wicked girls saving ourselves

concerning kindle worlds

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:31:59 GMT

I am so furious with Amazon I can't see straight. I'm not going to pull A Dinner of Herbs off Amazon and I'd already agreed with my coauthor that we'd be putting it on Smashwords the moment KDP Select's ninety days expire, but I do not want to publish any future works through Kindle or CreateSpace. Does anyone know of a good print-on-demand place I could publish through instead of CreateSpace? Somewhere that's ethical and won't cost an arm and a leg.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:23 GMT

I have 524 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 ~~(the most recent)~~ (the first thing I posted there) to 524 ~~(the first thing I posted there)~~ (the most recent) [because it is easier for me to find the one you're asking for that way], and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 14:31:39 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship

Britta and Annie. Hands down. I can't put my finger on why, though.

( later days )

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Mon, 20 May 2013 14:30:00 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

21. What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth?

I'm not sure the parameters of the question. I'm absolutely in love with 'reply to comments by email', though, it means I can participate in discussions I'm tracking while I'm at work!

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Sun, 19 May 2013 04:36:53 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates

BELA. She shoulda been around for quite a while longer, she had a lot of potential, still does have if it ever occurs to Carver to bring her back as a demon.

( later days )

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Sun, 19 May 2013 04:34:53 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?

Why is that even a meme? It's just slash based on Japanese-origin media.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 00:48:02 GMT

Leave a comment if you want to be on my filter for Angels of the Silences. If you don't have access to my locked entries, I'm probably happy to grant it. Angels is my novel in progress where four sisters, three of whom are nephilim, have to try to stop the apocalypse; I'm taking a lot of story elements from Supernatural and doing them in what I hope is an intersectional feminist manner. To start with, one of my protagonists is a biracial gynosexual genderqueer woman.

Here is the first post on that filter for after any of you who opt in get told you've been added.

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100 college things 015

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:40:30 GMT

My final grades are in for community college! I am graduating with a 3.03 GPA! I was expecting upper 2s.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:37:41 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon

Anna was going to have Castiel's plotline, I understand. Instead she got sidelined and flambeed.

( later days )

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:36:16 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

19. Any questions from the audience?

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Sat, 18 May 2013 17:51:13 GMT

The crowdfunding Creative Jam is going on today and tomorrow! Leave prompts. Lots of prompts. Answer prompts if you feel inspired.

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Love Is Such A Crazy Thing

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:17:48 GMT

Title: Love Is Such A Crazy Thing
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The homosexual agenda: spend time with family, be treated equally, buy milk. Written for queer_fest.
Pairings: Sam/Jess, past Sam/Brady.
Warnings: Canonical character death. Sexist language.
Word Count: 1300

( is it love for real? )

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30 days of female characters day 20

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:38:40 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist

RUBY RUBY RUBY. She WON.

( later days )

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Thu, 16 May 2013 06:37:19 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

18. What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy?

My family. Which is six of one, half dozen the other.

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plot points in Angels

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:28:49 GMT

Reading reactions to SPN 8x23 (note: have not seen anything past "Goodbye Stranger") has breathed new life into my retell-Supernatural-only-feminist-and-intersectional novel concept.

Only now it's a serial novel. Structured like a season of TV.

I need to plot it out for reals now, but I'm taking a poll: What monsters and/or supernatural beings would you like to see in the tentatively-entitled Angels of the Silences? (Take 'angels' as read.) I'm making no promises, but I need subplots.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 13:51:19 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character

Define your terms. If she was human at any point in the series/movie/book, does she still count? Think I'm gonna go with Ruby, though, she was human once but not during the series.

( later days )

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Tue, 14 May 2013 13:49:09 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

17. How many people on your reading list do you know IRL?

This...is my real life.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:02 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character

I'm going to go with Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She was my favorite overall for the longest time, mostly because of her book obsession.

( later days )

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Mon, 13 May 2013 16:04:55 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

16. What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about?

Last week the local state park and the state Sierra Club hosted a former chief of a local Native American tribe to talk about the lifestyle of his tribe before the Europeans came. I was particularly struck by how he described catching fish--the older boys would build a not-quite-dam across a stream, something that funneled the fish to a single point that let a single fish through at a time, and the little kids would line up across the stream behind the school and walk downstream throwing pebbles and acorn caps to scare the fish towards the not-dam, so the older boys could catch the fish as they single-filed through the gap in the not-dam, then bring the fish to the older girls for cleaning and cooking. So all the kids knew they had an important role to play in feeding the tribe.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 04:25:52 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character

Define 'warrior'. Depending on how one defines the term, either Anna Milton or Jo Harvelle. Though I have a soft spot for Disney's Mulan and Merida.

( later days )

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Sun, 12 May 2013 04:24:12 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

15. What's your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination?

That would have to be my original fic. Where by 'original' I mostly mean 'retellings of public domain works'. I'm currently banging on a Beauty and the Beast story, there's eight more fairy tales in that Scrivener project in various states of completion, and I have barely begun my perusal of the Child ballads and the stories collected by Joseph Jacobs to find ones to retell. Might hit up Andrew Lang, too, there's one with a transgender hero I SHIT YOU NOT.

What's fascinating me is the same thing that's always fascinated me with fanfiction. Here are the story elements. How do I make them tell my stories?

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30 days of female characters day 16

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:46:24 GMT

( earlier days )

Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character

ELLEN!

SAM
Kind of surprised, you and Jo hunting. Weren't you always saying she couldn't hack the life?

ELLEN
She can't. But if she's gonna do it anyway—

SAM
You want to keep an eye on her.

Also "My daughter may be an idiot, but she's not stupid."

( later days )

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clearly I am not good at daily memes

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:43:45 GMT

21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme

14. Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?

Sailormoon, no question. Not still in it, don't know why. And apparently there is! sailormoon.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 21:57:32 GMT

Read this post, explore the linked website, and bug their owners. zarhooie's complaint is that a lot of We Love Fine's geeky T-shirts ~~don't acknowledge the existence of~~ don't have versions cut to fit the female[-assigned-at-birth] geek, something about licensing, I don't pretend to understand, and Kat would appreciate it if we all expressed to them our desire for T-shirts cut to accommodate breasts.

I do not have money for that Korra shirt. I do not have money for that Korra shirt. I do not...

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Creature Feature

Thu, 09 May 2013 04:46:00 GMT

Title: Creature Feature
Rating: R
Summary: A Dracula attack brought the Harvelle sisters to town. The cute bartender keeps Jo there a while. Sequel to Talitha Rising, written for queer_fest.
Pairings: Jo/Jamie.
Warnings: Discussion of rape.
Word Count: 1050

( now there's no holding back )

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