Italian Film Cultural Blogathon
Read all the posts in Nitrate Diva’s Italian Film Culture Blogathon–including one about Danger: Diabolik by The Gutter’s own Carol.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls, Writing and Doctor Who
“Writing about Doctor Who this week got me thinking about sexism in storytelling, and how we rely on lazy character creation in life just as we do in fiction,” from Laurie Penny’s “I Was A Manic Pixie Dream Girl.” Her piece on Doctor Who is here. (via @katelaity)
Little Girls Design Amazing Superhero Costumes
Fashionably Geek reminds everyone that “Little Girls Design Superhero Costumes Better Than Anyone.” via @ANappyGirlNerd
Linda Holmes Watched Deadly Spa
“[O]n Saturday night, when you were probably enjoying the discothèque with the other sophisticates, it was finally on: Deadly Spa.” More Deadly Spa here. (via @bethlovesbolly)
Sex and SF/F
Kate Elliott asks, “How much sex is too much sex in your science fiction and fantasy?” (Thanks, James!)
Valentina Tereshkova, The First Woman In Space
“Tereshkova was celebrated in songs and her face was put on postage stamps. Soon after her flight, she was married off to a fellow cosmonaut, Andriyan Nikolayev. Khrushchev gave the bride away at a wedding filled with the Soviet equivalent of Hello magazine photographers. When the couple eventually […]
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