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POPSRingers Vs. Trekkies had to leave out a massive amount to make this fit the clipping limit T...T Intro: Hard core Lord of the Rings fans have been given a name in the past several years, since the movies premiered and gained a bigger fan base: Ringers. I guess. In an interview a few years ago on the Tonight Show, Elijah Wood described Ringers as kind of like Trekkies. And at first I thought that was kind of unfair…I mean, it’s fantasy versus sci-fi, a show versus a movie: dangit, that wasn’t just an unfair comparison, it was a…a…and then I thought, wait. Maybe…maybe…he had a point. I mean, when I thought about it:
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POPSAnother Fannish Meta-tale Seriously, being part of slash fandom (and media fandom in general) is one of the best things that's happened to me. I've met the best people and it's things like this essay that reaffirm that.
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POPSwhores or lovers It's an interesting take on the idea of groupies and I think it's wonderful how objectively he's able to look at it.
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POPSExplosions fandom Looked up the phrase "Explosions Magazine" after reading today's DInosaur Comic; looks like a case of great minds thinking alike, rather than Ryan North stealing from this guy
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POPSScrew Normal! Part of a wide-ranging discussion in fandom on livejournal about not freaking the mundanes with our kinky shit. Notable, to me, for the last quoted section in particular.
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POPSQueer Female Space Gender and sexuality are a frequent topic in the realm of Slash Fandom. This essay covers a broad swath of discussions on the subject.
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POPSOrange County mujaheddin? Both John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", and Adam Gadahn, now a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, were white kids growing up in California not all that long ago. Julia Rabig looks at their past and the press coverage. From 2004.
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POPSRowling wizardry gets notes for last Potter through US security
NEW YORK - Confronted with intransigent security officials at John F Kennedy Airport, JK Rowling found herself in serious need of one of those flying stick contraptions she dreamed up for the young Harry Potter of her best selling wizardry books as an alternative means of crossing the Atlantic. Ms Rowling's journey home from New York, where she had attended a charity public reading with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving last month, started to go awry as soon as she reached the terminal. No Madam, they tried to explain, you will not be taking that package beneath your arm on board. Everything must be placed in checked-in baggage. These were the days, of course, that followed revelations of a plot by alleged terrorists in Britain to blow airliners en route to the United States and the restrictions, which are largely still being applied to UK-bound travellers in America, were very clear. Even books could not be taken aboard in hand luggage. But Ms Rowling's bundl
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