Beyond Selidor

Look at that! I made a trilingual pun!

Anyway, I'm back after a shortish break from LJ while I travelled around Germany with my mother. I have a new blog post on my German blog.

It's good to be back.

I haven't had internet at home for a while, so I'm just now catching up on all my feeds, There's been a lot of interesting stuff posted recently, so I thought I'd make a linkpost.

Sarah Rees Brennan posted this thought-provoking piece about what it means to be an author and have an internet presence.

And then, for a total change in tone, she wrote a hilarious liveblog of Teen Wolf, making it sound so funny that I might be tempted to check it out.

Catherynne M. Valente posted about how she was fed up with arguing about ebooks.

She also wrote about the misconceptions social conservatives hold about 'women's work', and the supposed golden age of pre-industrial times.

sophiamcdougall made a Romanitas playlist. I geeked out.

Here's an article from Rolling Stone about the effects of global warming in Australia. I found myself nodding away to pretty much everything being said.

It's been said before, but it needs to be said again: unpaid internships are exploitative and perpetuate inequality.

Our forum interviewed Philip Pullman.

Finally, I blogged about the start of the semester in Germany.

I've been neglecting LJ a bit due to the sheer lifeyness of my life for the past month or so. However, I've returned in true Ronni fashion with a bunch of links for you.

First up are the first two posts on my blog about life in Germany.

I also rediscovered the wonderful blog Myths Retold. For a taster, try It was awesome being a poet in ancient Ireland and Ilmatar likes to dive headfirst into shitstorms. The language on these posts (and throughout the blog) is NSFW. Also, that last post kind of makes me want to read the Kalevala...

I really like this post on The Mary Sue in defence of geek culture.

Speaking of geek culture, Smart Pop Books is running a series of posts about The Vampire Diaries (which starts again tonight, woo!). I really like this post by Vera Nazarian about vampires and obsession.

That's it for now. I don't have the energy to engage with the Say Yes to Gay YA situation, but there are lots of good links floating around on Twitter if you search through the #YesGayYA hashtag.

For those of you who don't know, I'm moving to Heidelberg in Germany tomorrow. I will be spending the 2011-12 academic year on exchange at Universität Heidelberg. In typical fashion, I've created a new blog on Wordpress to document my experiences.

I should probably take the opportunity now to let you all know that I may be offline for a while, as in my experience universities take forever to set up their students' internet connections, and unless I find somewhere with free wireless, I won't be around until I'm connected.

See you when I'm back online!