Five characters that replaced departing characters, and whether you considered each a gain or a loss.

1. Ray Vecchio replaced with Ray Kowalski

Oh, the Ray-Ray wars on due South. Personally, I think both Rays have their good points. (I know you're all disappointed I did not write about which Dief I liked better ( Read more... )

Ever since those rumors started and then the season enders of BSG, I've been thinking about fandom-at-large and its reaction to Starbuck. Mostly, the out-and-out love of Starbuck and how obsessive and hardcore her devotees are, from the ones whose episode reactions I've read to the massive amount of Starbuck-centric fics I've seen to the worshiper ( Read more... )

During some recent wank, lornelover turned to me and said, "Does anyone identify as a femslasher?" I racked my brain and couldn't find a yes. I know many authors who write femslash, but none that I could think of who identified themselves as femslashers and solely write femslash. All my favorites also write gen, het, and/or m/m ( Read more... )

I've been reading Wendy McElroy's A Woman's Right to Pornography, which is a book that asks questions about pornography concerning feminism and traces both the free speech pornography movement and the feminist movement and their connections and differences. (Feminist meaning information about contraceptives, laws against domestic violence and rape ( Read more... )

Yesterday's SGA marathon made me think about what I write and why I write it. Mostly because I spent some time trolling on Wraithbait trying to find Rodney/Chuck hockey-watching fic and failed. Fanfic has always been, for me, a what if canon went that way, and usually, considering the nature of it, fanfic is often shipping possibilities. SGA is a ( Read more... )

Picked up my new issue of She Hulk #7 and was extremely pleased to have something to glee about concerning comics, but angry at fan remarks.

( Why She Hulk is so awesome and why you should be reading it, spoilers for the 2nd run of She Hulk #6 and #7 and general She Hulk information. Note, this does have to do with date rape. )

I am a woman who reads comic books. I am particularly drawn to comics about superheroes and supervillains, especially female ones. I go about every other week to a local comic book shop where the owner knows my name, what comics I read, and engages me in conversations about what I like and what I don't. We had some fun discussions about Serenity ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the sci-fi plot during my plotting of SGA fanfic with neverneverfic. There's obviously a problem in our fic and now we're trying to figure out what the cause of the problem is. Several different types of sci-fi plots and one crossover plot were suggested. neverneverfic mentioned that one of the ones I suggested was too much like 'x' fic ( Read more... )

( Who's miserable? Some House meta-y thoughts. Slight spoilers through Daddy's Boy, but mostly just character talk )

( Social Construct Theory Applied to Fandom: Why Both Negative and Positive Criticism of Fanfic is Vital to Our Community )