Essay/External Blog Post: "My Feminism is 80s-Teen-Movie Flavored"

[stacialy.livejournal.com]

I love this celebration!  Here's a link to a blog post I wrote a few months ago called "My Feminism is 80s-Teen-Movie Flavored." It's about the source of my icon, which I never change cause I'm too lazy and because Billie Jean represents my values so perfectly. Has anyone out there seen "The Legend of Billie Jean?" It's from 1985 and I've come to think of it as my first feminist text.

If you haven't seen the movie, I hope you'll check it out. It's not on DVD, but you can now stream it on Netflix.

vid: book of days (doctor who)

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Title: Book of Days
Vidder: kaydee falls
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Rose, Martha, Donna, Sarah Jane, Sally Sparrow, Astrid, Lady Christina, River Song, Reinette, Jenny, Matron, Lynda
Music: "Book of Days" by Enya
Summary: A journal of incredible women. Doctor who?

book of days - embed + download links here

mini-meta: multiple fandoms

[silver-spotted.livejournal.com]

Inspired by halfamoon I have been posting to my journal each day with a short rumination on why some of my favourite female characters are awesome. These include Kat Stratford, Laura Roslin, Martha Jones, and others! (see tags below for hints) These thoughts are collected under the tag she's awesome.

Vid: I'm Not Here For Your Entertainment (BSG)

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Title: I'm Not Here For Your Entertainment
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Song: "U and Ur Hand" by P!nk
Characters: Cally, Boomer, Tory (Cally/Chief, Boomer/Chief, Tory/Chief)
Summary: A vid to appreciate the awesomeness of Cally, Boomer, and Tory. The trail of women that Chief Tyrol left behind him are not happy about being fridged.

Watch or download here at my LJ

Vid: Fairytale (Princess Tutu, Revolutionary Girl Utena)

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Song: Fairytale
Artist: Sara Bareilles
Fandom: Princess Tutu, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Details: 3:14 minutes, 59 MB, avi
Summary: “Don’t give up. Don’t let them beat you. Let’s give this story a happy ending.” Ahiru, Rue, Utena, and Anthy don’t care for your fairy tale, and make their own story.

(Download and streaming links at my journal.)

Rome Fic: "The Body and the Blood"

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Title: The Body and the Blood
Fandom: HBO's Rome (Vorena, mentions of Niobe, Vorenus, and Lucius)
Summary: "She finds it easier when she doesn't think."
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own it. The views expressed in this story do not reflect the views of the author.
Warnings: Blood, rape, mentions of violence. Abortion.

(She isn't her mother.)

epic Number One picspamage of epic epicness!

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Warning: the following contains epic awesome in the form of
Majel Leigh Hudec Barrett Roddenberry
being generally gorgeous and badass.

You have been warned.



click the awesome to go to MOAR AWESOME.

Icons: Gotham Girls

[mrsfrankenstien.livejournal.com]

40 icons featuring the Awesome Ladies of Gotham City.

Want, take, have, share, with credit.

[01-06] Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle)
[07-11] Cass Cain (Batgirl)
[12-13] Charlie Gage-Radcliffe (Misfit)
[14-20] Dinah Lance (Black Canary)
[21-24] Helena Bertinelli (Huntress)
[25-28] Kate Kane (Batwoman)
[29-30] Renee Montoya (the Question)
[30-36] Steph Brown (Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl)
[37-39] Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk)
+ one bonus Babs & Dinah to make it an even 40

Teasers:


The rest are here at my journal.

"Tradition," "Janet" and "Weapon of Choice" by cupidsbow

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Title: Tradition
Author: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: No Pairing
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Children of Earth
Summary: There are certain things you can expect when working for Torchwood... Retcon. Years That Never Were. Time bubbles. French pastries.


Title: Janet
Author: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: No Pairing
Rating: PG-15
Warning: Implied slavery, torture and murder.
Summary: The crack had opened in the air like a fiery cloaca, offering to birth Zhanget into a new world.


Title: Weapon of Choice
Author: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: No Pairing
Rating: PG-15
Warning: Implied murder.
Summary: Objectively speaking, Mainframe's makers were hate-mongers.

Fic: Twenty (Renee/Jack) PG-13

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Title: Twenty
Fandom: 24
Pairing/Characters: Renee Walker/Jack Bauer
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Summary: There are many ways the day after can go. This might be one of them.
Spoilers: Up till 8.07 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), then likely it'll go AU like whoa.
Disclaimer: 24 does not belong to me.
Author's note: 6k length, beta'd by ed_84. This is speculative fic around the events that could transpire after Day 8. I've made a bunch of assumptions that are not based on any spoilers whatsoever. It's just a story that deals with the emotional aftermath of Day 8, with emphasis on Renee and her relationship with Jack. Also, I may or may not already be writing the sequel to this.

Fic. Gilmore Girls (x3)

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Title: Those Rituals Between You And Me.
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Author: Leni
Words: 3x300
Rating: PG
Summary: Three women, so different. Or are they? Canon pairings.

Emily. Lorelai. Rory.

Links to fics I've posted (so far) on my lj...

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I thought I'd better make a post while I still could ... and I hope you'll forgive if I make it a link to the fics I've posted on my lj so far. I'm going to try and post some links to fics I've loved over the past few years, most of which have been female-oriented so that won't be much of an issue.

It's still Friday where I am (Dundee Central Library) in Scotland, so I hope that means I have two more opportunities to post. If I'm incorrect, be sure to make me aware ...

And... please, PLEASE don't be afraid of being critical. I am very much interested in being a better writer, so be constructive. Don't like? Fine, but point out where it doesn't work for you. I ain't going to learn, if you don't let me know where you think I'm going wrong.

The typos, by the way? I'm beginning to think I might be mildly dyslexic because, as much as I try to cut them out, I invariably only spot them on the second, or even third, time of reading them after posting.

Really hoping you like, but as I say above ...

Also, if you haven't checked my profile yet. I've run into this issue before, so I'll just point out that I am in my 48th year and, very much (bisexually) Queer.

The Dance of the Happy Little Toaster
http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/1791.html

...IT'S EASY TO BE NOBLE (WHEN YOU'RE NOT) IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/1865.html

Stranger Among the Living
http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/701.html

If Wishes Were Horses
http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/1401.html

The Real Cabaret
http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/2626.html


Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

Fic: Thumb on the Scale (A Knight's Tale, Jocelyn, Christiana)

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Title: Thumb on the Scale
Author: tiamatschild
Fandom: A Knight’s Tale
Rating: K
Characters: Jocelyn, Christiana
Summary: After all, a woman’s got needs.
Warnings: None.
Notes: Written for mhari’s Impromptuthon prompt: Jocelyn + Christiana = BFFs 4EVA

( Thumb on the Scale )

Thundercats Drabble: Defiance

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Title: Defiance
Author: nancybrown
Fandom: Thundercats
Characters: Wily Kit
Rating: G
Summary: Drabble. New world, new rules.

fic: "That Our Feet May Leave" [Merlin - Gwen]

[tielan]

TITLE: That Our Feet May Leave
AUTHOR: tielan
SUMMARY: Gwen grows homesick for Camelot.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: gen, character vignette
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, etc., etc., etc.
NOTES: For the Last Author Standing Challenge #2 over at thefuturequeen to the prompt 'beyond Camelot'. The challenge was to focus on Gwen alone, without other characters. I may have taken some liberties with the geography.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.