Or rather, I just want girls to have friends. In fiction, I mean. In case I’m not being perfectly clear, I would like to see brainy female characters in fiction that does not necessarily focus entirely on “the battle of the sexes”, women, or romance have the same social network…
“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?” – Hamlet, Hamlet II.ii If you take a virtual stroll through an online fandom to which you don’t belong, it can be mind-boggling how passionate some fans get about fictional characters. From the outside, it’s ridiculous…
(But first, parts of this made me smile. Warning: language, sexual and politically loaded themes) When I think of the differences between point-of-view in written media, like books, and visual media, like TV and movies, I tend to focus on person – what’s the cinematic equivalent of a story written…
Disclaimer: any time a familiar story chooses to do an installment from the point of view of a character not the protagonist, I immediately and involuntarily compare it to the Pinky’s POV episode of Pinky and the Brain. You’ve been warned. *sigh* It’s about House again. Sort of. One of…
“What? What? No. No, it can’t be! You’re coming back to life? No, I killed you. I killed you all! You’re dead!” – Ash, Evil Dead: the Musical Early in the morning of the first day of Reading Week, I woke up to find something moving around on my sheets.…
First, a disclaimer: you can tell this issue matters to me because I’ve managed to get myself sufficiently interested to blog about it by remembering an episode of House that aired way back in November (“Ignorance is Bliss”, to be precise). On the other hand, I did just have a…
Why am I blogging about this? To be honest, I don’t know. I guess it’s always good to identify one’s own shortcomings so as to be able to work around them or improve them. I guess, more to the point, I don’t have anything else to write about this week.
Happy birthday, Diana! And happy belated new year, everyone else! With 2010 fresh upon us, it seems like ’tis the season. What about you? Add yours in the comments! 1. How to tell the difference between real Game Boy Advance cartridges and counterfeit ones.
Did anyone else here used to be a big Phantom of the Opera *sigh* “phan” back in the day? As usual, I don’t ask because I actually want to talk about Phantom of the Opera; instead, I’m trying to use the show to shed light on a trope in stories…
Hi-ho, Kermit-the-blogger here on the scene of some of the most egregious dialogue diseases to strike authors this year. Forget H1N1 – these strains are virulent and highly contagious. I also must note that a number of popular published stories and many of my current works-in-progress have tested positive for…