There’s a certain time of year when my son’s school schedule and the time of sunrise match up just right, such that I stumble out in my jammies for the morning paper when the sky is at its most dramatic.
I’m not including the text for this one but I will give you a link as soon as the book goes live on the SPELD website. In the meantime, feel free to send me an ask guessing what the plot is (or just asking) and I’ll fill you in. I’m keen to know how much of the text can be deciphered purely from the pictures.
Don’t know about the plot (I have to think about it some more), but I hope the text includes the detective saying, “We’d probably kill each other by Sunday, but by God it would be a glorious Saturday night.”
I haven’t experienced being a woman, or been perceived and treated as one by people who treat women poorly, so I don’t want to equate my experience with that. But I think the small amount of gender-based discomfort I’ve felt as a man operating in a social context geared more toward women has helped me understand gender-related inequality and injustice at least a little more than I previously did.
I know gender is an issue you’ve dealt with in a far more significant way, and I appreciate being able to follow you and read your thoughts on the subject when you post them. And I appreciate your kind comment about what I was talking about in those tags (and that you took the time to read them).
what is that supposed to mean?? That when you’re over 20 your imagination is supposed to run dry?? Oh sweet summer child, you don’t want to challenge the power of imagination of a twentysomething… thritysomething… fortysomething. It gets mor colorful than your wildest dreams.
I have the feeling that someone might have told the OP that she was too old to still be writing fic. Pfffft. Let me tell you something. Once you start writing and reading fanfiction, YOU NEVER STOP.
You will pry fic from my cold, dead, mid-20s aged hands.
Once you go fic, you never go back. I’ll be 26 next week. B)
33 and reading. How could you stop, when you realize that fanfic is superior to so many published novels our there AND FREE?
ok, shit, i guess i have to do it. I am over 40… I still don’t believe it myself. And I have never written/read as much fic as I have in the past year.
Always remember that our culture discourages adult women from doing things for their own enjoyment. Adult women are meant to spend their leisure time caring for men and children and doing labour to make themselves look more attractive.
Reading and writing fanfiction is something women do only to please themselves. Adult women pleasing themselves is dangerous to a society that relies upon the unpaid labour of women.
I am 42.
Reading and writing.
I’d go so far as to characterize fandom for adult women as a kind of rebellion. For the most part, society allows men to play with their fannish loves their whole lives–whether that means collecting comic books or painting themselves team colors and game day. Women, however, are supposed to “grow out of” purely having fun–particularly when that fun is primarily created and consumed by and with other women.
Also, fandom is a leisure pursuit where women of all ages frequently interact (whether we know it or not)–which is too rare. We openly admit to *just goofing off* in order to enjoy ourselves – and do you realize how rare that is for women to speak about in our culture, much less embrace? Even in social media posts about being lazy, we’re supposed to be putting ourselves down, to some degree, but in fandom, spending the whole day writing or reading fic is something to be celebrated. It’s awesome.
Oh, and I’m 45.
Twice 20 and then some. I only discovered fanfic recently!
Artist Linden Gledhill using macro photographer captures the petal-like structures that make up butterflies wings. As a trained biochemist, he’s able to use advanced microscopes and high-speed equipment to zoom in on these unseen details.
