I'm Back!

[alixtii]

Back from vacation. 'Twas great, especially the spending time with family part and the lazy mornings part, but spending five days out of six at the beach strikes me as more than a little excessive. Also, my skin is this strange color that isn't alabaster white, and I'm not a fan--if Nature wanted my skin that color, it wouldn't have needed to use the sun to do it.

I don't like the sun.

Anyway, here's some links, mostly from Elizabeth or Ari because I've been reading my flist on a pretty extreme filter to catch up on the week I missed (I plan to go back and re-read it on the normal journals-only filter, but I can't make any promises about how much I'll manage to catch up, so if I missed something really interesting feel free to drop me a link) and pretty much all about Joss and/or Summer (because, well, have you read this journal?):

Joss Whedon announces Summer Glau ballet at Comic-Con. “I'm composing the score for a short film, a ballet starring Summer Glau.” The film is called “The Serving Girl,” and Whedon is reportedly in talks with a “great choreographer.” Plus (more reliably?) info on Ripper and on the comics.
New Joss Whedon comic, with original characters, available for free on Myspace. It's titled Sugarshock and seems to be about an all-girl (well, one of them's a robot) rock band who suddenly fall into science fictional circumstances.
Sarah Connor Cast Q&A and Censorship Worries. Summer's quote:

Well, I was just so excited to play this kind of character, because in a way she's much like River in that she's isolated and she's different from the other characters in how she relates and how she communicates. But she's very strong, and she can't genuinely feel emotion. River—that's what she was all about. She was just a jumble of emotions. So I was really, really excited that Josh gave me the opportunity to try this role, and that's something that is going to be the most challenging part about her, I think, is that I want people to be able to relate to her and in some way see themselves in her, just like I try with all my characters.

Story revamped after Virginia Tech shootings. Goes into more detail as to how the pilot will be altered in response to the Virginia Tech shootings (echoes of "Earshot" and "Graduation Day," anyone?). Less about Summer (as in, she's not mentioned at all).
Chronicles' Glau Humanizes Terminator. This article, on the other hand, is completely about Summer--read the whole thing!--and ends in such a way as to prompt Ari to ask "could Joss/Summer be any more canon? Aww."

fox1013 and mimesere met Summer at Comic-Con and made voice posts about it, here and here respectively. As Elizabeth says, "So adorable and awesome. (Summer Glau: also awesome, and adorable.)" ETA: Amy has texts (which are so very Joss/Summer) and her companion has pictures.[/eta]

"Anything But" Ficathon sign-ups end on Aug. 12. For non-penetrative sex.
Characters of Color Multifandom Love-a-thon claims end on Aug. 6th. The writing of prompts that I submitted is highly encouraged (by me).

My Lilah/Eve fic "Unfathomable Youth" has been nominated at the Fang Fetish Awards for "Best of Rare Pairings (Femslash)." Mmm. There's something about college!student!Eve that's just really hot to me. And there's a lot of my favorite pairings (Wes/Dawn, Dawn/Xander, Faith/Dawn, Faith/Wes, Willow/Kennedy, Spike/Dawn, Spike/Darla, Dawn/Angelus) in the other nominated stories, so I'm looking forward to some (hopefully good) reading.

Things to be done today:
1. Go to church. (That one's easy.)
2. Go to [town redacted] to hopefully buy a new laptop.
3. Figure out financial aid for NYU. Also housing and/or transport. (Commuting the many hours from South Jersey to NYU is beginning to look like a neccesity, as deadlines come closer and I have no money and nowhere to live.)
4.  Transcribing the first half of my femslash_minis fic, written on vacation in a paper notebook, and writing the end. It's Dawn/River, which means I have to try especially hard to make it not sound like every fic I've ever written.
5. Watch the bonus material on Race You to the Bottom (starring Amber Benson) so I can send it back to Netflix.

You know, after all that Summer linkspam up-post, I'm really full of squee. So:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Okay. I feel better now.

Comments

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

I just signed up for three fics on the Characters of Color ficathon, thanks for the pointer!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

No problem!

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[(Anonymous)]

Skud this is a very interesting post. Perhaps you can share your thgtohus on something I've been wondering about, specifically related to: If someone’s being an asshole, call them on their crap. How do you tell if someone’s being an asshole? Well, if there’s a naked woman on the projector screen, that’s a good sign. To what extent do you think the general asshole-ness of a lot of OSS projects is alienating to women? I mean, I realize even asking that reveals some sex discrimination tendency on my part, but hey, KNOW IS HALF THE BATTLE RIGHT?Here's what I'm thinking of: a couple days ago, my friend, who is male, as are nearly all of my friends who are involved in technology crap are, was talking about trying to figure out some problem in Rails. He was working on a project as a contractor, and the work had revealed to him something that could be a bug or perhaps a confusing design ambiguity in Rails. So he logs into IRC to try to talk about it. Immediately, he gets 1500 people assuming he's a n00b saying Well, you shouldn't be doing it THAT way only idiots do it THAT way so your question is fundamentally invalid. He's like Uhhh ok, I know that. This is the codebase I was given. The fact that the way my code works is odd does not in any way invalidate the Rails issue I'm trying to discuss here. He was really annoyed by it, as usual, but he's also able to slough it off easily, for a variety of reasons.Now, I don't know whether this is by nature or nurture or whatever else, but there is definitely in many male centric cultures a lot more value put on posturing, cockiness, machismo, etc. Man, it sounds absurd to describe a bunch of nerds on a mailing list as macho but I hope you see my point. At least among hetero-identified women, this seems to be a lot less common. So basically my question is to what extent do you think the general dickishness of hacker communities contributes to this problem? I think it actually alienates a lot of het male developers too who just don't want to deal with it, but there are enough who will deal that we don't notice it. I.E., maybe the blue side of your last chart could expand considerably to the left as well.