Links: 05/15/15

“Barghest, or, Look After Me”, Jessica Dalva

• Seb Lester Perfectly Renders Ten Famous Brand Logos with Calligraphy Pens This is amaaaazing.
• Review of Bitch Planet, #1-4 Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine De Landro I think I need to go out and find these this weekend.
• ‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’ Fantastic profile of Johnetta Elzie and DeRay Mckesson, who have been absolutely instrumental in the growing conversation about the ongoing and persistent murder of black people by police officers in this country.
• Twelve ways to seem smarter by email brb, implementing all of these at dayjob right now.
• The Many Sides of Bundling Mike Underwood says smart things about bundling ebooks along with print books (a thing I am in favor of).
• How publishers could get more of my money (and make me happy to give it) Stephanie Leary says many smart things about book marketing and things publishers can do better–things that a lot of self-published writers are doing to help connect readers with their books.  A lot of this stuff is straight up common sense, really.
• Irish woman murdered at Duffy’s Cut in 1832 begins journey home
• The Conid Minimalistica+, or how I learned to stop worrying and love engineering. Science fiction and fantasy, through the lens of fountain pens.
• We are Virgins Among Cowboys: Jezebel Goes to a Romance Convention
• Twitter’s Abuse Problem: Now With Actual Solutions And Science
• Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents’ forums Rabbit hole is exactly the right word for this.
• Artists Cut Raw Food Into 98 Perfect Cubes To Make Perfectionists Hungry I’ve seen this everywhere the last few days but can’t stop looking at it.
• Really lovely poem written by my friend Peg (with thanks to Marissa for linking it in one of her recent posts, otherwise I may have missed it entirely).
• Girl stuff Representation matters, it really does.

And speaking of: how about that Supergirl trailer? I know lots of people are all “Ugh, romcom tropes” but I’m kind of excited about that because that has the potential to bring in lots of new fans–and as this trailer is a “first look” and is likely composed of scenes from the pilot episode, the actual show may not hew very close to what we’re seeing here. I think it shows a lot of promise and I’ll definitely be watching.