The excellent damned_colonial has launched the Geek Feminism Wiki

... to discuss issues facing women in a range of geek communities including computing, open source, science fiction fandom, online gaming, and so forth.

I set this up in response to the Open Source Boob Project stuff a couple of months back, because I saw people talking about common experiences shared by women at SF cons which sounded a lot like some of the things I'd experienced on geeky IRC channels, and, well, I figure we all have a lot in common and might benefit from getting our experiences down in one place and having something we can refer to next time something comes up.

If you're a woman in a geek community, or someone who'd like to support women in geek communities, please come and contribute. And please also feel free to spread the word.

She is hoping for a substantial section on Wiscon and on SF fandom in general, and therefore I mention the matter here.

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/07/24.html

melange: a mixture.

Title - Don't Cha
Author - softly_sweetly
Beta - potion_lady
Rating - NC17
Word Count - ~620
Characters/Pairings - Charlie/Draco
Warnings - PWP, Slash,
Disclaimer - I own nothing but the plot lines. I make no money from this, and mean no offence by any scene depicted within this story. All characters depicted in sexual situations herein are above the age of consent.
Summary - Drinking. Dancing. More drinking. Muggle clubs. The night should have ended in sex, but Draco's been distracted and Charlie's going crazy with need.
Author's Notes - Written for prompt #26 Sing of my 100quills Charlie/Draco table, and prompt #6 of my mission_insane Inspired By Songs table, using the song Don't Cha by The Pussycat Dolls. Set in the Moving In Verse.

For the lovely chiakidark, who drew me this art for a scene alluded to in Moving In – Prelude to A Move. Naturally, I had to write it up for her! ♥

( Don't Cha )

Hi all! I've been part of the community for a few weeks, but just got around to posting. Since I am posting one that isn't literary based (for istand)I am also including a picture of my friend's Neverending Story tattoo. Because you can never have too many literary tattoos, right? ;0)

( Tolkien, RENT and more )

I have plans for more literary tattoos also. I would love to get something from either The Halloween Tree or Fahrenheit 451 but there are a million others as well! Hope you all enjoyed this little show and tell and hopefully I can share more when I get the money to afford getting them!

Okay, in regards to the recent Fan History wank. I don't particularly like touching on wank to be bluntly honest. But the fact of the matter is that I know three people whose real names have been connected to their fan names on the FH wiki over the past few years (two of them within the past six months or so) and frankly, for me personally, that's just beyond the pale. It breaks a cardinal rule of fandom.

I would sincerely request that everyone go read the following posts if you haven't already. Not because you should participate in wank, but because this is your fandom too, and you should be aware of what's going on. I'm not going to tell you what to think about the posts. Make your own mind up after you read them.

• liviapenn details the ways Laura Hale is attempting to make money off fandom with Fan History (If you read any post at all, this should be it. Seriously.)
  
• ithiliana calling Laura Hale out on her outing of fans
  
• dejana's reaction to the now deleted fanthropology post.
  
• A video pitch to venture capitalists to fund Fan History.

Also, just in courtesy of svmadelyn's post here, it looks like as of August 4, the infamous FanLib will be shutting its doors. Well. Hm.

http://www.asofterworld.com

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=332

This is today's comic!

Last night I fell asleep watching The House on Haunted Hill, the 1959 version. When we were living in Halifax, and Maggie was away living with the birds for weeks at a time, I used to fall asleep to this movie night after night. There's something really relaxing about a very familiar movie. In university it was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I just bought one of those DVD box sets, where you pay fifteen bucks and get 50 old movies. I love old horror movies, in a very different way from how I love modern horror movies. The quality of acting is so different. It's not better, really, but it's more... charming? Old fashioned, I guess. I love the guy in House on Haunted Hill who's so deadly earnest about the ghosts. Pritchett. I like this movie much better than the other Vincent Price movie in the box set - Last man on Earth. It's so much funnier. The dialogue between Vincent Price and his wife is amazing. Last Man on Earth is good, but it's not WONDERFUL. I have been in the mood for wonderful, lately.

My friend Jon sent me a link to Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and he sarcastically mentioned that maybe I hadn't heard of it yet. I hadn't! I don't know how someone can spend their days on the internet and not have heard of it, but it completely escaped my notice until it was complete and I could watch the entire thing. I think Neil Patrick Harris is hilarious. I am sorry, Maggie, but I would leave you for him in an instant. But I would write! I would write and tell you all about him. That has to be worth something, right?

Last night there was an amazing thunder and lightning storm here in Toronto. Huge forks of lightning! Loud, rolling thunder! These happen so often here. We never got thunder storms like this in Nova Scotia. It is a checkmark in the Toronto column, despite the fact that everyone I know here seems to be a workaholic, and I spend a lot of my days just hanging out with my cat and my Barbarian character in Diablo II. Maggie and I sat out on the balcony. We're on the "14th floor" (you know what floor we're REALLY on. Jump out the window - you will die earlier.") and just watched for an hour. It made me want to watch My Own Private Idaho again, for some reason. There's no thunder and lightning in the movie, but it got me thinking about those beautiful landscape shots. About the huge glaring pink title cards.

I'm sort of rambling, and jumping from topic to topic. I guess none of these things are related, except that this is what my life is like, now. These are the things that make up my days, and I have to find a way to understand them together if I'm going to make any sense of my life.

poorly scanned, my bad.

. . . to the first person to shout "Book, ho!" when they sight the new paperback of Delia Sherman's Changeling in an actual bookstore! I hear it's out and everything, but have yet to see one myself.

Actually, last time I called deliasherman's cell phone, she was signing copies to leave for customers of Porter Square Books in Cambridge. So I guess she's seen it.

But then, she's the author. What about the rest of us??

This is what I get for complaining to TAP about cramps...

4:49:19 PM TAP: Then stop being an affront to God and maybe he'll stop punishing you
4:49:29 PM Nishi: I fucking hate you, you twat <3
4:49:48 PM TAP: Not as much as our Lord hates chicks
4:50:02 PM TAP: Bros before hoes
4:50:08 PM TAP: It's in the Bible.

After some of the responses on my last entry on a Chicago Tattoo parlor ( thanks for all the advice by the way :) ) I thought this article was very interesting:

http://www.asylum.com/2008/07/23/tattoo-parlor-needs-spellcheck/?icid=100214839x1205995696x1200323555

If anyone missed it, the chat is archived here. There were some great questions! Tori seems very happy.

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I havent updated in forever, i know. blah blah blah. I think about it. I really do. I'll update when i think of something interesting to write or when i get up the energy to write the not so interesting stuff

this is my first time posting, so here are just two polaroids i took like a month ago with my One-Step.

i have a ton that i've taken with my Special 100ee, but i'll post those another time :]


"too slow? too bad!"


goose.

Who else has had nothing but problems with getting their copies of Comic Book Tattoo?

would you all mind sharing pictures/description of chest/collarbone pieces.  i think they are really ballsy, and i would love to get one, but i don't know if i have the guts.

thanks!

Michael De Larrabeiti died.

I can't remember whether it was Terri Windling or I who bought paperback rights to The Borribles for Ace - I think it was I, right before I moved to Pocket. I do know that it, and the subsequent 2 Borribles books, were a real influence on our Bordertown shared-world series.

MDL, thanks for sharing your world with us.

[ADDED: Obituary; other obits]

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It's going to be like this, isn't it? First, saying farewell to all the grownups I idolized when I was trying to become one . . . then checking out various friends who "really weren't that old" . . . and then, well - my favorite Vietnamese joint is next to the big Jewish funeral home, and there's usually something happening there around noon. Only yesterday it was the Cadillac station wagon with plenty of room for the pine box, sitting on the sidewalk. "Caddie," I thought. "Hmm. Your last ride in a Caddie . . . " and realized it was, indeed, the last ride you will ever take; the last car you will ever ride in, after a lifetime of transit. Interesting. Well, as they say, there's a first time for everything; so why not a last?

(And of course it's Richard Thompson on the speakers right now. I'll never forget the first time I saw him live, outdoors at the Newport Folk Festival - and a rangy teenage boy down front screaming his request: "DO ONE ABOUT DEAAAATH!!!" Which, considering his repetoire, ain't that hard. Love you, Richard!

(Don't die anytime soon, OK?)

polaroids are the shit.
here are some of the polaroids taken with my camera:









please add me if you love polaroids! <3