Do I have to read Twilight in order to have an informed opinion of Monica Hesse's theory concerning why smart, literate, feminist women find themselves being bitten by Meyer's execrable prose and frightening worldview [warning, link contains some abelist slurs]?

In "Twilight," Edward Cullen waffled between wooing and eating new girl Bella Swan. He ( Read more... )

Meme ganked from onceupon, because it hearkens back to some other stuff I've been going on about. Like the amazing onceupon, I'm mostly interested in #2 and #3-I've been feeling the love both on and off LJ, of late-so if you don't love me or can't think of anything, I really won't be hurt. Post something you love about you, and about other people, and ignore me. I ( Read more... )

Today is ice cream day ( Read more... )

Some things don't translate well into words. Words are really good for listing contents of closets, exchanging recipes, spinning events into narrative so that others can know what happened ( Read more... )

Via sabotabby, one of the coarser, more colourful articulations of a literary convention that I blame for messing up a lot of people's ideas of how Wuv works: The heroine's glittery hooha (GHH).

Romance author Jenny Crusie's quandary:

my hero, who is supernaturally irresistible (stick with me, it works) sleeps with at least twelve women before he goes to ( Read more... )

The Gentleman asked me last night what makes a romance-for-the-future (my awkward term, not his) distinct from a friendship, if limerence* comes and goes (often goes), if one doesn't reserve sex for only one person (or, necessarily, for any "special" person), if one has close, intense friendships (with or without sex). If one holds no action ( Read more... )