YGOTAS 2010 Group Shot

There are no words for how amazing this picture is.

Oh, and I'm off to MAGFest tomorrow. I shall report more from the con itself! If I don't catch you guys beforehand, happy new year to all of you!

ITEM 1) So, as an unwitting result of my teaching my mother to use Amazon.com all those years ago, I am now the owner of a Kindle.

I still have a book-buying moratorium because...well, I have a problem. With books. The problem is...I cannot stop buying them. BUT I decided that ebooks don't count because...uh...I said so. (latropita suggested because they do not take up space SO I'M GONNA GO WITH THAT. SURE.)

Which is to say YOU GUYS SHOULD RECOMMEND ME SOME BOOKS. THAT I CAN BUY. From the Kindle thing.

Thusfar I have purchased--due to half my flist talking about it always--The Hunger Games. Everything else on my Kindle currently is fanfic. (Hahaha, oh self.)

I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy and YA fiction! Particularly when these things are about girls being rad and contain ~SUBVERSIVE~ gender dynamics. I also like non-fiction about interesting things (lol specific). Uh, recently I read Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey.

IDK. TELL ME THINGS.


ITEM 2) I hope everyone had a wonderful yesterday! And many thanks to latropita, fialleril, tehlobster, and angelchan_2004 for the cards! I WISH YOU GUYS COULD SEE THE AMAZING MAI ANGEL DREW FOR ME OMG. And I would say that I also wish you could nom on the cookies Tropie made but NO THEY'RE MINE BACK OFF.

It being Christmas Eve and all, I was thinking of this Christmas story and drew it up. I meant to draw it nicer, but didn't get time.  It's about family.

( under the cut, because it's big )


If it helps to understand it better, I am the second oldest of four girls.

Merry Christmas, everyone! To you and yours.

Hey guys. I'm not gonna be around over the next two days, as I'm going to be spending Christmas with my family down in Knutsford. Probably won't be using the internet at all.

So before I head off, I must wish you all a very merry Christmas. I wish I'd had time to make a Christmas special this year, but with retail being as busy as it was, I simply couldn't get chance. But next year will definitely have one.

Hope you all have a safe and awesome holiday.

A Scottish cartoon, since I am back home for the holidays.

I'm well acquainted with the tune "Lord Lovat's Lament," since you hear it around these parts every time anyone has to pick up a fiddle and learn something. But you know, it's one of those tunes you know so well, you pay no attention to it, it's just there in the back of your head.

Then one day, I was looking up a bunch of works by Hogarth (the best) and came upon this portrait of 'Lord Lovat'. The lovely old tune and that devily face, they didn't match. So I wanted to learn more about him!

Lovat (Simon Fraser, born 1697 - there are about a million Simon Fraser Lord Lovats) really epitomizes how reading Scottish history can make you want to tear your eyeballs out, or laugh because it's nearly a farce it's so nutty. Either the people involved are disastrously loyal, or disastrously duplicitous. Everything is a disaster, but it's a hell of a ride.

I am wrapping presents and writing and cleaning the house and otherwise splitting my attention in numerous directions. SO. M-maybe gimme some love to keep me going?! (If you want.)

ANON CRUSH MEME

Here, have something NOT made of hate:

The Border House is a gaming blog! Specifically, a gaming blog that is dedicated to -ism aware discussions and reflections on games, the gaming industry, and related social media. Which, if you know anything at all even peripherally about gaming culture, is a RAD and 1000% necessary thing. If you do not know anything about gaming culture just look at any given post on Kotaku (the interweb's ~*~first source~*~ for gaming news/opinions/etc.) and chances are you will immediately understand the issue.

It also happens to be a place where I very recently contributed a ~guest post~ about internalized sexism amongst female gamers!

So, you should check that out if it is relevant to your interests.

YOU KNOW. IF YOU WANT.

So that one movie came out yesterday! And I must say this so that I will never have to want to say it again and it can stop eating away inside of me at every terrible commercial and random reference I see.

This review at io9 entitled When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar? makes my heart sing because it says everything I would ever have to say on the subject. It covers pretty much every issue! From the general horrible offensiveness that is the entire gross What These Noble Savages Need Is a White Guy! genre of film to posing the question of why exactly Sam Worthington's character needed to exist at all instead of this movie just being about Zoe Saldana as a rad blue lady in touch with nature (IF YOU MUST) leading her people to victory over some assholes trying to steal their shit, gleefully absent some unnecessary fool dicking around in blueface. (SPOILER ALERT: I WOULD WATCH THE SHIT OUT OF THAT MOVIE.)

And indeed I have only two notes to add:

#1

UNOBTAINIUM


#2

People kept referencing the bit where Sully (~SO SUBTLE~) gives the Noble Savages a ROUSING speech about how the other humans cannot just take whatever they want because "This is our land!"

And, you guys, hahaha every time someone mentioned it I would have a RAGE STROKE (tm latropita). And then I would think, "Okay, I am calm. I am calm. The anger consuming my soul has settled for now." But then I would think about it again by mistake and the rage would return stronger than ever agjdhkjls

"THIS IS OUR LAND"
- some dickwad in blueface to the indigenous people whose resources he came to steal

until he changed his mind since there was a hot, exotic piece of blue ass to tap

and hey, BONUS, racial impersonation is also a ~*~miracle cure~*~ for his pathetic wheelchair-ridden human body cuz ableism is AWESOME amirite?

Why is this.

WHY IS ANY OF THIS!??!?!

I just... what I

how

why

A??AS?A?A?AA?!?!?!!?

this is OUR land

ahahsgjdhkshhahaa

hahaaghdgjhkbskjvd hatelaafffs sjahhs

whyyyyyy

i cant even ajks

asd

#murder

#worsethantiberius


I was going to put something else in this post, but fuck it.

So, after having little to no idea what it even was or did for quite some time other than a place where sometimes there were feeds of awesome pictures of Mindy Kaling and stuff, I have INVESTIGATED and finding the entire affair intensely relevant to my intersts: I have a Tumblr now.

More specifically: http://glamaphonic.tumblr.com/

Do YOU guys have Tumblrs? Perhaps you should direct me towards them. Perhaps you should also direct me towards other Tumblrs (tumblelogs? happy picture whoosits?) that might be relevant to my interests.

Thus far, mine mostly consists of STXI Mean Girls macros, pictures of Zoe Saldana being hot, and desconstructionist meta about slash culture.

So...business as usual, basically!

BUT I HAVE SO MANY PLANS. SO MANY.

(I have many of them queued.)

Well, I’ve begun another Yu-Go-Oh! story, titled “Giving Up the Ghosts.”

Beginning a new story always gives me a bit of a jumping off a diving board into a (hopefully) full pool feeling.

Link is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5588021/1/Giving_Up_the_Ghosts

Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return.

Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna

I also thank 4Kids and Kazuki Takahashi. And of course, you guys.