Marie Lu's Blog, page 106
May 2, 2013
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“If the Republic’s most-wanted criminal can...
“If the Republic’s most-wanted criminal can scale five stories in less than eight seconds, how are we ever going to catch him if we’re not just as fast?” -Marie Lu, Legend
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Of all the Day fancasts I see, the ones I love most are the ones of an Asian boy with blond hair.
May 1, 2013
truthbecomeslegend:
-Day & June-
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-Day & June-
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This Baby Day and Baby June post is just effin’ adorable.
April 30, 2013
Love these Wanted/Missing cards of Day and June!
Love these Wanted/Missing cards of Day and June!
April 28, 2013
hearondale:
it really irrationally pisses me off that june iparis’ birthday is in...
it really irrationally pisses me off that june iparis’ birthday is in july.
muhahahaHAHAHAHAHA. <3
April 16, 2013
Some days I feel like Orange Gummy.
Some days I feel like Orange Gummy.
The Legend paperback is out today, guys! I’m, you know,...
The Legend paperback is out today, guys! I’m, you know, excited. :D
April 14, 2013
For all the women I have loved who were dragged through the mud
I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.
Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?
It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are worse than others, but it’s always there. Scroll down the Tumblr tag for any show, movie, book, comic, whatever, and you’ll see nothing but love for the men, and a lot of unjustified hate for the women, maybe with a few defenders here and there insisting on their love for the women in the face of all that hate.
To be clear, we’re not talking about female villains. Male villains get just as much hate. It’s fine if you hate Bellatrix Lestrange or Dolores Umbridge, you’re supposed to. (I personally stan for Bella, but I realize that wasn’t the authorial intent.) This is about people hating Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but loving Harry, Ron and Neville. This is about how ambiguous male antiheroes, like Snape, Zuko, or pretty much any male vampire protagonist can get away with walking that fine line between good and evil and not only remain sympathetic, but be even more beloved for how ~tortured~ he is, but when a female character is morally gray that bitch has to die.
So you can’t tell me it’s okay that you hate Sansa because you also hate Joffrey and he’s a dude. They’re not comparable. It isn’t even comparable if you pick a female antihero. Let’s do this apples to apples, here.
We all know that fandom does this. We all know that it’s fucked up and symptomatic of internalized sexism. What’s really fucking weird about it, though, is that the women doing this hating often aren’t ignorant. These are feminists. These are women who can go on meta-analyses of the writing. Some will hide behind pseudo-feminist reasons for their hate—oh, it’s the writing, we just aren’t given strong female characters! (I saw this used for the women of AtLA: Katara, Toph, Azula, et al. This was about when I just backed away slowly because I know a lost cause when I see it.) I’ve seen women who denied being sexist, but couldn’t name a single female character they liked. And it’s always that the female characters aren’t good enough, even when they obviously have a double standard, and they’re measuring women on an impossible scale full of contradictions and no-win binds, while the men are just embraced and loved pretty much for existing.
The reaction nearly every time one of these women is called out is not to say, “Huh, you may have a point, I should examine the way I judge and process women’s actions more closely,” but an insistence of their feminism, followed by a more detailed description of why that particular woman is terrible and she hates her, as if the whole point were not that fandom is already oversaturated with that kind of hate, and as if the person doing the calling out were not already 110% done with that bullshit.
Particularly telling is that male-dominated corners of fandom do not have this problem. They fetishize, they objectify, they ignore. They don’t hate like this.
We know it happens. What I want to know is WHY.
Theories follow below the cut.
A fantastic read that applies to every fandom I can think of, and to all of us.
Random writing research of the day: Apparently having salt water...
Random writing research of the day: Apparently having salt water poured on your feet & then unleashing goats to lick it off for hours was torture of ‘indescribable agony’. Never let it be said that medieval people weren’t creative.
April 12, 2013
Hey there, Texans—I’m heading to Houston and Dallas...
Hey there, Texans—I’m heading to Houston and Dallas in 2 weeks! There are a couple of bookstore events that I’m excited to share with you. Hope to see you there, if you can make it:
Tuesday, April 23rd
6:30 PM
Murder by the Book
2342 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005
Wednesday, April 24th
7:00 PM
Half Price Books
5803 East Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX 75231
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A really quick sketch of Day. I needed to get...
A really quick sketch of Day. I needed to get him out of my head.
Love this fanart of Day!
