zvi likes tv

Ausiello's Fall TV cheat sheet came out a few days ago. The show I'm most looking forward to is Terriers, because I've had a soft-spot for Donal Logue since he starred in Grounded for Life. (I am also one of the three non-tv critic people in the U.S. who enjoyed Knights of Prosperity. Anyway, he and that guy who played Rene on True Blood are schlubby detectives who solve low rent cases. They do not have any SCIENCE.

Toft has discovered Misty Lackey's id-y goodness and swan-tower is celebrating shame free published crack. Later on, I may tell you about Anita Blake and Merry Gentry and how they hit ALL of my buttons by jumping up and down on it in an Emmy award winning step dance routine.

Elizabeth Moon comments about women's writing being viewed as lesser than men's. In a complementary blog post, Melinda Beasi comments on female fans disavowing or excusing their interest in media aimed at female audiences.

The Perennial Transgender Toilet Debate at Questioning Transphobia

Neal Stephenson appears to be reimagining the novel as an ARG. Which, I suppose, is fine for people who want to play videogames to read books, but what about those of us who still like long blocks of text and can't read comic books because of the overwhelming number of pictures? *scowls darkly*

(Some links from torachan, possibly cofax7, and jimhines

Team Bella shirts for sale: sales support riotnrrdcomics_feed.

I've been following the 1romanceebook Anniversary Tour, and, wow, there are a lot of ugly author websites out there. I mean, it's not 1996 levels of bad, but there were definitely a few 1999 levels of bad, and one website done entirely in Flash, for which there is no good excuse.

Also, I've been sort of astonished at the authors who have failed to use this promotional opportunity to…promote their books. I mean, it would seem pretty basic that a blurb and an excerpt from the latest book should go here, or that one should ask a question that sends the readers clicking through your back catalog (which of course has blurbs and cover pictures, yes?) in order to win a prize. But, no, not necessarily.

All of this clicking through author websites has made me think about my own website, and what I should use it for. Currently it has on it

• I Want To Keep
  • My OpenID
  • The Three Ships Archive
  • 3 years of We Invented The Remix
• I'm neutral about keeping
  • The Family Ficathon
  • Doc Santa
  • Slasher Hanky Code
  • Billie's Safe
• I don't really want to keep
  • The Farscape/Archive (waiting for the OTW to take this off my hands)
  • The Shox pages
  • Some ancient blog pages. the actual blog was backed up to my LJ, and thus backed up to my dreamwidth. But there's a christmas blog I did for a couple of years, and a recs list I did for a minute that I've never gone back to see if any of the links still work.

What I don't currently have on the website is my icon, my fanfiction, the podfics of my fanfiction, my meta, or good contact info except for an e-mail address (no IM, no Google voice (I just got a google voice number, y'all! It's exciting! I'm trying to decide if I should just post it online and let people call me at random or not).

Honestly, I'm waiting on the AO3 software to be installable by a relatively non-technical user to get my fanfiction back on my website. Since I stopped archiving on my website, I've posted about 35 stories, and I'm not sure I was 100% up to date at the time I stopped posting.

I also use the website for some storage stuff behind the scenes, but that's not really a part of the reorganization.

I guess my feeling is, my website should function more like my fannish CV/profile analogous to a google profile, and it's really not organized that way at this time. So, I should get on that.

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Speaking of letting people know who I am, inalasahl talked about fannish calling cards the other day. I think these would be really great at cons. Moderators could hand them out at panels. And people could exchange them when they go out to meals or when they're sitting around the consuite and about to rush off. This might stop that line in the con report, "And I had a really good discussion with Zelda and Sarah and three other people whose journal names I didn't catch."

Not entirely sure what I would put on it. Well, my icon and my website address, maybe a motto of some sort. Not sure what else, if anything: e-mail? google voice number? journal address? Fandoms, kinks, projects?

If I do create a calling card, I think I will also post it to my website as an animated gif for the front and back of the card. And possibly also my journal profile.

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Two last things, just because they're cool:

kateelliot gives some advice on How to create deep, vibrant characters within a story?

mindbloom is a goal setting game for Real Life.

What's the attraction of [theme] bingo? I did a couple of squares of cliche bingo this one time. Cliche bingo appealed to me because twisting these things that have been done "too much" appealed, but I don't think that's why people are doing an AU bingo or Kink bingo or Schmoop bingo.

So, I'm kind of wondering, what is the appeal?

helens78 just tossed this meme into the ether, so.

Bold any reasons that apply to you, strike out any that don't (if you feel like it), and add three reasons of your own to the bottom.

REASONS I WRITE FANFIC

1. To explore themes that I don't get to see in mass media using characters I love.
2. Because it's fun.
3. Because mass media does a crappy job of representing my race and sexual orientation.
4. Because I can get more people aboard my ship writing a story than a manifesto.
5. Because TV science-fiction doesn't explore its science-fiction premises in enough depth.
6. Because it's a gift I can give a stranger and know they will enjoy it.