Where I've been on the internet recently

[ricardienne]

...since it turns out that my presentation last week counted for a paper (I should write the paper anyway, right? Unfortunately, I'm feeling very lazy about this.)

-Family Man: a webcomic set in 18th century Germany, about academia (publishing, perishing, getting stabbed in the back by your dissertation committee!) and werewolves.

-boosette's very interesting essay about "Mary Sue policing" and bully culture. (I posted a long long comment about 19th century and early twentieth century notions of girls' writing and its "Mary Sue" (or similar) tendencies before I realized comments were being screened. Oops, but maybe I'll write it up at some point more thoroughly.) ETA: another interesting essay here that deals with what exactly "Mary Sue" characters do and why that is maybe a problem.

-An awesome site for 19th century American children's literature.

-The Vulture Reading Room: a group of scholars and critics read and discuss Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol to much hilarity.

Comments

[camlina.livejournal.com]

It's funny, Lis (goldjadeocean on LJ, Astolat on Sheroes) has been filling my flist with stuff about Mary Sue policing lately, but it never occurred to me that you'd run in the same LJ/fanfic circles as her! No good reason why not, I was just taken by surprise.

ETA: Also, boosette appears regularly in comments on Lis's LJ, but I don't know her from Eve otherwise, so that's also an amusing "huh?" to me.

[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

I don't really run in them, as much as ghost around and keep an eye on them...