notes from around the femslash verse

[leavethesky]

Two of the links today are to thelastgoodname's LJ. If you haven't already friended her (I think there may be 2 of you left), you're missing out.

First thelastgoodname take on the recent 'bromance' girlsquee with Someone at metafandom has a wicked sense of humor and the ongoing 'erasure' of lesbians. Why is it that it's cool for women to be friends without sex, but when men are friends it really means they just want to be having sex? Bonus for reference to one of my fav fics, Boston Marriage, by jae_w which is Rory/Paris, Gilmore Girls.

Then libba_bray (yes, THE Libba Bray who wrote A Great and Terrible Beauty which is set in 1800s England girls' boarding school and one of the main characters is a lesbian) responding to California's now constitutionalized bigotry: There's nothing wrong with you, which is a line from Milk. Turns out, Libba Bray's father was a (closeted gay) minister who shared his secret life with his family. Wonderful stuff that needs to be said. Over and over again, apparently. Because this isn't just about us queers, but everyone we care about and who cares about us, which turns out to be pretty much everyone.

and last, but not least, in the 'file under crackverse' tag, thelastgoodname outlines the birth of Petrovsky/Miranda Priestley (Law and Order/Devil Wears Prada), which began (as almost all of these things do) with the diabolical genius of wizened_cynic, who will undoubtedly rule the world some day.

Also, if you guys aren't watching Pepa/Silvia, you are missing out on the hottest shit on TV. For reals. Via pepa_silvia and random_flores: And I had to remove the link because the video has been removed.I'm sure there's a world of appropriate meta regarding this, but I'm worn out.

eta links to the great and terrible Libba Bray

edited to change the link to Libba Bray's journal entry because the link I posted made it look like there was only one comment when there are, in fact, close to 200 already.

Comments

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Um, big fat emphatic yes to everything you say, but I had no idea who Libba Bray is. Although her story reminds me of Honor Moore's memoir about her (gay) father, The Bishop's Daughter.

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. Libba Bray wrote A Great and Terrible Beauty, which is a trilogy about 3 girls (one's a lesbian!) in an English 1800s boarding school. No I haven't read it although I mean to eventually. I have rec'ed a smoking hot fic for the book though. Does that count?

A couple of my closest friends write YA novels so I assume everyone on the planet knows the genre as well as I do, which isn't very well, but better than most. I guess?

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

The trilogy sounds rather interesting, I must say!

Yeah, I don't know much about current YA books at all, so I appreciate hearing about 'em.