"Here you'll find screencaps, textures, and other goodies as icon bases or stock photos." HD screencaps

"From now on, I'll post my screencaps in this community.
I've been thinking about the best way to organize them and I came up with an idea:
You can find the complete seasons in the community @ http://coloured-skies.livejournal.com/ (you'll find the links to each entry behind the cut) and the ones which are currently on air, here." -- HD screencaps

"Here you'll find screencaps, textures, and other goodies as icon bases or stock photos." HD screencaps

highres, logo-free caps from tv shows & movies
on lj: http://shadowofreflect.livejournal.com/

"Welcome to In A Dream Caps! A community full of HIGH QUALITY screen caps from a variety of tv shows, movies, music videos and trailers. Posts are made frequently and provide not only a zip file download, but a gallery as well! Several cappers have their dvd lists posted and open for requests. So please, feel free to join and stay up to date with everything we have to offer. :D Our gallery has caps of over 115 films and 30 different tv shows. We are organized by both tags and memories so you can find what you're looking for in a snap!"

"The basic assumption is that, if people are in some way queer, something must have happened to make us that way. Something genetic or environmental or cultural or personal must have happened to us, in the same way bad things often happen to good people. But the search for the origins of this tragic event is enmeshed in a lot of dicey assumptions and discourses, not even counting the one where we assume it's a tragic event."

"Apparently the poll numbers about most slashers being queer struck a chord with people. (yay!)
As a result I have acquired numbers for several more polls now, with no effort on my part!"

"It is times like these that remind me how very, very much I love fandom. This has been moving pretty fast, but there have definitely been some developments. Most of these developments have been in the Fuck You Delicious We Are Leaving area, but there are also developments on the Del front. (Putting this together took me back to my newsletter days, which were pre-Delicious and awful. Guess what! STILL AWFUL.)"

"This is a tutorial for adding a Pinboard sidebar and custom Pinboard buttons to Firefox."

"Today I’m feeling 101-y, I guess, so let’s talk about privilege. [...] Privilege is an edge… a set of opportunities, benefits and advantages that some people get and others don’t."

"A dictionary of words, acronyms and expressions you may come across in the blogs of people in (or close to) the QUILTBAG community."

w/ useful tags.

"I do think all of us tend to be harder on women, even if the women in question are awesome. This is totally natural - the society we live in has plenty of issues about the ladies, and sometimes we don't even know we're being influenced.

So without further ado, and with Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Harry Potter, my own book because responses to it made me think about these issues, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Dickens, Ilona Andrews and doubtless others mentioned, plus mangled song lyrics because... I may be crazy. "

"Our tutorials will help you learn photoshop, step-by-step. Each tutorial has full illustrations and explanations of the techniques used."

"Welcome to CGTextures!

CGTextures strives to be the world's best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how difficult it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity--not about frustrating hours looking for images on the Internet. By supplying good-quality textures in an organized manner, I hope your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.
Many thanks go out to the people who have contributed textures to this site.
If you have stumbled upon this site and are wondering who may need these odd pictures of brick walls and other materials, take a look in the user gallery. You will discover the many way these textures are used for."

"While quick online access to images, footage and music may be second nature to us now, just a decade ago it was almost unimaginable. We were the first company to license imagery online - and continue to drive the industry forward. Our goal is to inspire communicators - and give them the tools to create inspiring work of their own."

"Welcome to Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site!"

"hello and welcome to daydreaming, a large multi-fandom fansite that features an extensive database of fanart, Photoshop and other downloads, and a very large collection of images from several tv series, movies, celebrities and even more. This site is updated regularly and frequently so please return often."

"welcome to rawr caps, the best resource for screencaps of your favorite tv shows, movies, music videos, and trailers. use the tags or memories to have an easier time finding what you're looking for, and if you like what you see, we'd love it if you join and/or friend our community."

"Welcome to midnight_road, graphic community of deny1984. Here you will find icons, headers, animations, wallpapers, picspams, textures."

"In this tutorial I would like to show you how you can make your web forms more attractive using CSS3. This tutorial will cover: CSS Rounded corners, CSS shadows on input fields, Inserting image on your input fields, Hover effect."

"Photoshop tutorials and other design resources"

"I frequently post searches either to find specific fics I remember, or to ask for recs for particular themes or pairings. These communities are incredibly useful resources and I love them. I decided a guide to using these kinds of places might be useful."

"The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips."

"Some tips on going from pro-equality in spirit to pro-equality in deed."

"“Cis” means “on the same side,” and is an antonym to “trans,” which means “across.” See where I’m going with this? If one who has crossed some invisible, socially-constructed sex or gender line is said to be transsexual or transgender, someone who has not, who has remained on their assigned “side” of the spectrum, could be described as cissexual or cisgender."

"A resource to help assault survivors and others make informed choices when reading fanfiction, as well as to promote the use of clear labels on potentially triggering pieces of fanfiction, and to provide a space for dialog on topics related to safety warnings and labels."

"Welcome to the world of colors where you're sure to find the perfect color combination for your project. This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations.
The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.
If you are looking for Color Combination ideas, check out the Combo Library. The library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their color hex values.
You can also use the website color grabbing tool or the search tool to get a quick start."

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"Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions."

"So I bet you're asking yourself, just who does this guy think he is, anyway? Setting himself up as an expert on gay sex, offering his opinions on books and movies, and thinking he can answer all your questions.
Well, he's a thirty-something gay man, who's lived basically his entire life in the gay community.
I discovered slash at the age of 13, coming across a K/S 'zine at a con. I was totally blown away. The writing wasn't all that good, but just seeing a gay relationship positively portrayed was a revelation. Knowing that there were other people out there, watching the same shows I did, and seeing these things helped me immensely at a very troubled time in my life. "

"This page was created because I got tired of being "ambushed" by books and movies with triggering topics. This list was compiled by survivors and allies to warn survivors about triggering material. This is by no means a list of books and movies to avoid, as many are wonderful and can help you on your healing journey. Of course, some of them are crap. Either way, it is important to prepare yourself for what you are going to see or read."

"Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, and oppressive language and ideas need to be dragged into the light, where they can be clearly seen and deconstructed, because otherwise they will continue to fester and inform everything we do; they will run through everything we do because we won’t know any better. The classroom environment provides a tremendous opportunity for examining language and ideas in context and talking about them, but everyone is, apparently, too scared to do so."

"Today, someone said a slur. It actually doesn’t matter what slur it was, because you see, he didn’t intend to hurt anyone and therefore it couldn’t possibly be a slur. "

High-quality, logo-free screencaps.

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"Celebrate Space! A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed live mission audio of STS-133, the final voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, live from launch to landing. Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio."

"Bei OutNow.CH findest Du immer die neusten Filmposter zum Download. Filmposter anklicken, herunterladen, fertig."

"I noticed there is an online article here about how Brannon Braga admits to wanting to include gay characters in the Trek he produced. I find it interesting they used Kirk and Spock's image in the article instead of a variety of other images they could have selected."
"On gay characters in Trek and Gene Roddenberry’s opinion of homosexuality/slash"

"Kirk/Spock fans are the luckiest slash fans in the universe. Our ship was the first slash ship. That alone gives us serious street cred (and I can't help but picture this street in which we would have this cred. Are there, like, a bunch of slash couples standing on the street, and Kirk and Spock are walking down the middle of said street clad in bling and pimp canes and everyone moves the fuck out of the way in awe of their badassitude? I digress.) Almost every single episode of the original series is dripping with subtext, UST, and innuendo. We have been blessed with the entirety of Amok Time, the term t'hy'la, and epic soul-saving quests whose storylines span three movies. We have a virtual treasure trove of proof for any who may argue for "just friendship" and, more often than not, it is so convincing that only narrow-minded or stubborn people refuse to see it."

"While I believe in the potentially transformative/political power of queering tv via certain kinds of fic/vid/art practices, it in no way makes up for the lack of real queer representation on tv (for me). I find that boyslash or femslash (for example) is more a palliative than a cure, when it comes to my yearning for representation"

"It's okay if slash isn't your thing. But your insistence that it's okay for you to see male/male relationships as inherently less plausible because you assume everyone is straight until proven otherwise is a problem. That kind of attitude contributes to the invisibility of people who aren't straight. It's also just warped logic; just because people are statistically more likely to be straight does not mean that someone not being straight is implausible. You're not as statistically likely to be adopted, either, but you don't complain about how you don't think adoption fics are plausible, I bet. "

"Compiler's note: All today's links deal with the report of Yahoo's termination of delicious and the impact this would have on fandom. Yahoo has since announced that it plans to sell delicious rather than shut it down."

"I get all maudlin about what Delicious could have been, and it's time to channel that into something productive. And I need a good name for it! Ideas? And you guys would be my first and best users, and I'd need your help for this crazy project - right now, figuring out what the minimal set of features would be. What are the very basics you would need before moving your bookmarks to this thing? Import from Delicious, tags, bundles, notes, titles, what else?"

"...Upon rewatching it, I even began to see more of the appeal, and now I like it a lot. Some of that liking does, indeed, situate around the fact that I've found some slashy goodness in it, and where there's slashy goodness, I'm a happy gal."

"Can you make it to the 29th stroke?"

"hey there! Who's ready to stop working for free? Hopefully you are! If you have any doubts, consult this handy chart below."

"When I talk about diversity I often hear about allies. Gay Straight Alliances and various ethnic and racial identity groups talk stress the importance of allies. This is interesting, because I don't think we, as a culture, know what it means to be an ally."

Frequently Answered Questions

"This community is for linking to interesting discussions in fandom, any fandom, on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, and other livejournal clone/fork sites. It provides no commentary or opinion, just links and brief excerpts."

"How about some love for the best tailor on the Promenade?"

"finally found the instructions on how to properly set up Semagic for cross posting to multiple journal accounts. I knew I was missing something the other day when I posted on how to set up Semagic to post to DW."

"Welcome to the Starship Schematics Database. It's dedicated to the sole purpose of archiving every single starship design ever conceived in the Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space Battleship Yamato (A.K.A. Star Blazers in the USA) Universes, both official and unofficial, interesting and mediocre.
As far as I know, no such attempt has been made either in print or digital formats to build as complete a collection as I intend to. I am continuously updating vessels from all the different mainstream Trek races and organizations: Tholian, Gorn, Kazon, Maquis, etc, along with the other Sci-Fi genres mentioned above. So keep coming back!"

"Robert Hewitt Wolfe [DS9 staff writer]: The way I wrote him (and I think the way Andy so wonderfully played him), Garak was attracted to Bashir. "

SPARKLES!!!

"Let me fully spell out what I mentioned last week, which is this: I don’t need to know if Ravi and Wei can be held legally responsible for Tyler Clementi’s death in order to feel perfectly confident saying that they are fucking assholes. I don’t need to know if their motivations were specifically homophobic to feel confident saying they are fucking assholes. I don’t need to ever meet them or speak with them to feel confident saying they are fucking assholes. Because I know they both participated in the filming of two people engaging in sexual activity without those people’s consent, and then invited other people to watch it. And if you do that, YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE. Always and forever."

"You know how it is. You’re enjoying yourself, kicking back and relaxing at the pub or maybe at the library; or maybe you’re in class or just casually surfing the internet, indulging in a little conversation. The topic of the conversation is about a pertinent contemporary issue, probably something to do with a group of people who fall outside your realm of experience and identity. They’re also probably fairly heavily discriminated against - or so they claim.
The thing is, you’re having a good time, sharing your knowledge about these people and their issues. This knowledge is incontrovertible - it’s been backed up in media representation, books, research and lots and lots of historical events, also your own unassailable sense of being right. "

"Do you like happiness? Yay, we do too. Let's cornify the world together and spread eternal, sparkly happiness!"

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"Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability™ in your Web browser."

"original series and first six movies. It looks like they had as much fun making this show as I had watching it."

"So I have created this site in the hope that it will help newcomers to CSS and show old hands that it is more than just a mechanism for styling your documents. It is oh so much more.
Because CSS play deals with experimental CSS that is exactly what you get JUST CSS, no javascript or any other programming language has been used in any of the demonstrations. For javascript demonstrations please click the javascript link in the main navigation bar which will take you to my other site which is dedicated to demonstrations using CSS and minimal, unobtrusive, javascript."