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merrilyIt's been a looooong time since I've posted links & recs, and frankly, the size of my bookmark file is daunting.
So I am going to ignore it!
Instead, I thought today I would recommend people whom you might not be reading right now but whose work you might find awesome.
Basically, I am doing a friending meme all by myself. :-)
Bloggers: Books
I heart George Murray at BookNinja with many hearts. His site is mostly an aggregate blog of book news served with a side of delicious snark, but it also has an infrequent magazine feature, with longer columns & stuff by big-name authors. But you should subscribe for the aggregate.
Leila Roy is a kickass children's librarian who blogs at Bookshelves of Doom. She posts reviews of stuff she's read (both YA and misc. other stuff, including regency romance novels -- right now she has a thing for Georgette Heyer), occasional YouTube footage of 90s tv and music vids, and a cornucopia of other anecdotes from her life. She is delightful.
Bloggers: Fashion
I really love Nerd Boyfriend, which posts pics of the famous geeks we adore, in their habitual attire, and then finds similar garments available to buy, so you can dress your own boyfriend up like, say, a young Bill Murray.
On a similar note, the tumblr feed Real Men Wear Suits makes me happy daily. Part of the happy is the heavy concentration of photos of NewTrek actors at premieres. God Karl Urban, can you wear a three-piece!
Bloggers: Food
My go-to food blog is the fabulous Cheap Healthy Good, which is run by a bunch of awesome people. It is what it says! Several of their recipes have become perennial favourites of mine, particularly Baked Eggplant With Mushroom Tomato Sauce (oh god so delicious) and Nathan's Lemon Cake: A Thing That Makes You Go Mmmm. They always post a breakdown of cost and calories, too. I don't care so much about the calories, but the cost part is extremely helpful.
Ree Drummond writes an altogether fabulous photography, food, etc blog at The Pioneer Woman. She's an unlikely rancher, with a passel of tow-headed punks, and she makes extremely good food. And then she posts recipes with pictures. Her photographs of life on her family's ranch are stunning, her blog entries are charming and puckish, and you will adore her. Also, her cookbook is coming out soon!
Bloggers: Ladybusiness
Sady Doyle writes the fabulous blog Tiger Beatdown. Apart from being smart, unstoppable and articulate, Sady is highly entertaining, which is why she's been co-opted by both Bitch Magazine and The Guardian newspaper to write stuff for them, too. She writes thoughtful examinations of sexism and rape culture in society, particularly pop culture, in an often hilarious way. (Rape culture -- you wouldn't think there was humour in it! And yet!)
(If it isn't obvious, dear people with triggers: tread cautiously with Tiger Beatdown.)
Penelope Trunk (blog here; twitter here) Penelope runs a company called Brazen Careerist, which is a new social network job building website (like Linkedin meets Facebook). She blogs about Gen Y's career needs, feminism, being a single mom, dating, having Asperger's, her childhood abuse, and a lot of other things.
She is stunningly frank. Recently, she tweeted that she was at work and having a miscarriage, which she was relieved about because it turns out there's a 3 week wait in Wisconsin to have an abortion. This made the blogosphere erupt -- not in dismay about the waiting period, sadly, but that Penelope would dare to discuss having a miscarriage. People were also shocked that she wasn't sad about having a miscarriage. Penelope pointed out that 75% of women have miscarriages, and that the average miscarriage lasts 3 weeks, so obviously women are having miscarriages while at work, and maybe we should be talking about that.
Bloggers: Money
The woman who writes Frugal Zeitgeist paid off her mortgage on a condo in NYC in seven years. So yeah, she's amazing. She blogs about her career, her money goals, and being frugal so that she can spend money on stuff that matters, like her family. She's also a bit of an apocalypista, and I always enjoy getting inside the heads of people who want to prepare for total disaster. Turns out having a good dentist is part of preparing for the end of the world. Who knew?
I also read Get Rich Slowly and The Simple Dollar, but if you're into personal finance, you've probably already got them bookmarked.
Webcomics!
I know these are BNCs! (big name comics) However, if you haven't stumbled on them yet, I highly recommend:
Kate Beaton, who posts at Hark, A Vagrant!, is a genius. (She is also on lj:beatonna.) Kate makes comics about historical figures, frequently from Canada but not always. Some of my favourites of her recent strips: Poe & Verne, the one where Margaret Trudeau is clubbing, and Dude Watching With The Brontes (current wallpaper).
You may also enjoy the comic strip Unshelved. It is about a library! And the librarians who work there! Also the mascot who won't take off his costume and the homeless guy who won't leave, and the naked lawyer! George Stromboulopolous name-dropped Unshelved on his CBC show last week, and I cannot tell you how unsettled I was.
Fandom: Devoted (or at least frequent) Reccers
For everything:
The Fourth Vine (lj account; dw account) writes fabulous rec lists. She is significantly more patient than I, and will give you a whole paragraph about why a story is awesome, instead of the single sentence I write before my caffeine buzz makes me jitter on. I also love her monthly updates about her baby, The Earthling, who has a personality the size of Texas and who strongly prefers locally-grown, organic food.
Victoria P. (musesfool on both lj and on dw) runs the fabulous rec site Unfit For Society. It's been up for seven years on lj; longer on the original website (now mostly defunct) and it's a treasure trove of recommendations, sorted and tagged by fandom. Vic manages her bookmarks via her Delicious account, which you can add to your Delicious network, if that's an app you use.
For Merlin fanfic:
MKlutz (lj account; dw account) is doing a good job! Bonus: she also posts links to weird & crazy stuff regularly.
For SG1:
synecdochic! Who needs no introduction.
For Torchwood (etc):
Cupidsbow (lj account; dw account) runs the multi-fandom rec siterec_room (that's an lj account). I've put this under Torchwood because that's largely what she's reading right now, but if you check the tags, there's a lot more stuff there.
Delicious Accounts You Might Want To Add To Your Network
If you haven't noticed already, Delicious has an awesome network function that lets you subscribe to other people's accounts, in an aggregation like an RSS feed. (If you'd like to see what that looks like, here's my network page.) This provides excellent, nearly never-ending reading material, and because Delicious includes a count of how many other people have also bookmarked something, you can quickly weed out the crap.
(Beware, though, of people who don't realize that what they're bookmarking is their feedback left on a story posted on lj. Gah, thread urls.)
For frequency of posting and excellent tag use, I recommend the following accounts as additions to your networks (recommendations based on my grasp of what users seem to be posting the most of lately):
For multi-fandom fanwork: House of Pants, PollyRepeated
For American Idol fanwork: DomTheKnight
For Due South fanwork: Phineas
For Harry Potter fanwork: AshTree
For Merlin fanwork: AshTree, DomTheKnight, Frogspace, Gaealynn, MoonKlutz, Pru
For NCIS fanwork: FearlessSisters, Pru
For SGA fanwork: AdaFrog, AshTree, Dogeared, DomTheKnight, LillyJK, LWDA, MoonKlutz, Phineas, RunPunkRun, SabineLaGrande, Sireaeve, Teogli, Trinity of One
For SPN & SPN-RPS fanwork: Bathsweaver, DomTheKnight, Gaealynn, OmenDreamer, Teogli, Trinity of One
For Torchwood fanwork: AdaFrog
For Trek & Trek-RPS fanwork: AdaFrog, AshTree, FearlessSisters, Gaealynn, MoonKlutz, OmenDreamer, Pru, SabineLaGrande
I hope this was helpful! I will go back to posting regular links & recs next week, unless my chemistry homework stuns me into blithering incoherency.
So I am going to ignore it!
Instead, I thought today I would recommend people whom you might not be reading right now but whose work you might find awesome.
Basically, I am doing a friending meme all by myself. :-)
Bloggers: Books
I heart George Murray at BookNinja with many hearts. His site is mostly an aggregate blog of book news served with a side of delicious snark, but it also has an infrequent magazine feature, with longer columns & stuff by big-name authors. But you should subscribe for the aggregate.
Leila Roy is a kickass children's librarian who blogs at Bookshelves of Doom. She posts reviews of stuff she's read (both YA and misc. other stuff, including regency romance novels -- right now she has a thing for Georgette Heyer), occasional YouTube footage of 90s tv and music vids, and a cornucopia of other anecdotes from her life. She is delightful.
Bloggers: Fashion
I really love Nerd Boyfriend, which posts pics of the famous geeks we adore, in their habitual attire, and then finds similar garments available to buy, so you can dress your own boyfriend up like, say, a young Bill Murray.
On a similar note, the tumblr feed Real Men Wear Suits makes me happy daily. Part of the happy is the heavy concentration of photos of NewTrek actors at premieres. God Karl Urban, can you wear a three-piece!
Bloggers: Food
My go-to food blog is the fabulous Cheap Healthy Good, which is run by a bunch of awesome people. It is what it says! Several of their recipes have become perennial favourites of mine, particularly Baked Eggplant With Mushroom Tomato Sauce (oh god so delicious) and Nathan's Lemon Cake: A Thing That Makes You Go Mmmm. They always post a breakdown of cost and calories, too. I don't care so much about the calories, but the cost part is extremely helpful.
Ree Drummond writes an altogether fabulous photography, food, etc blog at The Pioneer Woman. She's an unlikely rancher, with a passel of tow-headed punks, and she makes extremely good food. And then she posts recipes with pictures. Her photographs of life on her family's ranch are stunning, her blog entries are charming and puckish, and you will adore her. Also, her cookbook is coming out soon!
Bloggers: Ladybusiness
Sady Doyle writes the fabulous blog Tiger Beatdown. Apart from being smart, unstoppable and articulate, Sady is highly entertaining, which is why she's been co-opted by both Bitch Magazine and The Guardian newspaper to write stuff for them, too. She writes thoughtful examinations of sexism and rape culture in society, particularly pop culture, in an often hilarious way. (Rape culture -- you wouldn't think there was humour in it! And yet!)
(If it isn't obvious, dear people with triggers: tread cautiously with Tiger Beatdown.)
Penelope Trunk (blog here; twitter here) Penelope runs a company called Brazen Careerist, which is a new social network job building website (like Linkedin meets Facebook). She blogs about Gen Y's career needs, feminism, being a single mom, dating, having Asperger's, her childhood abuse, and a lot of other things.
She is stunningly frank. Recently, she tweeted that she was at work and having a miscarriage, which she was relieved about because it turns out there's a 3 week wait in Wisconsin to have an abortion. This made the blogosphere erupt -- not in dismay about the waiting period, sadly, but that Penelope would dare to discuss having a miscarriage. People were also shocked that she wasn't sad about having a miscarriage. Penelope pointed out that 75% of women have miscarriages, and that the average miscarriage lasts 3 weeks, so obviously women are having miscarriages while at work, and maybe we should be talking about that.
Bloggers: Money
The woman who writes Frugal Zeitgeist paid off her mortgage on a condo in NYC in seven years. So yeah, she's amazing. She blogs about her career, her money goals, and being frugal so that she can spend money on stuff that matters, like her family. She's also a bit of an apocalypista, and I always enjoy getting inside the heads of people who want to prepare for total disaster. Turns out having a good dentist is part of preparing for the end of the world. Who knew?
I also read Get Rich Slowly and The Simple Dollar, but if you're into personal finance, you've probably already got them bookmarked.
Webcomics!
I know these are BNCs! (big name comics) However, if you haven't stumbled on them yet, I highly recommend:
Kate Beaton, who posts at Hark, A Vagrant!, is a genius. (She is also on lj:
beatonna.) Kate makes comics about historical figures, frequently from Canada but not always. Some of my favourites of her recent strips: Poe & Verne, the one where Margaret Trudeau is clubbing, and Dude Watching With The Brontes (current wallpaper).You may also enjoy the comic strip Unshelved. It is about a library! And the librarians who work there! Also the mascot who won't take off his costume and the homeless guy who won't leave, and the naked lawyer! George Stromboulopolous name-dropped Unshelved on his CBC show last week, and I cannot tell you how unsettled I was.
Fandom: Devoted (or at least frequent) Reccers
For everything:
The Fourth Vine (lj account; dw account) writes fabulous rec lists. She is significantly more patient than I, and will give you a whole paragraph about why a story is awesome, instead of the single sentence I write before my caffeine buzz makes me jitter on. I also love her monthly updates about her baby, The Earthling, who has a personality the size of Texas and who strongly prefers locally-grown, organic food.
Victoria P. (musesfool on both lj and on dw) runs the fabulous rec site Unfit For Society. It's been up for seven years on lj; longer on the original website (now mostly defunct) and it's a treasure trove of recommendations, sorted and tagged by fandom. Vic manages her bookmarks via her Delicious account, which you can add to your Delicious network, if that's an app you use.
For Merlin fanfic:
MKlutz (lj account; dw account) is doing a good job! Bonus: she also posts links to weird & crazy stuff regularly.
For SG1:
synecdochic! Who needs no introduction. For Torchwood (etc):
Cupidsbow (lj account; dw account) runs the multi-fandom rec site
rec_room (that's an lj account). I've put this under Torchwood because that's largely what she's reading right now, but if you check the tags, there's a lot more stuff there.Delicious Accounts You Might Want To Add To Your Network
If you haven't noticed already, Delicious has an awesome network function that lets you subscribe to other people's accounts, in an aggregation like an RSS feed. (If you'd like to see what that looks like, here's my network page.) This provides excellent, nearly never-ending reading material, and because Delicious includes a count of how many other people have also bookmarked something, you can quickly weed out the crap.
(Beware, though, of people who don't realize that what they're bookmarking is their feedback left on a story posted on lj. Gah, thread urls.)
For frequency of posting and excellent tag use, I recommend the following accounts as additions to your networks (recommendations based on my grasp of what users seem to be posting the most of lately):
For multi-fandom fanwork: House of Pants, PollyRepeated
For American Idol fanwork: DomTheKnight
For Due South fanwork: Phineas
For Harry Potter fanwork: AshTree
For Merlin fanwork: AshTree, DomTheKnight, Frogspace, Gaealynn, MoonKlutz, Pru
For NCIS fanwork: FearlessSisters, Pru
For SGA fanwork: AdaFrog, AshTree, Dogeared, DomTheKnight, LillyJK, LWDA, MoonKlutz, Phineas, RunPunkRun, SabineLaGrande, Sireaeve, Teogli, Trinity of One
For SPN & SPN-RPS fanwork: Bathsweaver, DomTheKnight, Gaealynn, OmenDreamer, Teogli, Trinity of One
For Torchwood fanwork: AdaFrog
For Trek & Trek-RPS fanwork: AdaFrog, AshTree, FearlessSisters, Gaealynn, MoonKlutz, OmenDreamer, Pru, SabineLaGrande
I hope this was helpful! I will go back to posting regular links & recs next week, unless my chemistry homework stuns me into blithering incoherency.