February 2012
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Anonymous asked: Heya, I was wondering if you were a little disappointed that it seems like a main theme of Brave will be everyone trying to get Merida to play ladylike and her fighting back and somehow getting into trouble. I know that children's-movie-law dictates that she will be accepted for all her special ways at the end (after learning a valuable lesson, of course) But it still kinda bums me out that...
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Apologies for the inadvertent mis-spelling of “Gashlycrumb Tinies” in our earlier post. Somehow, that little extra letter H snuck in there. But, in the spirit of all things Gorey, it almost makes sense. The Letter H What Always Shnuck Into Words: A Cautionary Spelling Story.
~T
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Kate Beaton taking a break from webcomics,... →
Be sure to follow Kate on Tumblr and Twitter for updates on her projects and other endeavors!
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Con or Bust fundraiser!
Every year, the Carl Brandon Society - a group whose mission is to promote ethnic diversity in speculative fiction through community building, scholarships and other projects - organizes Con or Bust, a fundraiser to provide assistance to people of color who cannot afford to to attend sci-fi and fantasy conventions like WisCon. This year’s auction has some really exciting items, such as:
a...
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A first look at Doctor Who, series 7 →
Rejoice, Whovians! Pictures from the first day of shooting are out, and the Mary Sue provides a little more detail and speculation about the upcoming series.
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The Wilderness of Mirrors: Oh Bioware →
eschergirls:
evillordzog:
This is a husk (in effect a cybernetically created zombie) from Mass Effect:
Given that the populations they’re forcibly sourced from are of mixed gender — something the first game at least is good with — one would assume that male or female you’re going to end looking essentially the same: neutered and unisex in appearance as every none structural piece of the...
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“Being a straight male is tremendous fun and sexuality’s lowest difficulty...”
– Luke McKinney (via ladonnapietra)
We really dig Luke McKinney’s style.
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Geeking Out →
This week’s Geeking Out roundup has us wishing Levar Burton a very happy birthday, as well as looking forward to some upcoming movie releases, coveting BSG coasters, and shaking our heads CBS. Find out more over here!
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Geeking Out with Geekquality →
This week’s installment of Geeking Out is up on our site. We talk about what we’re reading, exciting new sci-fi movie casts announced, and other things that set our hearts aflutter.
Seriously, if you aren’t following our main site, you SHOULD BE. We are working really hard, between planning and recording monthly podcasts, to bring you awesome articles and weekly summaries of...
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ANNOUNCING GEEKGIRLCON 2012! →
lucillebruise:
rayemanadvoratrelundar:
GeekGirlCon ’12 will take place August 11th and 12th, 2012 at the Conference Center in downtown Seattle, WA. We are super excited to bring you another convention focused on the female geek. We’ll have programming, panels, games, exhibits, and more. So come and celebrate geeky women with us. From the scientist to the manga-addict, we have a little bit for...
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WatchOutland is a new comedy series that just premiered on Australia’s ABC 1. It follows the lives of members of a sci-fi fan club, all of whom are gay (or, as they prefer, “science fiction enthusiast homosexualists”). One of them dressed as a Dalek at one point!
It is hard to say where the show will head, if it will veer into the territory of Too Much Camp and broad caricatures,...
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The Future’s So White, I’ve Gotta Wear Shades →
Today on our site we feature a guest post via Suga Butta, which was originally published a few months ago. If you haven’t read it or have read it before, read it again!
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Hello new followers!
We’ve had some new friends and followers lately, so on behalf of the Geekquality crew, I’d like to welcome you! Also, big thanks to everyone who’s stuck around for a while and continues to enjoy and share our content. We’re constantly thinking up new ideas and we have lots of exciting articles and podcast episodes coming down the pipeline.
If you haven’t had a...
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“Straight Male Gamer” told to ‘get over it’ by... →
This article, almost a year old, has been making renewed rounds around the web. Whiny “Straight Male Gamer” complains on a forum about a male character in the game making a pass at him, and how the game with its inclusive relationships isn’t pandering to “Straight Male Gamers” enough. Game writer David Galder politely, but effectively, tells SMG to take a seat and...
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Several Ubisoft games won't be playable Feb 7 (and... →
DRM… sigh… Due to a Ubisoft server move scheduled for February 7, several games will not be at all playable during that time, and many other games will have online features disabled. The list of games rendered useless during the shift includes:
Assassin’s Creed (Mac)
Might & Magic: Heroes VI (PC)
Splinter Cell Conviction (Mac)
The Settlers (Mac)
The Settlers 7: Path to a...
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Geeking out →
Hello everyone! It’s Friday! Hooray!
Visit our website for our first post for a weekly feature, where we share books, films, games and TV shows we’re excited about at the moment, as well as things we’re looking forward to and things that we’re not sure about, coming down the pipeline. The post will appear every Friday morning, if we can help it.
~T.
The 5 Most Ridiculously Sexist Comic Costumes →
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Note: Because we’re looking at characters who happen to wear stupid costumes, not stupid costumes which happen to contain a crusty bit of character, we won’t include Tarot, Witchblade, Red Sonja, or any other inky emissions spurted onto comics instead of tissue paper.
Starfire, because PG Cinemax is exactly why we read comics about people who can fly...
January 2012
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An analysis of Azula's issues (and the...
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sokka-style:
As much as I love Iroh, and his amazing relationship with Zuko, sometimes I wonder… why’s he so devoted to helping Zuko, but not Azula?
He’s willing to forgive Zuko again and again for his mistakes, but Azula, who he’s never bothered to give even one chance, is definitively “crazy and needs to go down”?
In “The Avatar and the Firelord”, he tells Zuko that the source...
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Geekquality podcast: Episode 2 - Bad girls! →
Our newest podcast episode is up and live! We discuss our favorite bad girls, look at the history of film and tv tropes when it comes to female anti-heroes, and generally work our way through our feelings, of which we have many. Visit our main site for streaming/download info, as well as some fun supplemental video clips.
~ T.
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10 Great Places to Meet Lesbians If You Have a... →
Smith College basketball team (photo via Autostraddle)
Perhaps this Autostraddle article is only tangentially relevant to our focus, perhaps more than. When you use the words “time travel” in the title for a fun and educationl post full of cool historical facts and photos on lesbian history… well, we’re hooked! Which way to the TARDIS? And while we’re at it, there...
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How "Haywire" got some things very right →
Alice Marie recently went to see “Haywire” and wrote up her thoughts on how the movie got some things VERY right. Read her review on our main site!
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Today is Arkh's Twitter Blitz!
thearkhproject:
Tweet about #Arkh! Tweet your moms, your cousins, your dads and your genderqueers. Tweet famous people! Tweet your dog! Tweet whoever you think might hold an interest, and tweet people you think would hate it! Just TWEET about it and spread the word!
Some potentials as far as famous people: —Neil Gaiman —Wil Wheaton —Felicia Day —Gail Simone
And ANYONE else you know!
#Arkh’s...
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Lovely fan art for your enjoyment
Among the many talented people I know is my friend Fyodor, who lives in New York with his equally lovely and talented husband, Lawrence. They are illustrators and performers, working on individual projects, as well as a comic book together, Baritarian Boy. Note: Some of the content posted on their Tumblr blogs/comic, while no less delightful, is occasionally NSFW.
Fan art is not Fyodor’s...
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Now I'm Getting PMs About How "Reverse Racism"...
shewalkslikethunder:
gailsimone:
Arggh.
The difference, guys?
The entire society is open to white people. Virtually nothing is denied to white people because of their skin color. Incidents of white people being discriminated against for skin color tend to be both fleeting and personal. Incidents of POC’s being discriminated against, violated, brutalized, sidelined, ignored and vilified are...
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