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A couple of links I want to share:

Vintage cosplay photos! Some of which are slightly more NSFW than I was expecting. It's really fun to see how much cosplay has stayed the same through the years.

(I actually found this via a share on facebook, and all the comments were people in their 20s talking about how cosplay was so much more *authentic* back then. Which just made me laugh.)

Accurate lesbian porn in haikus - These are hilarious. And oh-so-accurate XD (Also: Craigslist women seeking women ads in haiku)

England's Tree of the Year finalists - how can you not love this. My vote is for the one from my home county of Herefordshire, obviously, although I'm sad the Much Marcle yew tree didn't make the shortlist. (Shhh I like trees ok.)

SEND YOUR NAME ON THE NASA FLIGHT TO MARS - I mean, why would you NOT do this.

I felt like I had more links to put here, but most of my other open tabs are about #gamergate and frankly you probably don't want them :P

Things that are making me happy on the internet today:

& The Daily Mash's commentary on the Tories fucking around with marriage equality: Gay people to continue having lots of hot sex

BRITAIN’S gay men and women have defied angry Tories by taking their gayness to a new and hotter level. [...]
Tim Loughton, one of the Tory backbenchers who wants to win by cheating, said: “Please stop being like this.”

& I am beginning to get massively excited for NineWorlds convention in August. They've just posted the schedule for their Fanfic track. I'm also waiting for the Queer Fandom one, and the Gaming, and Crafting, and Steampunk, and literally everything else.

(Also I am going to be sharing a hotel room with M and he agrees with me about stealing as much food from the complementary breakfast as we can possibly get away with.)

& This gif of a small owl being outraged by a door.

& From the BBC: Dan Brown on 'hurtful' reviews and saving the world. This bears a startling similarity to the Telegraph's mocking piece a week or so ago XD The article summarises his book thusly: In Inferno, Brown reintroduces Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, who wakes up with amnesia in Florence, Italy, and has to try to save the world from an evil scientific genius while simultaneously evading a crack squad of assassins.

*chokes with laughter*

My favourite part, on researching in Italy:

"We got a secret tour of the Palazzo Vecchio. I had this great experience where I got to the end of a secret passage and you push on this wall and the wall spins and I stepped out into the map room.

"I had pushed my way through a map of Armenia that a whole lot of people were looking at. These were tourists who thought, 'This is crazy, I'm in the Palazzo Vecchio and Dan Brown just stepped out of a wall'. They felt like they were in the novel."

Yes of course you knew what they thought I don't doubt this at all.

Current Music: The Indelicates: Sympathy for the Devil
Crossposts: http://frith-in-thorns.livejournal.com/98852.html

I can barely get onto LJ at all this evening, which is really annoying :( I'd like to say I've filled this time being productive, but it would be an all-out lie.

I did find this article, of particular interest to White Collar/Leverage fans I think (and anyone else! It's really interesting). A PICKPOCKET’S TALE: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins.

Crossposts: http://frith-in-thorns.livejournal.com/85551.html

Looks like I have at least one source of income over the summer! My mentor wants to hire me as a maths and science tutor for her daughter, who'll be taking GCSEs next year. I'm really excited about this! :D

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Still watching Grimm, and mostly enjoying it. It's certainly entertaining, and it has good characters. (Discounting the bee!fail, there have only been two episodes which have been rather DNW for me so far, 9 and 13. First for Nice Guy TM plot, second for embarrassment squick.) The lack of women in main and secondary roles is still incredibly glaring, but at least Parker is very awesome as the coroner and Juliet has finally begun to occasionally do more than to make out with Nick. The CGI Wesen faces and terrible German creature names continue to be hilarious.

My favourite character continues to be Captain ~~Sam Adama~~ Sean Renard - he is by far the most interesting to me. Followed by Monroe, who is adorable. He plays cello! And is a clockmaker! And gets all upset when his routine is interrupted! *d'awwws at him a lot* I'm not sure that I feel especially fannish about the show yet, although it strikes me that it would be quite a nice one to write fic for as you could handwave just about anything for plot convenience, since the show does :P

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Linky post, by s. e. smith: Makin' Me Crazy: The madness of Drusilla, Sierra, and River (mild spoilers for Buffy, Dollhouse, Firefly)

"At the same time that I think Whedon and his writers wanted to criticise the way women are manipulated and controlled by society, and the medicalisation and pathologisation of women, they also played directly into familiar tropes about mental illness. The real crazy people are still dangerous and scary and should be locked up, under this framework."

Crossposts: http://frith-in-thorns.livejournal.com/59791.html

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