After vaguely intending to get my hands on these books, following chaila43's rec, and going so far as to endeavor to buy them, only to discover that the middle book is out of print and thus a bit difficult to find (though apparently you can get a copy from Kirstein herself!), I've finally remembered that my local library branch is quite excellent at sci fi ( Read more... )

OMG, y'all, Doctor Who Trailer!!!!!!!! RIIIIIVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! (And I really am such an unabashed Doctor/River shipper. Love!)

And speaking of awesome women over 40, there's a ficathon for that: matrithon is currently taking prompts, prompt claiming to happen next week, stories to be posted on Mother's Day. I admit I'm rather ambivalent about the ( Read more... )

And also Happy Mardi Gras, for those of you for whom that's relevant. Or as a friend of mine posted on Facebook: Happy International Fat Women's Tuesday! (Speaking of Mardi Gras, who associates Mardi Gras with pancakes? And where do you live? I had never heard of this before I moved to Canada, but maybe my American circles were just too non- ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago or so, chaila43 had a post (which I'm not quite motivated enough to track down) about how she craves more shows in which a woman is truly the protagonist: not just a member of an ensemble, but the character around whom the action revolves. I'd been thinking about this specific distinction, and then gabolange and I talked about it at length ( Read more... )

Not so relevant to this post, except that it's a story about a woman who is awesome: against my better judgment I got antsy and posted fic on a Saturday evening, even though we all know that's a bad time to do these things if you want anyone to see it. So in case you're interested and missed it, A Fairer House than Prose (or on DW) is my long- ( Read more... )

February is for female character love, most especially!!! Well, in my world, every month is for female character, but the first two weeks of February most particularly, because it's once again time for halfamoon!!! Early highlights include The Unpopular Women Love Post and an iteration of one of my favorite vid genres, "lots of awesome women do awesome ( Read more... )

It's November! How is it November???

To distract me from the Novemberness of it all, have some links. About awesome women. Because, well, yes, I am exactly that predictable.

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I'm not going to beat the dead horse with what's wrong with the female characters flowchart, but I do want to say a couple of things about how what could have been at least a decent idea might have gone so terribly awry. (If for some reason you've been under a rock for the past little while and don't know what I'm talking about and why it's pretty ( Read more... )

I had such good femgenficathon intentions. Intentions to write, intentions to read, intentions to rec. The first of those got swallowed up by a summer that got a lot busier than I expected, and while I may yet catch up with the second, I figured I should go ahead and do a little of the third, in case I don't catch up with the second for a while yet.

First, femgenficathon ( Read more... )

Some months ago, I heard that TNT was going to air Rizzoli and Isles. I was enraptured by the premise: WOMEN COP PARTNERS!!! And really, they should have had me at "women cop partners," because hi, this is me.

But there were some promos that were painful, and some really scathing reviews, and I was quite busy right when it started airing, so I ( Read more... )