7 Yuletide recs

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Over here I've got 7 yuletide recs (these are all from 2006, I think, not this past year) in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Anne of Green Gables, Babysitters' Club, Futurama, The Simpsons, Sky Captain, and The Village.

and i said no, no, no

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and i said no, no, no
bandom, Amanda Palmer/Katie Kay, R, ~1200 words
Amanda Palmer is the lead singer for The Dresden Dolls and is really getting vocal node surgery in March. Katie Kay is their tour manager, an amazing dancer, and toured with the Gaymos(!) at the Disco in 2006. Thank you so much to kissingchaos9 for her encouragement and thinking out of all of this.
Title from Amy Winehouse, thanks to secrethappiness and bunnymcfoo for the betas.

Posted for 14valentines, [Day 8] Domestic Violence

( Amanda can deal with this vocal node shit … but the thing that Amanda can not accept, the thing that is not fucking okay with her, is giving up sex. )

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[anenko.livejournal.com]

The Wallflower/Perfect Girl Evolution

The Wallflower is a manga and anime.

Sunako Nakahara is a morbid, creepy girl who can't stand the sight of beautiful things or people. Unfortunately, her stylish aunt wants nothing more than for Sunako to become a lady. In order to achieve that goal, Suanko's aunt promises her four super-hot, super-popular tenants free rent if they can turn Sunako into a lady. No problem, the boys say--and then they meet Sunako, and their dreams of free rent start to crumble.

Sunako is one ugly duckling who doesn't *want* to become a swan.

Sunako is a great character, because she knows who she is, and refuses to be bullied into becoming someone else. She's also capable of physically standing up for herself, and is as likely to be found rescuing our hero as the other way around.

The series has some very real problems. The stories can be repetitive; the non-pretty people are very, very ugly in looks and personality; and there are a few chapters that will never stop making me cringe (see: sex = love = Sunako becoming a lady!)

Still, when the series is at it's best, it's a terrific, fun read.

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Female-centric novels (SFF version)

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So, thinking about halfamoon (and avoiding working on either housework or writing) I was running through a list of woman-heavy SFF novels, and of writers whom I could depend on to write the sorts of women and plots that I liked reading over and over.

( A short disclaimer about things I do not fancy. )

Leaving all that aside:

Ten novels which appealed to me because of the female characters.

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There are many books that I did not included, for a variety of reasons (such as: "This is a book with a strong female character, but that's not why I read this book over and over.") Please feel free to add suggestions and comments! I am interested in new books to try out. Also - I'd love to see a similar list of mystery, graphic novel, romance or horror novels.

Yuletide Recs

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

More recs from Yuletide. Fandoms include Fairytales, Profit and Kill Bill.

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FIC: you say, look up! (DC, Spoiler, Leslie, AU post-War Games)

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I wrote this about a year ago, trying to understand the shoddy treatment that Stephanie and Leslie received in the wake of War Games without coding them as incompetent and deserving of their eventual fates. Soap-box aside, man, do I miss the Doc and Stephanie something fierce.

Title: you say, look up!
Fandom: Batfamily, DC
Spoiler: Leslie, Spoiler, AU post-War Games
Rating: G
Summary: They both go far away from what might have been home, once.

( Red hair, she had insisted, strawberry red, like Nancy Drew and Dana Scully... )

Fic: Strong at the Broken Places (Babylon 5)

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I've been trying to think of something new to write for this, but no luck so far. So here is an older story, from last April. I love female friendship stories, and the friendship between Delenn and Susan Ivanova was never adequately explored in canon, IMHO. So here's a look into the future, when these two women are running the Interstellar Alliance. This is set just after series end, so spoilers galore.

Fandom: Babylon 5
Pairing: None at this point
Rating: G
Length: Part I 3500 words, Part 2 5500 words
Summary: Susan and Delenn's Excellent Adventures

Strong at the Broken Places, Part 1
Strong at the Broken Places, Part 2

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[nestra.livejournal.com]

Recs from the Miscellaneous page at PolyRecs. There's probably about twenty or so fandoms in here.

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Community promotion: torchbearers

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I'd like to promote a comm I've been watching with interest-- torchbearers. Most posts right now are from digital_femme, but the community is theoretically open to anyone who wants to throw a spotlight on an interesting black female character from comics or manga. (digital_femme also posts occasional roundups of links dealing with race-related discussions in the comics blogosphere, and has a gift for picking out interesting meta.)

Some of my personal favorite spotlight posts:

From indie comics: Narcissa, from graphic novel Narcissa created by Lance Tooks.

From Marvel: Monica Rambeau, an ex-Captain Marvel and former team leader of the Avengers-- in this sequence, she's lost her superpowers, but manages to kick ass even without them.

From DC: Amanda Waller. She's run various scary quasi-fascist government agencies and overseen some of the DCU's most secret black ops missions. You do not want to mess with "The Wall." These scans show just one example of why.

Historical interest: Friday Foster-- (more scans here.) Friday Foster was the first black female character to be the lead of her own syndicated comic strip, written by Jim Lawrence and stylishly illustrated by Jorge Longeron. (There was also a movie starring Pam Grier and Yaphet Kotto-- it came out in 1975.)

So, if you're interested, join and watch torchbearers!