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General

LiveJournal -- Blogger site. You can get a hosted journal there or download the client.

 

RPG.net -- Reviews, columns, and other coverage of roleplaying games and related issues.

 

The Institute of Official Cheer -- The website of James Lileks (of Gallery of Regrettable Food fame), in which midcentury and slightly later pop-culture is expertly sliced, diced, grated, Re-Ironized (patent pending) and sprinkled over bits of smart-ass commentary for your delectation.

 

Music and Art

Elfwood -- Immense archive and Net community of amateur and pro artists and their works. Includes areas for fantasy, sci-fi, fan art, and the written word. Elfwood Forever.

 

How to Draw Manga -- Julie Dillon's free tutorials, once hosted on their own site, now appear here.

 

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law -- Droolworthy art.

 

Melissa Uran -- Ditto, ditto; her art is more manga/anime-flavored.

 

Rebecca Guay -- Talent to just make ya sick. You can also view some of her work at purpleglitter.com.

 

Tony DiTerlizzi -- Back when I was mucking around with watercolor pencils over ink line-drawings (not that I've given up on that necessarily, mind you) THIS is what I really meant but never even got in the same zip code as.

 

Bowed Electricity -- All about electric violins/fiddles: makers, players, and resources.

 

Lili Haydn -- Bodacious electric violin-ing.

 

Carla Kihlstedt -- Likewise. Now a member of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and formerly a member of Charming Hostesses, two very good things.

 

Medieval Baebes -- A fun and creative blend of medieval and modern elements, plus great vocals.

 

Mr. Bungle -- There's no really compact term to describe Bungle music. There's a kind of killer-clown-rock theme on one album, a California-dreamin' theme on another one...oh, I don't know. Anyway, I assure you there's nothing quite like it.

 

Circus Contraption -- You got evil on my circus! You got circus on my evil! Who cares whose fault it is, they're two great tastes that taste great together.

 

World of Darkness

White Wolf, Inc. -- Of course.

 

Ex Libris Nocturnis -- Reviews, fiction, art, interviews, homebrewed rules and writeups, and other miscellaneous WoD goodies.

 

Wolf-Spoor -- A blog-style site with industry news, rumors, discussion boards, and so forth.

 

Medieval Stuff

ORB -- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. An immense, wonderful resource. Also has links to other major medieval sites like the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Netserf, and Labyrinth.

 

Medieval Names Archive -- I am so prostratingly grateful for the anal-retentiveness of the SCA heralds. A lifesaver site for authors of medieval fiction or RPGers in medieval settings.

 

Mediev-L Archives -- Archives for one of the big-daddy medievalist mailing lists.

 

Feminism and Politics

Heartless Bitches International -- I could spend hours here. Plus if you apply and pass the membership "exam" you can get an official Heartless Bitch ID card, which you know you always wanted just to satisfy the doubters on that point.

 

Bitch Magazine -- Its website is an adjunct to its print magazine. Similar name to HBI, and its approach is also well-spiced with humor, but a little more in-depth (it being a nice fat print quarterly).

 

The Rebuttal from Uranus -- A dissection of the (oh, let's go ahead and dignify it with the term) theory of male/female relations espoused by John Gray of Mars and Venus fame. As you can guess from the title, she doesn't exactly go easy on him. :-)

 

Andrea Dworkin Homepage -- Her name is regularly and casually tossed out whenever someone's trying to make convenient shorthand for "sex-negative neo-puritan" or "shrill humorless feminist" or "ugly hairy-legged dyke who needs a real lay" or "the kind of feminist I'm not, thank you very much." Most of these cuss-word usages of her name seem to come from people who've never read her. You owe it to yourself to at least see what the fuss is about before you judge. And whether you totally agree with her, totally disagree, or fall somewhere in the uneasy middle after reading her work, you can't deny that no one writes about patriarchy and the eroticization of violence like she does. Plus she has one of the lowest BS-factors I've encountered in any nonfiction author anywhere, and that alone is saying a lot. (P.S. -- she never said "all intercourse is rape," either.)

 

Hilary Doda's Columns at RPG.net -- Including the infamous "GamerGrrl's Manifesto." :-)

 

Mothers Ought to Have Equal Rights -- You'd think it would go without saying, but it doesn't.

 






 
 
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