So, this weekend, I kind of went on a bender reading girl-werewolf* book (as you can see here, where I am fairly careful to add books as I read 'em, because honestly, otherwise I lose track) specifically, from the Mercedes Thompson and Kitty Norville serieses.

By the time I came up for air, I was a bit groggy, and couldn't quite remember which of them had the lawyer boyfriend and which was locked in the car trunk.

Guide to girl-werewolf serieses:
( this is what tables are meant for. But they're still mildly evil as html goes )

( Strength and Honor: A Novel of The U.S.S. Merrimack, 3 stars )

( Spin Control, 4 stars )

( A Wind in Cairo, 3 stars )

( Cards of Grief, 3 stars )

I'm working on not using 'lame' when I don't mean a mobility impairment, because it is offensive to people I care about. But it's hard going, both because it's an ingrained and thoughtless habit, and because I keep going, “That's lame! I mean, uh. That's. Uh.”

(Warning! I am probably going to say “lame” approximately nine million times in this post.) ( WARNING: SKANKY ABLEISM ISSUES PRESENT )
If you'd like to tell me about how annoying it is that we can't even use metaphors anymore, I care deeply about your thoughts, and would like you to note that mythoughtsonyaoi.com is currently unregistered. ETA: This means: don't tell me.

ETA: ( Promising suggestions as of first edit! )

( footnotes )

( Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1), 3 stars )

( Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, Book 1), 3 stars )

( In Fugitive Arms, 1 stars )

( Faking It, 4 stars )

( The House of the Stag, 4 stars )

( Mona Lisa Awakening (Monère Book 1), 2 stars )

Dear Linux/BSD tech writers

Stop it with 'windoze.' You think you're funny. You're not. I have a deep and abiding hatred for Windows Vista, and you're annoying me.

( The rest of this could really be described as 'exciting news from the command-line, )

I came across this fanart of a Star Wars/Animated Batman mash-up, via stephendann, and it is both fascinating and bizarre to me, because it is clearly the result of some mode of fannishness that is very different than mine. For example, I really have to believe the implied Yoda/Joker was unintentional, and does not reflect actual shipping on the part of the artist. (The Montoya/Princess Leia-Babs, although it really does call for some mind-bending contortions, I am quite willing to believe in. But I think it was the accidental side-effect of wanting someone with Bullock's general shape and temperament to play Chewbacca.) Shouldn't the Hamill vs. Hamill mean that Robin is Luke, and not Nightwing?

I mean, it's awesome, but I look at it, and I feel it's just fundamentally wrong. (Except Penguin the Hutt. That's perfect.)

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While on the subject of fanart, I hope everyone interested knows about st_fanart_meme, which has produced Vulcan!Uhura and human!Spock, liviapenn's gender swapped Spock manip, (I think the bone structure and expression are perfect (although I am not sure Vulcans wear frilly collars,)) and many others, ranging from crack to utter filth, so no SFW guarantees.

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Via fandom_of_one, a comm for small Yuletide fandoms, an anonymous donor will be giving $5 to charity of the authors choice, for every NYR story uploaded June - August, to a cap of $1000. The rules are a bit complex, so check the post, but you don't need to be a community member to get the charity dollars.

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NYT graphic showing the, quote, biodiversity still available within the book publishing world. The tree seems a bit poorly organized to me; can a ladybug's nearest relative really be a robot? Which publisher used to have an alligator on their spine? I swear there was one, although perhaps it's been eaten in a merger.

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You're getting spam posts in lieu of content because my brain is contentless. Sorry, ppls.

An awesome meme, I mean, an AWESOME meme, here, and I've seen skywardprodigal, shewhohashope, zvilikestv, and I'm sure others I might have missed.

So then I added my name!

Go and leave testimonials, tell how zvi once carried you from a burning building with all your cats!

Should a person (who has been in fandom for five years) be excused from having read Chicago's Most Wanted, merely because they've never seen an episode of due South?

Show your work.

Spike/Riley is known in the vernacular as "Spiley."

You may go about your business.

Okay, guys, I want us to come up with a name for a genre of books. Something snappy, like “chick lit” but not too derogatory, unlike “chick lit.”

I speak, of course, of the modern-fantasy-setting first-person-pov-female-narrator loner-badass-chick. Yes, this is why I am not in charge of naming things. Think Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson, Devon Monk, Ilona Andrews, L. A. Banks, Morgan Kingsley, Marjorie Liu, and, to a lesser extent, Kelly Armstrong, Laurell K. Hamilton, Rachel Caine, etc.

The book people apparently want us to call it “urban fantasy” but this is ridiculous. First, we already have “urban fiction,” where urban is used to mean “Black,” and this genre is not really noticeably so. Second, if anything is 'urban fantasy,' it's stuff like Gaiman's Neverwhere, fantasy that is actually about cities.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

ETA: Also, I think the name should in some way reflect that this is a very girly genre, since its girlfulness is one of the things I like about it.

Daughter of ETA: hradzka suggests "Buffies," which is pretty instantly recognizeable, and jamjar seems to be on to something in this thread.

Okay, so I was like, "I'm not fannish about Bones!" but then I was like, "Why is there not fic where Booth takes Brennan home to meet his family?" and okay, we don't know much about his mom, maybe because she's dead, but maybe because this show is much more interested in dads, (Characters with significant dads: Angela, Booth, Brennan, Parker, Dr. Saroyan. Characters with significant moms: Parker) and maybe she's alive and living in, I don't know, Maine!

So, blah blah blah, for some reason Booth decides to bring Brennan home for Christmas or Easter or something with his mom, like maybe he's horrified she's alone for Christmas, or maybe it's a family obligation, only this year it would be just him since Jared's away, and he doesn't want to face his mom alone, so, blah blah blah, he kidnaps Booth, ("Of course I would be interested in observing your ritual feast meals!" "...wait, no, I said 'Easter'") and Angela thinks it hilarious, ("Okay, you realize you're taking her home to meet your parents? And the only way she makes a good first impression is if there's a corpse in the room?" "Does a dead duck count?")

And, basically, ( Oh Booth. This was a bad idea. )

And you know, I think the rest is obvious from there.

(PS. Booth's mom is feisty and owns five parakeets, and belongs to six social clubs which she rules with an iron fist in a velvet glove. She's not as fragile as Booth thinks. In my made-up fanon.)

Never have Booth/Brennan open in one tab and Kirk/McCoy in another. The effect of being unable to tell, even for half a sentence, whether the man mooning over Bones is Booth or Kirk is severely disorienting.

I find the existence of st_xi_gen wholly delightful. If you want to request or write fic about how McCoy and Uhura get trapped in a cave and deal with it a professional way and end with a renewed respect for each other, this is your comm.

Likewise, although you've probably already seen it linked girlycon, in celebration of girl-hood, actual girlhood not required to participate, although welcome.

Which got me thinking about the books I read in childhood. I read like a shark swims, of course, and childhood is a pretty long and vague time-frame, so I read all the usual suspects, only excepting any book that had as its theme "sometimes, as you grow, you may experience confusing feelings." This was because I was already experiencing plenty of confusing feelings, and didn't want more of that in my fiction. (karen_healey thinks YA fiction is awesome. Since it is full of "You may be experiencing terrifying and confusing feelings," I regard it with terror and confusion.) But I read anything with a spaceship, anything with a dog, or pony, or horse, or mouse, anything with teeny people living unbeknownst among us, and a certain amount of things that had none of those, but I had run out of books that contained the afore-mentioned, and see prior metaphor re: sharks.

( a childhood in books )

( ETA: MOAR BOOKS )