October House

A home for old bones, spooky kids, wandering souls, lantern ghosts, sly foxes, raven guides, and those tossed at sea. Also a friendly place for poems, prose, sea shanties, and fish stories of all kinds.

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Aww, rest Mad-ly in peace, Al Feldstein

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Absolutely wonderful and brilliant :)

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John Conrad Berkey

part. 1

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A really cool collection of... space stations (space communities?). Anyways, gorgeous to look at.

[dominoes-dance]

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I love Gravity Falls, so hard.

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shiftglass:

Take that, Bembridge Scholars!

The Mummy is a film about a woman having a marvellous time, and I think that’s so beautiful.

Such a fun movie :) I still enjoy watching it.

[maxwell-kid]

Some stories stay with us forever

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"Fangirl" is not an insult.

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“I like fangirls how I like my coffee. I hate coffee.” Three days after being spotted on a T-shrt for sale at WonderCon, this idiotic slogan is still making waves in the geek community.

Why? Well, for one thing, it seems like a perfect example of the hostile environment women have to deal with when they attend conventions. However, the T-shirt’s manufacturer, Tankhead Custom Tees, has just come forward to explain why the shirt isn’t sexist.

“the fangirl/fanboy shirts can best be explained like this: fangirls/boys =/= fans. Fans are people who like and genuinely respect a fandom, and it’s creators. Fangirls/boys are like those creepy fedora wearing neckbearded bronies, or hetalia fanfiction shippers, who make us all collectively cringe in pain at what they do to the things we love.

No one should ever defend these kinds of people. Seriously, they make the rest of us look bad.”

So, just to be clear here, the shirt isn’t insulting toward all women, just the ones who are the wrong kind of fan. And that’s totally not a gendered insult because bronies (i.e. male fans of a media source that’s traditionally aimed at girls) are repulsive as well. Right?

The idea that it’s OK to be disgusted by certain types of fan is pretty widespread in geek culture, and it’s ridiculous to suggest that this habit isn’t connected to sexist prejudice. In the nonsensical social strata of geekdom, “serious” sci-fi literature fans are somewhere at the top, Trekkies and comic book nerds are somewhere around the middle, and anything women are interested in is invariably right down at the bottom. Popular examples: Supernatural, YA novels with female protagonists, fanfiction, shoujo anime, and pretty much anything that’s popular on Tumblr.

It’s no coincidence that “fangirl” is most commonly used to describe women who read and write fanfiction. By the logic of people who use fangirl as a pejorative term, fans who spend hours reading and collecting superhero comics are at the cool, respectable end of the geek scale, while “fangirls”  who write tens of thousands of words of superhero fanfic are embarrassing weirdos. In other words, if you conform to the old-fashioned, male-dominated form of fandom then you’re fine, but if you prefer to join the subculture that was primarily founded on the work of female fans, then it’s acceptable to publicly mock you at an event like WonderCon.

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Althea and Donna "Uptown Top Ranking" (1978)

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Warren Zevon "Werewolves of London" (1978)

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The greatest thing you'll see all week - A Tribute to the 80s

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My sprained wrist was upgraded to broken :( I scheduled myself a three-day weekend so I'll make an effort to catch up on blogging tomorrow.

Happy Spring!

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Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit" (Woodstock)

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Kim Wilde " Kids in America" (1981) I'll update my blog when I get the chance. My wrist still hurts and I have a lot of work to catch up on. I have this weekend off so I'll have the time to catch up with myself as well. I have a new project I'll be starting. Well, not new, rather a new spin on my current retro project. This song is a hint.

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Samantha Fox “(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But the Pants Stay On" (1991)