- 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
- 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!
Happy birthday!
Thanks for the cupcake, and Happy Birthday!
now off to read about sea slug sex.
Happy birthday! and great links.
Many happy returns, and as ever, thank you so much for your wonderful links compilation.
Happy Birthday Natalie and all the best for the year ahead
I loved the Dinovember pix and Ann Leckie’s thoughts on Foreigner/agency.
Happy belated birthday!