I've been having a DAY, flist, so I'm breaking my non-essential internet sort-of-moratorium to bring you a post! With content! Or at least links to other people's content. Better than nothing, yes?

First, via cofax7, a really awesome post on Why Strong Female Characters are Bad for Women: I think the major problem here is that women were clamoring for “ ( Read more... )

I mostly participated in More Joy Day non-fannishly: I took the time to get back in touch with some people I haven't been the best about keeping in touch with, I called some people up for no reason--just because I wanted to say hi. And I'm not always the best about doing that sort of thing, but I should be better, because it's a joyful thing to do ( Read more... )

I bring you three doses of "oh God, how doomed is North America!" followed by the crackiest vid I've ever seen. This seems like an appropriate way to start a Tuesday.

First, The NY Review of Books on The Universities in Trouble. Specifically universities in the United States in financial trouble. (An aside: universities in Canada are comparatively ( Read more... )

I imagine at some point my recs of Chaila's vids lose credibility, because I go all aflail at everything she does, and the whole "Chaila made a vid; now Pellucid recs it" thing has perhaps attained a certain redundancy. Does it help if I promise that I REALLY REALLY mean it every time?! And even more so this time, because this one is so stunning ( Read more... )

The best kinds of shows are the ones with character journeys that dig so deep and hit so hard that years later you can think of the group of characters--these people you knew and loved while you watched them grow and learn and struggle and love--and it's like the best kind of punch in the gut, the best kind of achey adoration. And the best kinds of ( Read more... )

chaila43 has just posted her Ellison/Sarah vid!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm over here having PAROXYSMS OF GLEEEE, y'all!!!!!!!!!! Ellison. Robots. Religion. Sarah. THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS!!!! I'm pretty sure she's even redeemed the pairing of robots/Bob Dylan from the machinations of Ron Moore.

Shelter from the Storm, spoilers through the whole series.

1. chaila43 has made a vid for all of us who were driven to cry, drink, and stab things by what they did to Laura Roslin in 4.5: loved her to ribbons. This is so cracktastically brilliant, I can't even! Technically, it's a Damages/BSG crossover vid, but you really don't need to know anything about Damages other than it stars Glenn Close. Chaila has made ( Read more... )

The stop presses announcement for today is the following: MY NEIGHBOURS HAVE FLOWERS IN THEIR YARD, OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brand-new little snowdrops, but they still TOTALLY COUNT. Also, the maple tree in our yard has little budlets!!!!!!!!!! IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE SPRING SOMETIME SOONISH ( Read more... )

After all the *stabbityrage* of late, some smiling 'round these parts is called for, yes? Yes.

So let's talk about the show that I'm really digging in every possible way. ( TSCC 2.17: Ourselves Alone )

This is getting recced far and wide, but I shall join my voice to the chorus. charmax's Unnatural Selection is one of the coolest vids I have EVER seen. It takes my two favorite robot apocalypse shows, BSG and TSCC, and tosses them together with a healthy dose of Charles Darwin, and the result is mindblowing and visually stunning. Robots, apocalypses, ( Read more... )