Thursday Links
Posted on | July 15, 2010 | No Comments
Section: Look What I Found
As we all know, Google is taking over the world, but they have also introduced me to CAD modelling, so here’s a link to their free CAD app SketchUp.
Access-Fandom has announced its first fanworks festival, looking for fanworks based on characters with disabilities. How To Train Your Dragon fic, yes/yes? :D
Art of Manliness posted covers of vintage men’s magazines, which are hilarious.
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Section: Sociology and Those Infamous Mommy Blogs
Via Lotesse: Disney Princess Recovery. A psychotherapist specializing in children’s play therapy writes about how she is trying to wean her little girl of Disney Princesses. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about trammeling a child’s fandoms, even when they’re stupid. I’d be more likely to try and subvert the original reading. Anyway, interesting blog! There’s also other stuff about commercialism and how women are perceived and presented in media.
Read this at the very least: Filling the void, which features an audience member having to provide what the lecture promised.
Contexts is a great online magazine and Sociological Images is an endlessly fascinating blog. No, really. Give them a go.
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Section: Signal-Boost
There’s a serial stalker by the name of Lohr Miller, also going by fort_kanji, targeting young women over at Livejournal, pretty much en masse. Here‘s Emigree’s full warning about this guy.
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Section: Things God Hates
God hates geeks! Westboro Baptists mean to picket Comic-Con? They’re going to be eaten alive. Link via FanGirlSays.
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