The Kelpies by Wil Freeborn
- Twitter changes what it means to use the block function. Another take. …And less than a day after making this change, Twitter has reverted the block function back to what it was previously. This is good news.
- Polenth on Self-Publishing and Gratuitous Diversity
- The Main Character in Their Own Lives: Does Diversity Make YA SF/F Better?
- Signal boosting: Bogi Takács On Expanded Horizons
- Nicole Stark’s Survey of Harassment Policies at Fan Conventions Color me wholly unsurprised.
- Some great content recently from Love in the Margins–first, a round table on Multicultural Romance and then, in the comments on this links post a good discussion on issues raised both in the round table and by some of the articles linked, specifically HQN’s decision to not publish a paper edition of Jeannie Lin’s The Jade Temptress due to poor sales of the first volume.
- On the criminalization of young black and brown boys.
- Why I Believe Jameis Winston’s Accuser
- Falling Without Getting Hurt: Adventures in Disability
- A video game with nothing to see
- Whitewashed TV isn’t just racist. It’s boring!
- Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice
- A Review of Memory, or Why Bujold is Secretly Genre-Bending
- Like Totally Random Liz has interesting things to say about snark and smarm and book reviews.
- A really really lovely “Susan problem” Narnia fic.
- The Coolest Thing About Online Dating Sites
- In Defense of the Middle-Aged Music Fan
- Almost Human Made Me Swoon Definitely a show that cares about the ladies, amirite?
- Myke Cole on The Other Brother
- Letters of Note: She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound Raymond Chandler’s letter to a a friend shortly after his wife, Cissy, passed away.
- How to properly issue and respond to a DMCA takedown notice (SFWA edition) As one does.
- And finally, this is an absolutely wonderful poem by Liz Bourke: Manteia, Katabasis
Thank you very much for the mention!! Also for the pingback, I do strongly prefer pingbacks to having to wade around my server logs to see who linked to me 🙂 I wish more people used them.
FWIW I have now pre-ordered Jeannie Lin’s *The Jade Temptress*. I enjoyed its predecessor, *The Lotus Palace*, and also *The Sword Dancer*.
@Bogi Takács (prezzey): Pingbacks are great! I really think they’re a great way to let readers know about other conversations.
@Selki: I really enjoyed the novella I read a while ago–I’m pretty sure I reviewed it here…
I love that thing about Susan, even if it’s a bit too bright for me (at least in summary — there’s a lot of room for nuance on the skeleton). My relationship to Susan is one of those things that traces my evolution as a feminist, and deciding that Lewis (and a large proportion of authors following in his footsteps) was wrong was a big step.
Also the snow is cute!
Also, OMG I love the poem.