Creative Costumes of Still-Practiced Pagan Rituals of Europe
(Photo by Charles Freger)
- The Whale, Flensed My friend Angela sails on the Kalmar Nyckel and recently wrote this evocative and haunting piece about a beached pygmy sperm whale in Lewes, DE. This piece involves graphic descriptions of animal death and disposal of its body so it may not be for everyone.
- My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me
- The real mommy wars
- Middle Grade Bloggers as Fans, Gatekeepers, Partners of the Industry, & Members of a Gender-Imbalanced Community This is really interesting! Be sure to check out part 2 (linked at end of this link).
- Stephen King: An Unlikely Lifeline In Turbulent Waters I also devoured Stephen King’s books as a teenager.
- Race, Sexuality, and the Mainstream
- I’m always reticent to discuss matters of race.
- Judging a Publisher by Its Cover
- What’s an author event worth?
- Authors in the Classroom
- I’ll note that this sidebar was published the same year as Myst.
- Zero opportunity employers
- ‘Serial Adopters’: How Evangelicals Are Exploiting Orphan Market
- Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people
- Why does female-leaning fandom come in for such criticism? Because hey! It’s not a real issue until a man writes about it! Okay, okay: it’s a good and thoroughly researched essay. But this just chaps my ass because I’ve been watching this nonsense happen my whole damn life (and it was happening before I was born: see teeny boppers and Beatlemania).
- Daniel José Older has a fantastic roundtable at Strange Horizons: Set Truth on Stun: Reimagining an Anti-Oppressive SF/F
- Why Jonathan Franzen’s social media fear indicts the entire publishing industry I have a major beef with the first paragraph: “…the recent influx of women writing fantasy has necessitated the creation of entirely new subgenres: urban fantasy, paranormal romance, etc.” No, actually. No. Urban fantasy has been around for thirty years. That is NOT RECENT. And paranormal romance may be a bit newer, but I’d argue that it’s an outgrowth of gothic romance but with actual supernatural creatures. But the presence of the ladies in speculative fiction did not cause these subgenres to be created.
- FYI: Why Do I Poop More When I Have My Period?
- Splattered with Shit ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: FLOUNCE.
- How To Be A Professional Author And Decent Human On The Internet
- Professor feminism is back at it Warning: Huge Shithead warning.
- HS Continues to Attack Feminist WoC online Further Huge Shithead warnings.
- ‘We Felt Like We Were Above the Law’: How the NCAA Endangers Women
- Broad Universe is doing a survey on women writers in speculative fiction.
- Plagiarism Alert: For the Summer by Shey Stahl Oh, FFS. Stealing from fan fiction is still stealing.
- So Goodreads changed how how they’re enforcing their TOS (I can’t figure out if this is a new change or just them enforcing something that’s been there for a while). They announced it last Friday afternoon and deleted reviews and shelves of a number of site members. In a group that most members don’t belong to–and they haven’t sent out an email, either.
- And then David Gilmour happened.
- The transcript of the interview–which, if anything, shows him to be an even bigger asshole.
- Found poem in the comments
- Virginia Woolf: A Biography by David Gilmour
- The Loneliness of the Old White Male
Finally, Vienna Teng’s new album was released this week. It is wonderful. Especially wonderful is “The Hymn of Acxiom”.
