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- Some Yuletide recs!December 29 2008
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I'm sure this is in no way a complete list, but this was a batch which seemed to go together: sweet and awesome "what happened after the movie ended" stories, with enough bite to be true to the original, but basically big happy awwww fics.
Nine Steps In A Circle from Little Miss Sunshine, mostly Dwayne, from Frank's POV, with bonus points for excellent use of the Nine Steps to Success.
untitled, from Bound. I used to worry about these characters, afterwards. Not so much. This fic makes me tear up every time I read it, from the joy and sensuality and just plain love. Is win.
Becoming a Lesbian: Megan Bloomfield's Guide for Cheerleaders from, as you might suspect, But I'm A Cheerleader
They are awesome! Read them!
(Oh, and this doesn't fit the theme, but I haven't seen this recc'ed anywhere yet, and Exchange is a damn fine piece of Tokyo Babylon ficcage, with the perfect amount of gore and disturbing and sweet and sweetly disturbing and well-done Subaru/Seishirouness all over the place.)
Yay, Yuletide!
--R
Reading: Agyar, Steven Brust; Maurice, E.M. Forster - Fic rec?November 27 2008
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Can anyone rec me any good fanfic at all about Zachary Gray, from Madeline L'engle's various books? Slash would be made of awesome, but I'll take what I can get.
Thank you!
--R - Dear InternetsNovember 15 2008
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(Specifically the parts of the Internet currently arguing over whether African-American and Latino voters were the reason that Prop 8 passed in California):
These are Queer Black Pe o ple.
These are People - November 8 2008
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Sick (cold) = pottering brainlessly around the internet when not sleeping = finding interesting links.
How to rate your psychotherapist
I have a few quibbles, but all in all, very good, and worth circulating.
--R
ETA: I'm amused by this, from McSweeney's:
My therapist goes to dinner" - The Problem with PalinSeptember 4 2008
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So, let me start off by saying that I do not want Sarah Palin to be the vice-president of the United States. I like gay marriage, the right to an abortion, useful sex education, undrilled Alaskan wildlife reserves, and polar bears. Palin does not appear to like these things; therefore, she does not represent me, and I will not vote for her (leaving aside that she's running with McCain, for whom I also do not intend to vote).
But the thing that unnerves me is the serious strain of misogyny I hear in people's criticisms of her. Especially since most of the people making these criticisms consider themselves feminist or liberal. I think that, if they were applied to a Democratic candidate, a number of these people would be the first to condemn as sexist the criticisms:
*that Palin is a working mother (this one unnerves me most because it was my initial reaction-- "How can you be vice-president with a new baby?" And what unnerves me is that it didn't occur to me until this morning in conversation with Thrud that hey, maybe Palin's husband stays home with the kids. Which is a perfectly reasonable supposition-- that a politician, or anyone with a very demanding job, probably has a spouse who does the bulk of the childcare. Todd Palin has already taken leaves of absence from work to avoid conflicts of interest with his wife's political career. The internet doesn't tell me much about who does the bulk of the childcare in th
