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10 things that every comic writer should know about women
I've been prompted to do this after reading the first trade of Ignition City, which both kangeiko and I agreed was a lot of fun plot wise and a lot of fail gender wise.- There are as many women in the world as men. Actually, there are slightly more. Try to reflect this in your main character line-ups and crowd scenes
- Very few women actually have breasts ( Read more... )
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My arty-farty vote
queenspanky asked me to do this, after I whinged on the subject of how arts policy wasn't the hottest topic in town. I thought it was a fair cop, so have put my text where my mouth is and done some research on where the different parties lie on arts, specifically theatre. Part of my problem is with the inherent set up of arts policy within the UK. In that we ( Read more... ) -
Another day, another letter to my MP
I'm sending this through now, before they cut off my internet:
Dear Sadiq Khan,
I sent you an email a couple of weeks ago, regarding the Digital Economy Bill, to which I have not received a reply. I understand that you are very busy, but this is an issue that is deeply important to me (and to many others, thousands of people wrote to their MPs ( Read more... ) -
Politics, polling day and petitions
Taking effective political action is hard. My most favoured route thus far consists of getting a vast pile of cash, 40,000 PR consultants, the editors of the Mail, the Sun and the Times in my backpocket, plus a big bunch of cronies in Westminster and a glowing zepplin* to enable my being elected to Prime Minister. However, I have yet to garner ( Read more... ) -
Kids Today are just as they have always been
gakked from Language Log:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/languagelog2/493972.html
My favourite is the C4th excerpt about students singing popular songs and refusing to pay attention to lectures.
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I am poorly and abed so have scavenged this political snippet from the internet for you
Instead of an actual post and update, you get a comedic look at white privilege.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY&feature=player_embedded
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Paperchase stealing art
So, you're an artist (run with it).
A big corporation scan in and badly re-hash a piece of your art then print it on books, bags and other bits of tat and flog it.
Not even a thank-you note. Which is sad, cos that's what they mostly sell.
What do you do?Auntie Beeb and LGB
Gakked from athenegenia
The BBC have launched a public survey into the representation of LGB characters on its TV shows, and you can fill it in here