S.K.Hansen

circumcisions: well it doesn’t say it’s a multiple pepperonis...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:02 -0400

circumcisions:

well it doesn’t say it’s a multiple pepperonis pizza

thedoctorknows: HER FACE JUST SCREAMS THAT SHE’S GOING TO KILL...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:08:07 -0400

thedoctorknows:

HER FACE JUST SCREAMS THAT SHE’S GOING TO KILL HIM

AGAIN

z1c: being 20+ on tumblr

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:46:45 -0400

z1c:

being 20+ on tumblr

For all the women I have loved who were dragged through the mud

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:46:04 -0400

aiffe:

I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.

Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?

It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are worse than others, but it’s always there. Scroll down the Tumblr tag for any show, movie, book, comic, whatever, and you’ll see nothing but love for the men, and a lot of unjustified hate for the women, maybe with a few defenders here and there insisting on their love for the women in the face of all that hate.

To be clear, we’re not talking about female villains. Male villains get just as much hate. It’s fine if you hate Bellatrix Lestrange or Dolores Umbridge, you’re supposed to. (I personally stan for Bella, but I realize that wasn’t the authorial intent.) This is about people hating Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but loving Harry, Ron and Neville. This is about how ambiguous male antiheroes, like Snape, Zuko, or pretty much any male vampire protagonist can get away with walking that fine line between good and evil and not only remain sympathetic, but be even more beloved for how ~tortured~ he is, but when a female character is morally gray that bitch has to die.

So you can’t tell me it’s okay that you hate Sansa because you also hate Joffrey and he’s a dude. They’re not comparable. It isn’t even comparable if you pick a female antihero. Let’s do this apples to apples, here.

We all know that fandom does this. We all know that it’s fucked up and symptomatic of internalized sexism. What’s really fucking weird about it, though, is that the women doing this hating often aren’t ignorant. These are feminists. These are women who can go on meta-analyses of the writing. Some will hide behind pseudo-feminist reasons for their hate—oh, it’s the writing, we just aren’t given strong female characters! (I saw this used for the women of AtLA: Katara, Toph, Azula, et al. This was about when I just backed away slowly because I know a lost cause when I see it.) I’ve seen women who denied being sexist, but couldn’t name a single female character they liked. And it’s always that the female characters aren’t good enough, even when they obviously have a double standard, and they’re measuring women on an impossible scale full of contradictions and no-win binds, while the men are just embraced and loved pretty much for existing.

The reaction nearly every time one of these women is called out is not to say, “Huh, you may have a point, I should examine the way I judge and process women’s actions more closely,” but an insistence of their feminism, followed by a more detailed description of why that particular woman is terrible and she hates her, as if the whole point were not that fandom is already oversaturated with that kind of hate, and as if the person doing the calling out were not already 110% done with that bullshit.

Particularly telling is that male-dominated corners of fandom do not have this problem. They fetishize, they objectify, they ignore. They don’t hate like this.

We know it happens. What I want to know is WHY.

Theories follow below the cut.

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Entertainment Weekly: Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan chat about 'The Bane Chronicles' -- EXCLUSIVE COVER

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:07:42 -0400

Entertainment Weekly: Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan chat about 'The Bane Chronicles' -- EXCLUSIVE COVER:

fuckyeahyoungadultlit:

Longtime fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series are certainly familiar with the High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane. And now, Clare is giving readers the opportunity to learn even more about the immortal warlock with The Bane Chronicles, a special short-story e-serialization. Clare partnered with friends and fellow authors Maureen Johnson (The Madness Underneath) and Sarah Rees Brennan (Unspoken) to write 10 installments about Magnus. Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive cover for the first installment, What Really Happened in Peru, due April 16. Take a look after the jump, and then read on for a Q&A with all three authors.

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leakycon: STARKID IS COMING TO PORTLAND, BUT WHO WILL BE...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:09:53 -0400

leakycon:

STARKID IS COMING TO PORTLAND, BUT WHO WILL BE THERE?

We figure you guys could guess that after last year we’d be inviting back Team StarKid to be part of LeakyCon Portland, but we know you DON’T know who will be there this year as part of our Very StarKid Event. Want to find out? We’ve got exclusive selfies from the StarKids to reveal their participation, but to see them you have to unlock the grid above, starting right here on Tumblr. When this post gets 500 notes, we’ll unlock the first StarKid performer (in a new post) and so on until we move to the next social media platform.

Got your reblog finger ready? GO!

Edit: For those asking, this is just the Portland event lineup. London info COMING SOON.

please.

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:35:59 -0500

Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:44:40 -0500

Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort as dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hand, staring down at his enemy’s shell.

melissaanelli: leakynews: Scholastic Unveils New HP...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:32:16 -0500

melissaanelli:

leakynews:

Scholastic Unveils New HP Cover

Potterheads, look out! A brand new cover series, by artist Kabu Kibuishi, is coming. View it here (and the original 10MB file here).

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Reblogging cause prettier image: also link to the 10mb whopper hi-res.

Also Hagrid rocking the murse.

Man Of Tomorrow: Superman, Orson Scott Card And Me

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:22:01 -0500

Man Of Tomorrow: Superman, Orson Scott Card And Me:

writingandsnacks:

I find it strange that people find it strange to avoid an artist’s work based on their personal or political views. I’m an artist. If you find my personal or political views repugnant, then, please, by all means, don’t buy my stuff. Tell my publishers why you won’t buy my stuff. Tell others that you think they shouldn’t buy my stuff. We operate in a culture and political system driven by consumerism. We vote with our dollars.

In the case of Orson Scott Card, as this article points out, he is not merely a person who holds anti-gay views. He is an anti-gay activist. He is against important things I believe in. I think he damages the world. And I don’t owe him or DC Comics anything. Of *course* I’m not going to effing buy his Superman.

Cassandra Clare: Titles, synopses and release dates of THE BANE CHRONICLES installments unveiled

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:04:00 -0500

Cassandra Clare: Titles, synopses and release dates of THE BANE CHRONICLES installments unveiled:

cassandraclare:

Source: TMISource: “The first ebook installment of The Bane Chronicles–What Really Happened in Peru–isn’t available until April 16, but we have a look at the other nine installments that will be released over the course of this year.

Amazon also has the other nine installments listed…

"the YA section of any given bookstore: NORMAL GIRL JUST LIKE ANY OTHER COME IN CONTACT WITH DARK..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:16:12 -0500

“the YA section of any given bookstore: NORMAL GIRL JUST LIKE ANY OTHER COME IN CONTACT WITH DARK MAGIC. MUST PROTECT/RESCUE/LEAVE FAMILY. SUDDENLY, A BOY IS HERE. HOT BOY. KISS HOT BOY. GIRL IS SASSY NOW. EVERYTHING CHANGE. SAVE WORLD.”

- Books Over People ♥:

= a nice change from: ENTITLED FELLOW OF A CERTAIN AGE DRONES ON ABOUT HOW HE’S EXPECTED TO DO STUFF/BE DECENT HUMAN, WOMEN EXIST ONLY AS TERTIARY CHARACTERS, THAT IS, BITCHES WHO MAKE HIS LIFE HARD BY NOT AGREEABLY BLOWING HIM EVERY MOMENT OF THE GODDAMN FUCKING DAY, MALAISE, EPIPHANY, WHAT THE FUCK EVER, GUY aka 90% of the syllabus of all English courses, I mean, I LIKE YOU, John Updike, but holy shit, we need like 200 more years of shitty books with tertiary boy characters who exist only to further the journey of the main characters through hot makeouts before getting even close to parity.

(via helenish)

I love helenish’s brain.

Also I read that summary and was like ‘magic? rescue family? hot kissing? saves world?’ OK I’ll read it, gimme.

Yup, some YA is crappy (aaaand heteronormative, and the girl like any other has problematic elements therein). Some of everything is crappy. But I dooooooon’t see eleventy thousand reblogs throwing shade on LITERATURE.

Naturally. Because one must address this TERRIBLE ‘GIRL SAVES WORLD!’ business. What kind of message is ‘you can save the world?’ for young ladies?

(via sarahreesbrennan)

Jon Kelly at BBC News: Janeites: The curious American cult of Jane Austen

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:12:54 -0500

Jon Kelly at BBC News: Janeites: The curious American cult of Jane Austen:

sarahreesbrennan:

With their conventions, Regency costumes and self-written “sequels” to their heroine’s novels, Austen’s most dedicated adherents display a fervency easily rivalling that of the subcultures around Star Trek or Harry Potter.

Some Janeites, as they call themselves, write their own fiction imagining the marital exploits of Mr and Mrs Darcy. Others don elaborate period dress and throw Jane Austen-themed tea parties and balls.

a) why has nobody invited me to an Austenian tea party? The people demand bonnets!

b) It made me so sad to see, in the article, that even though Jane Austen remains super popular there has been a decline in respect for her as a serious artist. Because it’s ‘chick lit’… as if any genre is Automatically Bad. And as if anything a woman created that a lot of women really like… is Automatically Bad.

I was reading some fan responses to the Vampire Diaries over the weekend (sharp left turn from Jane Austen! Also, yes, I’m very cool!) —and I started to get viscerally uncomfortable about how often the women involved in creating it were named and hated on. Julie Plec and Caroline Dries were brought up time and again, with a constant refrain that they shut up, drop out, SHUT UP, if only Kevin Wiliamson or Jose Molina would save the situation. The dudes’ names only ever came up associated with praise.

The stuff the fans didn’t like which was masterminded by dudes, was talked about differently: that episode sucked, that season had this off time. Never, ever ‘this dude sucks.’

It reminded me of how I used to see the same hatred of Marti Noxon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Which really sharply contrasted with the refrain of ‘Joss Whedon is my master now.’

Look, I am no expert on television here: I never know who’s written an episode, or who’s behind a certain plot arc. (I also barely know how to turn it on or change the DVD player settings, but that’s shame for another day.) I’m sure all these ladies are imperfect. Maybe all these ladies have done terrible things to their shows! Please do not tell me all the details of any of these women’s awful crimes against fiction.

My point is that I doubt that the dudes were flawless in their handling of fiction: the problem is the insistent pattern that goes ‘SHUT UP, WOMAN’S NAME, SHUT UP!!’

I remember looking at one site and seeing a female YA author being discussed. Her appearance, her manners, whether she’d written too many books, too many books in one series—I have seen at least six female authors called ‘whores’ (OH. I. SEE.) and ‘money-grubbing hacks’ for writing a long series. I have never seen similar criticism for, say, Rick Riordan (don’t stop writing Rick Riordan, that’s not what I meant! I like a long series! I’m just making a point!)—whether she was grateful or gracious enough.

Then I looked at what they had to say about a male author in the same field… apparently his worst offense was being friends with the female author… (Kind of like how the most criticism I see against Neil Gaiman is actually against Amanda Palmer, asking why he doesn’t get her to… guess what… shut up.)

It’s so much easier for people to hate on a girl than a guy. A lady’s success will so often be looked on with dark suspicion, while a dude’s success is looked on as his due.

Of course my opinion here is personal: I’m a lady creator, though not as fancy as the ones I’ve been discussing. I’ve had my appearance criticised, and the company I keep, and how I conduct myself, and that all sucks. Quite recently I remember a blogger described my behaviour at a public event as ‘attention-seeking’ (no! good gravy! who do I think I am, up on a stage talking?)… I’ve seen that word used for a lot of women, but I’ve never seen it used for a man. It’s almost as if… people see a dude up on stage talking and think ‘Yes, things are as they should be.’ And they see a lady and think ‘SHUT UP, WOMAN’S NAME, SHUT UP.’

I’ve said snarky things and been roundly criticised for my rudeness. (Like, this weekend.) So have many ladies! While snarky dudes are celebrated, quoted, applauded: while we all know that dudes can get away with a million more things than we can.

Having a semi-public job means a certain amount of scrutiny. Creators are always going to get critiqued, because that’s what people should do with art, and if people don’t care about your fiction you’ve gone wrong somewhere! That’s all fine.

But I wish, wish, wish there wasn’t that obstacle for women, that kneejerk ‘SHUT UP!’

Pride and Prejudice is two hundred years old today. Jane Austen wrote in another book, Persuasion, ‘Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story… The pen has been in their hands.’

The pen should not be seen as solely belonging in their hands.

(Wow, this got long.) (Maybe I should shut up.) (But I hardly ever do.)

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:04:16 -0500

maureenjohnsonbooks:

This is just a scientific test to see how many people will repost this just because that’s the title of this otherwise empty post. DON’T LET ME DOWN, TUMBLR.

Pop Culture Brain | Movies TV Music Web Theater: Did 'Glee' Steal a Song from a College Acappella Group?

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:59:35 -0500

Pop Culture Brain | Movies TV Music Web Theater: Did 'Glee' Steal a Song from a College Acappella Group?:

popculturebrain:

Yesterday the web got its first taste of the songs that will be featured in next week’s season finale of Glee. Among them was an all female acappella rendition of Usher’s “Yeah!” The cover is a rousing, empowered track, especially when sung by a female group. All this would have been fine and…

Old news now, but still relevant.

J.K. Rowling... could you just, I don't know, maybe... COULD YOU STOP KILLING YOUR CHARACTERS?!!

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:30:13 -0500

madimpossiblesherlockholmes:

I finished reading The Casual Vacancy… What is life?

queennubian: tw:rape questionall: These rape protesters in...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:09:25 -0500

queennubian:

tw:rape

questionall:

These rape protesters in India might be our new favorite people. They’re reacting to widespread comments about skirts being the cause of rape, seriously.

Let’s get something straight, the only thing responsible for rape is a rapist, if you’re blaming a woman’s clothes for her rape you’re clueless.

booksdirect: “Harry Potter is symmetrical.” Not just...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:07:55 -0500

booksdirect:

“Harry Potter is symmetrical.”

Not just symmetrical - this is ring composition, favoured by Homer and other good writers. The 4th book is at the centre of the ring.

Did "Glee" rip off Jonathan Coulton's "Baby Got Back" cover?

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:27:58 -0500

Did "Glee" rip off Jonathan Coulton's "Baby Got Back" cover?:

dailydot:

VS.

For his “Baby Got Back” cover, Coulton wrote a new melody and changed a few lyrics.

Now Glee appears to be including a cover of Coulton’s version of “Baby Got Back” in its next episode, set to air on Jan. 24, except there’s only one problem: This is the first time Coulton heard anything about it.

“Hey look, @GLEEonFOX ripped off my cover of Baby Got Back … Never even contacted me. Classy,” Coulton tweeted in a message that has since been retweeted nearly 3,500 times.

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writeswrongs: Hi, just your local Mayan here reminding you the world isn’t ending tomorrow. Also,...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:29:09 -0500

writeswrongs:

Hi, just your local Mayan here reminding you the world isn’t ending tomorrow.

Also, that Mayans still exist.

And finally, that we have a language that is still spoken, and written, and that our science and other studies have developed with time and we’re not some stone age group of savages carving shit into rocks for all eternity just so some iztacchuatl will find it and tell us white jesus is gonna end the world when our calender stops working for her.

gringos impitzoyos.