The Friday Linkpost Rides Again

Our party is tonight! Finally! DETAILS HERE AND HERE. COME AND SAY HI.

And now that we don’t have much longer to rabbit on about said party, ON TO THE LINKS.

• Here is an 18th century drawing. It is titled “A Map Of A Woman’s Heart“. No, really, that is the title. As our Sarah J said, who else fancies a paddle in the LAKE OF SELF CONCERN? No? Then let us go hiking in the REGION OF SENTIMENTALITY! At once, ladies, at once!
• To My Someday Daughter: beautifully illustrated article on Star City Games by Geordie Tait on Twitter, sexism, That Gizmodo Magic The Gathering Business, and geek tribalism.
• Warhammer 40k Space Marine: Most Surprisingly Feminist Game of the Year Contender? What I like most about this post, which reader Brave Sir Robin sent us, is lines like “Mira doesn’t have time for this motherfucking conventional treatment of motherfucking women in motherfucking videogames”.
• Relatedly, Women Fighters In Reasonable Armour, our new favourite tumblr that isn’t titled “animals talking in caps lock”.¹
• And finally, after a string of tweets from Laurie Penny on actresses who should play Doctor Who, illustrator Rosy Higgins imagines what Tamsin Grieg as the Doctor, with Helena Bonham-Carter as the Master, would look like. It looks bloody awesome. WHEN DOES FILMING START.

1. Don’t argue. The main reason tumblr was invented was for pictures of pissed off animals. Two of us RUN one of those tumblrs, for our sins. [↩]