I hate the way our society conceptualises sex and gender.

It's as if there are two options for human existence. Well, four, actually, counting transgender and various third genders like the Two-Spirits of North America, the Hijra of India, the Khanith of Oman, or the Sworn Virgins of the Balkans. This limitation of options makes me quite ( Read more... )

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• And we start getting into Enfant, which is like Soldats but ~*~awesomer~*~, and Friday Monday, who is like Altena but lamer. And, you know, a dude.
• VANESSA<33333
• Even without the yuri goggles Madlax/Vanessa is pretty delicious. With them, of course...
• Oh, Elenore. So awesome. So badass. So in love with your Miss Margaret. She Takes Care Of anybody who ( Read more... )

• "Nafrece'? More like 'OBVIOUSLY BRITfrece' amirite?
• Madlax herself is awesome. Really really awesome. She shoots paramilitary Islamists in an evening dress and you have to admit that takes class.
• Elenore broke some guy's wrist because he hurt Margaret. Elenore and Vanessa have...something going on. There are, so far, almost no male characters at all ( Read more... )

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‘If you’re on Planet Zog, and the Zog people are fighting with the Zog Monster, I don’t give a toss!  Who cares about that? If you tell me that there’s a Human colony on Planet Zog, fighting off the elements and trying to survive, then actually I’m interested.’

This is a quote from Russell T Davies, in response to a question about the abundance or ( Read more... )

I note with some discontent that Stephenie Meyer has published a new book in her Twilight series, which is about vampires who don’t act like vampires, a girl who doesn’t act like any girl outside schlocky Gothic romance, and a town in the Olympic Peninsula that, according to my west-coast friends, is almost a carbon copy of the towns that Faulkner ( Read more... )

OH MAN THAT WAS EPIC. This sort of complete over-the-top yet totally awesome Epic is what this weird, hilarious, tragic, shitty, wonderful show is all about.

I have nothing more to say.

Until very recently, I was not aware that Marjane Satrapi had a new book out. Once I was, I went to Borders and bought it.

Chicken with Plums, like Persepolis and Embroideries, is about the Satrapi family--in this case, Lord Nasser Ali Satrapi, apparently a brother of the grandmother familiar to readers of Persepolis and Embroideries--the name ' ( Read more... )

For Tsukihime.

Murray Gold used as an unfavourable basis for comparison within!

( This is not a show that seeks to create a mood of heart-pounding, adrenaline-laced terror. Instead it seeks to maintain a supensive air of dread and slight confusion, and succeeds in spades. )