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Podfic of Skin Deep, my SV genderswap Clark/Lex story!
I very much enjoyed this article in which the authors engage in a classic debate: TVD v. SPN. Sample: “I'll take 145 years of brotherly brooding and angst over the apocalypse any day (I mean, Stefan basically turned Damon into a vampire! How do you compete with... Crap, nevermind).”
Pati Nagle, Coyote Ugly and Other Tales: Free LibraryThing early reviewer copy. Stories of Southwestern and Hopi magic (and one sf) where the downtrodden get some revenge on their immediate oppressors, ghost stories about learning to let go, cat-based sf (in the future, gender roles will be the same, down to “frilly” foods that are ladies-only), historical fiction (Civil War, Medici-era Venice), and Hawaiian-influenced SF (the best of the bunch) working some changes on standard tropes. If you want basic storytelling in the American f/sf tradition that is less lily-white than usual, this would work, but don’t expect twists.
Barbie Zelizer, About to Die: How News Images Move the Public: Westerners don’t like to see pictures of people like them visibly dying; journalistically distributed images of non-Westerners dying are more often graphic and also more often anonymous than images of Westerners dying or near death; images of death and near-death have multiple meanings and are readily used to support opposing views of what is actually true. I didn’t really see why we needed a whole book on this, or why it was so important for Zelizer to keep repeating that photos show the world “as if” rather than “as is.”
I very much enjoyed this article in which the authors engage in a classic debate: TVD v. SPN. Sample: “I'll take 145 years of brotherly brooding and angst over the apocalypse any day (I mean, Stefan basically turned Damon into a vampire! How do you compete with... Crap, nevermind).”
Pati Nagle, Coyote Ugly and Other Tales: Free LibraryThing early reviewer copy. Stories of Southwestern and Hopi magic (and one sf) where the downtrodden get some revenge on their immediate oppressors, ghost stories about learning to let go, cat-based sf (in the future, gender roles will be the same, down to “frilly” foods that are ladies-only), historical fiction (Civil War, Medici-era Venice), and Hawaiian-influenced SF (the best of the bunch) working some changes on standard tropes. If you want basic storytelling in the American f/sf tradition that is less lily-white than usual, this would work, but don’t expect twists.
Barbie Zelizer, About to Die: How News Images Move the Public: Westerners don’t like to see pictures of people like them visibly dying; journalistically distributed images of non-Westerners dying are more often graphic and also more often anonymous than images of Westerners dying or near death; images of death and near-death have multiple meanings and are readily used to support opposing views of what is actually true. I didn’t really see why we needed a whole book on this, or why it was so important for Zelizer to keep repeating that photos show the world “as if” rather than “as is.”
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