So after the post where I was complaining about cosplayers making female analogs of male characters unnecessarily sexy, Lela Gwenn, a twitter follower and all around awesome person, told me of her plan to make a “Sexy Gambit” costume. Since I think a sexy female Gambit is perfectly in line with the Cajun’s personality, I… Read More Quick Post: Lady Gambit
I would like to begin this review by stating that I am not sure whether I want to hug Mr. Hodder or punch him. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, the third book in the Burton & Swinburne series (the reassurance on twitter that #4 is coming along, currently has me leaning toward hugging)… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #237 – Review: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
I’ve been nattering on a bunch about fangirls, celebrity culture seen through the nerd filter and attraction, be it to celebrities or people you might actually meet and interact with on a deeper level, and how those two types of attraction should ideally differ. And that has me thinking a lot about why Fangirl culture… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #236 – Male and Female Gaze in Nerd Culture
So I mentioned in the last post, that we played Miskatonic School for Girls (which can be purchased at Amazon) created by Fun to 11 Games a little over a week ago. It’s a cute game, cashing in on the popularity of Lovecraft themed anything. The premise is that each player has a “House” at… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #235 – Review: Miskatonic School for Girls
So, I finally joined the cult of the iPhone. I loved my Blackberry, but the battery was dying and Barnes & Noble were no longer supporting the Nook eReader software for Blackberry, so I couldn’t get to half my books, which was the last straw. Look, I’ll put up with my phone dying at inopportune… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #234 – We Are Everywhere and an Update on the Last Post
Ok, so I recorded this at Geek Girl Con and kept forgetting to post it because of cat emergencies, vacation and other stresses. In response to a question from someone on twitter, I asked Rachel Edidin to talk to me about feminist comics, amongst other things. http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2083718/height/360/width/640/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/ In case the embedding doesn’t work, here’s the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! Podcast #29 – Feminism in Comics and Geek Girl Con
Sorry about disappearing again. We lost both The Man and the hedgepig, Kaylee, in the space of 48 hours. After two weeks of medication and a continuing decline, we discovered The Man had developed an aggressive, fast-growing cancer and we had to put him to sleep the day we started our vacation. The hedgepig died… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #233 – The Ethics of Real Person Fic
Ok, first off, for all my geeks going to PAX this weekend, re-read this post, and remember to tip. Because when you don’t tip, you give us all a bad rep and you’re mistreating the people who serve your food and drink. Now, onto the meat of what I want to talk about. I love… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #232 – Women Cosplaying Male Characters
Ok, I’m not a huge steampunk fan. I have, in fact, been heard to opine that steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown. But honestly, I’m pretty content to live and let live, and I do enjoy well crafted costumes, regardless of subject matter. So, I have no particular beef with steampunk. I don’t… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #231 – Review: Mark Hodder’s Burton and Swinburne Books!
Author of The Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero books, you will be missed, sir.
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