Krytella

Fandom! Fanfic! Inception, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Harry Potter, ASOIAF, Torchwood...

Also, I write lots of dirty stuff. This blog has no dirty pictures but might have dirty words.

I’ve been to a lot of movies recently with other fans

At this point I’m pretty sure you could replace me with a robot that randomly tries to yell “OTP,” “OT3,” and “hot!” at random and inappropriate times, but manages to control itself before making any sounds other than muffled giggles.

jtotheizzoe: Do you identify with LGBTQ? Do you work or study in STEM? Take a survey and help to make sure the issues of this community are not overlooked! My road through working and studying in science has been relatively easy (except for the usual academic challenges). But I’m a straight, white male, and I haven’t had to experience the explicit and systemic prejudices that so many people have to deal with every day, even in such a “progressive” field as this. But I’ve met many folks over the years who have had to deal with that, and it’s not easy for some (to make the understatement of the ever). To feel welcome, comfortable, equal and wanted in STEM fields (and in the world at large) … that’s what people deserve, and that’s the environment we should work to create. That’s why I am so glad to hear that Jeremy Yoder and Allison Mattheis have put together this survey. By finding out how people’s careers and experiences relate to their peers, we can see where work remains to be done. It’s a great model for other groups. Help spread the word, and if you or someone you know that works or studies in STEM wants to take the survey, visit http://bit.ly/queerSTEM Hey LGBTQ people in science, take this survey! (I’m an engineer who works for a small company so I’m pretty sure my taking this was a waste of time for both me and the researchers. Wish they were more clear on their site that 3/4 of the survey is about working in academia and the rest assumes one works at an “institution.” Survey is about working in Science/Math, not so much the Engineering/Technology)

jtotheizzoe:

Do you identify with LGBTQ? Do you work or study in STEM? Take a survey and help to make sure the issues of this community are not overlooked!

My road through working and studying in science has been relatively easy (except for the usual academic challenges). But I’m a straight, white male, and I haven’t had to experience the explicit and systemic prejudices that so many people have to deal with every day, even in such a “progressive” field as this. But I’ve met many folks over the years who have had to deal with that, and it’s not easy for some (to make the understatement of the ever). To feel welcome, comfortable, equal and wanted in STEM fields (and in the world at large) … that’s what people deserve, and that’s the environment we should work to create.

That’s why I am so glad to hear that Jeremy Yoder and Allison Mattheis have put together this survey. By finding out how people’s careers and experiences relate to their peers, we can see where work remains to be done. It’s a great model for other groups.

Help spread the word, and if you or someone you know that works or studies in STEM wants to take the survey, visit http://bit.ly/queerSTEM

Hey LGBTQ people in science, take this survey!

(I’m an engineer who works for a small company so I’m pretty sure my taking this was a waste of time for both me and the researchers. Wish they were more clear on their site that 3/4 of the survey is about working in academia and the rest assumes one works at an “institution.” Survey is about working in Science/Math, not so much the Engineering/Technology)

I wanted to make a strong mother character. The portrayal women in epic fantasy have been problematical for a long time. These books are largely written by men but women also read them in great, great numbers. And the women in fantasy tend to be very atypical women… They tend to be the woman warrior or the spunky princess who wouldn’t accept what her father lays down, and I have those archetypes in my books as well.

However, with Catelyn there is something reset for the Eleanor of Aquitaine, the figure of the woman who accepted her role and functions with a narrow society and, nonetheless, achieves considerable influence and power and authority despite accepting the risks and limitations of this society.

She is also a mother… Then, a tendency you can see in a lot of other fantasies is to kill the mother or to get her off the stage. She’s usually dead before the story opens… Nobody wants to hear about King Arthur’s mother and what she thought or what she was doing, so they get her off the stage and I wanted it too. And that’s Catelyn.

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- George RR Martin on Catelyn Stark (via jaimelannister)

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painbynumber:

WHAT IS THIS FROM OH MY LAWD

LOST GIRL SEASON 2 EPISODE 20.

ALL HIS SEX SCENES HAVE HOT WOMEN PUSHING HIM AROUND.

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Every time I see pictures of him out of character I just think, “he really is a vampire.”

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