Weekend Random Links

Writing Journal: Nothing much to report. Writing away. The Adjusters #26 seems to have been well received, which of course pleases me to no end. Thanks for reading, folks, and for letting me know how you feel.

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I don't remember exactly when I first heard the song A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying by Bloodhound Gang, but it vies for the category of so bad it's good. I mean, come on! You have to at least applaud the utter bad taste of it all...

I learned a new term last week, via Sociological Images: hegemonic masculinity. That's where even though we live in a patriarchy with all the fun that that particular system entails, you are still screwed if you're not just the right kind of male.

The good folks at The Groovy Age of Horror provide us with another translation of an Italian fumetto, Terror Blue #131: Betty Boswell.

An interesting article by David Szalay discussing sexual vocabulary in (I believe) mainstream fiction. Similar problems occur in smut fiction, of course.

Forget his ability on the court—you know Jeremy Lin's the real thing when he shows up in porn.

That's all I got for this week. Rather slim pickings, I know. I'll leave you with a story I ran across at BDSM Library, Sanjna’s Mistake by Exbiidelhi2012: “An accountant pays for her mistake, becomes a plaything for any who wants.” A rather standard blackmail story, with some hot moments and some interesting bits here and there. I like the multiplication of independent people taking advantage of her ordeal. Worth a look if that's your kind of thing. And it looks like it's ongoing.

UPDATE: A commenter points out that this story by Exbiidelhi2012 is in fact plagiarized word for word (aside from changing the name of the protagonist) from a story by GrantLee called Julie's Mistake. Go read that one instead, which has the added benefit of being—as far as I can tell—complete.