In response to several different things I've come across in fandom about female characters, I felt it was time to create a community that celebrates female characters.  So I have just create (actually reopened) a community that celebrates female characters she_is_awesome .

The first two posts are requests for help and ideas to get the community running.  ( Read more... )

This fall I've gone back to college and one of the classes I'm taking is Microeconomics.  Because of this class every time I come across someone saying we're in a recession in the U.S. it mildly annoys me.  A recession is two consecutive quarters of economic downturn which we have not had.  According to my Economics teacher what we're in is ( Read more... )

I had just started to come out of my mild fannish depression and I find out that my show is canceled.  I have only fallen harder for one show and have never fallen harder for a fandom has I have for SGA.  Also John and Rodney are one of the few pairings I can honestly call an OTP and not just a preferred pairing ( Read more... )

Today has been a bad fandom day for me, for several reasons.  However just watching one Whose Line is it Anyway? clip on Youtube will instantly put me in a better mood.  I also think my long-standing love for Colin Mochrie may have something to do with my love for David Hewlett and Rodney McKay.  I think that funny Canadians with varying degrees of ( Read more... )

On my personal list of life's annoyances, ranking right around people who park in two parking spots, are someone calling my number and when I pick up I get a busy signal.  It's one thing when I call a number and get a busy signal, it's quite another when I'm the one called and Iget the busy signal.  In those cases I will automatically hang up.

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With what has been going on around Fandom lately, I feel that there is a need for a celebration of female characters in television*.  I've decided to do this in the spirit of lj love memes.  Instead of having threads for individual lj posters, there will be threads for individual female characters ( Read more... )

For the past two days I've done very little but read posts about the women's bodies should be made open to the public debacle. This has had me fascinated mainly in trying to figure out my own reactions.  For the record, my reactions to the original post are appalled, disgusted, angry, scared, nervous, furious, and frustrated to name a few.  My ( Read more... )

I needed something to get me started posting again and the meme going around about awesome female characters is just the thing.  Though, instead of doing one list I'm going to do several because I already have well more than ten awesome women come to mind.  So here will be lists of the first ten awesome female characters to come to mind in several ( Read more... )

I found a video of an interview with Cookie Monster on NPR that I just have to share. http://www.npr.org/blogs/incharacter/2008/02/cookie_monster_comes_to_npr.htmlRead more... )