Teresa: In the entry you've linked to, you say:
Someday, not today, I’ll tell the story of how, years ago, Joanna Russ and I used Star Trek fanfic as a sort of Rosetta Stone to decipher recurrent themes and motifs in fantasy and SF written by women. It’s often easier to see underlying patterns and mechanisms in amateur fiction than in slicker commercial work. This started when Joanna identified and described some recurrent narrative motifs she’d spotted in the Trek slash of the day, of which the inverse relationship between incidence of explicit sex and liebestod denouements was the most obvious and least important. There was much more to it. She laid out her entire description; and I, considering it, said “Which is not to say that The Left Hand of Darkness is a specimen of Star Trek slash fiction.” Joanna’s jaw dropped, and we stared at each other in wild surmise. The patterns not only fitted; they explained some otherwise inexplicable plot twists in that novel. We were on to something. And—hey! What about thus-and-such story by Zenna Henderson? And that one by Leigh Brackett? And so forth and so on, ever onward. For the next few weeks we were stoned on literary theory and the codebreaker’s buzz of seeing a seemingly knotty puzzle resolve into plaintext.
Have you told that story somewhere since then? If not, I would really love to read it. It sounds fascinating.
Another vote for: The difference between visited and unvisited links is better than it was, and while I would prefer different colors rather than different shades of the same color, I'll live with it if this is where we end up.
I have been playing around with the idea of moving to an all salwar kameez wardrobe for years, and never really followed up on it because I don't sew and can't afford a tailor. Teresa's article motivated me, and I'm hooked. Wow! I'm so thrilled with my first one that I'm eagerly bidding on more.
Vicki, try 3/4 length sleeves. They are loose-fitting enough to be cool, and in winter you can wear a long sleeved something in a contrasting color underneath. And yes, you want knee-length.
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