Jen has emerged from her long post-grad school hiatus, to give us a column! Everybody wave and say “Hi!” When the first Neverwinter Nights game came out in 2002, I played the hell out of it. Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher, and Penultima—I devoured the custom content, and I even had a stint as a beta tester for… Read More Bad Game Writing – A rare Jen-spotting
This month we have a really great interview with Tamora Pierce! She was an amazingly gracious interview, and a whole lot of fun to talk to. We talked about the paucity of active female heroines in YA literature particularly at the time she started writing, and why she writes the strong female characters she does… Read More Geek Girls Rule! Podcast #24 – Interview with Tamora Pierce
GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!!!! Ahem. Allow me to collect myself. Ok, Seanan McGuire is one of the very few authors that I will go out of my way to buy the first week their books come out. I can often be heard to lament that she doesn’t constantly have more books coming out… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #203 – Review: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
This post is going to be primarily a picture post, and if you can help me track down the people who should receive credit for any comics that might be misattributed, that would be awesome. So, from the early days of GGR, I’ve been bitching about the sexist treatment of female heroes, particularly about the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #202 – The Backlash Against Female Superhero Costumes
So, the Geek Husband What Rules got Batman: Arkham City for his birthday. The gameplay is excellent, even for someone like me who has trouble controlling the camera. It’s a huge sandbox of a world, well imagined. It’s beautiful. There are tons of missions to undertake, major and side missions. As with Arkham Asylum there’… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #201 – Arkham City
I love horror movies, and I don’t watch them often enough. Really, I don’t. Part of that has to do with the fact that the Geek Husband What Rules really doesn’t like them, and I’m kind of fussy about my horror. I’ve got no use for ‘people being shitty to other people’ horror films, as… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #200 – Horror Movies, Hooray!
First I’d like to start off by saying thank you for the supportive emails and comments I’ve gotten on the last podcast. I’m glad you like me, you really like me, and you want me to stick around. I really enjoy doing both the blog and the podcast and I’m done being bullied away from… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #199 – Where is My Heart?
Yes, I skipped #24. It’s coming. It’s a fantastic interview with Tamora Pierce. But first I felt I needed to explain my absence from both this blog and podcasting. Oh, yeah, I also talk about Arkham City, Where is my Heart, and a bunch of other stuff. Check it out, and check the link for… Read More Geek Girls Rule Podcast #25
What do you get for the Geek on your list? Well, kind of depends on what they geek on, really. But here’s a few suggestions for geeks of all genders, ages and categories. ThinkGeek.com I’m not even going to beat around the bush, I’m just linking them here because if you have a geek, ThinkGeek… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #198 – Holiday Gift Guide
Anne McCaffrey, author of the Pern books among many others, passed away Monday night. She was 85. When I met her at DragonCon, she was confined to a wheelchair, but still feisty as all get out. When I started to cry, she scolded me: “Don’t you cry! Damn it!” Instead I laughed, and then thanked… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #197 – Anne McCaffrey Saved My Life
Geek Girls Rule!!! 