WTF, Superbowl.

Another year of lackluster Super Bowl commercials, punctuated by a surprising number along the theme of Our Product Will Help You Reclaim Your Manliness From Those Emasculating Women. (“I will hold your lip balm…but I will drive the car I want to drive!”)

By way of an antidote, therefore, have some text from Julia Serrano’s Whipping Girl.

Hey, girls, did you hear the news? It’s just been scientifically proven that barrettes are dangerous! So are bracelets and bric-a-brac. It’s a fact. And don’t be fooled by thick-necked macho men who pretend that “girl stuff” is boring or frivolous, because that’s just an act. Because as soon as you ask that guy to hold your purse for a minute, he will start to squirm, as if your handbag were full of worms, as he holds it as far away from his rugged body as possible. Because “girl stuff” is made with the gender equivalent of Kryptonite!

…So here’s the deal: If you want your boyfriend to treat you with respect, then tell him that you won’t sleep with him until he starts putting barrettes in his hair. And I’m not talking about secret bedroom kinky shit. Make him wear them to work!

This Week, 2/1-2/7

Doctor Who
Let’s make a TARDIS wave throughout DW! (meme/picspam with Ace, Leela, and Romana)

Fake News
Colbert Stamp – Acts 6:8 (DeviantArt stamp)
Castle Down, chapter 6 (fic | Jon/c!Stephen, Larry/John-O, John Hodgman, Mrs. Jonatha Strangedirt | R)
Castle Down illustration collection (art | Jon/c!Stephen | worksafe)
Needs Met, Happyverse Style (comic | happy!Stephen/Jon, l!Stephen, c!Stephen | PG)
How Can You Resist That Face? (art | c!Stephen | worksafe)

Fake News/Calvin and Hobbes
Colbert and Hobbes (comic | Susie!Jon, Hobbes!Junior, Calvin!Stephen | G)

Hellsing
Wolf Charmer (art | Rip, wolf!Captain | worksafe)
Harkonnen II – Vladimir (art | Seras, her giant gun | worksafe)

Bishoujo Kishi Sailor Hellsing
The Sailors Iscariot (art | sailor!Heinkel/sailor!Yumie | worksafe)

Next Week in Shine:
Zorin’s balloon descends, and Seras is More Awesome Than You.

Website Updates
New additions to the seventh page of YKYLHTMWs.

The Daily Recs 02/06/2010

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Dawn, Anya, ensemble | PG-13 | Different, and Not Better

  Dawn makes a wish to the still-active vengeance demon in her life and wackiness ensues. A not-so-sillyfic in answer to an evil sillyfic challenge.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, fic: one-shot

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Buffy/Faith, Dawn, Andrew | PG-13 | No Fixed Address

  Buffy gets mail.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, pairing: buffy_faith, fic: one-shot

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Buffy/Faith | R | Coastal

  Faith shrugs, that long rolling one that’s half shrug, half stretch, and half stripper. Okay, that’s three halves, but Faith has always been a little larger than life. “Thought you could use the company, B.”

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, pairing: buffy_faith, fic: one-shot

• Lord of the Rings | Arwen, Boromir, Rivendell ensemble | G | The (Extremely Short-Lived) Abduction of Arwen

  She looked up at Boromir, and beyond the menace on his face she saw the horror in his eyes…the horror that could be the result of only one thing. “He has been possessed by a Fangirl.”

  tags: series: lord of the rings, fic: one-shot, metafic

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Dawn | G | Autobiography

  Dawn’s history isn’t something she can talk about at school.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, fic: bite-size

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Recs – Narnia, Doctor Who, Buffy, Hellsing, others

• Narnia | Susan, Lucy, Aslan, OCs | G | The Queen’s Return

  Her words were lost in the sound of the rushing waters below, but Susan knew Lucy was calling her to come over to the other side. And Susan wanted to go.

  tags: series: narnia, fic: one-shot

• Doctor Who/Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure | Doctor, Donna, Bill, Ted, the crowd | PG | Strange Things are Afoot by the TARDIS

  The Doctor and Donna run into some irresponsible time travelers.

  tags: series: doctor who, pairing: doctor_donna, pairing: bill_ted, fic: one-shot, series: bill and ted’s excellent adventure, crossover

• Angel: the Series | Faith/Fred, Harmony, Angel, Knox | PG-13 | Satellite Trails

  After a month of Friday night visits she kissed a brunette a few years her junior, a postgraduate student who was almost finished her PhD in archaeology. Excited and proud, she babbled out her new status as a girl-kissed back at the table. Knox ordered a round of celebratory drinks. Harmony just looked puzzled and asked why anybody would want to study arks.

  tags: fic: one-shot, series: angel, pairing: faith_fred

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Sandman | Dawn/The Cheeseman | PG | A Girl Made From Sky

  He first saw her in the dream of a monk in Budapest.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, fic: one-shot, crossover, series: sandman, pairing: dawn_cheeseman

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Dawn/Faith, ensemble | Explicit | Never Brought To Mind

  Maybe it wasn’t really a surprise, when she figured out the answer. The Key needed to be protected. The only protection strong enough was a slayer–not just any slayer, either, but one who would die for her, if she needed to. A slayer who loved her.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, fic: one-shot, pairing: dawn_faith

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Faith/Tara, Anya | Explicit | Faith Healing

  Strong and soft aren’t that different after all.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, fic: one-shot, pairing: faith_tara

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Ensemble | PG | 25 occasions people have celebrated in the Jossverse

  Sometimes–perhaps once a year, or twice, or every other Tuesday–Drusilla celebrates the day she went insane. Once, in her long life, purely by coincidence, it falls on the same calendar date.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, pairing: buffy_faith, fic: five times

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Dawn/Faith, ensemble | Explicit | Less Than Real

  Dawn’s not real, and this isn’t the way it happened.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, pairing: dawn_faith, fic: one-shot

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Dawn/Kennedy | light R | Flirting in Code

  Kennedy’s into geeks. It’s Willow’s fault.

  tags: series: buffy the vampire slayer, pairing: dawn_kennedy, fic: one-shot

• Doctor Who | Doctor, Donna | Worksafe | A Matter of Scale

  The Doctor decides to test a theory and the limits of what’s possible.

  tags: series: doctor who, fic: one-shot, pairing: doctor_donna

• Doctor Who/Torchwood | Martha, Tosh, Gwen, Jack, Doctor | PG-13 | Hello, Doctor

  ‘Are you suggesting we prank call the Doctor?’ asked Martha.

  tags: series: torchwood, fic: one-shot, series: doctor who

• Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures | Jack, Gwen, Owen, Tosh, Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, Maria, Mr. Smith | PG | One Good Idea Torchwood Had

  tags: series: the sarah jane adventures, series: torchwood, fic: one-shot

• Doctor Who | Doctor/Master | PG-13 | I Dare You To Wear White (or, the many and various ways the Master attempted to escape marriage to the Doctor)

  The Doctor’s all ready to settle down but the Master would rather die than marry him. Seriously.

  tags: fic: five times, series: doctor who, pairing: doctor_master

• Doctor Who | girl!Doctor, Rose, Harry, others | PG | A TARDIS Of One’s Own

  "And the number of shops we had to visit before I could get some decent shoes. They were all… heels and straps. I used to think I just travelled with uniquely clumsy people, but no, it was the shoes all along."

  tags: series: doctor who, fic: one-shot, genderplay, pairing: doctor_rose

• Doctor Who | Doctor/Donna | R | It Happens to Every Time Lord

  ‘C’mon Doctor,’ said Donna, tossing her hair back. ‘Penetrate me with your mind.’

  tags: series: doctor who, pairing: doctor_donna, fic: one-shot

• Doctor Who | Doctor/Donna, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack | PG-13 | April in my Arms

  This could just about be the worst idea the Doctor’s ever had. If anyone can fix it, it’s Donna.

  tags: series: doctor who, pairing: doctor_donna, fic: chaptered

• Doctor Who | Donna/Martha, Doctor/Master, Lucy, TARDIS | PG-13 | How to Tell Your Time Lord That He’s Gay

  Martha and Donna decide it’s high time they resolved the question of the Doctor’s sexuality once and for all. Well, when they aren’t busy practising their own, that is.

  tags: fic: one-shot, series: doctor who, pairing: donna_martha, pairing: doctor_master

• Doctor Who/Torchwood | Tosh/Donna, TARDIS, others | PG-13 | Across The Universe

  She finds the centre one night. There’s a large hexagonal space, all coral struts, tarnished metalwork and soft green light, a cross between a spaceship and a submarine. Her very own steam-punk spaceship to play with, it hums like it’s alive, groans like it’s hurting.

  tags: fic: one-shot, series: torchwood, series: doctor who, pairing: tosh_donna

• Hellsing | Walter/Girlycard | PG | Little Girl

  “I’m not gay! You’re the one that looks like a cute little girl!”

  tags: series: hellsing, fic: bite-size, pairing: walter_alucard

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Gives me chills.

The Daily Recs 02/02/2010

• Doctor Who | Luke(/Clyde), Ten, Sarah Jane, UNIT, Torchwood | G | Luke is actually Encyclopedia Brown.

  Across the whole of the galaxy people wondered: “What is Earth’s secret?” For more than a year now, no one had gotten away with a world domination plot, a con job, or even an accidental crash-landing on Earth.

  tags: series: doctor who, pairing: luke_clyde, fic: one-shot

• Anthropomorphic Web 2.0 | TVTropes/Wikipedia | R | Notability

  In which TV Tropes is a terrible tease, and Wikipedia tries to be respectable and fails. Hard. Het, vaaaaaaguely dubcon if you squint at it?

  tags: series: the internets, pairing: tvtropes_wikipedia, fic: one-shot

• Anthropomorphic Web 2.0 | TVTropes/Wikipedia | PG | May 17, 2009

  An anthro version of what happened on the titular date. Wikipedia uses brackets for everything in a manner reminiscient of A Beautiful Mind and TV Tropes is a massive Tsundere with an inconsistent-as-hell personality. Fluff.

  tags: series: the internets, pairing: tvtropes_wikipedia, fic: one-shot

• Sherlock Holmes | Holmes/Adler/Mary/Watson | M | Ordinary Life

  Crossdressing, femmeslash. The Watson household gets a visitor.

  tags: series: sherlock holmes, genderplay, pairing: holmes_watson_adler_mary, pairing: adler_mary, fic: one-shot

• Doctor Who/Harry Potter | Nine, Albus Severus, others | THOSE WHO FAVOR FIRE

  “”The Eighth Harry Potter?” the Librarian slides her glasses down her nose to reveal her shiny black eyes, the better to stare at him disbelievingly with. “Nobody ever asks for that. It’s too upsetting.”\n\n”I cried,” the Doctor says frankly.”

  tags: series: doctor who, series: harry potter, crossover, fic: one-shot

• Fake News | Jon/Stephen | NC-17, warnings | Books And Their Covers

  There is always, always, a breaking point. However, if you are very lucky, there will be someone who is not only willing to put the pieces back together, but will recognize the value in doing so.

  tags: fic: one-shot, series: fake news, pairing: jon_stephen

• The Simpsons | Smithers/Burns | PG | The Boss and the Assistant (1sentence)

  ““I’m sure I can buy your sense of duty to the old goat Mr. Smithers,” the other businessman suggests in superiority and Mr. Burns, who overhears the proposal, makes a mental note to hire some goons to destroy that idiot’s car.”

  tags: series: the simpsons, pairing: smithers_burns, fic: bite-size

• Politics | Rahm, a lolcat, others | PG-13 | Lolcat in Teh Wyte Haus

  “No, you cannot has – uh, have a cheeseburger. I don’t eat them. Know why? Because I’m…Jewish…” He suddenly realized that he was sitting in his office, holding a kitten that was talking to him, explaining the concept of kosher eating to it. What the hell was wrong with him?

  tags: series: politics, fic: one-shot

• Sherlock Holmes | Holmes/Watson, Mrs. Hudson, others | PG-13 | A Silly Phase

  Holmes would probably be able to come up with a scientifically sound explanation — at least if he hadn’t just turned into a six-year-old boy right in front of Watson’s eyes.

  tags: series: sherlock holmes, pairing: holmes_watson, fic: one-shot

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Do go on.

“Did men and women both feel interested in the female body, and even (though it sounded ridiculous) in almost the same way?”

No, no, C. S. Lewis, it doesn’t sound ridiculous at all. Please, let your female protagonist continue her bicurious narration.

(From That Hideous Strength, which I am about a quarter of the way through, and which as of this point I can best summarize as “He’s a space-traveling thinly-disguised stand-in for J.R.R. Tolkien. She’s an apparently-bicurious disgruntled housewife who’s just found out she’s psychic. They fight Merlin!”)

This Week, 1/25-1/31

Fake News/Punditry
Day Late Friends (Jon’n'r!Stephen epic-unrequited-love-story mix)
Snow White Syndrome (comic | Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, friendly forest animals | G)
The Search for Elle Woods (comic | Keith, Anderson, cameo!Stephen | G)
Castle Down, chapter 5 (fic | Jon/”Stephen”, Rob, Ed, Larry/John-O, O’Reilly, Kristen | PG-13)

Hellsing
CANNONBALL (art | young!Integra, young!Seras, young!Pip | worksafe)
The Death of Pipuff (art | puff!Seras, puff!Pip | worksafe)
Chow Time for Alupuppy (photos | Puppycard | possibly NSFW for blood)

Sasameki Koto
ABSOLUTE TERRITORY (art | Sumika | worksafe)

General/Miscellaneous
Sketchdump of WTF (OCs, FAKE: Berkeley, VeggieTales: ensemble, Good Omens: Anathema Device, Newt Pulsifer)
Thoughts On Yaoi Genderswap (meta discussing SM, Hellsing, fake news, and a whole bunch of other series)

Next Week in Shine:
Enter Zorin, zeppelin and all. Plus some familiar cameos…

Technology marches on

Best comment yet on Apple’s new creation:

“The interesting thing is that you can use an iPad even if you have a Wii.”

This Week, 1/18-1/24

Fake News
Accost (old art | Jon/Stephen | worksafe)
Out Of The Bag (fic | Jon, Stephen, BriWi, Meg, Bobby, Tad | PG)
Castle Down, chapter 3, chapter four (fic | Jon/c!Stephen, Aasif, John Hodgman, Larry/John-O, Jason, Lewis, Kristen | R, warnings)
It’s A Cenac Attack (art | Wyatt, Stephen | worksafe)
Muse (fic | Jon/real!Stephen/Allison | NC-17, warnings)
Most Trusted Chibi In News (art | chibi!BriWi | worksafe)
Schoolgirls (art | Joan/c!Stephanie | mildly NSFW)
Princesses (art | Princess!Jon, Raven | mildly NSFW)

Hellsing
Section XIII Art Meme (meme | HeinkelxYumie/ko, Alex, Enrico/Integra | worksafe)
Hellsingpuff Volume 10 (art | puff!Integra/puff!Renaldo | worksafe)
Integrapuff and Alupuppy (art | puff!Integra, puff!Puppycard | worksafe)

Sailor Hellsing
Sailor Huntress (art | Rip, Doc | worksafe)

Madeline de Paris
The Smallest One (sketches | Madeline, Miss Clavel | worksafe)

Sailor Moon
A Walk Through Elysion (art | Pegasus, Timothy | worksafe)
Sailor Makaiju (art | otaku senshi | worksafe)

General/Miscellaneous
Alien Landscape (nifty photomanip)
Cat Girl (self-sketch)
Exercise Ball (old self-sketch)

Next Week in Shine:
Integra needs to know whether she can trust Joker. Also: bombs!