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November 15, 2013

Linkspam, 11/15/13 Edition

As old as creation / Syphilis is now curable

As old as creation / Syphilis is now curable

  • Romance and Fantasy
  • And Yet Do I Read
  • “I was into Loki before it was cool” I’m pretty sure I didn’t write this essay…but I could have!
  • A Culture of Moderation: or, no more messages from Satan
  • On TRUCEConf and More TRUCEConf
  • What No One Tells You About Losing Lots of Weight
  • Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts This is an astonishing and eye-opening piece. Some of this I knew but much was new to me.
  • This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time
  • Remembering the Great War, 2013 I was more excited by a new entry in this long-running series of blog posts than I probably should have been.
  • GIFs, memes and liveblogs: The controversial new language of book reviewing
  • Recycled Movie Costumes This is awesome.
  • Wounds On Our Fronts: Failure and Success More on stories that took a very long time to find a home.
  • Green: R.E.M.’s Greatest Album Indeed.
  • If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Come Sit By Me I think Olivia’s couch is getting pretty full this week…
  • When The Personal Becomes Professional
  • Oh, look, this argument again. Frequent commenter E ! on reviews. One of these days I’ll convince her to write me a guest post on book production…
  • A Female Author Talks About Sexism and Self-Promotion and A Second Female Author Talks About Sexism and Self-Promotion
  • Poacher-turned-gamekeeper
  • An Open Letter to Mike Babchik: I Am Not For Sale
  • So what does a gal have to do to get into The Comics Journal anyway?
  • Contemplation, at the end of a season
  • The Risk in Speaking Up
  • Time Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Explains Why No Female Chefs Are ‘Gods of Food’ and Amanda Cohen on Time Magazine and Female Chefs
  • How many male novelists does it take to change a lightbulb: SFF edition
  • A discussion about Panel Parity
  • Systems and privilege redux: U.S. Christian conferences

  • Beware Attack Troll: Share Your Most Notable
  • The Ethics of Mob Justice
  • Why Pinterest Is Seriously Valuable (and What It’s Teaching Men in Power)
  • A ‘Reluctant Reader’ Turns YA Author For ‘Tough Teens’
  • Suleikha Snyder has been on fire this week: first with Mind the Queue: Privilege, Diversity and Romance and then with Variety is the spice of love: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
  • What The Giving Tree Gives Turning one of the creepiest children’s books ever into an outright horror story. Good job, Mallory Ortberg!
  • The Making of Lorde I have no idea who Lorde is (because I live in a hole in the ground) but thought this was interesting anyhow.
  • Richard Cohen In Context “‘Context’ is not a safe word that makes all your other horse-shit statements disappear.”
  • Animal-hoarders are not animal-lovers and Hana Williams: The tragic death of an Ethiopian adoptee, and how it could happen again. (All the content warnings in the world.)
  • The Fat Nutritionist on Real food.
  • Jenny McCarthy, Anti-Vaccination Movement to Blame for Whooping Cough
  • European Maps Showing Origins Of Common Words
  • Shocking Pink . . . in the 1830s? FUCHSIIIIIINE!
  • Fox Says Diversity Leads To Good Ratings And Better Business
  • How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math This is kind of my story, too–except I learned that I could be good at math through having to be good at math for my job.
  • Welcome to Dinovember
  • Are We Ready for Tentacle Romance Yet?
  • Guillermo Del Toro Reveals His Secret Sketches in ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
  • Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Ends $15 Million Of Debt
  • Families dealing with mental illness need support, too.
  • These Sea Slugs Penetrate Each Other In The Head During Sex What is this I don’t even.
  • Hild: Fantasy or History? See? Historical fiction IS speculative fiction. Darn it. Also, Hild is my weekend reading, too.
  • Stefan Raets on Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh–which I’m hoping to review myself in the near future. And Ann Leckie gets in on the fun with a guest post over at Stefan’s called Skiing Downhill, or Agency in C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner.

And since today’s my birthday, everyone gets a cupcake!

cupcakes with a reading list

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  1. A.C. Wise says

    November 15, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Happy birthday!

  2. Charlotte says

    November 15, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    Thanks for the cupcake, and Happy Birthday!

    now off to read about sea slug sex.

  3. Erica says

    November 15, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    Happy birthday! and great links.

  4. Ann Somerville says

    November 15, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    Many happy returns, and as ever, thank you so much for your wonderful links compilation.

  5. Merrian says

    November 16, 2013 at 2:26 am

    Happy Birthday Natalie and all the best for the year ahead

  6. Selki says

    November 17, 2013 at 10:58 am

    I loved the Dinovember pix and Ann Leckie’s thoughts on Foreigner/agency.
    Happy belated birthday!

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