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I love you, show! I need icons.

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synecdochic is talking about DW culture.

[Festivids] Recs by settiai, recs by blueswan, recs by astridv, recs by such_heights

New metanews edition.

rivkat posted links to Naomi Novik's testimony before US Congress (video + text).

Guest Post: A History of Western Media Fandom @ ladybusiness

Wednesday linkspam by jae, including fannish and non-fannish links.

Feel like doing something exceedingly nerdy? I give you regular expressions crosswords.

Reasons not to get a dog. Or to get a dog, depending on your preferences. by pseudomonas. Accidental threesome with dog. :)

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[The Americans] "Not an anti-hero," continued by jae
One trend in media commentary on the first season of The Americans was to lump Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in with the protagonists of various shows in the anti-hero mold, like Tony Soprano of The Sopranos or Walter White of Breaking Bad (Elizabeth especially gets a lot of “ooh, it’s a female anti-hero!” sort of buzz). It strikes me that this only works, though, if you insist on viewing the show through an exclusively American lens.

[Almost Human] Almost Human, and Writing the Future by Dan Wells
The problem, of course, is that Almost Human isn't trying to build a science-fictional world, they're trying to tell cop stories with a science fiction twist.
I agree with his critique. I love sci-fi but I am bored stiff by conventional buddy-cop shows. Almost Human is unwatchable for me. (And then there was that icky sexbot episode early on.)

[Banshee] I made a Banshee tumblr because I have fallen head over heels in love with the stupid show and need more content. *draws hearts around it* Come talk to me about Banshee!

[Podfic] Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology IV
Happy almost-February! As we have for the past three years, we'll be collecting short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms to release as an anthology (and as a collection of individual files) on the final day of halfamoon.

[Podcast] New hiatus Slashreport episode
Slash Report - H105 Hetalia with Polarstern, Pyrrhiccomedy, Wizzard890 and Kixboxer

[Vids] Festivids is live!
Recs by marina

Porn Battle is on again. Time for prompts is already up. Mine are here if anyone feels inspired.

Latest Metanews edition

Safer sex and contraception in fanfic by naraht
So I thought I would bring the discussion up to date by asking what my circle thinks of the topic.
My own feeling is that there are three main motives that are relevant to writers when it comes to depicting, or not depicting, safe sex and/or contraception:
1) Sending the right message to readers
2) Sexiness of the scene
3) Realism and/or accurate characterization

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I can finally reveal my tw_holidays fic.

The Thrill of Hypothermia (1757 words) by acari
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Additional Tags: Huddling For Warmth, Sleepy Cuddles, Hypothermia, Future Fic, Kissing, First Kiss, Cuddling & Snuggling, Fluff
Summary:

Stiles yawned and shifted back against Derek's chest. He arranged Derek's arm across his chest for maximum coverage and shoved his icy feet between Derek's shins. Stiles could certainly emphasize with Luke Skywalker wanting to cuddle up to the steamy intestines of his snow beast. Derek sure was lucky Stiles had no lightsaber available at present.

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Ich muß mich gerade so dermaßen zusammenreißen, um nicht auf die letzte WRINT Podcastfolge in deren Kommentaren zu reagieren.

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I stopped watching a whole host of shows. I started watching the first new Homeland episode but I just did not care. I watched the Sleepy Hollow pilot and hated it. I never went back to Nashville, Legend of Korra or The Paradise. I watched a few episodes of The Blacklist and Hostages but dropped both for lack of interest. I will probably finish Hostages once the season is finished just to see how it ends. I watched ten minutes of Ironside, but police brutality won't get better if the brutal cop is in a wheelchair. Sorry, Blair Underwood, not even for you.

I'm still watching The Good Wife. I loved this season of Some Girls. I still love The Great British Bake-Off. Masterchef Junior US was super adorable.

I give Almost Human two, maybe three more episodes before I bail. ( spoilersCollapse )

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rarepairnovember is trying to repopulate the Teen Wolf fandom with fanworks for rarepairs this month.

recessional is thinking about BBC's Sherlock
There's enough people slagging on BBC Sherlock on a regular basis about its Sherlock being an asshole that when I found watching it seriously uncomfortable, I sort of assumed that was it. [...] And I realized the thing that makes me uncomfortable is not Sherlock, or how he's written, but John Watson and how he's written.

World War II Combat Movie Recs by sansets

According to sgamadison there's something fishy going on with some ebook publishers.
Amazon (as well as most of the other e-book distributors like Kobo, etc) has decided to make sweeping changes to its publishing policy and is taking down titles wholesale--not just from sale, but according to some people, off their Kindles as well. I find it particularly interesting that this is aimed only at INDEPENDENT authors.

netweight is writing about the beginnings of A/B/O in SPN fandom, complete with a handy timeline.

chaila on Myth and Deconstruction in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
But TSCC spins off from its action movie franchise roots to tell a deeply human story that interrogates the basis of all "hero myth" type stories. What I want to focus on in this post are these deconstructive elements, the way TSCC explicitly and implicitly challenges the themes and tropes common in similar stories about "one chosen hero destined to save the world."

A collection of tips, techniques, and writing exercises for NaNoWriMo from a variety of Tumblr users.

Mass tag replacer for Tumblr, a script that can take a bunch of posts tagged with one thing and replace that tag with another. (I haven't tried it yet but, hallelujah!)

marina is giving a rave review about the Israeli film 'Bethlehem', "set about a decade ago, during the second intifada and the main characters are a Shabak agent and the Palestinian teenager he recruited several years ago"

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Ich werde auf RTL "Helden - Wenn dein Land dich braucht" kucken. Da wird im CERN ein schwarzes Loch geschaffen und dann geht in Deutschland die Welt unter. Ich habe grad einen herrlichen Verriss gelesen: "Helden": Der schlechteste Film aller RTL-Zeiten. Nur mal ein paar Zitate:

Man fragt sich allen Ernstes, mit welchen Drogen jene versorgt wurden, die bei RTL so etwas zur Ausstrahlung freigeben.

Man nehme nur mal einen besonders abstrusen Seitenstrang der Geschichte. Der spannt sich auf einem Gurkenhof im Spreewald. Dort sind Feldarbeiterinnen zugange, die alle so aussehen, als würden sie Gurken nur zur persönlichen Weiterbildung sammeln und ansonsten vor allem für den Pirelli-Kalender posieren oder das Personal in irgendwelchen Top-Model-Castingshows stellen.

Getoppt wird all das aber noch von der Bundeskanzlerdarstellung, die Heiner Lauterbach hinlegt. Den hat man fein zurechtgemacht, denn in den meisten Szenen wirkt er so sehr wie sein eigenes Denkmal, dass man die Befürchtung nicht los wird, jeden Moment könne eine Taube auf ihm landen und ihn mit ihrer Hinterlassenschaft schmücken. Aber dann spricht er doch, und ich musste mehrfach an mich halten, um nicht auf die Auslegeware zu sinken und mich dort vor Lachen zu kugeln.

Ich liebe strunzdumme Katastrophenfilme und das hier scheint eine besonders hirnverbrannte Perle zu sein.

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I may have a nail polish problem. ( wherein I talk about nail polish + picturesCollapse )

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Crowdsourcing Podficcing Reccing Tips! @ amplificathon
So this is a post for crowdsourcing reccing advice. If you have reccing experience, or rec-reading experience, or just some good ideas, please comment to share:

naraht collected links to Podfic permissions/transformative works policy discussions.

Meta on how I turn the author's words into a performance by anna_unfolding

A tutorial on vidding mkv files in premiere on a mac by astolat

The AO3 is soliciting Feedback on Category Change Proposal.

fiercynn wrote a Tierra de Lobos primer - aka, LESBIANS IN 19TH CENTURY SPAIN!.

capitu is hosting the 2013's Self Pimping Rec List!.
[..] come tell us what is your best work, which story/art are you most proud of and which one you consider fan's favourite.

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