Sauce which is Awesome
Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelI am tired of school and I have a headache, so let us have some awesome stuff.
For National Coming Out Day, FYLGBT had a post entitled Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect, which is fascinating and sort of terrifying, and well worth a read.
nextian made an awesome post called the female character Yenta meme where people recommend awesome stuff with awesome ladies to each other. Sharing the love is always cool, and it's interesting to see what people are into. I posted here even though I already have a reading list a mile long, because I am greedy.
As a sort of down payment, I'd like to throw out some names of stuff I like with awesome ladies in it, and say something about why they're awesome:
Have I mentioned Digger? I see it's been a while. Digger is a webcomic about a wombat who, despite her overwhelming practicality sneering at such things, is sent on an epic quest to kill a dying god and defeat a nefarious demon. Other than Digger herself, the comic features numerous hyenas, a shrew who's also an honorary troll, a prophetic teenager, a baby demon, vampire squash, more mythology than you can shake a stick at, and some of the best art I've ever seen. I think it might be the best fantasy story I've ever read. Digger herself is completely unlike any other character I can think of, which is a compliment in my eyes.
The Order of the Stick is a D&D comic that I have been following with something approaching religious devotion, despite having never played D&D, and only having a passing familiarity with it. Mostly this is on account of being the perfect triple threat: humor, drama and action. The epic plot is epic, the characters are (mostly) awesome, and every individual page brings a punchline that makes reading one strip at a time worthwhile.
My favorite character in the strip is Vaarsuvius, the purple-haired elf mage with the dubious morality. I don't know when and how Rich Burlew decided to make V genderless as opposed to male-by-default, but the way it went down is irresistible to me. Vaarsuvius's physical sex is never referenced, other characters use male and female pronouns interchangeably (except Haley, who doesn't seem to care one way or the other), and V persistently avoids pronouns and admits to not understanding gender as a concept. Other fans may debate hir gender, but Burlew said it would never be revealed. For me, V will always be genderqueer, and it doesn't really matter what sex sie might have.
Er. There are also other awesome female characters in the strip. I like Haley a lot, and I adore Celia, an otherworldly sylph law student whose conception of the mortal world is a bit limited. She's made to be annoying, but sometimes that's my favorite kind of character.
Hey, it turns out I have less stamina for this than I thought. Maybe I'll do more tomorrow, or on the weekend. On the upside? My headache is mostly gone.
For National Coming Out Day, FYLGBT had a post entitled Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect, which is fascinating and sort of terrifying, and well worth a read.
nextian made an awesome post called the female character Yenta meme where people recommend awesome stuff with awesome ladies to each other. Sharing the love is always cool, and it's interesting to see what people are into. I posted here even though I already have a reading list a mile long, because I am greedy. As a sort of down payment, I'd like to throw out some names of stuff I like with awesome ladies in it, and say something about why they're awesome:
Have I mentioned Digger? I see it's been a while. Digger is a webcomic about a wombat who, despite her overwhelming practicality sneering at such things, is sent on an epic quest to kill a dying god and defeat a nefarious demon. Other than Digger herself, the comic features numerous hyenas, a shrew who's also an honorary troll, a prophetic teenager, a baby demon, vampire squash, more mythology than you can shake a stick at, and some of the best art I've ever seen. I think it might be the best fantasy story I've ever read. Digger herself is completely unlike any other character I can think of, which is a compliment in my eyes.
The Order of the Stick is a D&D comic that I have been following with something approaching religious devotion, despite having never played D&D, and only having a passing familiarity with it. Mostly this is on account of being the perfect triple threat: humor, drama and action. The epic plot is epic, the characters are (mostly) awesome, and every individual page brings a punchline that makes reading one strip at a time worthwhile.
My favorite character in the strip is Vaarsuvius, the purple-haired elf mage with the dubious morality. I don't know when and how Rich Burlew decided to make V genderless as opposed to male-by-default, but the way it went down is irresistible to me. Vaarsuvius's physical sex is never referenced, other characters use male and female pronouns interchangeably (except Haley, who doesn't seem to care one way or the other), and V persistently avoids pronouns and admits to not understanding gender as a concept. Other fans may debate hir gender, but Burlew said it would never be revealed. For me, V will always be genderqueer, and it doesn't really matter what sex sie might have.
Er. There are also other awesome female characters in the strip. I like Haley a lot, and I adore Celia, an otherworldly sylph law student whose conception of the mortal world is a bit limited. She's made to be annoying, but sometimes that's my favorite kind of character.
Hey, it turns out I have less stamina for this than I thought. Maybe I'll do more tomorrow, or on the weekend. On the upside? My headache is mostly gone.
