Girl gamer here.
She likes hobbies and movies traditionally associated with men but she also likes girly things like sewing and fanfiction and internet feminism--
IS THIS TODAY'S BLOG OR EVERY SINGLE WOMAN ON THE INTERNET EVER?
I've turned off every single distraction there is to keep me from updating this shit.
No EVE, no Final Fantasy, no other reading--
just me, some background music and oblivion.
So, Kate Alexander, you just had to let readers know that the heroine of your WWII novel Friends and Enemies (1982) is pretty by having her older brother think on page 3 that if she weren't his sister, he'd find her superhot, and then having him go on to list her charms in his mind, which include "all the right curves." This makes the brother feel "uneasy." Yeah. That makes me feel uneasy, too! Even more so because the heroine is only seventeen.>Reading books written by women
harr not today.
Apparently that was not gross enough, since on page 4, when her future love interest Gunther showed up, you had the brother think that she looked "good enough to eat." And it was just great when you compounded this literary crime by immediately headhopping into Gunther's POV in the middle of the scene, so we know that Gunther thinks she looks good enough to eat, too.
What the actual fuck? This is some V. C. Andrews–grade creepitude, except in a novel that I'm pretty damn sure isn't about incest. Did no one at any point in the publishing process feel any hint of uneasiness about this shit?
Right now I'm longing for the war to start and hoping that the creepy older brother dies before I have to read any more of his musings on the attractions of his little sister. I'm guessing that's not what you were going for.
Strong independent womyn
I've read books involving actual incest. What's your fucking problem?
Grow a set, Christ.IF YOU'RE LINKING TO HUGE SPOILERS, HOW ABOUT NOT INCLUDING THE ACTUAL HUGE SPOILER IN THE LINK TEXT?
(SEE HOW I'M NOT HINTING AT WHAT THE SPOILER IS? OKAY I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO HINT AT THE FANDOM. YOU'LL KNOW SOON ENOUGH, BELIEVE ME.)
I've been replaying Final Fantasy 7 because it was released on Steam recently and holy Christ are people whining bitches about spoilers.
UMMM SPOILERS PLEASE I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW AERIS DIED AT THE END OF DISC 1.
How about the game is 16 years old and you have to live with the fact you're joining in at a late date?
SPOILERS PLEASE I DIDN'T KNOW GARLAND WAS ACTUALLY CHAOS AT THE END OF FINAL FANTASY 1.
26 YEAR OLD GAME ACCOMMODATE MY NEEDS.
The game is older than I am and I beat it. Get with the program, pleb.
I keep writing posts and then deleting them because I'm afraid they're too dreary and negative. (It's been a hell of a week.)
Har worrying about being negative
Imagine if I never posted a negative entry?
I'd have one entry.
That time I was sarcastically pleasant the entire time.
So, you're watching Vikings, right?
Not even if you paid me.
If not, here is the main reason you should:
I can think of no reason I'd rather watch a show.
This is Lagertha. She knows her way around sword and shield — and the loom, too.
I do not advise messing with this woman. Even if you are her husband. (Perhaps especially if you are her husband, if the sagas are anything to go by.) She will cut you.
In conclusion: TEAM LAGERTHA.
In conclusion what the fuck are you talking about?
Never mind.
Apparently it's a show on the History channel which further proves the History channel isn't about history at all anymore.
History?
No we can fulfill female power fantasies and feminism!
Fucking goddamn it.
You know how most women are supposedly wearing the wrong bra size?
Yes, I was. You probably are, too. Odds are, most of you are wearing bras that are too big in the band and too small in the cup.
Amerifats.
Don't let those Victoria's Secret salespeople try to fit you. VS still uses the discredited add-inches rule [ETA: plus they measure for your underbust over your bust! The hell?] that will leave you swimming in a too-large band (with a too-small cup size). Some of their bras are decent if you fit into their not-terribly-extensive size range, but do not let them tell you what size you need.
The sizes VS has had me in for many, many years: 36C or 38B (sister sizes in that they have the same cup volume), depending on the bra style.
The size I truly am, according to both the bra bloggers and the real bra fitter at Nordstrom: 34DD (US sizing, also sometimes called 34E, which is confusingly a cup size smaller than a UK 34E, which would be the equivalent of a US 34F!)
Did you know the bra was invented by a man?
Inexplicably?
You can tell because you need a doctorate in mathematics to figure out how the measurement system works.
If a woman invented it the sizes would be based around making everyone feel good about themselves.
You know what I think would be a very popular Olympic event among my fellow Americans?
Bob Costas in a dunk tank.
A dunk tank FULL OF HUNGRY SHARKS.
Finally someone who understands my hatred of Bob Costas.
And from an unlikely source.
This is from a woman who scrapped several posts because they were "too negative".
All the proof I need for Robert Costas being a tool factory.
So sad that Mad Men has reached 1966, due to fashion taking a turn for the hellaciously ugly in the mid-1960s and staying fug pretty much ever since.* That takes away a significant amount of the show's appeal, to be honest.
I just want pretty things! Is that so wrong?
*I'm old enough to retain some memories of the 1970s. The horror. THE HORROR.
So what'd we learn from this post?
One: apparently the only reason she watches TV shows is because of fashion (other posts hinted at this but this confirms it).
Two: she's way, way too old to be acting like this.
You have memories from the 70s?
I don't even have memories of the first part of the 90s and I'm more mature than this.When the going gets tough, the tough read fanfic.
For four hours.
Instead of editing, writing, or tackling the kilometer-long to-do list.
So stressed out by November that I've broken through to the other side and just don't care anymore.
I plan to enjoy this while it lasts.
When I read or write fiction, I always "see" the action in a vivid cinematic fashion, like a movie in my head; I thought everyone did that, but I have been informed that this is not the case. Huh. So am I the weird one, or the people who don't have movies in their heads when they read/write?
Doesn't matter what plebeians think or don't think.
Anyway, for me, one of the most fun parts of prepping for NaNoWriMo or any fiction writing is the casting of actors as the characters. It must be frustrating for published writers who use this method to have completely wrong actors cast in film/TV adaptations of their work. (Please oh please let me have a chance to find out someday for myself.)
God is this really how people write?
No wonder fiction sucks.IS IT NOVEMBER YET? I WANT TO GET MY SPACE OPERA ON.
*Just so you know, Indira Varma and Thomas Kretschmann would have attractive offspring. Also crazy smart, although the genetic engineering had something to do with that — both the crazy and the smart. And what do you think you'd get from Claudia Black and Damian Lewis? Luckily for them, they had access to more advanced genetic engineering, so their offspring mostly escaped the crazy, although I suspect their daughter will take little comfort in that when a certain semimad scientist starts driving her around the bend.
Oh attractive geniuses?
With no flaws due to genetic engineering?
They sound really interesting what with their no flaws to overcome or compensate for.
I'm sure it'll do well with the target demographic because if I've learned anything from the fanfiction crowd it's that any adversity or struggle doesn't go over well.
At least not as well as annoying noises, emotes and homoerotica.
TOR: My husband is beta testing The Old Republic. I'm not an MMO person (I'll play TOR because it's Star Wars, not because I play well with others), but he is, and he's impressed by what he's played so far. What I can say is that it's gorgeous and the voice acting is top-notch, well worth the necessity of defiling my own MacBook Pro with Windows when the time comes.
Haha oh wow
So much shit wrong with that statement I'm not even going to dwell on it.
Fuck blogs.
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