The Dead Boy Detectives - BRUBAKER/TALBOT/LEIALOHA
I picked this up from the library because it’s Sandman-related, and I really enjoyed it. These characters are great.
The Dead Boy Detectives - BRUBAKER/TALBOT/LEIALOHA
I picked this up from the library because it’s Sandman-related, and I really enjoyed it. These characters are great.
Set phasers to “sexy”
A new piece for The Washingon Post about Star Trek and the world of fanfiction. You can read the article here.
So fun -
Fan fiction is like methadone to a heroin addict, offering a come-down from the high of the original creation. It’s a rebound relationship, filling the gaping hole left when a favorite series ends (or starts to suck).
This whole article is fantastic.
Because I was curious about the breakdown of fanfic on AO3. And because I like charts.
NB: the categories and the warnings are not mutually exclusive, which means those charts may be a bit misleading.
Holy fuck this is awesome.
Fascinating. I could look at these charts for hours, no joke.
(via thescienceofobsession)
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Caitlin Moran - What’s not to love about Benedict Cumberbatch
Caitlin Moran’s article in The Times (magazine on sale tomorrow, well later today!)
This is, hands down, one of the best interviews I’ve ever read. Well-written, giving you a glimpse of Ben you don’t get to see often. The quotes are so fantastic.
“Well, this is insane,” he says, quite reasonably, as he signs an autograph for a crying girl dressed as Captain Kirk.
Agreed. This is a lovely interview.
Slash makes you think. It presents you with scenarios and situations that confront and transgress our nicely constructed ideas of the ‘norm.’ It flat refuses to swallow the party line about who has what emotions in what circumstances. It is produced, mainly by women, in an effort to search through questions and answers about ourselves and our constructed sexuality/identity. In slash, we do what is unthinkable, we put the ‘wrong’ people in bed, in the ‘wrong’ situations. In a world that creates the individual’s identity in terms of sexuality, we respond by challenging, rearranging, that sexuality, that identity.
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— Morgan, “A Different Eye,” SBF 3, November 1993 (x)
The amazing thing is that this quote is 20 years old.
(Source: professorfangirl)
I am all the daughters of my father’s house,
And all the brothers too.
And all the brothers too.
– Viola, Act II scene iv, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare. I watched the 1996 film for the first time recently, it reminded me how much I love this line, always so sad.
Performance in a Leading Role by MADLORI
I re-read this recently, I forgot how good the details are, it really makes you understand the bizarre world of media. Also, adorable.
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is one of my favourite books simply because it’s full of all these lovely well-written insights.
(Source: jody-jennings)
So, I bought this the other day. Amazing.
Serenity: Those Left Behind.
(Source: strangelykatie)
This Is Just To Say, by Sherlock Holmes
I have stored
a severed
human head in
the icebox
in which
you were probably
keeping
your breakfast
I am not sorry
it is more convenient
then the morgue
at Bart’s(For the “Let’s Draw Sherlock” Famous Works challenge; original by William Carlos Williams here.)
William Carlos William
Totally better than the original.
(via letsdrawsherlock)
