February 2012
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“My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar...”
– Neil Gaiman (via booksandnerds)
… My mother asked me to give up books for Lent once. I was so quiet. She wanted to talk and interact more.
Two days later, with me pressed up against the bathroom door and her inside, with forty-eight hours behind us of me being the noisiest person in a house full...
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On kerfuffles and gay romance and giveaways →
Last year, there was an outcry over a YA anthology that was prohibiting same-sex stories. There were a LOT of posts about it on the internet. There were a lot of authors who got up in arms and dropped out of not only that anthology, but an anthology being edited by the same editor, an anthology that I was writing for.
In the end, what ended up happening was that the anthology lost half its line...
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January 2012
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
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BOOM.
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I think I love you, Janet Howell.
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Seems only fair.
This is a thing of beauty.
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Sarah Rees Brennan: I Have A Thing... A Thing You... →
sarahreesbrennan:
And I want to give it to you. It is awesome how things work out that way.
Soooo, I believe that I may have mentioned Robin Wasserman’s book The Book of Blood and Shadow.
I will now refer to the back of the book.
‘When the night began, Nora had two best friends and a boyfriend she adored….
Wants it, my preciousss….
“The Wikipedia blackout presents a horrifying picture of a world with no...”
– Andy Daglas Quote of the night. (via moriartea)
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“Democracy:
A form of rulership buttressed by the twin pillars of popularity...”
– Harkaway’s True Definitions :)
What he said.
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The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
The end of the affair is always death.
She’s my workshop. Slippery eye,
out of the tribe of myself my breath
finds you gone. I horrify
those who stand by. I am fed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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Finger to finger, now she’s mine.
She’s not too far. She’s my encounter.
I beat her like a bell. I recline
in the bower where you used to mount her.
You borrowed me on the...
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“He said, ‘They’re only whores,’ as though their very availability rendered them worthless.”
- Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword, pg. 420 (Bantam Spectra 2006)
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The Year in Books: 2011
2011 involved unprecedented levels of book-related awesome. That’s a big call to make, because as you may have noticed by now, I read voraciously, constantly, and have done my whole life. Undeniably, one of the things that made 2011 so special was my discovery of Amazon - or, more specifically, the belated realisation that I am a grown woman with my own income and can, as such, buy books on...
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Fantasy Lady Poses Are Fucking Ridiculous →
justsayins:
Okay. Guys. Guys. Two things.
1) I’m a martial artist. I’ve been studying since I was seven. I wouldn’t even hesitate to say that I’m good at it. I have done work as a fight choreographer for film, and I am trained in stage combat as well.
2) I’m a contortionist. Yes. Again, since…
This. Also, see this post by Jim C. Hines, wherein he tries - and fails! with pain! - to...
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Things I Have Done Today
Written 1000 new words of my novel
Vacuumed
Two loads of washing
Changed the sheets
The washing up
Cleaned the kitchen floor
Chopped up a couple of rockmelons for healthy snacking
Gone for a half-hour run
Read half a book
Tidied everything
Written this post
And it’s still only 7pm.
BAM!
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Imaginary Interview With Imaginary Steven Moffat!
So because I am a crazy lady who cares about her stories and her feminism, I have basically spent the whole week having imaginary internal arguments with Steven Moffat about the sexism in Sherlock and Doctor Who. And because I am also a crazy lady with a blog, I have decided to get all of this angsting off my chest in a cathartic, therapeutic way by having an imaginary interview with Imaginary...
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‘There is a Chinese word for the female I - which is “slave”. Break the women with their own tongues!’
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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‘I am watching the centuries pass in moments because suddenly I understand time, which is spinning and fixed like the North Star. And I understand how working and hoeing are dancing; how peasant clothes are golden, as king’s clothes are golden; how one of the dancers is always a man and the other a woman.’
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among...
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septemberbug asked: just read your post on tennis ball/physics/etc, amazingly written, been having an in depth discussion about it with my friend.
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A Note On Unconscious Bias
Pick up a tennis ball. Throw and catch it. Put it down again.
The whole process takes only a few seconds, but in that time, your brain has performed innumerable calculations: gauging the weight of the object, marking its trajectory, repositioning your hand and fingers to brace for the fall. The vast majority of people, if asked to consciously work out the mathematics behind tossing a ball in the...