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Friday Links the Squeeful Edition
It’s Black Friday (for Americans) and Doctor Who Day for everyone! Yes, 49 years ago today, a certain weird little science fiction show started on British TV. I’m already underway on my WHO-50 project...
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The Friday Links Initiative
It’s a bit of a strange day so far! Late yesterday morning, I was inspired to rant about Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy, Let’s Unpack That instead of what I should have been doing (laundry...
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Friday Links is a Ladyblogger
Julia Gillard has been hosting drinks and networking gatherings for all manner of groups this month, because it’s CHRISTMAS, but when she invited a group of women involved in digital publishing (not...
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Friday Links is a Real Pixel-Stained Grown Up Geek Girl
The Mary Sue looks at the psychology behind the fake geek girl meme. At Tor.com, Liz Bourke looks at the boundary-policing aspect of the attitudes towards women in SF “geekdom”. She also rather...
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Friday Links is Shipping Iced Tea
Yes, I said shipping, not sipping. It’s a stinker of a hot day, I’m drinking iced tea poured from my shiny new T2 iced tea brewer jug into stylish citrus-coloured glasses, and trying not to spend all...
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Friday Links is Doing Something Right
Apparently the secret to being successful at social media is about promoting other people rather than yourself. Finally, something I’m doing right! Joss Whedon talks about Much Ado (it’s coming!) and...
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Friday Links has its Rollerskates On
Remember roller skates? Remember disco? Too young or too old or just right to care about either of those things? It doesn’t matter because the Rollercade Glow Party wants you anyway! The anthology...
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Friday Links is Posing in Comfort
Jim Hines looks at some of the responses to his ‘posing like the uncomfortable ladies on cover art’ project and talks about why it is important. Verity! Podcast has a new episode out, A Perfect Ten? –...
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Friday Links Was Found under a Car Park
Richard III took over my Twitter feed this week – is it just me who resists finding out the actual details of a news story so as to enjoy the surrealism of the tweets that assume you know what they are...
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Friday Links is Throwing Confetti
Congratulations to Erika Ensign (@hollygodarkly) & Steven Schapansky (@legopolis) who are in LA for the Gallifrey One convention and just announced they got married! Complete with a Lego...
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Friday Links is a Sweetheart of the Galaxy
Congratulations to all Nebula nominees, and a big extra special CONGRATULATIONS to Margo Lanagan for being part of the inaugural Stella Prize longlist with Sea Hearts. (Cough, and apparently the high...
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Friday Links is Calling from the Echo Chamber
A great piece from Angela Slatter on the writing life as a really big echo chamber – and how being with a smaller publisher and having to do a larger share of the book publicity is not the scariest...
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Friday Links Ships Logan and Veronica Forever
Pope, what pope? There were two pieces of news past my Twitter feed yesterday: Google is cruelly taking Google Reader away from those of us who RELY ON IT AS OUR LIFEBLOOD, and Veronica Mars made a...
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Friday Links Has the Scrunchie Out
This image is one of my favourite things about the internet this week, perfectly summing up my feelings about action women on TV (and in comics) who don’t tie their hair back when they mean business....
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Friday Links Will Be Bosom Friends
As usual I have many favourite things on the internet this week, but one at the very top of the list is Anne of Cleves Gables, a Hark! a Vagrant retelling of the story of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII...
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Friday Links is Fully Dressed II: The Pants Have It
The fact that this isn’t the first time I have given this title to a Friday links post goes to show that it’s not too hard to make sure your superheroines are fully dressed, people! Not if an artist...
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Friday Links is Awash With Sentiment (and Robot-fighting)
This most excellent essay, A Sentimental Education: Sex and the Literary Writer, is fascinating in what it has to say about the attitude towards emotional writing in the Literary Sphere – and the...
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Friday Links Soldiers On
This has been, quite honestly, the most emotionally draining week in the history of forever, and yesterday was one of the most stressful days I’ve ever had. But it ended on a note of hope, and today is...
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Friday Links is Better at Designing Superheroes Than You.
Thanks to the Mary Sue I found this – Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes than You, a Tumblr which takes examples of super cute superhero cosplay done by real little girls, and turns them...
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Journey to the Centre of Friday Links
There’s a new Verity up – looking at Journey To The Centre of the TARDIS! Some great discussion. The nice thing about being part of this podcast is that I get to listen to it like an ordinary person on...
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