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WTF, Superbowl.
Feb. 8th, 2010 12:58 amAnother year of lackluster Super Bowl commercials, punctuated by a surprising number along the theme of Our Product Will Help You Reclaim Your Manliness From Those Emasculating Women. ("I will hold your lip balm...but I will drive the car I want to drive!")
By way of an antidote, therefore, have some text from Julia Serrano's Whipping Girl.
Hey, girls, did you hear the news? It's just been scientifically proven that barrettes are dangerous! So are bracelets and bric-a-brac. It's a fact. And don't be fooled by thick-necked macho men who pretend that "girl stuff" is boring or frivolous, because that's just an act. Because as soon as you ask that guy to hold your purse for a minute, he will start to squirm, as if your handbag were full of worms, as he holds it as far away from his rugged body as possible. Because "girl stuff" is made with the gender equivalent of Kryptonite!
...So here's the deal: If you want your boyfriend to treat you with respect, then tell him that you won't sleep with him until he starts putting barrettes in his hair. And I'm not talking about secret bedroom kinky shit. Make him wear them to work!
By way of an antidote, therefore, have some text from Julia Serrano's Whipping Girl.
Hey, girls, did you hear the news? It's just been scientifically proven that barrettes are dangerous! So are bracelets and bric-a-brac. It's a fact. And don't be fooled by thick-necked macho men who pretend that "girl stuff" is boring or frivolous, because that's just an act. Because as soon as you ask that guy to hold your purse for a minute, he will start to squirm, as if your handbag were full of worms, as he holds it as far away from his rugged body as possible. Because "girl stuff" is made with the gender equivalent of Kryptonite!
...So here's the deal: If you want your boyfriend to treat you with respect, then tell him that you won't sleep with him until he starts putting barrettes in his hair. And I'm not talking about secret bedroom kinky shit. Make him wear them to work!
Chase the Ace
Feb. 5th, 2010 03:43 pmLet's make a TARDIS wave throughout LJ DW.
When you see this entry, post a picture of the show to your own journal.
Will do. But first...
It's the middle of![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halfamoon, a fourteen-day multifandom marathon of Reccing Interesting Stuff About Female Characters. It tends towards the popular Western media fandoms, but you get all kinds of other esoteric series cropping up - not to mention, this year, a bunch of Buffy recs, which is something I've really been jonesing for lately (especially where femslash is involved).
Check it out! Join in! And pick up some nifty treats while you're there. For instance, someone did a picspam of Ace from Doctor Who, including these two little gems from the extended novels:
( Large but awesome pictures under the cut )
When you see this entry, post a picture of the show to your own journal.
Will do. But first...
It's the middle of
halfamoon, a fourteen-day multifandom marathon of Reccing Interesting Stuff About Female Characters. It tends towards the popular Western media fandoms, but you get all kinds of other esoteric series cropping up - not to mention, this year, a bunch of Buffy recs, which is something I've really been jonesing for lately (especially where femslash is involved).Check it out! Join in! And pick up some nifty treats while you're there. For instance, someone did a picspam of Ace from Doctor Who, including these two little gems from the extended novels:
( Large but awesome pictures under the cut )
"Did men and women both feel interested in the female body, and even (though it sounded ridiculous) in almost the same way?"
No, no, C. S. Lewis, it doesn't sound ridiculous at all. Please, let your female protagonist continue her bicurious narration.
(From That Hideous Strength, which I am about a quarter of the way through, and which as of this point I can best summarize as "He's a space-traveling thinly-disguised stand-in for J.R.R. Tolkien. She's an apparently-bicurious disgruntled housewife who's just found out she's psychic. They fight Merlin!")
No, no, C. S. Lewis, it doesn't sound ridiculous at all. Please, let your female protagonist continue her bicurious narration.
(From That Hideous Strength, which I am about a quarter of the way through, and which as of this point I can best summarize as "He's a space-traveling thinly-disguised stand-in for J.R.R. Tolkien. She's an apparently-bicurious disgruntled housewife who's just found out she's psychic. They fight Merlin!")
I've genderswapped a canon!male just to draw her in a man's suit. Where does that fit in?
Jan. 30th, 2010 01:43 amHey, flist dwircle. Let me tell you a story.
When I was but a wee young thing, already a geek in general and newly head over heels in love with the dubbed Sailor Moon that used to run on Cartoon Network, I had the bright idea of looking it up on the Internet. This is, more or less, how I discovered fandom.
And, oh, my mind was blown. There were more sailors! And they were soldiers, not "scouts"! And some of them were lesbians! (That's a whole essay on its own.) And some of them looked so good in suits that you might mistake them for boys. And some of the characters - in a pattern that was to continue as the next couple of series got dubbed and released into American waters - were boys, only they had long hair and slender figures and flirted with men, and so the dubbers had changed them into girls...
Fast forward several years. I'm watching the opening of a show I've never seen, unable to understand the lyrics but intrigued by the graphics. A classical bishounen - long hair, pretty eyes, sharp features - flashes on the screen, absolutely furious. I think: "Huh. He's angry."
By the end of the episode, I have changed my mind about Sir Integra Hellsing's gender at least three times. But the plot has me hooked, and by the third episode Integra (definitely female, even though everyone addresses her as "Sir") has taken up the central place in my fannish sphere.
( More (and more, and more) under the cut... )
When I was but a wee young thing, already a geek in general and newly head over heels in love with the dubbed Sailor Moon that used to run on Cartoon Network, I had the bright idea of looking it up on the Internet. This is, more or less, how I discovered fandom.
And, oh, my mind was blown. There were more sailors! And they were soldiers, not "scouts"! And some of them were lesbians! (That's a whole essay on its own.) And some of them looked so good in suits that you might mistake them for boys. And some of the characters - in a pattern that was to continue as the next couple of series got dubbed and released into American waters - were boys, only they had long hair and slender figures and flirted with men, and so the dubbers had changed them into girls...
Fast forward several years. I'm watching the opening of a show I've never seen, unable to understand the lyrics but intrigued by the graphics. A classical bishounen - long hair, pretty eyes, sharp features - flashes on the screen, absolutely furious. I think: "Huh. He's angry."
By the end of the episode, I have changed my mind about Sir Integra Hellsing's gender at least three times. But the plot has me hooked, and by the third episode Integra (definitely female, even though everyone addresses her as "Sir") has taken up the central place in my fannish sphere.
( More (and more, and more) under the cut... )
Technology marches on
Jan. 29th, 2010 01:44 amBest comment yet on Apple's new creation:
"The interesting thing is that you can use an iPad even if you have a Wii."
"The interesting thing is that you can use an iPad even if you have a Wii."
Mori-san at work
Jan. 21st, 2010 04:35 pmA bit of background: Mori Kaoru is the artist behind Emma, and her latest series is Otoyome Gatari, taking place along the Silk Road in the 19th century.
Video of the long, incredibly detailed process of drawing the main character:
One, two, three, four, five, six
Chunks of the process are skipped over, and it's still incredibly long. The sheer amount of hand-drawn detail is amazing. (Not that this comes as a surprise to anyone who has looked at one of Mori's pages for, oh, thirty seconds. Still, it's different to see it in action.) And then we get to the hand-cut tones at the end.
Somehow Mori decided she wanted to create a whole series with outfits like this on almost every page. The woman must have a vendetta against free time, or something.
(Crossposted to![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
anime_manga.)
Video of the long, incredibly detailed process of drawing the main character:
One, two, three, four, five, six
Chunks of the process are skipped over, and it's still incredibly long. The sheer amount of hand-drawn detail is amazing. (Not that this comes as a surprise to anyone who has looked at one of Mori's pages for, oh, thirty seconds. Still, it's different to see it in action.) And then we get to the hand-cut tones at the end.
Somehow Mori decided she wanted to create a whole series with outfits like this on almost every page. The woman must have a vendetta against free time, or something.
(Crossposted to
anime_manga.)Linkspam on trauma and recovery
Jan. 15th, 2010 11:41 amReviews of well-done PTSD in fiction: one, two, three, four. Covers everything from Lord Peter Wimsey to Lord of the Rings to The West Wing.
A User's Guide to PTSD, one, two, three. This one's specifically geared towards writers, and also features recs at the end.
Conscientious objectors during WWII exposed the horrific state of mental institutions at the time.
Mental illness is heavily shaped by cultural context...or at least, it used to be. These days the versions understood in the US are spreading.
Columbia University has been courting veterans, and they're getting off to a good start.
A User's Guide to PTSD, one, two, three. This one's specifically geared towards writers, and also features recs at the end.
Conscientious objectors during WWII exposed the horrific state of mental institutions at the time.
Mental illness is heavily shaped by cultural context...or at least, it used to be. These days the versions understood in the US are spreading.
Columbia University has been courting veterans, and they're getting off to a good start.
Krazy Kat picspam
Jan. 8th, 2010 12:48 pmJust finished one of my new Krazy & Ignatz collections (the collected Sundays, 1925-1926), and was overcome with the urge to picspam.
Even if you've never read the comic and have no idea what it's about...just stop for a minute and look at these panels. They're lush works of art all by themselves.
( 'Spanish' me foot - you sing in 'American' )
Also: icons! Free for the purloining.
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Even if you've never read the comic and have no idea what it's about...just stop for a minute and look at these panels. They're lush works of art all by themselves.
( 'Spanish' me foot - you sing in 'American' )
Also: icons! Free for the purloining.
. . . . . . Quiz Dump #13
Jan. 7th, 2010 08:54 pmMy Time Lord Name is Essrisingriloklandusunk.
Take The Time Lord Name Generator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.
It's been three and a half years since I last posted one of these. Some of these quiz results have been waiting on my hard drive for even longer. Let's see if any of them are still accurate.
( 'You are...Lion Warning LOLcat!' )
Take The Time Lord Name Generator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.
It's been three and a half years since I last posted one of these. Some of these quiz results have been waiting on my hard drive for even longer. Let's see if any of them are still accurate.
( 'You are...Lion Warning LOLcat!' )
The fic I finally managed to hammer out a complete draft of...is ~3500 words.
The "notes + deleted scenes + other huge chunks of text that I wrote before realizing they were down the wrong path entirely" file...is ~5400 words.
Clearly this thing Did Not Want To Come Together.
(It's the 3quel to the Grey, And Oh So Soft 'verse, for those of you keeping score.)
The "notes + deleted scenes + other huge chunks of text that I wrote before realizing they were down the wrong path entirely" file...is ~5400 words.
Clearly this thing Did Not Want To Come Together.
(It's the 3quel to the Grey, And Oh So Soft 'verse, for those of you keeping score.)
I've spent most of the past 24 hours Getting Stuff Done. By which I mean a bunch of tiny little nagging website updates that have been at the back of my mind for months, if not years. It's kind of disorienting.
Also disorienting is the fact that I don't feel like I've gotten much done at all. I'm thinking this may be because I haven't gotten any feedback on it. I knew the Internet was getting me used to instant gratification, but I didn't realize it was quite that bad.
I might be able to assuage it by posting some big impressive fic, but even if I had something finished, everyone's on vacation and unlikely to reply.
Ngh.
...Okay, enough of my floundering. Have a meme.
you know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think, "wait a minute? since when were they working there? since when were they dating him/her? since when!?" and then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? it happens to all of us sometimes.
please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. one-word-answers seldom help anyone out. (:
( Answers under the cut )
Also disorienting is the fact that I don't feel like I've gotten much done at all. I'm thinking this may be because I haven't gotten any feedback on it. I knew the Internet was getting me used to instant gratification, but I didn't realize it was quite that bad.
I might be able to assuage it by posting some big impressive fic, but even if I had something finished, everyone's on vacation and unlikely to reply.
Ngh.
...Okay, enough of my floundering. Have a meme.
you know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think, "wait a minute? since when were they working there? since when were they dating him/her? since when!?" and then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? it happens to all of us sometimes.
please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. one-word-answers seldom help anyone out. (:
( Answers under the cut )
Following a very persuasive recommendation, I've gone and got myself an account on diigo, which is kind of like the Dreamwidth to del.icio.us's LiveJournal: smaller, but a whole lot more functional.
If all goes well, you should be seeing a post on![[syndicated profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
erinptah_feed sometime in the next 24 hours summarizing the bookmarks I have so far (mostly fic recs, multifandom), and similar autoposts every day after that.
( Technical blathering under the cut. )
If all goes well, you should be seeing a post on
erinptah_feed sometime in the next 24 hours summarizing the bookmarks I have so far (mostly fic recs, multifandom), and similar autoposts every day after that.( Technical blathering under the cut. )
Mmm, journaling.
Dec. 22nd, 2009 08:58 amSo I went through and copypasted...most of my entries from GJ, for a total of maybe 300. They're the ones with (helpfully enough) "[GJ]" appended to the beginning of their subject lines. (Just to explain why they look so lonely and commentless.)
All of which has led to a ton of new tags. I'm pretty sure nobody's going to bother browsing this entire backlog, but it might be worth glancing down the list for fandoms you like, or perusing the lol tag, or maybe the links on the copyright tag. And the general highlights of those three years are collected under the label hey this is kind neat.
...I used to do a lot more excited, detailed recaps of shows I had just seen. I wonder what happened to that.
Also, new layout! Lifted fromandthatstheword, which will be officially moved to DW some time next week, once (a) I've made it home and done some other catching up, and (b) people currently swept up in the Christmas rush start trickling back onto the Internets.
All of which has led to a ton of new tags. I'm pretty sure nobody's going to bother browsing this entire backlog, but it might be worth glancing down the list for fandoms you like, or perusing the lol tag, or maybe the links on the copyright tag. And the general highlights of those three years are collected under the label hey this is kind neat.
...I used to do a lot more excited, detailed recaps of shows I had just seen. I wonder what happened to that.
Also, new layout! Lifted from
andthatstheword, which will be officially moved to DW some time next week, once (a) I've made it home and done some other catching up, and (b) people currently swept up in the Christmas rush start trickling back onto the Internets.A few days ago, this post showed up on metafandom - asking, in brief, why there seems to be less meta these days, and why MF's linkposts have gotten fewer and farther between.
The comments go deeper into MF's move away from fandom-specific meta, as well as towards discussions of -isms that are sometimes only related to fandom in the sense that they are expressed there, and where is all the anime meta, anyway?
As someone who would love to see more anime meta, not to mention more Interesting Stuff Specifically About Fandom as opposed to (twenty posts at once, all containing frequently overlapping views on) Social Issues Which Intersect With Fandom, I'm loving this discussion. Not to mention looking forward to recovering from finals enough to write down some of the Ponderings of Neat Anime Stuff that have been marinating in the back of my brain for the past month.
Now, in the same MF link roundup was this FYI about LJ's gender options. It's entirely technical, has nothing to do with fandom at all, and I had already seen the link via a friend's journal . . . but then, MF used to be my only source for such FYIs, so I appreciated having it linked.
But.
( ...okay, this got kind of long. Also ranty. )
metafandom - asking, in brief, why there seems to be less meta these days, and why MF's linkposts have gotten fewer and farther between.The comments go deeper into MF's move away from fandom-specific meta, as well as towards discussions of -isms that are sometimes only related to fandom in the sense that they are expressed there, and where is all the anime meta, anyway?
As someone who would love to see more anime meta, not to mention more Interesting Stuff Specifically About Fandom as opposed to (twenty posts at once, all containing frequently overlapping views on) Social Issues Which Intersect With Fandom, I'm loving this discussion. Not to mention looking forward to recovering from finals enough to write down some of the Ponderings of Neat Anime Stuff that have been marinating in the back of my brain for the past month.
Now, in the same MF link roundup was this FYI about LJ's gender options. It's entirely technical, has nothing to do with fandom at all, and I had already seen the link via a friend's journal . . . but then, MF used to be my only source for such FYIs, so I appreciated having it linked.
But.
( ...okay, this got kind of long. Also ranty. )
I'm listed as an artist on Last.fm.
There are only four tracks under my name, and all of them are from fanmixes I've made, in which I changed the "album artist" field in the songs' metadata to "Erin Ptah". Apparently Last.fm's software picked up on that from a couple of people who have downloaded said mixes.
This is pretty trippy.
There are only four tracks under my name, and all of them are from fanmixes I've made, in which I changed the "album artist" field in the songs' metadata to "Erin Ptah". Apparently Last.fm's software picked up on that from a couple of people who have downloaded said mixes.
This is pretty trippy.
Stocking-stuffer-type fandomy treats.
Dec. 9th, 2009 12:27 pmThe Onion writes Obama angstfic. Heart, aching.
Red Dwarf audios currently airing on BBC7. Check them out.
Assistant Denki Keika: crack yuri series about a secret conspiracy involving superhero manga assistants. (Memberslocked todaily_yuri, NSFW.) Oh, Japan. <3
Finally, a moment of squee: my school makes news by adopting proposal to offer gender-neutral housing. Woohoo!
Red Dwarf audios currently airing on BBC7. Check them out.
Assistant Denki Keika: crack yuri series about a secret conspiracy involving superhero manga assistants. (Memberslocked to
daily_yuri, NSFW.) Oh, Japan. <3Finally, a moment of squee: my school makes news by adopting proposal to offer gender-neutral housing. Woohoo!
Tech, geeks, dresses, and meeps
Nov. 20th, 2009 04:28 pmRoombas hacked to play Pac-Man. Oh, geeks, ILU.
High schoolers fight gender rigidity in dress codes. On the other hand, if this article is to be believed, drag is the new black. We can only hope.
Other Things Schools Are Banning Now: the word "meep". Apparently because it annoys the principal. No, seriously.
Finally, a new twist to the adorable OS-tan phenomenon, in which operating systems get personalized as cute anime girls: Microsoft has not only caught on to the meme, it's created an official Windows 7-tan. (Scroll down for images of OS-tans past.)
High schoolers fight gender rigidity in dress codes. On the other hand, if this article is to be believed, drag is the new black. We can only hope.
Other Things Schools Are Banning Now: the word "meep". Apparently because it annoys the principal. No, seriously.
Finally, a new twist to the adorable OS-tan phenomenon, in which operating systems get personalized as cute anime girls: Microsoft has not only caught on to the meme, it's created an official Windows 7-tan. (Scroll down for images of OS-tans past.)
