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Or how I got around reading Twilight and was punished for it, after all. Yes, I finally finished Mocking Jay.

Okay, okay, before we go on: this is going to be riddled with spoilers for The Hunger Games and lot of bad language. If you want to stay away from either of them, this is not the post you're looking for *waves you along

For everyone else... let's jump right in.

( First book rant in forever. )

PS.: On the plus side,

heitidei found a cinema in Berlin that shows The Avengers in 2D! Yay

heitidei!

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Anyway. It's March again. And you know what that means?

Exactly!

Women's History Month!

Let's celebrate Women's History, with fic and art ~~and baking~~ and political rallying (or practical political action such as male represenatives trying their hand at traditionally women's jobs and female representatives taking the parliament stage, for example)! Whee! I'm so excited! I love Women's History Month, did I mention that yet? I love it! *jumps up and down excitedly ~~(in my head, anyway)~~

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Oh, whoa. Too many to choose from, actually. I'd love to spend a day with Jo March, preferably on a New England winter day, with snowball fights and an evening of reading from books and telling stories in the March home. Or blowing shit up for a day with Laura Cadman. Or a day at Camp Half Blood with the bunch from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. Or seeing the way the world was altered after the end of John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy, preferably in the company of Karen Halabi (since he killed off Jürgen Müller :P Oh, spoilers... oops).

I'm not sure if I'd like to meet Eowyn, seeing as how she and I bitched at each other during the last days when I tried to write

sgteam14283's first prompt for the Holiday Fic Request Meme. But, ooooooh, I'd love to meet Sam Carter and Helen Magnus! I'd ask Sam how to become a soldier like her and how the hell she is so awesome and I'd never stop asking Helen about the centuries she lived in. She'd probably have to talk about WWI and WWII for at least a year or something and she'd be the best ressource ever for that WWII original story I still have on my hard drive (or my dad's NAS, since my laptop is still out of commission...). Oh yes, definitely Helen Magnus, over tea and biscuits (not cookies) by a blazing fire in the fire place in her library ♥

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Three women from Liberia and Yemen won the Nobel Peace Prize this year for their feminist and pacifist actions. Feminists win the Nobel Peace prize! Wheeee! Go feminism! ♥

*goes to dance a little feminist happy dance

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Title: Well Behaved Women
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: T
Genres: gen, friendship
Summary: Sergeant Dusty Mehra isn't in the mood for some all women ritual stuff. But it doesn't look as if she has a choice.
A/N: OMG, I totally forgot to post this on LJ when I posted it on ff.net *head desks Anyway... this is the second challenge piece, and this time the topic was memory. Also, because I ~~am stupid and conceited that way~~ ~~and~~ didn't think it was enough, I added a challenge just from myself to me to make it my first ever Bechdel test fic. I hope I succeded in that one. ~~And no, I didn't win this challenge either on that forum... but currently, the entire forum is out of commission... I think I got the better deal in the end.~~ As always, the lovely and wonderful

mackenziesmomma betaed this and made me add a language warning, just because Dusty talks like any regular Marine. Tsk. (but seriously, Dusty talks like a goddamn fucking Marine and she really doesn't care who hears her, so if you're delicate that way... maybe stay away from this fic... ~~I mean it... someone on that forum actually thanked me for the language warning and proceeded not to read it... and that was a German forum~~). Okay. I think I'll stop talking now.

PS.:

scherryzade please don't kill me for that last paragraph? Um? It's a hommage to you!

( Private Consultation )

( Well Behaved Women )

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It is here, anyway.

Okay, where was I? Oh, right, International Women's Day! Yay!

I don't expect much about that in the media or on the street here, even if it's the 100th anniversary, seeing as today is crappy fucking Faschingsdienstag (Carneval Tuesday) which means people all over Germany get crazy and try to be "funny" but thank God I live in Prussia where we don't even know how to spell that (funny, not crazy... Prussians are pretty big on the crazy, even though for us all you call crazy would be considered normal... or something like that) and which saves us from the rest of German "humor" (don't get me wrong, we have some really great entertainers and comedians... just not during carneval).

Yes, I do hate carneval with a fiery passion and Aschermittwoch (Ash Wednesday) is like the most beautiful day of the year, right after Christmas because it means the "fun" is over. And what kind of God (since carneval is supposed to have something to do with God...) would let this happen? Seriously... I hate carneval and thank God I don't live in a carneval crazy federal state anymore. I swear, I will never ever in my entire life move to Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Mainz or any other of those towns where the only way to get away from the drunken masses is to leave town or maybe even country.

Anyway... for those of us who don't care for too much drink and too many rotten jokes, there's International Women's Day to celebrate, and I do believe that's just a bit more worthy. So come on, girls (and boys, of course), tell me about a woman you admire or that you love or link fantastic fic to me, recommend books to me about women that did great, link news articles to me, give me red carnations and you shall receive some (because that's what the party I'm a member of still does as a tradition: we give red carnations to women in the streets and wish them a happy Women's Day... when I used to work for them, all the women who worked there had one on their desk and yes, I really, really, really miss that and I wish I'd had the guts to go to my managers and tell them that hey, especially in an environment like my workplace where women are in leadership postions but otherwise scarcely to be found, shouldn't we do something about that?). Let's all have a great International Women's Day :D

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Since this is the first day of March, it's also the first day of Women's History Month and I love that one to pieces, goddammit! It always springs great articles all over the English speaking internet and I read my first one today: General Remembers Her 'Different' Military Days. I think I'll read Women in the Wars: I've Lived Out There With The Guys' and Silver Star Recipient a Reluctant Hero tomorrow and I also still have to read Female correspondents' code of silence, finally broken.

In regard to books, I'll probably leave Steel Boats, Iron Hearts: The Wartime Saga of Hans Goebeler and U-505 (I'm pretty sure I said that before but... that's the German submarine put on display in Chicago and the one my grandfather served on in WWII) be for another couple of weeks, in favor of finally reading Kate Adie's Into Danger: Risking Your Life For Work and working my way through Sense and Sensibility, after I finish John Birmingham's Final Impact (which, by the way, is part of his Axis of Time trilogy and more importantly features extraordinarily strong, vivid and lovable female characters... but yeah, I love that series to pieces, anyway). It's gonna be such a busy month reading wise (and I just had a look at my amazon wishlist and there might be some books I really can't wait to order) but if anyone of you has any suggestions, I'll gladly take them. Everything that's Women's History (and yeah, especially things military and war/foreign correspondents related will be favored very much, along with anything on female explorers) will be appreciated and at least put on the amazon wishlist ;) Give it to me, people!

Edit: OMG, I totally forgot that I still have Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography to read. I have to finish it this month!

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In light of next month's 100th anniversary of International Women's Day (a tradition that used to be firmly observed in East Germany but is slowly starting to be forgotten :() and the reoccurence of Women's History Month in March and a suggestion by

sgteam14283, I was thinking about a little quick challenge to celebrate it, in two of the comms I (apparently, according to LJ) own:

Women's Day/Women's History Month challenge poll @

major_explosion (Lorne/Cadman comm)

Women's Day/Women's History Month challenge poll @

stargate_ocs (a comm for Stargate OCs)

Go on, everyone, take part! Let's celebrate all those wonderful Stargate women! And I certainly hope to see lots of great Stargate women fic and art next month :D 100 years of International Women's Day, girls! Let's have a party!

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First question was:

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.

And this is how it continues:

2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?

( "History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. [...] I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all it is very tiresome." )

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First, let me say something: I know I have slashers in my flist and before I get to the core of the issue here, I'd like to say that I respect you and your writing very much, mostly because you're awesome people and because you have a very deep and reflective stance towards writing slash and because, as far as I know, when you write boy slash you don't make the mistake of eliminating all and every female character from your stories (have I ever told you how much I love you for making Laura Cadman a very important person for your Lorne,

bluflamingo or how much I love your writing because so many of your Newcomers are women, despite the series having heavy slashy under- and overtones,

scherryzade? ;)). The following text is in no way meant to insult you or belittle your writing. Still... I had to write it.

Because, see, today I discovered a very long article (as in, a whole page) on slashers in the German major (left-leaning) newspaper Berliner Zeitung and because I was overjoyed to see that such an established and important newspaper took a look at fanfiction and even gave it a whole page, I started to read it... only to start frowning after about three phrases.

( Oh Berliner Zeitung, why did you DO that? )

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