May. 1st, 2012

sholio: a cup of cocoa and autumn leaves (Autumn-cocoa)
SO MANY OPEN TABS. Let's try to close a few!

The Highlander Chronicles: 20 Years Later (also on DW) is a ficathon celebrating HL's 20th anniversary. I am trying not to sign up for anything new right now, but it looks like a lot of fun. :D

[community profile] hc_bingo's May mini-challenge also looks fun: comment to get a 4-prompt bingo card, and write a fill for at least one prompt in a rare fandom.

[livejournal.com profile] collarcorner (gen White Collar promptfic) is still going strong, with a new May prompt post and a ton of unfilled prompts for April's (H/C) round.

[livejournal.com profile] whitecollarhc is having a head injury promptfest.

[livejournal.com profile] whitecollar_rec can always use recs. :D It's not a rec comm where you have to sign up; all you need to do is stop by and rec something (fic, vid, art, whatever).

Other links:

The Avengers as dresses. (Not, I might point out, the Avengers in dresses.) Click images to enlarge. THE EYEPATCH ON FURY'S, AHAHAHA OMG.

Speaking of dresses that are awesome ... camo nerfpunk lolita. Despite not being a dress person, let alone a lolita, I LOVE THIS DRESS AND WOULD TOTALLY WEAR IT. (The blog where I saw the link to it, however, was full of lolitas ragging on her. Bite me, lolis. It's awesome.)

A couple of interesting writing-related links: Looking for women in historically-based fantasy worlds by [livejournal.com profile] kateelliott and a related link, female protagonists in historical fantasy by Aliette de Bodard. Both links discuss various aspects of being historically accurate while still including a variety of active female characters in your cast.

This is not my fandom, but I happened to stumble across this post on categorizing a fic as gen or not-gen by [personal profile] lettered and was intrigued by the post and discussion in the comments. You all know that I have Thoughts On This Issue, so this is always a perennial topic of interest for me. *g*
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This is a question for those of you who have mental health issues and/or close people in your lives with mental health issues. (If this does not apply to you, please don't answer! I'm not saying your opinion isn't valid or anything like that - it's just that I would like to solicit opinions from a specific subset of you, please.)

You can answer anonymously if you like. This post is not locked and comments aren't screened, so please be aware of that before saying anything you wouldn't be comfortable saying in public.

My question: Would you consider the book title "Crazy Like a Fox" ableist? Do you think a book with a title like that would make you uncomfortable? (For context, the book itself is a light caper fantasy; the title is in no way subversive or self-aware.)

It's a quite serious question. This is the working title of a novel of mine -- namely the title that popped into my head while I was noodling with this project today. I really like this title and I think it fits the book well. However, if I'm eventually going to feel uneasy enough to change it, I'd much rather do it now than a year down the line. So I would like to know if it makes *you* uncomfortable, if you don't mind answering.

ETA: Thank you very much for the answers! I'll reply individually a bit later, but I think I've collected enough feedback to make me decide that it would be better, for a number of reasons, to change the name. And I've brainstormed some other options that I like. Thank you all again. :)

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