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[daemonluna]

... return of the random links! Various things that have collected over the past few months. Some of this may be old news by now.

When I left the school in June, I got assorted wee gifties from the kids. One of my grade five library helpers gave me this figurine, which I think is absolutely lovely and wanted to share.

Jeanette Winterson has written a children's novel.

Jeeves & Wooster T-shirt designs. Hee.

A Survey of the Lesbian Fiction Publishing Industry

The winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. This is the contest where people try to create the worst opening sentence of a novel ever. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' - well do you, punk?"

The Top Five Ways to Totally Sabotage Your Comic Submission The top five things NOT to do, and show you how looking at the flip-side of each huge mistake reveals a way to really make your submission stand out from the rest of the pack (or, in this case, from the rest of the envelope pile). From the current submissions reviewer at Dark Horse Comics.

Harper Lee Writes Rare Item for O Magazine "Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," has written a rare published item _ a letter for Oprah Winfrey's magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town."

When love flourished in M for medical textbooks "Two weeks ago, Rachel Cooke sparked a nationwide debate by standing up for libraries under threat of closure by penny-pinching bureaucrats. Now, we publish a personal account of how libraries have the power to change lives for the better." By Eva Ibbotson.

SGA reference material: A Primer To Allergic Reactions And Anaphylactic Shock. Also, Heat Stress. 'nough said.

The International Eating Etiquette Test, Don’t Gross Out the World. Is a flash thingie with music, be warned. (I love their question about Canada. It's about the Inuit, and kind of makes me question the validity of the rest of the quiz.)

This one's for devohoneybee: pretty necklaces! (Though she may have seen it because I think I found the link on Neil Gaiman's blog.)

Pippi Longstocking icons, yay!

Forever Knight season three is coming out on DVD. However, I think the DVD releases are the US episodes, which are each short a few minutes from the aired Canadian versions. Can anyone confirm or deny?

From afterellen.com, Batwoman's Lesbian Identity is No Secret to Comic Book Fans

A federal judge Monday temporarily barred the Miami-Dade County School District from removing a children's book on Cuba from school libraries.

Regender is a translation page for pronouns.

nestra is collecting stories in comments about whackjob professors.

Livejournal Dungeon Adventure! "Enter your LiveJournal username, or that of any friend or enemy, to explore a dungeon magically generated from their interests and friends list, a dark, underground realm of treasure and monsters and slightly surreal background details." A highly amusing way to waste much time.

Teresa Neilsen Hayden on Fanfic In a purely literary sense, fanfic doesn’t exist. There is only fiction. Fanfic is a legal category created by the modern system of trademarks and copyrights. Putting that label on a work of fiction says nothing about its quality, its creativity, or the intent of the writer who created it.

Heads Up: 'Princess Diaries' Author Has a New Calling—Not Suitable For Children! "But for this particular story, I really feel like the blowjob just hasn't had enough coverage in literature. I was like, "Damn it, I'm going to put that in, because we girls need to talk about it. I did that on purpose because I do feel like there has been a lot of talk lately about adolescent girls doing the whole blowjob-at-parties thing, and I feel like they're not getting the point. You've got to get something back, because it's great if you're going to do that for him, but what's he going to do for you? So I feel like that is something that older women think about, that I don't know necessarily if girls are. That's my calling—to put the blowjob back in literature. It just hasn't had enough exposure." The truly fantastic Meg Cabot, talking about her adult fiction.

The Regeneration of Doctor Who: The ninth Doctor and the influence of the slayer "The new series of Doctor Who and the extent to which it has been influenced, both generically and thematically by US imports, specifically Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

fish_like_bikes Introducing: Fish Like Bikes, (aka The Female Stargate Characters Fanfiction Kink & Cliche Challenge. "Fish Like Bikes" for short.)

Comments

[joan-not-jaon.livejournal.com]

I heard from someone that the Forever Knight DVDs are indeed the American and not the "Euro minutes" versions. Until I hear other wise from a reliable source, they won't be getting my money. Haven't they heard that they're supposed to put *more* on the DVDs to make people want to buy them?

And I've just lost an hour reading the Teresa Neilsen Hayden on Fanfic thread. And the scroll bar isn't even a quarter of the way down the page. : ( I was considering printing it to read tomorrow, but when the preview said 427 pages.. I chickened out.