I read with some interest and not a little schadenfreude about the kerfluffle over programming at Worldcon this year. I'm not going into the details, but suffice it to say quite a number of people are being hoist on their own politically correct petards, and now the poor bastards doing programming have to jump through their asses to redo panels ( Read more... )

Moe Lane asked,
As in: love or hate JRR Tolkien as you please, but you may not ignore him when it comes to the fantasy genre. Venerate or despise HP Lovecraft for any number of reasons, but when we talk about horror we are ultimately using concepts and conceits that he defined and developed.  But if there’s a single figure of the science ( Read more... )

A bunch of :words: about the Hugo nominations follows. You is been warned.
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haikujaguar has some news for you.

One of the commenters, uneko, makes a very good point:

"But the moment you say "furry"... people automatically assume that you BELIEVE you are 'a cat in a human's body', that you have a fursuit, that you become aroused by animals, and that you are basically some kind of weird manchild who's priorities are totally weird ( Read more... )

revolutionaryjo and others linked to this Daily Dot article on Facebook, and it got me to thinking about some stuff I hadn't bothered thinking about for a while - mainly because aside from Detour, I'm not on staff with any conventions* and while there are folks at Detour who respect my opinions, the fact of the matter is that what I want for Detour is not ( Read more... )

Yesterday Ann, a no doubt well-meaning member of MNSTF, messaged me on Facebook with a bunch of gossip about animaltofriends and her current unpleasant situation, and asked if I had contact info for any of her relatives. I was perhaps more polite than I should have been, because it took me a couple of exchanges to convince her that I wanted no part of what was ( Read more... )

So the two big conventions of my fandom just wrapped up, and a lot of people have things to say about them. I gather from mzmadmike's comments on FB that the dealer's room at D*C was...less than optimal, shall we say, and the concom's reaction to the complaints ran somewhat along the lines of "Oh yeah? Well, wait until NEXT year, you ungrateful bastards!" ( Read more... )

Went over to Mark's for Game of Thrones and dinner, both of which were good, and conversation ditto. Unfortunately he'd forgotten to record the next-to-last episode, the one with the Red Wedding, so I'll have to wait for that and the season finale until HBO starts its reruns ( Read more... )

The problem of unsocialized assholes forcing their attentions (physically and otherwise) on cosplayers and costumers is not a new one, but for a social conservative like myself it's a pretty frustrating one. There are a lot of things interacting here, starting with the breakdown of traditional roles and behavior -whatever happened to the very basic ( Read more... )

gohanvox posted this link on FB about geeks being misogynistic, judgmental f*cktards, and as I commented when bam2's brother Chris also linked it, "Everything old is new again, unfortunately."
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