I'm spamming y'all like crazy lately, aren't I?

[lirazel]

FINE!

Gakked from everybody ever:

Comment and I'll tell you my favourite fic of yours that I've read, and why. If it's a longfic, I'll try to pinpoint favourite chapter (but no guarantees!). Or, in the event that I haven't read anything of yours, I'll comment back and ask for one thing of yours I absolutely must read.

I've sort of been putting this off because if I haven't read anything of yours I'll be embarrassed. So seriously: rec me! I love you all!

Also! Links!

First read this about how filmmakers are taught not to make films where women talk to each other. Then read the follow-up here about why and also about why it sucks to have curly hair. Think of it as foreshadowing for the time when I'll finally make my epic post (complete with a picspam of me!) about my lifelong...relationship with my hair.

Comments

[anythingbutgrey.livejournal.com]

omg feed my ego bb


also omg i missed that ontd_f post and OH FUCK ME.

also having curly hair really does suck. kerri russell was my hero for YEARS just because she was the only person i ever saw who had hair like mine. :(

[angearia.livejournal.com]

BAM. What? DO IT.

(I'll admit to being curious as to how much of my stuff you've read. If you're like me, probably only more recent stuff. I've read so much by Deird and Stormwreath and Beer Good and Rebcake and on and on, but only really from the point where I started reading them and then kept on reading their new stories.)

[elisi]

First read this about how filmmakers are taught not to make films where women talk to each other.
Thank you for that. I'm sorta speechless, so I'll just jump on the fanfic meme thingy. (Can't comment on the hair thing, mine is fine and straight.)

[pennydrdful.livejournal.com]

I know I haven't written as much as some people.. but pretty please, if you're able?

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Here's a film that passes the Bechdel Test: Down With Love. I saw it 4 times in the theater. Mostly empty theaters, alas. I'm not allowed to post it in comments over there, because of my fear of commitment (not a member). But, ITYSK.

I'd love to hear which of my fics you like best, of course. Who wouldn't?

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

OMG - that is so 50's/60's/early 70's!! Hard to believe. I'm referring, of course to the film stuff. My hair isn't curly enough to know anything about how to deal. It just wrinkles up in odd ways occasionally. :)

And, yeah, if you've got time. I'll go for the meme.

[snickfic]

I know it's redundant, but... feed me?

ETA: Remind me to tell you sometime about my adventures in not washing my hair.

[next_to_normal]

Interesting (and by that I mean depressing) links.

Also? I is attenshun hoor. HI!

[deird1]

Me?

[that-september.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh! I'm curious what fic of mine you like the most. :]

And geesh, just in case I don't say it enough, I love having you on my f-list. Seriously. You're always linking me to the most interesting/infuriating/thought-provoking stuff, and I love your feminism. Both of these articles were great; I cannot even count the number of times I have complained to anyone who will listen about how screwed-up Hollywood is about women. The trash they market to us is insulting enough (I mean, we get, what, maybe three movies annually about weddings?), but the fact that they can't even put women on screen without having them discuss a man is even worse. It's true--even some of the movies I most love involve women only talking to each other about men (in a chick flick, I believe this is also interchangeable with babies, fashion, weddings, and periods). And it makes me angry and sad, because I've considered screenwriting as a profession, and this just tells me I don't have what it takes for Hollywood. I would be tearing my hair out. I'd never sell a script because I'd refuse to compromise. I'd probably run my mouth off (and it takes a lot to get me to do that), get fired a lot, and end up angry and bitter and shaking my fist at the world.

I agree a lot with the second article, too: it's laziness and greed driving these people to refuse change. They have a formula that works; why bother to change and risk losing money? After all, people shell out for this crap--it works! The reason people pay for it is because they don't have any other options! I mean, when I'm faced with Generic Chick Flick, Generic Action Film, and Generic Gross-Out Comedy, I have to be honest: I'll pick the chick flick, because it's the one I'm most likely to not absolutely hate.

Also, omg, the curly hair thing! Yes! I was nodding right along. Since I was about thirteen and started noticing my hair didn't really fit the "traditional" pretty ideal, I've struggled with it. I've had almost everyone I know advise me to permanently straighten it (tried it; didn't work), and I've tried every de-frizzing, straightening product known to man. Hair dressers and random passerby alike tell me about my "ethnic" hair, or my "difficult" hair and I guess after years of that, I just started to believe it was ugly and there was something wrong with me.

Lately, I've realized the truth. I have beautiful, thick, crazy, curly Cuban hair, and it's not going anywhere. I need to embrace it, not try to tame it. Straightening it every once in awhile is nice, but 99% of the time, my hair is going to be itself.

I didn't know that shampooing curly hair might be bad for it! What? I need to look into that, lol.

ANYWAY. I've rambled far long enough, but again, thanks for the links! I requested to join ontd_feminism, and now I feel like going out and (loudly) protesting some stuff. :D

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I haven't seen this meme around. (But that's probably because I've been absent on livejournal for a while now. Heh.)

Huh. I'll have to read that flimmaker thing later

[hyperemmalawlz.livejournal.com]

I... doubt you'll have read anything of mine, but it's still possible. It's cool if you haven't ('cause I'm ridiculously obscure). I'll link you at something while here, anyway - I'll link you to True Love (http://hyperemmalawlz.livejournal.com/34779.html) (which I'm not sure is my "must read" but I feel it gives a general sample of my fic).

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

I feel like this meme is too awesome to be real, and somehow, I shouldn't trust it. And yet! COMMENTING.

[rosie1234.livejournal.com]

It makes me love my straight hair. :)

IMMA DO THIS MEME IN REVERSE

[ineffort.livejournal.com]

I can't possibly begin to choose my favourite fic of yours, but Playthings, man. Never not amazing and breathtaking.