Various links

[avrelia]

I am a boring person these days, and don't have much to say of my own. Or time to write things that I do have to say.

But I manage to waste some of my time on reading blogs and I found some amusing stuff there.

First of all, Smart Bitches tell us that BenBella has launched their new Smart Pop Books site that are offering weekly free essays from their books (go and have a look, they have the expiry date!)

But even more interesting that SmartPop is also running a contest for essays on Dollhouse. Pity that they didn't do it for Buffyverse... There are so many great essays written over the years that deserve to be in print! Alas, I am not yet ready to think that much about Dollhouse. But maybe you can? I'd love to see your names there.

Jezebel.com had a post titled What Women Want: Gay Vampires, my first reaction on which was: DUH!
but it turned out that it was mocking some guys' strange reasonings about women's desires. The comments are fun though.

Joss Whedon has agreed to direct one episode of Glee

http://io9.com/5378355/the-strange-twisted-and-destructive-love-stories-of-joss-whedon This is a fun post. It's nothing new for a seasoned Whedonverse fan. Joss likes his love stories twisted? DUH! But I liked the acknowledgment of Spike and Buffy's love:

This arc is also steeped in metaphor. The two of them, at their darkest moments, turn to each other, and they even help each other become the people they want to be, but not before they help tear each other down to the saddest, most broken people they can be.

::is pathetic::

http://io9.com/5381793/is-science-fiction-feminized-or-is-it-sexist-both Here is the most interesting response on last weeks storm about sexism, women and SF

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

The gay vampire article had me snickering heartlessly at the cluelessness -- and the witty snark of the slashers.

::is not 14::

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

is not fourteen

You so totally are! tee-hee!

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Flip those digits and it's STILL too young, lol.

[molly_may]

I'm not up to having thinky thoughts about Dollhouse either, but it would be wonderful to see somebody from the LJ community contribute to that book.

they even help each other become the people they want to be

Awwww. That's my Spuffy!

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

The deadline is February 1, so there is time to think - and let more people know.

That's my Spuffy!

mine, too :)

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links, A. I'm saving the Joss love stories article to read later.

I'm so out of the loop right now I didn't know there was a kerfuffle mentioned in the last article. I like their measured response.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

the kerfuffle was more like a storm in a glass, but the responses were interesting, and it is always worthwhile to check against sexism. I actually posted about it here: femi_fan