#a-grue

I was tagged by linguisticjubilee, who is an absolute dreamboat and my cephalopal, so I shall comply. :D

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

1. Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klaus, because Puck+Hush interspecies friendship is awesome.

2. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett, because Aziraphale+Crowley angel/demon friendship is awesome.

3. Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee, because being able to die and be remade into WHATEVER BODY/GENDER/WHATEVER YOU WANT is awesome, and formulated a lot of my attitude toward my own gender.

4. Stone Soup by Ann McGovern, because I loved the art and I loved this kid tricking a crabby old lady into feeding him excellent food.

5. The Duluth Mongoose by Jack Denton Scott because TEA-DRINKING MONGOOSE. (I read this when I was like eight; this really explains a lot about my tastes in characters...)

6. The entire Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate, because teenagers turning into animals to save the world against aliens? Oh, yeah.

7. Falling Up illustrated poetry anthology by Shel Silverstein, because yup. Certain rhymes in particular have stuck in my head and never left.

8. An Otter's Story by Emil E. Liers, because a story about an otter family? So cute. Sometimes sad. But so cute.

9. Julie's Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George, last part of the to Juile of the Wolves trilogy and following the story of the wolf pack before her.

10. Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander, wherein a cat takes his boy through nine lives in history and you get to see a passing glimpse of the different attitudes toward cats throughout time.

And I tag: a-grue, gonnaplotz, cnwarforged, billiondollarsuperhero, pani-ja, staceydono, captn-sara-holmes, eidheann, hitlikehammers

here’s a selfie for your homestuck if you still need some (ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ

Yesss, I really wanted to get to yours~~ I’d say you make me think of one of the Zahhaks?? Equius or Horuss? ;v; I love them SO much I needed to give ‘em you eyesss [Which I didn’t get right, oops]

so anyway, genderbend Equius? probably having a friendly fight with Nepeta?

WOW OKAY NO THIS IS TOO CUTE YOU NEED TO STOP, EMILEE

CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP, MY ONLY SUPERPOWER IS MAKING THINGS INAPPROPRIATELY ADORABLE

This consideration for characters who aren’t ‘strong’ but are well written has been coming up a lot in various female-centric author circles I creep on, and met with fervent support.

I'm glad! I see it mentioned now and then and I'm always happy when someone brings it up. It's just something that gets to me after a while -- and it bothers me that I even have to say, "No, look, so-and-so is badass in her own feminine way." Because, hey, what if she's not? Some people aren't badass in any way and that's okay. That is not the beginning and end of all positive traits a person can have.

(Ladies aren't the only ones this applies to -- see also, how fanboys are still complaining about Shinji Ikari after all these years -- but they definitely have it harder and get held to some serious double standards, by writers and fans alike.)

ughh man D: effing tumblr. BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION I’m with ya on that, it’s pretty crummy and best to be left alone. (I was mostly hoping for a new horror fandom to jump into! Ha ha ahaaaa……) orz

Man I'm really not the best person to ask for details, but here goes. Someone drew humanized versions of the characters from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (not the first time nor the last), and I guess these designs took off and a bunch of people drew fanart of said fanart and cosplayed and stuff, because it's Tumblr.

BUT I guess getting popular on Tumblr means that people are gonna start digging up dirt (I don't know the specifics, honestly, and didn't find anything terribly incriminating when I went looking for "what the hell just happened" details, but admittedly, I didn't try very hard). Cue wank, apparently?

Anyway, I personally find the whole business of calling regular folks out on Tumblr INCREDIBLY eyebrow-raising, because Tumblr as a whole loves witch hunts and hates fact checking, and rarely leaves room for personal growth (i.e. something a person did two or three years ago is fair game even if they were 15 years old at the time). And while I agree that certain behaviors shouldn't be tolerated, the way that Tumblr culture seems to handle it -- dogpiling based on secondhand accounts, often half-truths or grudge wank -- is really dangerous, I think, especially given the age of most of the people that this seems to happen to.