ah, the smell of feminist fury

[fahye]

My latest review (of Jean Plaidy's Daughter of Satan) is a satisfying and outraged takedown of a book I really wanted to like, but which unfortunately left me wanting to stab things. This icon is PERFECT, actually.

I am full of the warm glow that comes when you are very close to having actually checked ALL THE LITTLE BOXES on your evening's to-do list; I am three pages of otolaryngology study and a few paragraphs of fic away from having done everything I told myself I would do, which is, let's face it, a vanishingly rare occurence.

Other things I am full of include desperate woe that the second season of The Good Wife is not yet available on DVD, because I need more Alicia and Kalinda and Diane (and some of the men, I suppose) in my life right the hell now. SHOW <3 What with it and Damages, legal dramas are bewilderingly ahead of the rest of TV when it comes to Bechdel-ing it up; why can't my beloved speculative-fiction shows get their arses into gear and follow their lead?

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I heart that review. It was very incisive. And I'm kind of sad for the potential that went unrealized because the author, like her heroine, was also constrained by her era and took the safest road out.

When you are done with all the schooling you shall have to pencil in time for my Lesbian Regency Romance. It's becoming pretty damn epic.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I look forward to it!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I'm proud as punch I carried it off. I still need to put in another two sex scenes, though, so there's no point sending it to you until then, is there?

Unrelated: why does my continent not have a ready supply of tasty laksa mixes, Cherry Ripe, and Milo? Why? We'd be so much happier as a collective if only we were all eating citric acid and sugar off little shovels.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Well obviously if there is no porn, I will reject it. Obviously.

You do not have citric acid and sugar on little shovels in Your Country?? What a terrible oversight! (You are welcome to Milo, however, I hate the stuff.)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

But but but the crunchy layer that lives on top of the mik no matter how much you stir!

We do not in fact have a suitable Wizz Fizz analogue. Or Malaysian food. Or the right kinds of Tim Tams.

And I need you to critique the porn. Obviously!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

The crunchy layer of MALT :( Malt and I are not friends.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

...I did not detect offensive levels of malt, but will have to do further research. Empirical as ever.

[minkhollow]

why can't my beloved speculative-fiction shows get their arses into gear and follow their lead?

Warehouse 13 actually does an excellent job with Bechdel passing, if you can find it.