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GAIL SIMONE IS WRITING BIRDS OF PREY AGAIN, TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING. Do you have any idea how much I love them? It's Babs! And Dinah! And the one writer in comics that I trust more than anything to write stories that are just full of women I can identify with and love and follow without constantly worrying about eventual fail. GAIL SIMONE. BIRDS OF PREY. :DDDDD ETA: And here is a recent interview! GOD I LOVE HER. (Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nokomis305 for the link.)
Ahem. Sorry. Now that it's out of my system, I'm going to remind everyone that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti's auction ends on the 20th, that the bandom bid list is over here, and that I'm offering a fic of at least 2500 words of fic over here. I'm waiting to see if I get outbid on the things I bid on--I'll still be donating the money if I do, obviously. I don't have words for this, partly because it's too horrible and partly because it's just a second-hand pain I feel.
And what they feel is nothing like what the people who are there have to go through.
And one day we have to learn to get better at this--it shouldn't take a natural disaster.
I thought about the fact that this entry is half squee about something that is trivial in comparison, because no matter how important representation is, no matter how much I love stories where I don't have to compromise, stories that pass the Bechdel test on every goddamn page, all of that fades when thinking about what Haiti is like right now. Obviously. So maybe writing about them in the same breath is weird. But then, we kind of have to make empathy and compassion part of everything else if it's going to stay with us, right? If it's always this isolated now-it's-a-disaster-now-we're-looking, then it's not going to be sustainable. I don't even know if that makes sense, I've been transcribing phonetics for most of today and it makes me fuzzy-headed, but there you have it.
nokomis305 for the link.)Ahem. Sorry. Now that it's out of my system, I'm going to remind everyone that
help_haiti's auction ends on the 20th, that the bandom bid list is over here, and that I'm offering a fic of at least 2500 words of fic over here. I'm waiting to see if I get outbid on the things I bid on--I'll still be donating the money if I do, obviously. I don't have words for this, partly because it's too horrible and partly because it's just a second-hand pain I feel. And what they feel is nothing like what the people who are there have to go through.
And one day we have to learn to get better at this--it shouldn't take a natural disaster.
I thought about the fact that this entry is half squee about something that is trivial in comparison, because no matter how important representation is, no matter how much I love stories where I don't have to compromise, stories that pass the Bechdel test on every goddamn page, all of that fades when thinking about what Haiti is like right now. Obviously. So maybe writing about them in the same breath is weird. But then, we kind of have to make empathy and compassion part of everything else if it's going to stay with us, right? If it's always this isolated now-it's-a-disaster-now-we're-looking, then it's not going to be sustainable. I don't even know if that makes sense, I've been transcribing phonetics for most of today and it makes me fuzzy-headed, but there you have it.
