September 2011
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“It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie...”
– — Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter (via pitcherplant)
forealz I would have absolutely no friends if not for the internet. I mean no exaggeration - of my closest friends, I met maybe two IRL and we would never have kept in touch anyway if not for das interweb. (via aeromachia)
No joke: the internet...
August 2011
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waldosia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
July 2011
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“Webfiction has more in common with journalism than commercial fiction. Newspaper...”
– From the excellent blog post Never Rewrite on Cheap Ass Fiction. Go read it. (via webfictiondaily)
June 2011
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A Dad Testifies for His Transgender Teen Daughter →
xxboy:
My name is Wayne Maines, I live in Old Town. I have a 13-year-old transgender daughter. In the beginning, I was not onboard with this reality. Like many of you I doubted transgender children could exist, I doubted my wife and I doubted our counselors and doctors. However I never doubted my love for my child. It was only through observing her pain and her suffering and examining my lack...
April 2011
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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– Dead Poets Society (via whyamimisterpink)
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March 2011
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February 2011
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WatchLovely, lovely booktrailer, for an equally lovely book.
You can read An Awesome Book of Thanks for free online, as well as its predecessor, An Awesome Book.
Feminism is defined by its respect of other...
zoearcher:
It is not an ideology of convenience. Female identity and empowerment takes many forms. Deriding the choices of millions of women because it does not fit your conceptualization of feminism defeats the purpose of feminism.
I am a romance novelist and I wear my feminist badge proudly. The two are not mutually exclusive, and to deem it so means that you misunderstand your own...
Webfiction Daily: Fluffy-seme launches new... →
webfictiondaily:
Fluffy-seme, online fiction publisher, has launched an alpha model of a new feedback scheme that intends to give authors more fine-tuned feedback on which parts of their stories work, and which don’t. Founder Isa K explains the new features in detail on a guest post over on Ergofiction magazine.
January 2011
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REVIEW: Lovers and Beloveds by Meilin Miranda (An...
Lovers and Beloveds is the coming of age story of Temmin, next in line for the throne of Tremont, intertwined with tales from a Magic Book called An Intimate History of The Greater Kingdom (which gave the series its name). This book was first serialized online, and when I started reading that version, I could never get past the first chapters because Temmin annoyed the heck out of me. Not...
December 2010
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“Moreover, this is something that drives me insane when we talk about how illegal...”
– Mark Waid (via deadlyfredly)
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“Web fiction, identified as the next frontier to follow this trend, necessitates...”
– Check out this interview with Joash Wee, Pandamian Co-founder. (via webfictiondaily)
November 2010
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REVIEW: Laid Bare by Lauren Dane
Somehow I always end up feeling terribly conflicted by books by Lauren Dane. Laid Bare had some truly great parts, and then there were things that totally pulled me out of the story, or felt incredibly dislodged. Because of this, this will be quite a spoilery review.
Erin is a rocker, who’s very sure of what she is and what she wants in life. And she wants Todd, her sexy cop neighbour....
October 2010
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Marrying The Captain by Carla Kelly (Channel Fleet...
Ever since her father tried to sell her as a mistress to the highest bidder, Eleanor Massie has chosen to live in poverty. Her world changes overnight when Captain Oliver Worthy shows up at her struggling inn. Despite herself, Nana is drawn to her handsome guest….
Oliver planned to stay in Plymouth only long enough to report back to Lord Ratliffe—about Nana. But he soon...
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REVIEW: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch...
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains—a man who is neither blind nor a priest.
A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills...
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REVIEW: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake...
A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen’s club.
Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried - and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she’s vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she’s been ...
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REVIEW: Warrior by Zoe Archer (Blades of the Rose...
To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it’s become quite real and quite dangerous…
The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond—where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly,...
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REVIEW: Deadlands Hunt by G.L. Drummond
Born to the finer things in life, Amethyst finds her comfortable world turned upside down when she seeks to discover the truth about her sister’s disappearance. Chase is a Weren and the one of the many dangers she expected to find but was ill prepared to deal with. He is the one who can help her find the answers she seeks; yet accepting his help comes at a cost.
Deadlands ...
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REVIEW: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav’s...
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REVIEW: Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and...
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Novelr - Making People Read →
webfictiondaily:
A well-written blog by Eli James discussing reading, writing and publishing online fiction. James recently attended the IA Books in Browsers 2010 Conference in San Francisco. He is also one of the masterminds behind the Pandamian publishing platform.
I’m a huge fan of Novelr, and Eli has a lot of interesting (and intelligent!) thoughts on online publishing and community....
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“Scary stories filled with evil wizards, ghosts, zombies, and… gnomes? Yes gnomes...”
– from eFiction Magazine October 2010 || Issue 7 (via webfictiondaily)
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REVIEW: Gifts by Ursula Le Guin
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of “unmaking”—a violent talent shared by members of his family—he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Gifts tells the tale of Orrec and Gry, two teenagers who grow up in the Uplands, where the land is...
Web Fiction
jackruttan:
It’s not always my cup of tea, but I’m getting a kick out of following (via twitter) Zoe Whitten and other writers of web fiction, whom I think are daring uncharted waters. Literature is in flux right now. I don’t think books are going away, but how we read is changing, and these writers are on the leading edge. Check an interview with Zoe here: [link}
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Superhero Hipsters
via: CollegeHumor, 2matts, sagaston
(Is it wrong I find Aquaman strangely attractive like this?)