Art Meme

I love memes! I love art! This is like a match made in heaven:

The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of art, by me, for/about them. I make no guarantees about quality or type, but I will assure that I will give it good effort and that the art will be individual to you, so whatever I make it will be yours, designed for you.

The only catch is that, as with most memes, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own journal as well.

I may do more than five, depending on what sorts of ideas I get. Anyway, comment and repost away!

The Male Gaze

Every now and then, I laugh so hard that I actually start choking when reading Dinosaur Comics.

Today's strip was like that.

Comment Report

It's possible that nobody but me finds those things that show who comments the most often and all that stuff interesting. But I do find them interesting, so I'm posting one. Whee!
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In Which I am a Literature Fangirl

The antics of a particularly ignorant troll earlier this evening reminded me that I never did get around to writing about the interesting comparison I wanted to make between Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin and Elizabeth Bear’s Blood and Iron (Oh god, was that really back in August? Thank goodness I don’t have to turn these sorts of things in on time for grades anymore…). I wanted to wait, originally, because I knew what I wanted to say, but not how to say it without sounding sort’ve unintentionally pretentious.

But, y’know, it’s obvious to me now that there are heights of pretension that I could never reach even if I actually strove for them...

So! Here, then, is a little bit of rambling about some similarities I saw between Tam Lin and Blood and Iron that were not the ones I expected (but which were not, on consideration, surprising):
( Itsy-bitsy spoilers, below. Nothing worse than what you might find in a typical review. )