This is a follow-up to a post I made last November about Benjanun Sriduangkaew being outed as Requires Hate. There is now another round of fallout occurring related to Laura Mixon, who made one of the major contributions to the conversation, being nominated as Best Fanwriter in the Hugo Awards (and endorsed by George R.R. Martin for it ( Read more... )

Last night I found myself posting some fairly substantive fandom meta to Tumblr. Is this how it begins? I don't do much fandom meta these days, but occasionally I have stuff to unpack and it just felt more natural to do it in a space where I've been seeing more activity. But now I feel guilty, so I thought I'd bring that meta over here ( Read more... )

I can now properly thank Missy for my adorable Little Women treat -- always a bonus to get an Amy March story which sees all of her flaws and strengths so clearly. *waves lonely Amy fan flag*

And I can say I totally suspected my assigned gift (Anna to the Infinite Power) was by
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Happy New Year, everyone!

I think I've done this adapted year-end meme about movies and TV for a couple of years now. It's not necessarily stuff that got released or aired in 2014, just what I watched (and can recall right now).

( Movies in 2014 )

So first of all, I declare myself a winner of Yuletide, thanks to my amazing gifts:

Restrike (Anna to the Infinite Power)10K words (!!!) expanding on the YA science fiction dystopia novel of my childhood. Female clones, check. Hetcest, check. Futuristic world going to shit, check. Awesomeness, check. I broke the comment character limit when I went ( Read more... )

Over the past few weeks, I've been watching a discussion in the online science fiction & fantasy community about a writer from Thailand named Benjanun Sriduangkaew. The TL;DR version is that this woman had two online lives. One was her Sriduangkaew pen name, under which she was apparently very friendly and kind to her fellow writers and sold ( Read more... )

Hello Yuletide author! I apologize for putting my prompts etc. in this slightly delayed post rather than my sign-up, but I was a bit scrambled this year. I really appreciate you writing a story for me -- as with every Yuletide, I'm just happy to be receiving a story at all. I hope the writing process is fun and makes you happy as well ( Read more... )

The first episode of My Mad Fat Diary's second series aired last night in the UK, and Channel E4 put the second episode on their website a week early. I jerry-rigged Chrome so I could watch the latter, but now that means waiting two weeks for episode three, argh. Well, I did it to myself ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, all!

The Yuletide story I received this year was an amazing gift -- a perfectly in-character post-series piece for Emily Owens MD. This was a short-lived show on The CW starring Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep, as a young doctor trying to navigate adulthood and the beginning of her career, and it was beautiful and hilarious ( Read more... )

Because I'm still waiting for some benevolent deity of writing to reach down and fix my Yuletide story, I'm adapting some meme questionnaires to track my media consumption this year.

( Movies in 2013 )