During the whole Moonlight debacle, someone on Fandom Wank asked what it is about vampire fandoms that make people act so crazy.

Someone else responded:
I think there have been a couple of attempts to examine the psychology of it, floating around the Twilight wank ( Read more... )

Ooh, what an eventful day.

I woke up, watched some good old South of Nowhere, the new Secret Diary of a Call Girl, attempted to get my oil changed, took the bus down to PSU just to see if I could really do it (!), ended up missing one of the buses back home because Portland Transit does a crappy job of expressing where to go when certain stops are ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702528.htmlRead more... )

"The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: ( Read more... )

So, hello there, f-list. Here's a quick question for you.

Are there any books, books that you really love, that I need to read?

I've got a 30% coupon for Borders to use this weekend, and I am incapable of not purchasing anything with it. The only book I'm currently wanting to purchase is a UK edition of Gilbert Adair's The Dreamers, and Borders ( Read more... )

I was totally going to write an entry about the real story of Madame de Pompadour and how her actions throughout history don't really have any bearing to her depiction in fandom. But I'm really, really sleepy, so I'm going to read some H. G. Wells and avoid writing more tonight ( Read more... )