September 2011
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“People tell me to lose weight and I’m like, fuck off.”
– Roseanne Barr (via coffeeislovely)
A-fucking-(wo)men!
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Oh, Anne McCaffrey
craftastrophies:
Is it in your contract that you must have at least one rapey sex scene per book?
I don’t know why I bother anymore.
I know :( Revisiting her after my enlightenment really hurts. She was the one who put me on the path to being a SF writer. I owe her something and it hurts.
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“And I don’t, don’t, don’t get the hate. Self hate, women hate, body hate,...”
– bruiseoftheweek (via marythedaring)
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pinkhairedcomputerscientist:
squishythings:
Hey men who write nerd books who spend years researching very particular topics so you have the facts straight and can lend an air of plausibility to your not-real book worlds could you please at some point apply that kind of care when writing your female characters?
One million times WORD. This is why I stopped reading Neal Stephenson.
The...
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Rant: Spartacus Blood and Sand, aka '1001 Gendered...
I have to ask the people who recommended I watch ‘Spartacus Blood and Sand’ what the hell they were smoking to think I’d enjoy this show.
I’m not adverse to a bit of blood n guts and sex. Oh sure, I could watch All Of The Lucy Lawless, All The Time, except in this show…not.
I got through two and a half episodes before I had to switch off in disgust. There were so...
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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RABID WRITER CAPSLOCK RANT GO
jumpingjacktrash:
let me just start by putting this on the table so we can all see it:
the way literature and creative writing are taught in schools is completely and totally wrong.
it is. it’s fucked up. it’s backwards. now, to be fair, i don’t have an alternate suggestion for schools. i’m not school guy. but i do have an alternate suggestion for writers, and it begins with looking back on...
The Wellington Young Feminists' Collective: Are... →
wellingtonyoungfeminists:
A message from Massey University:
Massey University is currently conducting a study entitled “Are young people misunderstood? An investigation into how young people in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) view their social support, participation and life in general”.
The purpose of this study is to find…
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Scuze me posting all these “West Wing Confessions” but there’s plenty about the West Wing that peed me right off, including Sorkin’s terrible portrayal of women. CJ may have been awesome, but he never kept her consistant - her politics were all over the place for expediency. And his messages about feminism from Ainsley Hayes…ugh. Her speech about “lipstick...
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The QoTumblr: On 'Strange Fruit' →
thespitfireemporium:
clembastow:
A lot of people are posting Billie Holliday’s Strange Fruit today, presumably in response to the execution of Troy Davis.
It feels like the “right” or a “relevant” song to post, I’m sure, except for one thing: lynchings ≠ capital punishment. Both are abhorrent, but they are not the same thing. Davis wasn’t lynched, he was executed.
It’s worth remembering...
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When people call me fat
bearlyonearth:
fatuosity:
fattyforever:
righter-than-wrong:
How they think I’ll react:
How I really react:
Pretty fucking much. Bitches.
YEP.
LOVE.
Aww yeah.
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When I was a kid, I didn't have a laptop, iPod,...
snowdarkred:
chambergambit:
hear-me-laugh:
I loved my childhood.
Yes, I totally appreciate the childhood where I didn’t have technology that didn’t exist. It was such a good time.
BAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW THINGS CHANGED HOW FUCKING HORRIBLE BOO HOW DARE THOSE YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS HAVE CELLPHONES THAT CAN ALLOW THEM TO CALL THE POLICE OR INTERNET THAT CAN ALLOW THEM TO CHAT WITH PEOPLE...
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Watchfuckyesdarrenhayes:
Bloodstained Heart Official Video
Perez Hilton got the exclusive world premiere of it. Not on Darren’s youtube or vimeo channels yet.
So an out gay musician makes a video with a woman in it.
People go “WTF?!”
Come on people, men can have relationships, and wonderful relationships, with women and it DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SEXUAL. Kick that social...
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Queen of All She Can See: SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A... →
missturdle:
How exciting! Fantasy is so fun! You can do anything you want to your universe, because it’s fantasy - which is really great, because you’ve always wanted cats to talk and everyone else to share your distaste of squash. Plus you could have magic! Or not, you know, low-fantasy works too. Maybe it will be another Epic/High fantasy, and surely you’ve got a trilogy in the works, or...
fuckyeahladygaga:
SONG PREMIERE: Tony Bennett...
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I'm writing a story that will probably never be...
snowdarkred:
because it is about a time traveling Victorian steampunk lesbian who is also black. Who travels through various alternate universes hitting on girls, accompanied by her future/past/present/eternal lover from a modern alternative world that the reader isn’t supposed to realize is actually not ours until a certain moment.
Send it to Expanded Horizons, Khimairal Ink, or Fantastique...
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Women Aren't "Crazy" →
fuckyeahfeminists:
A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not “Crazy”
To Read More: http://thecurrentconscience.com/blog/2011/09/12/a-message-to-women-from-a-man-you-are-not-“crazy”/
You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop freaking out!…
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Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith at... →
An agent from a major agency, one which represents a bestselling YA novel in the same genre as ours, called us.
The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation.
Rachel replied, “Making a gay character straight is a line in the sand which I will not cross. That is a moral issue. I...
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