"He tasted a moment of fire - illogical, un-vulcan anger"

I'm doing a workup of Camille Bacon-Smith's Enterprising Women for school - seriously, would you believe I drew it out of a hat? In a general gender-studies course not otherwise affiliated with fan studies? - but anyway, her interpretation of Della Van Hise's Trek tie-in novel Killing Time is giving me all kinds of happy nostalgia. I need to dig up an unexpurgated copy - the one I had as a kid was bowdlerized, but god I loved it anyway. I actually didn't know at the time that she was fen - I just knew that her book was actually, you know, hot. But it's really the exact kind of AU scenario that's made to make me happy.

I have to say, though - I don't miss the analog days. They were a crap time to be a kid. It wasn't the worst age-based oppression I ever experienced - not being able to vote in 2000 was torturous - but my childish lack of ability to get what I wanted rankled like stinging nettles.

wandering the streets for a thousand thousand days

Four Ways Men Stunt Women's Careers Unintentionally, via geekfeminism. This is one of the smartest acts of deconstruction and assumption-exposing I've ever seen. My head did that turning-all-the-way-around thing when I realized how completely I'd bought the victim-blamey passive-voice rhetoric Acceptable Parity takes apart here. Right. Because the onus really needs to be on the people with power, rather than the the people with none.

And, um, because this seems to be going around - yeah, blanket permission giving for podficcing anything of mine ever. The answer is yes!