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The real cost of the so-called “ick factor”
So here’s a scenario. Follow along if you can. Imagine that you’re in a committed, long-term relationship. I’m not talking months. Think decades. Think ‘building a life and then retiring together’ long-term and committed. You share a home and you take care of one another as best you can. And, because you and your partner [...]
By way of clarification…
Yesterday’s post about swapfic? Not the only thing to be said about swapfic. Nor, incidentally, do I think that every incidence of swapfic is something that someone has written with the intention of producing a trans narrative. Nor am I in any way outraged by the existence of swapfic. I don’t regard it as a [...]
I don’t think this trope means what you think it means.
There’s been a fair bit of discussion here and there about transness in fiction sparked by this post that I linked to a few days ago. The more I think about it, and the more I discuss this with people I like and trust, the more I feel like my stance on stories in which [...]
Super Duper Friday Link Dump
How is it Friday? How did this happen? How brilliant! I’m so excited. I just want to roll around in this whole weekend thing. – Lambda Literary is looking for contributors. They’ve got a list of things they’re looking for, but are open to more by the look of things. Be sure to check out [...]
Friday link round-up
I recently updated Firefox. As a habitual tab hoarder, I’m not sure I love the way this new version seems to try and group new tabs when they open. I don’t quite understand the crazy moon logic. What was so bad about just chucking it to the end over there on the right? ~ * [...]
Night of the (still not gay) Living Dead part III
I want to talk a little bit about the whole zombie antho thing again. Probably for the last time unless something else comes up. Before I do, though, I want to make it very clear that I don’t bear Doc, or any of the folk over at the Library of the Living Dead forums any [...]
Sick day = blogging day + soup.
Jim C. Hines has signal-boosted the Library of the Living Dead queer zombie antho thing. Like him, I’ve been looking for more info (or even acknowledgment) from Library of the Living Dead about the whole thing. More news as I stumble across it, I suppose. ~*~ Researchers are studying the origins of certain well-known fairy [...]
Adventures in e-Publishing, Cat Valente is right about everything ever, and night of the (not-gay!) living dead
It’s still February, which means my essay, “Writing Our Own (Alternate) Histories,” is still in this month’s issue of Crossed Genres. If you’ve got the time and inclination, check it out! Speaking of things you can read without pulping trees first, Aleksandr Voinov is doing an experiment. He’s posted his and Raev Gray’s short story, [...]
No really, I’m working…
Between taking the rats out for an adventure and building them a mezzanine, deciding that Zebulon’s bowl needed a date with the plant lamp, and being nearly mauled by an ex-colleague’s incredibly friendly (off-duty) seeing eye dog, yesterday was animal day for sure. It’s also been a deeply weird couple of weeks in the land [...]
Filling the well and hot man-on-man action
So this was definitely not the weekend I’d planned. One empty house and three days with lots on my plate should have been obscenely productive in the finished writing column. I should have an essay and five or six flash pieces finished. I could even be plotting out something I want to write in February. [...]