Office by Alex Penny
The Frogman: Winning at Tumblr.
How awesome and sweet and loyal and giving and beautiful and wonderful can one get?!
Between all the femslash and Lana Parrilla, I really wish I could get into Once Upon a Time
Roger Ebert has died. He was a movie critic, an advocate for disability rights, a recovering alcoholic, TV personality, producer, memoirist, novelist, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest.
He watched and read and wrote extremely broadly—most famously about movies but also about books and politics and religious life in America.
To some, he was known primarily for his comments that video games aren’t art. Ebert was wrong about that, as he was wrong about plenty of other things, too. But his was a broadly lived life of public intellectual engagement, something that we don’t see very often anymore, and something worth celebrating.
reblogging for use of Kirk’s fancy space princess wrap blouse.
They look amazing. The green shirt never looked so good.
holy hell im in love
(via bookshop)
To the fans who still struggle with being considered marginalized freaks and socially awkward nerds; to the fans who worry that their fan-related interests will be misunderstood by outsiders: Ebert knew you all. ”No one who did not grow up in the fifties will be quite able to understand how subversive fandom seemed,” he wrote.
Fanzines were not offensive in any way–certainly not in a sexual way, which would have been the worst way of all in a family living in the American Catholicism of the 1950s, but I sensed somehow that they were … dangerous. Dangerous, because untamed, unofficial, unlicensed.
While many writers are grappling with the impact of fandom and fanfiction on their work, Ebert, who had been and remained a member of fandom at its core, grasped immediately that fanwork was one of the highest compliments a creator could receive. “Reading and writing fan fiction is an order of magnitude above simply being a fan,” he calmly told a commenter on his blog in 2010. Fandom, he claimed, helped open his mind, expose him to great films and great thinkers, and ultimately shaped his own critical voice—as it has done for so many fans since.
Executive producer and showrunner of Trembling Void’s The Switch: A Fantastic Transgender Comedy, Amy Fox, on Shaw’s OutLook TV. Our segment starts at 19:40 if the file doesn’t jump there.
Fans in NYC: You might want to check out Spectacle: The Music Video at the Museum of the Moving Image. YES, there’s a section on fan vidding, and one on literal videos, and one on fan tribute videos and remixes (fans doing Beyonce’s Single Ladies, that sort of thing.) Plus, you know, stuff by Bowie, the Beatles, the Buggles, the Beastie Boys, Bjork, and er, other movers and shakers in music video whose names do not begin with B.
So cool! I totally plan to get down there and check it out while it’s here.
