Big Deal".
"Kate McKinnon’s 10 Gayest ‘Ghostbusters’ Gay Moments of Gay". [Autostraddle]
Here's a Storify of
seananmcguire's tweets about Ghostbusters.
"Queer Women Of The Internet Are Fangirling Hard Over 'Ghostbusters'". [Huffington Post]
"What Lady Ghostbusters Have In Common With 17th-Century Nuns". [The Establishment]
"Ready for Prime Time: After twenty-five years as a road comic, Leslie Jones becomes a star". [The New Yorker] [Jan. 2016]
"The MIT Physicists Who Infused Ghostbusters With Real Science". [Wired]
"So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’". The New York Times movie critics come together to discuss it.
"The New Ghostbusters is a Great Comedy-But It’s Also More Than That". [Tor.com]
"Women's work: the new 'Ghostbusters'".
"Ghostbusters is still haunted by negative racial tropes".
"Women Deserve Better Than The New “Ghostbusters”".
"The Spiritualist Origins of Ghostbusters: Communicating with the dead hasn't always been about male bonding".
"The Importance of Seeing Ghostbusters". [Women Write About Comics]
"Gillian Anderson and Kate McKinnon are kindred spirits". [The AV Club]
"GamerGate’s war against Ghostbusters and Leslie Jones". [Amala Network]
"We Love You, Kate McKinnon. And Thanks for Saving Ghostbusters". [Wired]
"Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones calls for stronger Twitter guidelines after racist abuse".
"The Twitter hate Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones faces shows why representation matters".
"Ghostbusters: So this is what it’s like for guys!"
"Ghostbusters (1984) vs Ghostbusters (2016)". [The Book Smugglers]
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/712248.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: