El Ferret has a post up about Twilight (and Justin Bieber) hatred that spells out a lot of things I have never had the energy to say. Basically, even though Twilight is hugely problematic in its handling of sex and gender and relationships (and a bunch of other things) and also just not very good writing, a lot of the backlash against it is also ( Read more... )

How to make a tempest in a two liter bottle.

Go read.

My favorites in this issue are probably Song of Shakti by Shweta Narayan, Giant Steps by Jaime Lee Moyer, The Sea King's Second Bride by C.S.E. Cooney, which I loved in at least six different ways, and Tinkerbell by Stephanie Parent, which made me cry. I'm not even entirely sure why.

Catholics for Marriage EqualityThis ( Read more... )

And tithenai came unto the Internet, and she brought with her book porn, and it was good.

This will not stop making me smile.

(Except for the part where panic sets in and I say Oh hell this means my poem is going somewhere in the immediate vicinity of Shweta Narayan and Sonya Taaffe and I am extremely intimidated and a little bit terrified.)

Go vote for wonderseal's Threadless design, because it is adorable.

Oooo, shiny.

Cleolinda has a couple posts on the new Sherlock Holmes movie which articulate many of my thoughts better than I did, and she picked up on a bunch of stuff I missed. The level of nerdery that went into that film is touching.

Time waster of the moment!

"You've always wanted to live in nineteenth-century France, haven't you? Now it's easier than ever to create a flawless avatar to act out your fantasies for you."

According to the generatorMy name is Aurelie LeFay, I have eyes of swirling silver and hair of rippling copper. I am a former nun endowed with time travel ( Read more... )