Speculating on SpecFic

Hi!. My name is Shaheen. I am a 23 year old astronomer living in Australia. I love reading Speculative Fiction - Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. This blog is dedicated to a genre study: I am interested in what makes a book Spec Fic, and what authors themselves say about the genre.
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To have [my story] taken away and given to someone else, and a man at that, was truly distressing on so many levels…Sometimes women express an idea and are shot down, only to have a man express essentially the same idea and have it broadly embraced.

- Director Brenda Chapman, who was fired from Brave and replaced with a male director.  Chapman was the first woman to direct a Pixar movie. (via racebending)

OMG. This explains a lot about Brave. I actually suspected there were two films: the film I loved (and saw with my daughter) that was a lovely story about the mother-daughter relationship, and the other film shoehorned into it that was just kind of dumb mindless Hollywood cliche.

Oh, Hollywood: You fail again.

(via kateelliottsff)

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