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incidents and accidents, hints and allegations


some of you need this
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For those of you Trek fans looking for a bitter cathartic laugh: Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ from io9.

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any Madison locals / extra-long Wiscon stayers?
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I just mailed the Con or Bust T-shirts to the Wiscon hotel (V-neck fitted shirts, back in stock, look for them at the Aqueduct table in the dealers' room!), but somehow I managed to forget just how small the Priority flat-rate boxes are, so my clever plan to prepay my postage for the leftover shirts and have the hotel ship them is foiled.

Are any of you local to Madison or going to be staying at Wiscon until Tuesday for some reason? If so, would you be willing to ship (at most) 2 boxes, about a foot cubed in size, to me? Con or Bust will reimburse you the postage, of course.

Thanks.

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Elementary (SPOILERS)
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Spoilers for last week's Elementary ("Risk Management") and tonight's two-part season finale (which Wikipedia tells me is "The Woman" and "Heroine", but which Twitter tells me was shot as one thing).

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And now, SPOILERS for tonight:

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Watsons unite in awesomeness!
Middleman
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I have spoiler thoughts about last week's Elementary, but I'm just going to combine them with a reaction to tonight's season finale, so in the meantime:

Con or Bust generally runs a bracket-style challenge at Wiscon's Gathering, thanks to the heroic efforts of popelizbet, which pits characters of color from SFF against each other in a light-hearted "who's more awesome" way. Nominations for this year are open, and anyone can nominate online.

Anyway, in a fit of absent-mindedness I nominated Joan Watson, forgetting that Elementary cannot really be considered SFF. Later, in one of the nominations for Wendy Watson of The Middleman, the nominator left a note saying, "Can we do Wendy Watson vs. Joan Watson?"

Well, sadly we cannot, because like I said, Joan is not eligible. But now I desperately crave a crossover fic in which they are cousins of some degree, meet up at a family reunion, compare notes about their situations, and kick some butt.

Someone make that happen, please? *puppy-dog eyes* comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link


random thought
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This thing where I watch TV in semi-real-time is kind of stressful. The last show whose season finale I was eagerly/nervously anticipating was Korra, and it's not like that went well.

Brought to you by watching Elementary from two weeks ago ("A Landmark Story") last night, starting the run to this week's finale, and my principal reaction being "please don't screw this up!" Well, okay, and also

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And now, back to this brief. If I'm productive enough maybe I can catch up on last week's episode in time to watch the finale in literal real time . . .

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silly poll, two kinds of people edition
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I've had this vague thesis for a while, that there two kinds of people, those who—well. Have a poll:

(At one point I had more examples, but lost them. I also firmly expect to be in the minority on all of these, though I'm less certain whether there will be a pattern.) comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link


Iron Man 3 (SPOILERS)
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Now for the spoiler version. Probably there's little new to be said, but I want to talk anyway. In whatever order things come to me (I'm really tired).

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this seems familiar
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and I don't like it.

My disk imaging program says that it can't read a particular sector. On the other hand, this time chkdsk didn't throw any errors, so perhaps the backup program is just flawed somehow. But somehow I doubt it, and I really do not have time to be replacing my hard drive again just now, or really ever.

(The last full backup I have is from two weeks ago, so at least it's better than last time, when I had no full backups. Still.) comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link


Iron Man 3
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You all will recall that I did not actually like the first two Iron Man movies.

I enjoyed the heck out of this one.

If you need details, go back for the links to spoiler posts--I'll do a post tomorrow, probably, and also more conference stuff--but if you can go unspoiled, it probably worth it. (Knowing what happens didn't diminish things for me, though, and I was braced for that to happen.)

Not perfect, and I confess that it is a failing on my part that the worst of the imperfections do not hit me where I live and so do not enrage me--that is, I think the good outweighs the bad significantly, but the areas in question do not carry the same emotional weight for me so I am not certain of my evaluation-- but really, I had a lot of fun.

Also, you all should go check out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang now. comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link


An Introduction to Mary Sue and Her Critical Uses and Abuses (text)
Princess Tutu, Princess Tutu (heroine)
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Here is the text of my Mary Sue talk! [ETA: for people coming here through outside links, this was given at a quasi-academic conference with a fifteen-minute limit.] It is mostly as I gave it except I skipped a couple of paragraphs for time. I do have slides but I'm not sure I'm going to bother, they were very text-heavy and not that interesting. (Edit: moved the links to the end of this post, since there were no comments on the links-only post and this way everything's all in one place.)

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You know, the panel before this ended early, and while the last panel looked interesting, my neck and shoulders are screaming at me from spending most of the day bending over my netbook, and if I leave now, I can eat a leisurely dinner and then go see Iron Man 3 instead of bolting my food and fretting the whole way. So despite my guilt, I'm playing hooky.

If you were at the conference, say hi! I do have notes about my co-panelists' talks, which I will post, but maybe they'll put their slides or notes up somewhere. Stay tuned. Just not until tomorrow, probably. comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link


Pippi to Ripley quasi-live-blogging: Fairytales Old and New
no more happily ever after, Fables (hea), Fables
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Onward. This turns out to be only notes on one panel, sorry, though a few questions.

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Pippi to Ripley quasi-live-blogging: Tamora Pierce keynote
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I remain more sleepy than optimal. Note-taking will help me stay awake!

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Pippi to Ripley quasi-live-blogging: The Works of Tamora Pierce
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And we continue. Feeling a little not-here, let's see if actual familiarity with texts helps me concentrate more.

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And now, lunch. Then Pierce's talk, then me, eek.

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Pippi to Ripley quasi-live-blogging: "Giving Birth, Giving Life"
deal with it, feminism
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As usual, hanging out with my netbook and taking notes to the extent I understand things. I don't guarantee full reporting or full comprehension, I'm tired and some portion of my brain is hamster-wheeling over my talk. So I'm just going to post things as we go.

Full program.

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Mary Sue talk links
Princess Tutu, Princess Tutu (heroine)
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(I moved these over to the text of the talk, in case anyone had this URL bookmarked.)

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darn you, spoiler posts.
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Now I might actually want to see Iron Man 3 after all (see: synecdochic and thingswithwings (SPOILERS, like I said)). I still have some qualms, but amazingly it sounds much less awful than I had every reason to believe.

(Hmm, let's see: *flips coin* Okay, assume spoilers in comments.)

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question for occasional fanfic readers
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Those of you who read, oh, less than five fanfic stories a year--

What stories have you read?

My thesis is that occasional readers are most likely to have read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality; scifigrl47's Avengers toaster-verse; and whatever the breakout Yuletide story of the year is. Yes, no, what else?

Anon commenting is on, if you prefer.

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Farscape S01E02-E03, "I, E.T." & "Exodus from Genesis"
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I finally got through being stuck halfway through the second Farscape episode! And watched another!

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Anyway. Not as excited about this as Elementary, but I am interested in the characters and perfectly happy to watch more.

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Reading Wednesday
happiness is a full bookcase
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I am going to try to use Wednesdays as a day to booklog in the future, but in the meantime, look! I updated the booklog this month! Here are the April 2013 posts--lots of Discworld (though I'm still not caught up), some Courtney Milan, and finally the Rivers of London books. comment count unavailable comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link

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WisCon final schedule
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Behind the cut. This is exciting!

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