You Should Be Watching…
BAMF Girls Club. Because if you don’t, Katniss will make you pay. Either that, or Bella will cry on you. All your favorite badass motherf**king women…and Bella…in one house! BAMF Girls Club is a webseries hosted on Comediva, a site…
Top 5: TV Tropes
Everybody loves a good cliché; and though they say that “on the whole, tropes are not clichés,” it’s one of the reasons why TV Tropes is more dangerous than Wikipedia when it comes to wasting your time on the internet….
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The Mary Sue. A self-styled “guide to geek girl culture,” The Mary Sue is a lexicon of information about women and/in the geek world. The clue is in the name, an ironic reference to the Mary Sue trope. The site’s focus is creating…
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Fashionably Geek. The clue is in the name. Dedicated to all things both geeky and fashionable, Fashionably Geek scours the web for the best in nerd, gamer and cosplay clothing and accessories. Looking for an R2-D2 skirt or a Wookie…
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MK Hey. Self-styled as an appreciation of the technical skills of actors, writers, and directors, MK Hey’s blog is a series of deconstructions of popular television, film, books, and pop culture. If you’re any kind of culture buff this mix…
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Really Cool Women. “Some really cool women. Being really cool.” A blog that celebrates inspiring women living in the limelight, and a shout out to feminism in the 21st century. From the world of telly there’s Really Cool Woman #1…
Soundtrack of the Day: Attack The Block
Attack The Block was released on DVD last month, which seems like a perfect time to highlight the soundtrack, an oxymoron of dubstep-inspired beats, kitsch and orchestral twists. The Block Created by Steve Price and Basement Jaxx (house music…
Character of the Day: Nyota Uhura
NYOTA UHURA Zoe Saldana (2009) & Nichelle Nichols (1966-1969) Strong, self-assured, knows what she wants and willing to go for it: all attributes that are portrayed as positive. This is unfortunately rare and Uhura has been been doing all of this…