brownbetty | When I put it that way, it kind of sounds inevitably porny.
1 hour ago by esther_a
You guys, I really want the story of Steve Rogers' adventures with the Chorus Girls on his "Buy War Bonds" tour.
nf
id:brown_betty
-meta
1 hour ago by esther_a
Obsidian Wings: The Superhero Men Don't See: Evidence
12 days ago by esther_a
But when I started looking at reviews outside my corner of fandom, I found something Ian Grey of PressPlay also noticed:
Two parallel realities! Men who see nobody at all and women who see the next Faith (without the crazy, I mean). Don’t tell Disney, or they’ll be marketing the film as 4-D.
Being me, I decided to gather data, not just examples.
nf
-meta
f:Avengers
reviews
feminism
Two parallel realities! Men who see nobody at all and women who see the next Faith (without the crazy, I mean). Don’t tell Disney, or they’ll be marketing the film as 4-D.
Being me, I decided to gather data, not just examples.
12 days ago by esther_a
Patently Absurd! - A.P. Pedrick
27 days ago by esther_a
Pedrick was an extremely prolific British inventor in the 1960s and 1970s. Bursting with ideas, he clearly felt he had to share them with the world. After a career as an examiner in the UK Patent Office, he spent his retirement applying for large numbers of patents.
The practicality of his ideas never seems to have troubled him, as these examples show.
nf
interesting
history
science
The practicality of his ideas never seems to have troubled him, as these examples show.
27 days ago by esther_a
sarahtales: I Belong to Chrestomanci Castle
4 weeks ago by esther_a
In CHARMED LIFE, there is a moment when the protagonist Cat takes out a bunch of stuff from the castle of the nine-lived enchanter who is now his guardian, but even simple things like china plates are magic there—and they all start to shout out their protest.
‘I belong to Chrestomanci Castle!’ they say. ‘I belong to Chrestomanci Castle!’
Because of Diana Wynne Jones, who I never met, I was irrevocably altered: my purpose in life, the things I wanted, the way I think and the way I communicate with other people. Her words changed my world.
That means a lot. She meant a lot to me.
Part of me belongs to Chrestomanci Castle. It always will.
nf
-meta
f:Diana_Wynn_Jones
id:Sarah_R_Brennan
‘I belong to Chrestomanci Castle!’ they say. ‘I belong to Chrestomanci Castle!’
Because of Diana Wynne Jones, who I never met, I was irrevocably altered: my purpose in life, the things I wanted, the way I think and the way I communicate with other people. Her words changed my world.
That means a lot. She meant a lot to me.
Part of me belongs to Chrestomanci Castle. It always will.
4 weeks ago by esther_a
Martha Wells - New Fan Art!
5 weeks ago by esther_a
This is the Fell, in all their forms.
nf
-fanart
f:CloudRoads
5 weeks ago by esther_a
Tell Forward: The “Willow” that Wasn’t
9 weeks ago by esther_a
The sheer amount of art that has been produced for Lucasfilm projects is overwhelming in its quantity and quality. One of the artists, whose contributions to Lucasfilm’s archives are particularly exciting, is French master illustrator Jean “Moebius” Giraud.
nf
art
SF
9 weeks ago by esther_a
branchandroot | Allegory of the fic-cave
10 weeks ago by esther_a
Now, I think the Allegory of the Cave is a useless bit of self-congratulatory twaddle, when it comes to models of human perception in general, but it does seem to have some particular applicability to written fiction.
nf
id:branch
-meta
writing
10 weeks ago by esther_a
Archive of Our Own » Smallville Slash Archive
12 weeks ago by esther_a
Contains stories imported from The Smallville Slash Archive formerly located at: http://smallville.slashdom.net/.
nf
archive
f:Smallville
via:snowrose
'ao3
12 weeks ago by esther_a
Scientific Language: H. Beam Piper’s “Omnilingual” | Tor.com
12 weeks ago by esther_a
Re-reading “Omnilingual,” an H. Beam Piper short story published in Analog in 1957 and collected in Federation, I decided it was the classic SF short story, the one everyone ought to read if they’re only going to read one, because it’s both typical and excellent.
nf
SF
-meta
f:H_Beam_Piper
12 weeks ago by esther_a
recessional: Furyans: An explanation (Or: "M's First Epic Fanwank-slash-Building-A-Whole-New-Culture, So That As-Presented Would Stop Hurting Her Brain." )
12 weeks ago by esther_a
So, let us assume thus:
Furyans, as a people (whether that means species or whatever), are extraordinarily aggressive and violence-prone, particularly the men. Their wiring is such, in fact, that it is the job of the women (who hold power) to plan and make decisions and, you know, run the community, where it's the job of men to kill everything that threatens the community. Women think and direct and deal with strategy; men work tactics and the immediate and keep everyone alive.
Or, more crudely, the males are for killing things, and the females are for telling them what they may or may not kill.
nf
-meta
id:Recessional
f:Riddick
meta:single_fandom
Furyans, as a people (whether that means species or whatever), are extraordinarily aggressive and violence-prone, particularly the men. Their wiring is such, in fact, that it is the job of the women (who hold power) to plan and make decisions and, you know, run the community, where it's the job of men to kill everything that threatens the community. Women think and direct and deal with strategy; men work tactics and the immediate and keep everyone alive.
Or, more crudely, the males are for killing things, and the females are for telling them what they may or may not kill.
12 weeks ago by esther_a
scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain
12 weeks ago by esther_a
I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you'd expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and Snuffleupagus had witnessed the the passage of a soul to the ancient Egyptian afterlife, complete with the weighing of the human heart against a feather. I shit you not.
nf
f:Muppets
'LJ
12 weeks ago by esther_a
Chrome Web Store - Jailbreak the Patriarchy
february 2012 by esther_a
Jailbreak the Patriarchy genderswaps the world for you. When it's installed, everything you read in Chrome (except for gmail, so far) loads with pronouns and a reasonably thorough set of other gendered words swapped. For example: "he loved his mother very much" would read as "she loved her father very much", "the patriarchy also hurts men" would read as "the matriarchy also hurts women", that sort of thing.
This makes reading stuff on the internet a pretty fascinating and eye-opening experience, I must say. What would the world be like if we reversed the way we speak about women and men? Well, now you can find out!
nf
feminism
internet
via:rosadina
This makes reading stuff on the internet a pretty fascinating and eye-opening experience, I must say. What would the world be like if we reversed the way we speak about women and men? Well, now you can find out!
february 2012 by esther_a
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