I needed new pants. I’ve needed new pants for weeks. I kept putting off buying them, because I hate shopping under the best of circumstances, which, at my current weight, cannot be achieved. But today, because I am sick unto the very *death* of wearing floppy pants, I went to Dunnes to buy jeans. Every pair of women’s jeans available gleefully advertised themselves as “skinny jeans”. Overlooking the fact that I am a far cry from skinny, even when I’m at my slimmest, my thighs do not fit in skinny…
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just because i’ve been doing a really crap job keeping track of this. miles to Morannon: 94.9 ytd wordcount: 236,000
Women in fantasy
There’s a sort of on-going discussion about women–or more specifically, the lack thereof–in epic fantasy books. Marie Brennan and Kate Elliott discuss it here and here at SF Novelists, Kate Elliott & Ken Scholes discuss it here at Borders Blog, and there are a variety of other places I’m failing to link to because five links is enough for one paragraph. The question raised is essentially “where are the women?”, specifically lately in epic fantasy but also as a general statement in fantasy and science fiction. What the question really…
I love geeks. :)
The war room is acting up, logging people in to different instances. Laura Anne and I managed to get in the same room, where the following conversation occurred: mizkit: …is this still the second room? lagilman: no. this is the new ope that opened when I left the old one lagilman: ‘aponi is trapped in a different reality! mizkit: oh no! mizkit: do you suppose it’s the Dark Mirror universe? mizkit: Will Spock have a goatee? lagilman (whose response comes up at exactly the same time my second question does):…
You guys are awesome.
Yesterday’s short story meme has hit upon the following: – at least 5 stories I’d actually like to write – something startlingly close to the plot of an upcoming book – one story I’ll never write, but probably it’s not the one you think it is – the observation that none of you pay attention to the structure of a Walker Papers title, and – a clear predilection amongst my readers to see Morrison in leather pants Later I’ll post a few responses. :)