Re the recent post I made about McKay and Carter as canon Mary Sues in Stargate, further notes.

That topic came up because there's a debate going around now that making fun of Mary Sues is misogynist because it involves criticizing young writers for inventing powerful female characters.

I... don't agree with that. It certainly can be misogynist; ( Read more... )

This started life as a comment but it got too long ( Read more... )

Laurence has been playing Final Fantasy Gajillion or whatever it's up to now, and I've been internetting alongside him while he plays, watching the cutscenes and some of the cool landscapes and fights.

My favorite character by far is Sazh Katzroy. He's the only grownup of the bunch, which is also the character type I liked most in FFX, when my ( Read more... )

Guess people are talking about feedback right now. I tend to obsess about things like feedback unless I make rules for myself. So here are my personal feedback/concrit guidelines ( Read more... )

The latest discussion going around seems to be: the possible implicit misogyny of slash in the way that it disappears women from the narrative. Laughingrat had a good, brief post about it recently that was linked by Cimorene, who also made a good post on thisDiscussion is good. I've followed with appreciation the consciousness-raisings of the past ( Read more... )

Now that Yuletide has been posted to AO3, there are potential plans to move the contents of the Yuletidetreasure.org archive to AO3, and you realize of course this means wank. Toft has responded with an intelligent post about the distinctions between OTW, AO3, the Transformative Works and Cultures journal, and Yuletide, and what each of them does ( Read more... )

How I would have done SGA if I had been in charge of it, first in a possible series, because I think about this stuff a lot sometimes so I might as well post it.

I would basically leave "Rising" alone, except for the design of the Wraith: less gothy, more buglike. How many insects have long silky hair? The hair should be more like setae: fuzzy and ( Read more... )

Commented here to busaikko about Jennifer/Rodney. The gist ( Read more... )

The original context for this rant was the Onion AV Club's latest post about The Big Bang Theory, because in comments there were some Penny/Sheldon shippers piping up and of course, getting mocked by other asshole commenters. I commented with it there and I'm copying it here too ( Read more... )

This started as a reply to taste_is_sweet here, but got VERY long and ranty so I broke it out as a post. If you have any SGA squee, skip this post, because: harsh. Srsly.I'm pretty hypercritical in general, and I came to SGA by way of the fandom, rather than getting into the show first and then looking for fic. I'd never been into SG1. So I came at SGA kind of ( Read more... )