There are no fripperies in this post, sorry. Everything is a very proper and substantial thing, but I felt particularly keen on the word at time of writing, so a pox on meaning, it shall be in the title. Anyway, this week! Verity! At our forty-fifth ever-so-exciting episode: "It’s another villaintastic episode of Verity! This…
100 Stories, 100 Writers, 100 Years
Because we wouldn't want to forget that women have always written SFF, WOULD WE? 1915 – Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1916 – Five Generations Hence by Lillian B Jones 1917 – The Great Beast of Kaifu by Clotilde Graves 1918 – The Professor in Erin by L. McManus 1919 – When Dead Lips Speak…
Call for Doctor Who panellists at Nine Worlds
Greetings, delicious readers! Are you a fan of that fine telly show Doctor Who? Are you planning to attend Nine Worlds, the most delightful convention these United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have to offer? Yes? Then consider making your convention time Infinitely More Exciting by volunteering to be a panelist on the…
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Ten Great Women of the Star Wars ‘verse
What the dickens is this? Two posts in one week? Why yes, delicious readers, it is. Devilishly exciting, I'm sure. What on Earth could this one be about then? (The title might give it away somewhat.) Ah, Star Wars. Lovely, lovely Star Wars. They are smashing movies, all three of them (shusht). And I will…
Hugos and Eastercon and Breaking Bubbles
What happened to that amazing plan to blog every week, self? What happened? You're going to have to do a week of lists or something to catch up. But lists are great, right? Everyone likes lists! (Five Vegetables of Most Hellish Taste; Five Beigest Trek Episodes; Five Lego Creations People Should Make For Meeeee….by gum,…
The Rankings of the Cybermen
To tie-in with this week's Verity! where we discuss the Cybermen, I've written what is surely an inarguable and definitive ranking of all the Cybermen stories, oh yes. You can read this exciting list-type thing over here on the Verity! blog.
Ten Great Military Leaders, Probably Cranky Ones
This post is all Boudicca's fault. When reading lists of great female military leaders, Boudicca keeps appearing on them. And when these are usually lists of no more than ten people, I get a wee bit judgey at that. It's not that Boudicca isn't an iconic figure. She is. She, in righteous anger, raised a…
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I’m so sorry, Emily Bronte
I'm terrible at dealing with jetlag. I've been exceptionally lucky this year and managed not to contract any sort of flu-like symptoms while in Los Angeles, and yet I'm still busy splashing around in a lovingly built pit of self-pity because, omg, the bloody jetlag. I'm tired, dammit! I'm tired and I can't sleep cause…
To the Gallifrey-mobile!
This blog post does slightly resemble a rabbit in a waistcoat in that it is a smidgen late, and according to my dubious schedule of "surely you can find time to write one of these things a week, self?" I'm actually due to write another one, um, today. But never mind! Let us move on…
Breaking Bubbles
My timing is amazing. This is Exciting News that was in a Big Finish news post over a week ago so, naturally, I had to take days and days to perfect this post and certainly haven't dashed it off in the last twenty minutes, that would be silly. But yes, news! Lovely news! Which is…
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