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10:14 pm: Zulu said Fred
1. What is your greatest ambition 1) for today, 2) for the month, 3) for the year?

1.1 For today: to compile the email bulletin. 1.2 For June or for July? I could be perverse and say June, which would be the same as for today, wouldn't it? For July: to launch my new website effectively, and to finish writing the latest fanfic. Or I'll get killed. 1.3 To get my photoblogging back on line and to cope with work without losing track of home.

2. You can change one law. What is it, and what does it become?

I would amend the 1975 Marriage Act so that same-sex couples could get married. Oh, that's awfully serious. I would change the Hollywood Law that makes it impossible to have two women talking to each other about plot stuff instead of teh menz, and so from now on all films and TV series would pass the Bechdel Test. Is that too frivolous? I think I want to repeal the law of gravity, so that we can all fly whenever we want to.

3. What's your favourite website to visit?

I wondered how to answer this one. xkcd because it always makes me smile? www.guardian.co.uk because I habitually turn to it for news? insanejournal.com or redbubble or feministsf - the blog for obvious reasons?

No, I think in all honesty it's much simpler than that: www.google.com. Sorry.

4. What's something you are or have been fannish about, and how would you pimp it?

Depends what it was. If Blake's 7, probably start with fanfic, and move on to episodes only when actually begged to do so. If Star Trek, probably begin and end with fanfic, plus maybe carefully selected bits of episodes that are genuinely OK, mostly because Spock and McCoy are gazing into each other's eyes. If ST:tng, I'd probably try to start off with "Chain of Command", because that's certainly what hooked me, or possibly just all the Picard/Q episodes. Especially the one where Q licks Picard's ear. Or the one where Q and Picard are tucked up naked in bed together. If The Professionals, same technique as for B7. If MacGyver, make them watch the Murdoc episodes until sufficiently convinced this is the primary pairing, then introduce them to the sincere yet limited M/M fanfic. If M*A*S*H... well, who could fail to melt at the thought of Hawkeye/Mulcahy? They're just too adorable.

5. Beanie caps: height of fashion, or accessory disaster?

Disaster. That was easy.

You know the rules: if you want to be interviewed, ask me!




Tags: bechdel, being queer, blake's 7, fanfic, fred, m*a*s*h, redbubble, star trek

09:07 pm: Worldcon panels I for one will never propose, and not for their lack of interest, part 1
I am probably going to the Worldcon in Montreal this August. (I say "probably" because I am staring wanly at my finances, and at the state of the world, and wisting that I will miss most of 's visit to Edinburgh, but, you know. I bought a membership! I've said who I won't be on panels with! I've proposed panel topics! I've volunteered! I've emailed Shoshanna!

I haven't booked a catsitter or plane tickets. June for that.

But it occurred to me, while dipping into Fun Home, that a panel that would be fascinating (probably) but I don't think I could ever brave the personal embarrassment of proposing to either of the possible participants:

Alison Bechdel and Samuel R. Delany, discussing what it was like to be a nascent queer writer growing up in a funeral home, with fathers who died before either of them were 20.

(Admittedly, under different circumstances: Bechdel's father died in either accident/suicide, Delany's father died of cancer.)

Current Mood: amused

Tags: bechdel, books are what i read, delany, meta, worldcon

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12:23 am: The interview meme
If you want me to interview you--post a comment that simply says, "Interview me." I'll respond with questions for you to take back to your own journal and answer as a post. Of course, they'll be different for each person since this is an interview and not a general survey. At the bottom of your post, after answering the Interviewer's questions, you ask if anyone wants to be interviewed. So it becomes your turn-- in the comments, you ask them any questions you have for them to take back to their journals and answer. And so it becomes the circle.

( my answers to hawkida )

( my answers to tamaranth )

( my answers to scarlatti )

Tags: bechdel, being poor, fred, hating my job, m*a*s*h, yonmei