: Saturday, July 31, 2010
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revanchist: Sex & Gender Roles in Modern Video Games [1] - The artists always 'create someone they think is cool' who a 'player can identify with', and that face has always, traditionally, been male. // Not only that, but any attempts to request or advocate for a few, paltry offerings (aka a few screenshots or pieces of concept art) are not met with the open-mindedness one would hope for. -- francescacoppa: [in otw_news] Copyright Office Cites Fan Vids In Recommending New Exemptions - The Register also discussed the timing, characterization, editing, and message of the other vids, concluding that, "frequently when one is engaging in commentary about audiovisual works, it is necessary to use high quality reproductions in order to make one’s point." -
- musesfool: i don't have to fear it - You guys, I don't understand how badfic is bad in exactly the same ways in EVERY SINGLE FANDOM I'VE EVER READ. -
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xtricks: Butt Confidential 2 -- - The butt is actually a pretty cool place. It manages to be both the complicated end of a pretty complicated digestive system and a playground for the human impulse of 'hey, I wonder if that feels good?' -- naraht: Dealing with having caused offense: a poll - It seems to me that I've noticed a difference in how people get advised to deal with having caused offense, depending on whether the offensive work was fiction or non-fiction. -
- petra: Phrases fandom brought to my life - I am working like hell to keep further British invasions from my speech because a silly American girl using "...and all" as an intensifier sounds like a div twonk bloody idiot goofball. Perhaps I should break up with Life on Mars &c., but that seems unlikely...//..I have never done the fully elaborated version, but I have occasionally used "for reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture," thank you, Benton Fraser...How about you, reader? -
- seriousfic: [in noscans_daily] Some thoughts on genre - Every so often, someone complains that comic books are dominated by superheroes instead of, say, a comic book about cops or doctors. -
- xtricks: Butt Confidential 1-- - There are some people who can do without lube but they are generally not virgins, either pitching or catching and are also likely to be doing non-lubricated sex as part of a rough sex act, not a tender, string violins and soul-mate love scene. -