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The City and the City by China Miéville
Read September 12, 2013 - September 20, 2013

Premise: Two cities co-exist in the same geographic space--to the point of adjacent buildings being in different cities--only separated by the culture of each and the compliance of the citizens to maintain the boundaries. A detective in one city investigates the ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, I used to track various tags on Tumblr related to the TV show Elementary. In those tags, I saw various fans being upset that everyone was celebrating the way the creators said "they won't" in regards to the "will they or won't they" (bang like rabbits) question that media and culture tries to project onto a show about a man and a ( Read more... )

I've always had a bit of a problem of reading everything in the most ultra-feminist way possible. I took Byron's Don Juan and wrote a six-page paper in undergrad about how it was a liberating feminist text that demonstrated the sexual agency and independence of women. The point being: I will find just about anything "liberating" unless it is ( Read more... )

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Read July 3, 2013 - July 21, 2013

Premise: In the not-too-distant (but not too close) future, you can compile anything you want almost-for-free out of centralized matter compilers, the world has split into "Phyles" or self-defined ethnic groups based more on shared values than on national boundaries (which are ( Read more... )

That is the cutest most quaint fandom throwback I've ever seen and it's made my morning.

I think I actually used to run a few fanlistings, but they were on Geocities and I didn't know what CSS or PHP or MySQL was or anything so it was like me going in and manually updating the thing every time someone filled in the e-mail form.

 1.) Shut the fuck up.
 2.) You are so precious, I love you.
 3.) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
 4.) Are you high?
 5.) What do you want?
 6.) Wait, what did I say?
 7.) I think perhaps you need new glasses.
 8.) (Clearly this person is insane, so I will edge away slowly without saying anything.)
 9.) No.
10.) Um... thank you?

I know Seasons 6 and 7 for Supernatural in particular get a really bad rap, but I think they're brilliant for a variety of reasons. They're messier than the first five (which, upon close scrutiny, are actually pretty messy), but they take that first-five mythology and they make it better (why does that sound like a freakish inversion of the Final ( Read more... )

Supernatural was renewed for a 9th season.

There are angel voices singing "hallelujah" in my head because I am deeply dependent on this show for my mental health. My usual way of denoting this cheesy, TV commercial-style chorus is to say *and the angels sing on high*

Buuuut, that seems a little inappropriate... or perhaps ironically too ( Read more... )