Now that I've conquered the kitchen.

[lyssie]

Not to mention the stove. ALSO. If anyone needs a horror background matte, I can take some photos underneath the range top which has obviously never been cleaned.

Anyway. THIS JUST IN. There are women in fandom. BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES. Apparently we didn't exist until Twilight. And Twilight is perfectly geared towards women, which is why we flock to it.

....

Or something. I don't know. I was distracted by dishes and random Cylon weirdness.

Comments

[karma-aster.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's totally right. Me growing up as a Star Trek, Star Wars, comic book, Doctor Who (oh, Tom Baker, you're still my favorite!), MacGyver, Buck Rogers-lovin' geekling who read everything she could get her little hands on, worshiped at the altar of Buffy and Xena back in the day, and has had a massive crush on Patrick Stewart since the age of seven and will be oh-so-gleeful to see him at DragonCon this year (which I've been attending almost-reguarly since the age of THIRTEEN, for fuck's sake!) was actually cleverly-disguised as a boy for all these years.

Really. The geek thing? Totally just there to help my cover.

But I still wouldn't touch fucking Twilight with a ten-foot pole. Mostly because it offends both my feminist sensibilities and that part of me that gets really annoyed by utterly crap writing.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I know! Our breasts are grafted-on, obvsly.

The sad thing about Twilight is that it's a good gateway drug, but people are treating it like it's a plague. You think the girls who enjoy it won't move on to other things? True Blood? Anita Blake? Lestat?

(and to be fair, I loathe most vampire books, and think Twilight is shit. But that isn't going to be the only thing they'll pick up!)

They will. They'll read anything they can get their hands on. They're not going to just go away when the Twilight fannishness dissipates.

That's like saying those fanboys who flocked to SW never got into anything but SW, which is ridiculous. Though, I do think men tend to be a bit more mono-fannish? Hrm.

[dkphoenix.livejournal.com]

But do we WANT them to stick around after the sparkle wears off? :-p

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Something has to balance out the metric fuckton of obnoxious fanboys. And THEY won't go away.